WD Shrinks VelociRaptor Drives to 2.5-inch
	Western Digital is undoubtedly one of the biggest storage manufacturers for both the business and the consumer markets. Among the company’s most prestigious products, we also have one that is meant to present computer enthusiasts with a high storage capacity built in a high-speed hard drive. We’re talking here about the high-end VelociRaptor drives, which, up until now, could only be used in desktop computer systems. Fortunate ... [read more >>]
	23 July 2008, 10:04GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

HDD Market Continues to Grow
	Despite the fact that some claim that HDDs have almost outlived their usability, the overall HDD industry is continuing to grow. According to iSuppli, this happens mostly because of an insatiable demand for low-cost, high-capacity storage devices. The current figures regarding HDD shipments indicate a rather impressive increase of 21%, on a year-on-year basis. In fact, HDD vendors have reported healthy Q1 revenues, which furth ... [read more >>]
	23 July 2008, 09:20GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Super Talent's SSDs Get Improved
	If you happen to be among those who take a keen interest in how computer technology is evolving, then you know that most of the recent discussions on storage solutions have been about Solid State Drives. This is only natural, as this solution is believed to become the next standard in computer storage, even if a couple of recent articles in the media have claimed that current SSDs are not all that they were advertised for. On that note, Su ... [read more >>]
	22 July 2008, 04:53GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Home Servers Are the Way of the Future
	According to a Reuters piece, home servers will become the next standard for storing data, rendering CD racks obsolete. Even more, this is a trend that is believed to become increasingly noticeable by 2012, at least as far as the U.S. market is concerned. Be that as it may, this trend is also part of the digitalization of homes everywhere. The main factor behind the digitalization process is to be found in that home entertainm ... [read more >>]
	21 July 2008, 04:13GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Samsung and Sun to Improve Server-grade SSDs
	Samsung Electronics and Sun Microsystems announced yesterday that they had managed to develop a single-level-cell (SLC) NAND flash memory device that was to be used in Solid State Drives. The drives that will feature the new SLC memory are expected to offer much higher endurance levels, compared with any other flash memory device currently available on the market. According to the two manufactures, the new 8GB SLC device provi ... [read more >>]
	18 July 2008, 07:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Toshiba Pushes Notebook Storage to 400GB
	Toshiba, one of the leading manufacturers of storage products, announced yesterday a new line-up of high-performance 2.5-inch hard disk drives, including a low-noise flaghisp model that pushes areal density to 477Mbit/mm2 to achieve a capacity of 400GB. The company also announced five new drives that bring new levels of performance, and provide a 7200 RPM rotational speed. Toshiba's new 400GB low-noise drive is dubbed MK4 ... [read more >>]
	17 July 2008, 08:29GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

IBM and Sun Introduce New One-terabyte Storage Tape Drives
	It looks like the latest news from the storage market finally bring something else than just details on Solid State Drives. These days, the entire media has been ablaze with talks about the most recent announcements made by IBM and Sun Microsystems, which have once again brought tape storage drives into the spotlight. While Sun's announcement was made on Monday, IBM came through with its new product just yesterday. At the onset of ... [read more >>]
	16 July 2008, 06:09GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Fujitsu Offers 500GB of External Storage Space
	Fujitsu, one of the worldwide leading manufacturers of storage solutions, has recently announced its newest travel-ready HandyDrive additions, offering the world's highest capacity 2.5-inch external hard disk drive, with up to 500GB of storage space. The new product has been designed to offer a sleek and ultraportable storage device to those users that require high amounts of free storage space on the go. The company's HandyDr ... [read more >>]
	15 July 2008, 05:12GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

