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Serial ATA, or SATA for short, has become one of the industry's most used connectivity interfaces, providing consumers with a standardized interface for storage solutions. Having reached its third generation, the interface is expected to provide consumers with an enhanced data rate of up to 6Gbps, double that of... |
21 September 2009
10:09 GMT |
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Solid State Drives continue to gain market share from traditional hard drives, providing users with increased performance and higher storage capacities with each new product release. Although pricing is still a considerable drawback for most computer users, Flash-based storage products do get a significant attention ... |
25 August 2009
10:49 GMT |
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Phoenix International Systems has announced today the introduction of a new storage solution, specifically tailored to meet the performance requirements of the military, aerospace and industrial applications. The company's new solution comes as a VME data storage plug-in blade, based on the new VS1-250-SSD Seria... |
21 May 2009
10:51 GMT |
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Apacer has recently announced the introduction of a new storage solution, taking advantage of the performance of today's Solid State Drive Technology, which offers increased performance and reduced power consumption over traditional hard drives. The company's new Serial ATA Flash Drive (SAFD) 254 has been s... |
13 May 2009
06:12 GMT |
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Motherboard maker MSI has recently announced that it will now provide a number of its products with an integrated Power eSATA connector, which will basically eliminate the need for an extra power connector for any eSATA-compatible devices. With the announcement, MSI has also introduced the first AM3 motherboard that ... |
13 May 2009
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Back in early September last year Intel made its foray into the market for Flash-based Solid State Drives, providing the entire world with its new mainstream X18-M and X25-M SSDs. Designed in 1.8-inch and 2.5-inch form factors, these drives were widely recognized by various hardware publications for the increased per... |
14 April 2009
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Seagate and AMD have announced today the world's first public demonstration of the next-generation high-speed data transfer, also known as SATA 6 Gigabit/second. The new connectivity standard is expected to replace today's solution, which is designed to provide users with a speed of "just" 3Gb/s, while firs... |
9 March 2009
13:07 GMT |
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With SATA (Serial ATA) now being the primary connectivity interface for the majority of portable and desktop storage solutions, industry players are gearing up for its next generation, the SATA 6GB/s. This new standard is expected to make its debut as early as the second quarter of 2009, according to Conrad Mawell, t... |
8 January 2009
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This day appears seems to be a “storage day” of sorts, as Hitachi has just introduced its new 2.5-inch 500GB hard disk drive, following the official announcement from competitor Fujitsu. As with the new drives from Fujitsu, Hitachi's latest 500GB 2.5-inch HDDs have also been equipped with d... |
11 November 2008
06:13 GMT |
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Always the active pioneer in its field, Toshiba has just announced that it's expanding its small form factor hard disk drives with three new high-capacity, high-performance SATA HDDs, including the industry's first 250GB 1.8-inch HDD. You got it right, your future laptop could be featured with one of these... |
25 September 2008
04:58 GMT |
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Despite all the recent releases of Solid State Drives, coming from several major manufacturers, it appears that Toshiba still thinks that normal HDDs actually stand a chance. The Toshiba Storage Device Division has just announced the industry's highest-capacity series of SATA 1.8-inch hard disk drives. The compa... |
11 June 2008
02:54 GMT |
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Almost any user that employs a digital media product to store his personal data on knows how bad it is to lose it all because of unpredictable accidents. This, of course, includes fires and water-related hazards that can seriously damage a hard disk or any other digital product used for storage. Apparently, this shou... |
10 June 2008
03:09 GMT |
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Western Digital, one of the largest manufacturers of storage solutions, has announced today that it is now shipping a new line of WD Scorpio hard disk drives. The WD Scorpio Black HDDs are based on 2.5-inch SATA interface and will provide a platter rotational speed of 7200 RPM. According to the company, the new produ... |
2 June 2008
10:48 GMT |
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Fujitsu, one of the biggest names on the computing market, announced today the availability of two new series of hard drives. Both series are built as a 2.5-inch SATA hard drive and are designed to offer support for 24-hour non-stop operation. The two series of hard drives will offer its users a maximum capacity of 2... |
