hardware

The first Belkin USB 3.0 products

Published on: 25th February, 2010

Belkin’s product lineup has been recently expanded through various peripherals supporting the new USB 3.0 standard. The line includes two expansion cards: the SuperSpeed USB 3.0 PCIe Add-In Card, which is dedicated to desktop computers, and the SuperSpeed USB 3.0 ExpressCard adapter, especially designed for notebooks. The SuperSpeed A-B Cable and the SuperSpeed Premium Micro-B [...]

NVIDIA: External notebook graphics may be a solution

Published on: 13th February, 2010

NVIDIA seems to plan the introduction of the company’s first external graphics for notebooks, according to one of NVIDIA’s executives. According to one of the latest Xbitlabs reports, Rene Haas, general manager at NVIDIA notebook GPU division, claims that this would be a perfect opportunity on this type of market. The device will probably come [...]

Quadra Enterprise Class external drives announced by LaCie

Published on: 9th February, 2010

Storage drive maker LaCie has recently announced its Quadra Enterprise Class drives that are meant for the enterprise market. The new range of products includes the d2, 2big and 4big drives, all of them with different form factors. Each device in the line-up sports SATA hard drives and also secures data through 128-bit AES hardware [...]

Other World Computing releases new SSDs – Mercury Extreme Enterprise

Published on: 29th January, 2010

OWC (Other World Computing) has released its first range of solid state devices that it considers the fastest and the mot reliable 2.5-inch SATA SSD in the industry. The Mercury Extreme Enterprise SSD can be purchased in three sizes, capacities varying up to 200GB, and is compatible with either PCs or Macs. Thanks to the [...]

IBM to develop 35TB data tape, 39 times denser than current magnetic tapes

Published on: 29th January, 2010

IBM has announced a big step forward in developing a higher density magnetic tape. It has recorded data onto a prototype magnetic tape made of dual-coat barium ferrite, at a density of 29.5 billion bits per square inch. This is 39 times denser than any current magnetic tape is capable of. New technologies developed with [...]

Super Talent to release 250Mbps solid-state drives

Published on: 27th January, 2010

Super Talent has rolled out a new series of solid-state drives meant to help those users having very high workloads. Running on a high-speed controller from SandForce delivering a peak read speed of 250Mbps, the new device will be named TeraDrive FT2. What is impressive is that this peak read speed is promised for the [...]

New ATI Radeon HD 5450 and 5570 in February

Published on: 22nd January, 2010

Chipmaker AMD is believed to prepare the release of the new ATI Radeon HD 5450 graphics card early next month and a Radeon HD 5570 in mid-February, as sources at graphics card makers mention. Technical specifications are not yet ready for the new products but some features are already known. The Radeon HD 5450 will [...]

New line of USB portable hard drives by Verbatim, presented at CES

Published on: 15th January, 2010

Celebrating its 40th anniversary, Verbatim introduced at CES a new product line including thin USB portable hard drives. Four different USB powered devices including the CLON, InSight, MyClone and Titan XS form this line. CLON is pocket sized and weighs about 4.8oz. It is rugged and resistant to shocks, scuffs and fingerprints. The device comes [...]

HP to release Pavilion Elite HPE, faster desktops

Published on: 13th January, 2010

HP included the upgraded Pavilion Elite among its CES presentations. The Pavilion Elite High Performance Edition (HPE), in order to speed up, equips every model with a quad-core processor and minimum 8GB of RAM, as well as 1TB of disk space. A model that includes a 2.66GHz Core i7, 24GB of RAM and 2TB of [...]

New USB 3.0 hard-disk enclosures from Brando

Published on: 26th December, 2009

USB 3.0 hard-disk enclosures are now available from Brando and are compatible with any 2.5-inch SATA hard-disk. The new device uses the USB 3.0 technology and provides a speed ten times much faster than the USB 2.0, up to 5Gbps. The USB 1.1 and USB 2.0 are also supported by the new enclosures. Brando created [...]

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