Kano SureFIRE800 80GB mobile hard drive.(the driving range)(Kano Technologies)

In May we looked at a "thumb drive" [p. 30] that stores 512MB of information in an aptly named thumb-sized enclosure. Meanwhile, gumstick- and postage stamp-sized devices like Memory Stick and SD offer similar capacities in the compact flash media domain.

But none of those devices really meets contemporary standards for the external hard drives that mostly sit atop our computers and for quick and ready access to the files we use in our daily work. And since "daily work" in the digital studio involves digital video and audio files, hard drives boasting 80GB and up are es