19 May 2008
10:00 GMT |
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Transcend has just introduced its new StorageJet 35 Ultra hard disk drive enclosure with eSATA connectivity and active cooling. The external storage solution comes in a sleek aluminum case that acts like a huge heatspreader, carrying the residual heat to the exterior.According to the company, the dual eSATA / USB 2.0... |
9 May 2008
10:09 GMT |
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Transcend has just announced its newest high-speed SATA flash module, especially tailored for integration in thin clients, blade servers, ultra-compact sub-notebooks and industrial installations where miniaturization is a critical aspect. Transcend's newest SATA flash module is able to deliver enhanced system pe... |
31 March 2008
06:44 GMT |
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Users who depend on large amounts of removable storage space could find a great companion in Imation's latest Odyssey USB Removable HDD Cartridge. The need for mobility makes it impossible for the user to carry around power adapters and multiple enclosures with their respective disk drives. Using multiple extern... |
28 January 2008
02:45 GMT |
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NewerTech announced a new USB 2.0 drive adapter to connect any type of drive to the computer via a USB 2.0 interface. The company has a long tradition in producing performance upgrades and accessories for the popular Macintosh, iPod and iPhone devices.The first time I saw the USB adapter, I mistook it for a sophistic... |
15 January 2008
04:44 GMT |
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Fujitsu has just reported their 2.5-inch hard drive to deliver a maximum storage capacity of 320 GB. The MHZ2 BH line is designed for use in notebooks and compact desktop PCs, as well as for other consumer electronic devices, such as HDD camera recorders or television sets.The MHZ2 BH has become a reference point in... |
27 November 2007
07:03 GMT |
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If you're burning dozens of DVDs at high-speed (any resemblance to piracy is purely accidental), Samsung's latest burner might be of interest to you. The Korean company is touting the world's fastest DVD burner with 16X dual layer recording and LightScribe technology. The SH-S203N is a 20X Serial ATA (... |
29 October 2007
12:15 GMT |
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Highpoint announced the launch of a very fast Serial ATA and RAID controller, the Rocket RAID 2522, that is able to handle a data transferring rate of 1.2GB per second and thus it is well suited for applications where large data volumes are moved from one place to another and where low data access times are essential... |
8 October 2007
04:19 GMT |
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G-Tech announced the launch of a new line of external storage devices that are offering fast data transferring speeds, generous storage space as well as ease of deployment and of use. The new line of products is called the G-Speed eS and it comes equipped with a fast external Serial ATA interface, data protection by ... |
2 October 2007
04:40 GMT |
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Parallel ATA or IDE data transfer interfaces have been around for some years now and they are slowly but steadily driven to extinction by the ever increasing adoption of the fast and more manageable Serial ATA interfaces. As more and more computer hardware manufacturing companies are abandoning the use of the old sta... |
24 September 2007
08:59 GMT |
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Aopen, a company that focuses on optical disc drive manufacture, announced today the official launch of a new optical drive that reaches speeds up to 20x while offering support for several of the most popular disc formats that are in use now. Coming as an internal DVD RW drive, the new Aopen product is also featuring... |
12 September 2007
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Asus announced the launch of a new optical disc drive which is designed and aimed for users needing high performance drives that can playback high definition movies and offer a complete solution for writing optical discs. The next generation of Asus DVD writer drivers is the BC-1205PT, a multi format capable drive w... |
7 September 2007
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Asus announced the launch of a new line of high performance optical drives which features the DRW-2014 L1T internal DVD and CD rewriter. This new internal disc burner computer hardware part also is fully compliant with the latest specifications of the LightScribe technology allowing users to select and draw their own... |
30 August 2007
11:19 GMT |
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LaCie announced one of the biggest data storage solutions available for video editing professionals and digital content creation applications. The new array has a maximum storage capacity of 5TB and it features a 10-bit uncompressed HD playback support implemented at hardware level.According to the company's pre... |