OWC Rolls out 1TB External FireWire Hard Drives
	Other World Computing, or OWC for short, is a company that specializes in providing Mac users with a number of accessories and peripheral products. All of them are designed to be compatible with Apple's iMac, but sometimes they can provide support for Windows users as well. One of its latest products will offer customers a means by which they can improve storage capacity, by simply connecting an additional external storage device. ... [read more >>]
	11 July 2008, 03:44GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Seagate Raises Storage Capacity for Desktop HDDs to 1.5TB
	As far as storage is concerned, Solid State Drives are expected to impact the market in a very significant way. And it seems that this is what all storage manufacturers are concerned about these days, according to all the recent news. With all that, Seagate comes to counter this trend – by announcing today the release of three new hard drives. The company unveiled today the industry's first 1.5 terabyte desktop and half-terabyte no ... [read more >>]
	10 July 2008, 10:22GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Samsung Starts Mass-Producing Affordable 128GB SSDs
	SSDs (or solid state drives) will represent the next big boom in storage, and for this reason, the main players on the market are already ramping up their production capacities in order to meet future demand. And in order to prove their commitment to this market segment, the Korean giant Samsung has announced that it has started mass-producing 1.8- and 2.5-inch multi-level cell (MLC)-based solid state drives (SSD) with a 128 Gigabyte (GB) ... [read more >>]
	09 July 2008, 01:37GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Pioneer Takes Blu-ray Discs to 400GB
	In the world of optical media, the Blu-ray format is undoubtedly the future market standard. The technology is bound to improve and this can only mean one thing: users will be able to acquire higher capacity Blu-ray discs for less the money. Even more, to make matters only better, it seems that this technological improvement we’ve been talking about is already here. Pioneer announced today that it has succeeded in developing a 16 ... [read more >>]
	07 July 2008, 04:53GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Solid State Drive Manufacturers Promise Better SSDs
	Two days ago, we brought some news according to which Solid State Drives are not as power efficient as everybody thought they were. Even more, these flash-based drives consume more power than regular magnetic drives reducing laptop battery life. The news came from a ... [read more >>]
	04 July 2008, 05:36GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

With SSD Future Uncertain, 5TB HDDs Could Revolutionize the Storage Industry
	For the past few days everybody has been talking about the future of storage, with Solid State Drives replacing current magnetic hard drives. But some recent news, which has surfaced thanks to Tom's Hardware, has put this future in a light of uncertainty. It seems that SSDs aren't all everybody expects them to be, as their power requirements are above the current HDDs, which means that they shorten battery life. All in ... [read more >>]
	03 July 2008, 04:59GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

More Affordable SSDs from OCZ
	As we already stated a couple of times now, Solid State Drives are the way of the future, even if most of us still have to wait a while until the cost per gigabyte becomes more affordable. Until that happens, we can only hope that the technology is going to advance and will eventually improve the lifetime of the flash-based drives. In this respect, OCZ, one of the leading manufacturers of memory devices, has decided to join those manufactu ... [read more >>]
	01 July 2008, 10:49GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

42GB DVD Comes a Bit Too Late
	Although most of us still rely on DVDs in order to pass information from one device to another, this procedure will soon be considered history. That’s because Blu-ray technology can now allow more data to be stored on a single disk. But maybe, just maybe, this standard still has a fighting chance, that is if industry manufacturers plan to adopt a new breed of DVDs, which has been developed by a couple of university researchers. [ADMARK= ... [read more >>]
	30 June 2008, 08:42GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Kingston DataTraveler Vienna USB Flash Drive Review
	Probably just about any football (or soccer) fan out there knows by now that Spain won the Euro 2008 Championship, thus proving to be the best team on the old continent. As expected, this event, one of the most important around the world, has brought about a whole range of related products, from various souvenirs to all sorts of electronic products. And this is exactly what we’re going talk about as follows, namely Kingston’s &qu ... [read more >>]
	30 June 2008, 02:30GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

