storage

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 [...]

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. [...]

LaCinema Mini HD – new media center by LaCie storage maker

Published on: 12th January, 2010

LaCinema Mini HD is a new media center set-top launched by the storage maker LaCie. It allows file transfer via USB or via 802.11n Wi-Fi and Ethernet connections. Users can alternately stream content directly from a Windows PC, a Mac or a network storage drive. Video content is displayed in 1,080-pixel via an HDMI cable. [...]

External storage for iPods and iPhones from AirStash

Published on: 12th January, 2010

Wearable’s AirStash could be an unusual storage add-on for Apple’s iPhone and iPod touch. It behaves like a USB flash drive using a removable SD card for its storage and also provides a wireless connection allowing it to share its data with an Apple device, not needing to be plugged into a computer. This approach [...]

PlayStation 3 Slim to use SSDs and network-only storage?

Published on: 20th December, 2009

An interview in Nikkei with Masayuki Chatani, SCE’s technology platform head and strategy planning, revealed that Sony’s designers and engineers considered using network-only storage for the PlayStation 3 Slim gaming console, or even SSDs, although the console integrates typical HDDs. The high price of flash memory and some limitations of network bandwidth were, however, the [...]

Rikiki – The smallest hard drive from LaCie

Published on: 20th December, 2009

LaCie’s latest portable HDD, the 2.5-inch Rikiki, has been recently released, in a quiet move. Rikiki is believed to be one of the smallest drives of this type available on the market; consequently, its name means “tiny” in French. The hard drive has an aluminum case and it only has one USB 2.0 port, used [...]

Seagate officially confirms the launch of the Momentus Thin

Published on: 20th December, 2009

Seagate has confirmed the launch of the thinnest ever hard drive, the Momentus Thin. The hard drive is just 7mm thick, which means it is much thinner than the 9.5mm and 12mm thick common rotating storage. Using such thinner hard drives allows notebook designers to imagine thinner systems without having to use more solid-state drives [...]

New water/shock resistant CF and SDHC cards from Samsung

Published on: 19th December, 2009

On December the 16th Samsung launched on the UK market the new type of memory cards. These new cards, CF plus and SD plus are special created to resist underwater up to 24 hours without being damaged. The tough structure of the cards makes them capable to rezist to a magnet 13 times stronger than [...]

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