Posted by nyoman on March 23, 2010 – 5:44 pm
Buffalo Technologies has announced the MiniStation Cobalt USB 3.0 portable hard drive, the latest generation of SuperSpeed external storage solutions that deliver interface speeds up to 5 Gigabits per second.
Ralph Spagnola, vice president of sales at Buffalo Technology, says that Cobalt USB 3.0 is backward-compatible with USB 2.0 and it works with Macs and PCs. Apple hasn’t added USB 3.0 support on any Macs, so the drive will run at USB 2.0 speeds.
The MiniStation Cobalt HD-PEU3 will be available in a variety of capacities up to 640GB and will begin shipping in April. It’s backed by a limited one-year warranty.
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Posted by nyoman on March 23, 2010 – 5:40 pm
The SSDNow V+ Series SSD (SNVP325-S2) from Kingston is their second generation prosumer, performance oriented SSD offered as a standalone drive and with an upgrade kit in capacities up to 512GB. This model supports read speeds up to 230MB/s and write speeds up to 180MB/s. With TRIM support and prices starting under $200 for a 64GB model, this SSD could be the perfect blend of price and performance.
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Posted by nyoman on March 17, 2010 – 11:13 am
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Posted by nyoman on March 17, 2010 – 11:09 am
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.
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Posted by nyoman on March 8, 2010 – 1:36 pm
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?
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Posted by nyoman on March 5, 2010 – 10:24 am
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]
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Posted by nyoman on March 1, 2010 – 10:53 am
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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