14 August 2007
09:57 GMT |
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Buffalo Technologies has just announced the launch of two brand new versions of its MiniStation and DriveStation families of external storage hard disk drives. The DriveStation features an integrated SATA hard disk drive that connects externally over an USB port for maximum compatibility with all existing computing p... |
6 August 2007
11:53 GMT |
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From my personal experience with computers, I can say that there is no such thing as too much space on the hard disk drive, users rapidly finding new things to store there, from photos and music file, to games, movies and just about every other thing that can be downloaded, copied or transferred through a network or ... |
6 August 2007
10:40 GMT |
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Serial ATA hard disk drives and optical drives are becoming more and more popular as their price drops (now it is already equal with the price of a Parallel ATA drive). Their popularity is not only due to their now lower costs, but mainly because they offer better performance in a computer hardware segment where spee... |
26 July 2007
06:56 GMT |
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Fujitsu announced today that a new line of hard disk drives in small form factor (2.5 inch) is now available. Nothing really interesting until now. The good part comes now, as the hardware producer said that the mini 2.5 inch hard drive is intended for industrial equipment, enterprise and medical application and it i... |
25 July 2007
09:03 GMT |
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First of all, what is an eSATA JBOD enclosure? Well, from its name, you can bet it is an enclosure using the eSATA interface and the JBOD "standard". The very fast transfer rate of the eSATA interface is mixed with the more flexible standard JBOD to create an enclosure with a maximum capacity of 3000GB and the great ... |
23 July 2007
03:34 GMT |
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The guys behind the CompactFlash Association, or CFA if you prefer, have a new project on their minds, which could prove extremely useful to professional photographers. It's called the "CompactFlash card with a SATA interface" and as you might have deduced by now it combines the classic compact flash cards with ... |
20 July 2007
04:21 GMT |
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Western Digital just announced that a new enterprise class line of hard disk drives will become available through resellers. The main product of this line is the WD RE2 (RAID Edition) 750 GB that features Native Command Queuing (NCQ) and 16 MB cache for the high system performance needed by the enterprise class."WD h... |
18 July 2007
03:44 GMT |
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According to Samsung, that's all it takes. Less than 5 minutes. To be more specific, 4 minutes and 38 seconds. And you will need a plain 16X DVD in order to achieve this kind of performance. Because Samsung has just rolled out its fastest DVD burner ever, the SH-S203 SATA 20X drive."Samsung is a storage technolo... |
20 June 2007
08:51 GMT |
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SanDisk is probably one of the most prolific flash drive manufacturers in the world. As strange as it may seem, this is by no means an understatement. And if you want to be sure, you can always check their website. Evidently it's not the impressive line of products that makes the difference but the fact that the... |
5 June 2007
03:02 GMT |
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Power Quotient International, or PQI if you like, seems to be overrun with products. Aside from the Disk on Module we reported today, the company has just announced four new flash memory solutions aimed at a broad category of users, from photographers to businessmen. Two of the most important units are the high speed... |
30 May 2007
04:40 GMT |
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When it comes to hard drives, Samsung doesn't have the same reliability among people because of their reputation, "what, they make hard drives too? I thought they were only good at TV-sets". This general belief hasn't changed their minds though, they have tried hard to make people see behind the facade and ... |
11 April 2007
05:39 GMT |
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It's been a while since the SATA standard got any significant new features and improvements. The Serial ATA International Organization understood the need for a revision, just recently announcing the latest Serial ATA specification (revision 2.6). These add new physical and performance features to the previous S... |
8 March 2007
07:09 GMT |
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Fujitsu announces new notebook HDDs with the introduction of the MHW2 BJ series. According to Fujitsu, these are the world's first 7,200 rpm 2.5" hard disk drives with a serial ATA 3.0 Gb/s interface. Moreover, these devices feature world's highest storage capacity of 160 GB for a 7,200 rpm 2.5" HDD, being ... |
6 March 2007
06:59 GMT |
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