HDDs Remain Samsung's Main Focus
	Samsung, one of the leading manufacturers of consumer electronics is aware of the fact that the storage market is slowly heading towards a new standard. As a consequence, the South Korean company has already unveiled its flash-based SSD storage solution, which Dell uses in a rather large number of its notebooks. Still, the company also keeps a close eye on its hard drive business, while moving forward with its SSD plans. Accor ... [read more >>]
	23 June 2008, 06:07GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Seagate Wants a Part of Intel's Flash-memory Firm
	After stating that it would introduce SSD storage products for consumers "if the cost-per-gigabyte comes down to 10 cents," Seagate is reportedly pursuing a buyout of Intel's 49% stake in IM Flash Technologies. IM Flash is a NAND flash memory vendor that is currently part of a joint venture with Intel and Micron Technology. According to an analyst report issued just the other day, Seagate is believed to become a ... [read more >>]
	20 June 2008, 08:32GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Western Digital's 3rd Generation RE Drives Offer New Features
	Western Digital is, as we already know, one of the leading manufacturers of computer storage solutions for both the consumer and the enterprise market. One of the company's most successful products is part of the Raptor and VelociRaptor lineup. These drives are considered a reliable solution by a considerable number of users. Besides the Raptors, Western Digital has another HDD lineup that is meant to provide support to enterprise use ... [read more >>]
	20 June 2008, 04:32GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Samsung Confirms Mass Production for Spinpoint Drives
	Leading manufacturer of consumer electronics Samsung has recently confirmed the rumors according to which the Spinpoint M6 and M2 HDDs will go into mass production. In doing so, the company hopes that its M2 model will be featured in a large of number of desktop replacement and gaming laptops. According to Samsung, the Spinpoint M2 hard drive is "one of the world's fastest laptop hard drives." Offering a maximum ... [read more >>]
	19 June 2008, 06:52GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Western Digital Could Bring Lower Capacity VelociRaptors
	Just two months ago, Western Digital released the VelociRaptor hard drives, which are now the fastest HDDs available on the market. Upon launch, these hard drives were touted to be the fastest high capacity hard drives available on the market – which actually t ... [read more >>]
	19 June 2008, 05:14GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Kingston to Release SSDs in Q3
	Without a single doubt, hardware manufacturers are taking the question of the future of storage very seriously. To put it differently, nowadays everybody seems to be concerned with developing, manufacturing and releasing SSD storage solutions. And this is precisely why major companies, such as Intel, SanDisk, TDK or Samsung, have already announced and released flash-based storage devices. On that note, it appears that another maj ... [read more >>]
	18 June 2008, 13:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Kingston Snatches Top Spot on Computer DRAM Memory Module Market
	Most of you have probably heard about Kingston, whether you're using their USB Flash Drives or their memory modules. However, there's a lot more to be said about this company, since chances are that the firm's components are the driving force behind your A-brand desktop or notebook PC. And this is not just PR talk from the company, as the statement is backed up by a very serious study from iSupply. We've h ... [read more >>]
	18 June 2008, 10:16GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Corsair Releases "Mini Me" Version of Flash Voyager USB Drive
	Corsair's Flash Voyager line of ultra-rugged USB flash drives is one of the best-known families of rugged portable storage solutions around, providing both large storage capacities and a very high level of endurance to just about everything one might throw at it (water, dust, shocks, you name it). However, since the Flash Voyager is not exactly petite, Corsair has decided to do something for those users who want their drives to be as ... [read more >>]
	13 June 2008, 13:51GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Iomega Rolls out DVR Expander Drive
	Iomega, part of the EMC Company, has launched yesterday in North America a new Iomega DVR Expander Drive. The product is meant to provide 500GB of storage space on an external drive that will increase the storage capacity of digital video recorders. Iomega's new product is said to provide as much as 300 hours of standard definition TV or 60 hours of high-definition TV, thus increasing the normal storage capacity of DVRs. ... [read more >>]
	11 June 2008, 09:51GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Industry's First 1.8-inch 160GB Hard Drive
	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 company claims that the new models will work at 5400 RPM, and will come in 80GB or 160GB models. The two new models, 160GB MK16 ... [read more >>]
	11 June 2008, 02:54GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

120GB SSD More Affordable by Xmas
	Super Talent, a leading manufacturer of storage devices and memory, thinks that 120GD SSDs are going to be less pricey before the year's end. The company is already among the manufacturers that offer SSDs drives and its 120GB SSD can be bought for about $640 at major online stores. The good news is that Super Talent is of the opinion that 120GB hard drives, based on SSD technology, are going to be priced below the $300 range, [ADMARK= ... [read more >>]
	10 June 2008, 04:20GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

