All the stories tagged with Storage
SaberTooth S3 SSD for Eee PCs
09/22/2009, The Eee PC range of netbooks will now be able to enjoy a speedier SaberTooth S3 SSD which boasts read speeds and write speeds of up to 95MB/sec and 70MB/sec, respectively. They will come in 16GB, 32GB, and 64GB capacities, [...]
Toshiba mini-SATA SSD
09/21/2009, Toshiba has released its latest SSD for netbooks that conform to the new mini-SATA standard, where the 32nm drives will come in 30GB and 62GB capacities. They’re first off the blocks, so it would be interesting to see the kind [...]
NetGear Stora NAS
09/21/2009, NetGear has plunged into the consumer NAS market with their 1TB offering known as Stora. This device is basically a “dumbed down” version of their business NAS offerings, where it will play nice with Mac, Linux and Windows platforms, working [...]
Seagate Barracuda XT gets 6Gbps SATA interface
09/21/2009, The latest 2TB Seagate Barracuda XT hard drive will benefit from a 6Gbps SATA interface that offers double the theoretical bandwidth of existing SATA II drives, giving you the ability to enjoy up to 600MBps in burst transfers. In real [...]
Lacie Designer Portable DVD Burner
09/19/2009, It’s hard to ever get bored of stuff from LaCie. Sure the designs might not be the funkiest in town, but they’re simple and elegant, certainly something that a lot of folks appreciate. Following that trend is the latest portable [...]
Kunai USB flash drive
09/17/2009, The Kunai is an ancient weapon used by ninjas in the past, but this time round it comes in the form of a USB flash drive, although the cloak and dagger tactics employed eons ago are still prevalent in the [...]
I-O Data HDL-C NAS
09/17/2009, The I-O Data HDL-C network attached storage does look rather out of this world, where its nice green glow will definitely make you want to work later into the night with nothing but soft lighting around, letting you imagine that [...]
Sandisk Extreme Pro compact flash cards
09/14/2009, You might think of Compact Flash (CF) cards as a commodity, and it’s mostly true, except for the very high-end where the Sandisk Extreme Pro sits. Aimed at the professionals (and enthusiast) photographers, the “Extreme Pro” series can read and [...]
Hitachi Deskstar 7K2000 is the first 2TB 7200rpm HDD
08/06/2009, Hitachi has just announced the Deskstar7K2000, a 2TB 7200rpm hard drive. It has 32MB of cache and connects to the computer via SATA II at 3Gbps (theoretical). Seagate currently offers a 2TB 5400rpm drive, which is slower, and Western digital [...]
Cloud storage nightmare with Flickr
08/05/2009, In silicon valley, you can’t have a conversation in a group (of geeks) without hearing about a cloud-fanatic who’s going to get rid of all local storage and live “in the cloud”. Sounds cool, but that shouldn’t prevent one from [...]
Hitachi SimpleNet Shares Turns USB Drives into NAS
07/13/2009, Hitachi has released a few storage devices today, among which the SimpleTough and SimpleDrive Mini USB drives. But the more interesting release is SimpleNet ($79), a little USB to Ethernet box that turns the SimpleTough or SimpleDrive into a network [...]
Memory Stick Finally Reaches 32GB
07/13/2009, If you are interested in overpriced flash memory, Sony is coming up with a 32GB Memory Stick Pro-HG Duo. We’re not sure if the Memory stick family can get any more confusing for the consumer, versus SDHC which has reached [...]
1000-Years Memory Device In Japan
06/22/2009, A journalist from the Nikkei told me about this device last week: the idea is that someone find data storage media is not sufficiently reliable as they live for a few decades and might fail. We suppose that they are [...]
