storage

USB 3.0 and Windows cloud option for Toshiba Canvio drives

Published on: 8th October, 2011

Toshiba recently upgraded its Canvio drives by launching its third generation. Its 2.5-inch portable drive gets a speed upgrade since the drive now supports USB 3.0, which brings it up to speed with regular disks. Windows users who receive the upgraded Canvio drives also get NTI’s BackupNow EZ for content backup locally or to the [...]

Sony to ship Li-ion energy storage modules

Published on: 2nd May, 2011

Sony will soon start shipping its LIM1001 1.2kWh energy storage modules. A maximum power of 2.5kW is provided by each module. Applications will include backup power for data servers as well as load leveling when demand reaches a peak. Simple shipments were made since June 2010. Rechargeable lithium-ion batteries are at the core of the [...]

External SSD drive from Iomega to have USB 3.0

Published on: 23rd October, 2010

Iomega has entered the external solid-state drives by making the External SSD Flash Drive. Using a 1.8-inch SSD, the storage has a very small footprint but still surpasses a rotating hard drive. It has 191MB per second peak read speeds as well as 130MB per second peak write speeds. The drive is equipped with a [...]

Google to offer its Google Docs editing for iPad and Android

Published on: 25th September, 2010

Google has recently announced that its online productivity suite, Google Docs, will support editing via the iPad or Android devices soon. The new technology is expected to roll out during the next few weeks; this will also allow at least co-editing of documents produced by others. So far, there hasn’t been anything mentioned about support [...]

Kingston launches its first 3.0 USB thumb drive

Published on: 15th September, 2010

On September 14, 2010, Kingston revealed its first USB 3.0 thumb drive – the DataTraveler Ultimate 3.0. The new drive is available in three capacities, at 16GB, 32GB and 64GB, providing, compared to the USB 2.0, much faster transfer speeds. Practical estimates show that it has a write speed of 60MBps and a read speed [...]

Google Docs viewer now reaching Android and iOS devices

Published on: 2nd July, 2010

On June 28, 2010, Google announced that its Google Docs viewer has currently gone mobile, being available for Android-based devices, but also for the iPhone and the iPad. Users no have the possibility to view PDF, PPT, DOC and DOCX files, which have been uploaded to their documents list, with no need of downloading them [...]

128GB BDXL format approved by the Blu-ray Disc Association

Published on: 28th June, 2010

On June 25, 2010, the Blu-ray Disc Association finalized the proposed BDXL format for Blu-ray discs. This will offer up to 128GB of storage space on both rewritable and write-once discs. BDXL will mainly target video producers and people who need to write a large amount of data to a removable backup; this will be [...]

New, stylish Iomega Skin external hard drives

Published on: 25th June, 2010

On June 21, 2010, Iomega has released its new portable drives with Skin Industries external designs. All three Skin Drives offer 500GB storage capacity and are also USB 2.0-powered. These drives benefit from Iomega Drop Guard technology, which is able to protect the drive and also the data against any damage resulted from drops onto [...]

128GB flash memory chips from Toshiba

Published on: 20th June, 2010

Toshiba has recently released the first 128GB embedded flash memory chip in the history, setting a new mobile storage record. The new chip is built on a 32 nanometer process and it benefits from 16 8GB NAND layers which are meant to double the previous best capacity; this doesn’t affect the thickness, though. Toshiba has [...]

Google Storage versus Amazon S3

Published on: 22nd May, 2010

Google’s own cloud storage option is on the way to be launched in a bid, in order to take on the S3 from Amazon. Google Storage, also called GS, would permit application developers to host content for users online as well as for themselves. Some sources add that a Google ID should be used for [...]

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