storage

OWC has launched the first mini 1TB portable drive with quad interface

Published on: 14th March, 2010

The recently launched OWC Mercury Elite-AL Pro mini 1TB portable drive, claimed to be the first ever 2.5-inch 1TB drive with a quad interface. The bus-powered drive has USB 2.0, FireWire 800/400 and eSATA in a brushed aluminium and fanless enclosure. Apart from the 1TB model, the drives are available with 7,200RPM 500 GB versions [...]

Corsair’s Voyager GTR flash drives offer max speed

Published on: 5th March, 2010

Recently, Corsair has launched some new USB drives, with Flash Voyager GTR. The flash drive can be bought in capacities of 32GB, 64GB or 128GB.
The new device benefits from quad-channel architecture, which allows up to 34MBps reading speeds and 28MBps writing speeds (this is almost the maximum speed for the USB 2.0 interface). Corsair [...]

External USB 3.0 SSDs from Active Media

Published on: 23rd February, 2010

Active Media Products has recently presented its 2.5-inch external SSD drives, which benefits from USB 3.0 ports. It is expected that the Aviator-2 SuperSpeed SSDs have a four times faster performance than other HDDs, which depend on USB 2.0 connections. The Aviator-2 also has 4.8Gbps. Inside the USB 3.0 Aviator-2 case stands Active Media’s 64GB [...]

PIN-controlled USB flash drive from Corsair

Published on: 23rd February, 2010

Corsair has recently presented a new 8GB flash drive. Surprisingly, this is not a regular flash drive: Corsair included a keypad which allows users to secure their data by using a PIN code. The Padlock 2 comes with 256-bit hardware data encryption to ensure high security for most of the data theft types. Thieves are [...]

Embedded 64GB flash for phones from Sandisk

Published on: 18th February, 2010

Sandisk has announced the release of a new design that doubles the capacity of previous flash drives used in smartphones. The iNAND 64GB embedded memory only uses one chip. Moreover, it can be partitioned, with only one drive performing boot, operating system and storage functions. Simplification of smartphone design and lower power consumption are Sandisk’s [...]

A new USB 3.0 storage drive from Super Talent

Published on: 17th February, 2010

Super Talent’s USB storage drives line has recently been expanded with a new model: the USB 3.0 Express Drive. It benefits from great speeds, which can go up to 125MBps, allowing users to transfer a large amount of data in a short time. The USB 3.0 Express Drive is available in two versions, one of [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

First high-capacity CF card with 400× transfer speed from Silicon Power

Published on: 25th January, 2010

Professional photo- and videographers can now enjoy the high-capacity CF card released by Silicon Power. Being the first of this kind, the card offers 128GB of memory and a 400× transfer speed. With a write speed rated at 90Mbps, the card is fast enough to record high definition video very efficiently.
The card offers support for [...]

Super Talent’s USB 3.0 RAIDDrive launched at CES

Published on: 15th January, 2010

Super Talent has presented a new RAID storage system, USB powered, at CES. The device is called the RAIDDrive USB 3.0 and offers data transfer speeds over 300Mbps when it is used with USB 3.0 supported systems. It provides five times the speed of USB 2.0 and is backwards compatible with USB ports manufactured earlier. [...]

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