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LaCie has launched two new portable hard disk drives called Starck and Petit, in the Indian market.
LaCie is a hardware company that focuses on external hard drives, RAID arrays, optical drives, and computer monitors. Recognized French product designer Philippe Starck has designed the exteriors of Starck portable hard disk drive.
Western Digital is the first of the hard drive manufacturers to embrace SSD technology. Their new SiliconEdge Blue SSD is a mainstream SSD available in 64GB, 128GB and 256GB capacities, and claim 250MB/s sequential read and 170MB/s write speeds.
The drives feature MLC flash, custom TRIM support, SATA II interface, 3-year warranty, and an impressive 130,000 hours testing in the Western Digital R&D labs. But with Intel sitting in the driver’s seat of the mainstream SSD category, is Western Digital’s first SSD effort enough to warrant serious consideration?
A USB flash drive consists of flash memory data storage device integrated with a USB (Universal Serial Bus) 1.1 or 2.0 interface. USB flash drives are typically removable and rewritable, much smaller than a floppy disk, and most weigh less than 30 g (1 oz).[1] Storage capacities in 2010 can be as large as 256 GB[2] with steady improvements in size and price per capacity. Some allow 1 million write or erase cycles[3][4] and have a 10-year data retention cycle.[citation needed]
It’s always interesting seeing what manufacturers of storage solutions will do to differentiate themselves from the competition. Hard drives, USB flash drives, secure digital cards… there’s slight permutations in the formula, in performance, but at the end of the day, little that distinguishes one model from another as far as the average consumer is concerned, [...]
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Seagate has announced it has started shipping its industry-first 2TB Enterprise SAS hard drives with a 6Gb/s interface (ST32000444SS). The 3.5-inch Constellation ES is a fourth-generation drive available in 500GB/1TB/2TB capacities with 3 or 6Gb/s interfaces.
Last year, Hitachi Global Storage Technologies predicted hard-drive companies would announce 1 terabyte drives by the end of 2006. Hitachi was only off by a few days.
Micro SD (microSD) cards were originally called T-Flash and then TransFlash before being rechristened as microSD when adopted by the SD Card Association (SDA).