OCZ Preps Fortress
	OCZ, one of the leading manufacturers of flash memories, is working on a new product that will provide users with a strong portable storage solution. And, when I say strong, I mean "Fortress" strong, as the company intends to built its product with a number of special features in mind. Even more, from what we can see from a couple of pictures of the yet-unreleased product, OCZ is also trying to make its product look goo ... [read more >>]
	10 June 2008, 03:44GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

ioSafe Rolls out 3.5-inch Hard Drives with Disaster Protection
	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 should no longer be a problem if you buy one of ioSafe's products. The company specializes in providing storage products ... [read more >>]
	10 June 2008, 03:09GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Seven-bay NAS Released by Thecus
	The Computex computer trade show held in Taipei, Taiwan took all the headlines last week, as several manufactures had a number of new products to display for the first time. And we are most probably going to see additional information coming from Computex these days too, although the show has officially closed its doors on 7th of June. One such piece of information is related to the network storage devices released by Thecus. ... [read more >>]
	09 June 2008, 03:05GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Watch Out for the 20000 RPM Raptor
	Who says that HDDs can’t compete with Flash-based Solid-state drives? Apparently not Western Digital, that is rumored to be working on a whooping 20K RPM Raptor hard drive. According to several sources inside the hard drive industry, the storage manufacturer is trying to combat the increasing pressure from SSD manufacturers and also to prove that it can still offer high-performance hard disk drives. With all the talks that hav ... [read more >>]
	06 June 2008, 07:02GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Sun Microsystems to Implement SSDs in Its Server Lineup
	Sun Microsystems, a leading manufacturer of server systems, is going to integrate SSDs in several series of its machines. Apparently, the manufacturer is trying to lower the power consumption of its machines and reduce the total cost of ownership, while boosting the overall performance of the servers. "Flash SSD is the most exciting innovation to happen to system and storage design in over a decade. By mid-2009, it will b ... [read more >>]
	06 June 2008, 02:56GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Seagate to Release SSD and 2-TB HDD in 2009
	Seagate, one of the leading manufacturers of storage solutions, is seriously considering getting more involved in the SSD market. The company plans to introduce its first SSD storage next year, but the products will not be meant for the consumer market. Along with the release of its first SSD drives, Seagate also plans to introduce a 2T-byte hard drive. SSD is becoming an industry standard, but the consumer market will still r ... [read more >>]
	30 May 2008, 07:13GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Imation's Nano Flash Drive Is Tiny... Really, Really Tiny
	The first thing that comes to almost anyone's mind when hearing the word "Imation" is data storage, or, to be more precise, either floppy disks or those magnetic tapes used for carrying out various backup operations. Nevertheless, the company's area of expertise is much wider, as it has just announced the release of its Nano Flash Drive series of flash-based portable storage solutions, which deliver mid-range capacities ... [read more >>]
	29 May 2008, 01:52GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Samsung's 256GB SSD With SATA II Interface
	Samsung plans to revitalize the storage market with the release of its new 256GB Solid State Drive. Simply dubbed the 256GB FlashSSD, this new product is built on a Serial ATA interface and is said to read in-order data at 200MB per second. This is double the rate of Samsung's earlier 128GB drive. The drive is also expected to boost hard drive read speeds. According to Samsung, the real news is the product's manufac ... [read more >>]
	26 May 2008, 07:01GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Iomega Brings Fashion to Portable Storage
	Fashion is increasingly becoming part of today's computer hardware products. Currently, several manufactures release products designed and advertised as fashionable, high-performance products, that are meant to provide support for the everyday activities of the users. One such manufacturer is Iomega, which yesterday released a new storage solution with a rather elegant finish. The new Leather-Wrapped eGo hard drive has be ... [read more >>]
	23 May 2008, 04:33GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Sony Rolls Out Colorful MicroVault Flash Drives
	As you probably know quite well already, the Japanese electronics' giant, Sony, has the habit of launching products that deliver a very attractive external design, besides the high-end components from within. And this is exactly the case with the company's latest flash-based external storage solutions, the MicroVault Click and Click Excellence series, which offer up to 16 GB of storage space (as well as several other attractive f ... [read more >>]
	22 May 2008, 01:51GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

