Published on: 16th May, 2010

Sony has revamped its memory cards Memory Stick PRO-HG Duo HX to work at higher transfer speeds. This event coincides with the confirmation of its mirrorless NEX-series Alpha cameras. The new memory sticks are capable to develop 30MB per second write speed, which is twice the speed of the older models. The cards are the [...]
Published on: 9th May, 2010

The Enyo Portable SSD has been unveiled by the memory and storage media manufacturer OCZ. The device has a new high-speed USB 3.0 interface, which brings more speed, as it is rated at 5Gbps. Under the circumstances, the new Enyo Portable SSD device with its faster interface is capable of reaching up to 200MBps write [...]
Published on: 13th April, 2010

Cisco, after the buyout of Pure Digital, is going to release a first major design for the Flip, according to sources from a Best Buy store. Similar to the design of a phone slider, the Flip Side HD would sport the same small LCD display and basic recording controls, but has an angled slide-out view [...]
Published on: 7th April, 2010

Microsoft has confirmed its plans to add USB drive support for the Xbox 360 by means of a firmware update. The upgrade is due for the 6th of April and will allow users format any 1GB or even larger USB flash drive, up to 16GB, and make it store content that otherwise would require built-in [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]