All the stories tagged with Storage
Rotary USB Card Reader
12/26/2007, Hong Kong based Earth Tek makes this USB card reader that can rotate to provide an easy access to the user, regardless of where the reader is connected. It is most useful on laptops, where USB ports can be in [...]
Buffalo 100GB External SSD
12/19/2007, Buffalo has a new line of USB 2.0 external solid state drives (SDD) (product page – in Japanese). Given their low power consumption, they can be powered by the USB port, which is always practical. From a storage point of [...]
Intel Z-P140 PATA penny-sized 4GB SSD
12/17/2007, Solid State Drives are well known for their smaller size and smaller power requirements, but when you can cram 4GB on a surface that is equivalent to a penny, this is pretty impressive, although not surprising given current advances in [...]
Chocolate Portable HDD
12/12/2007, This modular USB device concept has a very interesting design. It is meant to be a USB drive, but one that can receive multiple modules, each of which would be a flash drive. Now you could imagine all kind of [...]
128GB SSD Drive from Toshiba
12/10/2007, Toshiba is introducing a new line of SSD drives, coming in 3 capacities: 32GB, 64GB and 128GB. The drives will ship in volumes in March 2008, according to Toshiba. Here are the specifications: SATA2 interface 100MB/s peak read speed 40MB/s [...]
Aegis Vault portable hard drive
12/02/2007, The Aegis Vault is a new line of portable USB-powered hard drives that not only carry your data around in a convenient and small package, it does so with care thanks to hardware encryption as well as shock mounting in [...]
Sustainable Flash Memory Card Holder
12/02/2007, Designer Tom Kenworthy has come up with a Sustainable Flash Memory Card Holder that is made from recycled vending cups – can you believe that? A single holder requires seven plastic cups to construct, and best of all is, you [...]
Logitec SATA-to-USB rack
11/29/2007, Logitec’s new SATA-to-USB converter comes in an interesting form factor, featuring a cartridge slot design that makes any external hard drive docked within look cool. The semi-transparent case folds up to cover the drive, and there is more than enough [...]
gDrive project could be reality soon
11/27/2007, There were whispers of an online storage project by Google in the past, and word has it that this project is about to be unveiled pretty soon. The gDrive project as it is known is actually a service that enables [...]
51GB HD DVD announced
11/15/2007, There is a new HD DVD standard available – a triple layer HD DVD that brings up the total capacity to a whopping 51GB, making it more than a match for Blu-ray’s 50GB disks. Needless to say, you probably won’t [...]