MegaPhone Is Now PhoneView. V. 2.0.1 Available
	Formerly known as iPhoneDrive and later on MegaPhone, an application that allows iPhone users to manage the contents of their handsets, PhoneView, has recently been updated to include support for adding and editing notes without rebooting for each change, undo/redo support, access to iPhone Contact List data and automatic archival of SMS and call history data, just to name a few of its features. A ... [read more >>]
	21 May 2008, 04:33GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Dell and Alienware, the First to Ship 320GB Hard Drives
	Two of the largest manufacturers of portable computers will be the first to ship their products with the latest 7200 RPM, 320 GB hard drives. Dell and Alienware have been announced, via a press release coming from Seagate, as the first two vendors to offer their notebooks with a 320 GB hard drive upgrade. Dell will power its Dell XPS laptop PCs with Seagate's Momentus 7200.3 hard drives, thus becoming the first to market sys ... [read more >>]
	20 May 2008, 03:48GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Seagate Brings out Seagate Showcase
	Yesterday, Seagate, one of the leading manufacturers of storage solutions for both consumer and business users, has announced that they will be releasing Seagate Showcase. The new product aims to satisfy the needs of users looking to save and keep their favorite TV shows and movies. Seagate Showcase plans to extend the storage capacity of DVRs as they are meant for home use. Seagate also announced that Showcase has been designed ... [read more >>]
	20 May 2008, 02:58GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Fujitsu Delivers New 2.5-inch SATA Hard Drives
	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 250 GB. The difference between the two models, which are dubbed MHZ2-BK and MHZ2-BS, is given by the rotational s ... [read more >>]
	19 May 2008, 10:00GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Super Talent Announces 120 GB 2.5-inch Solid-State Drives
	Following the successful introduction of world's slimmest 256GB SSD in March, Super Talent has announced a new 2.5-inch solid-state drive in the MasterDrive family of products. The new solid-state storage products from Super Talent are not only fully c ... [read more >>]
	13 May 2008, 06:35GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Iomega Delivers the Camouflage 250 GB Portable Disk Drive
	Iomega has announced mass-availability for its camouflage patterned 250 GB portable hard disk drive in the eGO family of products. Called the Camo, the new drive comes with USB connectivity, and is mostly targeted at mobile users who carry large amounts of data around. The unusual hard disk drive packs 250 GB of storage space in a sturdy, rounded enclosure. The camouflage pattern brings nothing in terms of HDD performance or ... [read more >>]
	08 May 2008, 04:22GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Hitachi Introduces 320 GB TravelStar 7K320 Drive at 7,200 RPM
	Storage specialist Hitachi has introduced a new notebook hard disk drive that packs 320GB of storage space in a 2.5-inch form factor. While the storage performance is not out of the ordinary, the new drive from Hitachi spins at 7.200 rotations per minute, just like an average desktop hard disk drive. 7,200 RPM 2.5-inch drives are extremely rare, especially because they would add extra load to the notebook's battery. Howe ... [read more >>]
	07 May 2008, 09:33GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Formic Acid May One Day Power Fuel Cell Vehicles
	One of the problems related to implementing hydrogen technology in today's cars, aside the relative low efficiency of fuel cells, involves the fuel itself – hydrogen, a gas, the lightest element known in the universe and at the same time the most abundant. After more than 13.7 billion years, hydrogen still makes up for more than 75 percent of the whole mass of ordinary matter. Hydrogen may be abundant and light, not to mention that it ... [read more >>]
	07 May 2008, 06:47GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Plextor's Pocketable HDD Packs 500GB of Storage
	Plextor has announced a capacity update to its pocketable range of personal storage products with the advent of the new 500GB portable unit, also known as Plextor PX-PH500US. The device is extremely suitable for road warriors, as well as for users who carry large amounts of data. The external shell is extremely stylish, and the brushed aluminum case looks more like an accessory than like a piece of hardware. The drive connect ... [read more >>]
	06 May 2008, 11:33GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Toshiba Envisions 512 GB SSDs until 2009
	Japanese conglomerate Toshiba announced that the company planned to deliver an affordable 512GB solid-state drive until 2009. According to the company, SSD shipments are expected to take off, as more than 25 percent of the shipped notebooks are alleged to come factory-equipped with the new medium. At the moment, the company is working on a modest 128 GB drive that is slated for mass-availability in June, bundled with its ... [read more >>]
	24 April 2008, 12:03GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

STEC Unveils 32GB One-Inch Solid-State Drive
	Solid-state drive manufacturer STEC has just announced the launch of a new series of SSD products that now come in a diminutive one-inch form factor. It seems that STEC is not at all afraid of Seagate's patent infringement lawsuit and continues to innova ... [read more >>]
	23 April 2008, 10:27GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia