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Yet another HDD enclosure has appeared, one that promises to house any 2.5-inc or 3.5-inch SATA hard drive, establish the connection to PCs and protect the unit during transportation. Icy Dock is the company that brought forward the new product, whose name is MB559U3S-1S. It comes with USB 3.0 + eSATA combo conne... |
26 May 2012
07:02 GMT |
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External storage cases have become quite common, but they aren't in too high a number yet, so Century Japan should find at least some buyers for the CRNS35U3MR "EX Volume".
The short version of the description is that the case is a device which can hold two 3.5-inch SATA HDDs.
The slightly longer version is th... |
25 May 2012
17:01 GMT |
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Well-known cooling expert, Korean company Zalman is reportedly getting ready to launch the new “SLC Series” USB flash drives. These are fast USB 3.0 sticks with very fast single-level cell NAND flash memory inside. Technically, SLC NAND is faster and also more expensive than the usual MLC NAND used in mo... |
24 May 2012
07:25 GMT |
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Japanese company Logitec has just launched the new LHD-EG40THEU3F external HDD unit, on its official website. This is a 7200 RMP, 4 TB HDD packed inside a USB 3.0 enclosure that also comes with eSATA connectivity. Readers should not confuse Logitec with Swiss company Logitech. The new 4 TB external HDD we’re pr... |
24 May 2012
05:19 GMT |
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Santa Fe Springs-headquartered, Californian company Akitio is introducing today the Cloud Hybrid NAS/DAS, on its official website. This is an NAS-like external enclosure that is used to back up your data. The device only has one HDD 3.5” slot and has no other data security and integrity fail-safe measures. So ... |
21 May 2012
13:11 GMT |
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PQI's USB 3.0 Intelligent Drive U821V is a flash drive through and through, but that didn't stop the company from branding it a traveling “disk.” There are no disks involved here, but we digress. Armed with a stainless steel case, it is unusual in that it doesn't actually have an USB plug... |
17 May 2012
11:04 GMT |
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Corsair has upgraded its GS power supplies and, now, we get to write about another company improving on an already existing product line.
Toshiba has officially announced that the Canvio 3.0 and Canvio Basic 3.0 portable hard disk drive units have increased in capacity.
Instead of max 1 TB of storage space, they n... |
16 May 2012
09:17 GMT |
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Lenovo has introduced, even made a video of, the ThinkPad USB 3.0 dock, a sort of connection hub meant to supplement the company's mobile PCs. The whole point of its creation was to provide as many connections as possible on the energy and bandwidth available on a single USB 3.0 link to the PC. That said, ther... |
15 May 2012
10:19 GMT |
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Back when Intel’s Thunderbolt was announced we had enough insider knowledge to know it was Intel’s attempt to practically expand a system’s add-on capabilities using PCI-Express. The Thunderbolt technology was not a connectivity endeavor. It was a system extension. With USB or FireWire you get a l... |
11 May 2012
20:08 GMT |
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The name of the Fujitsu USB 3.0 Port Replicator PR08 doesn't really do a perfect job of indicating just what the product is capable of but, fortunately, it doesn't need to.
There is a big press release dedicated to the sole purpose of revealing the dock's existence and its multiple benefits.
Indeed,... |
9 May 2012
17:01 GMT |
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Chinese storage and peripheral connect specialist Orico has just launched the ORICO 7-Port USB 3.0 PCI Express Card, on its official website. This is a 7 USB 3.0 port add on PCIe card that will allow your computer to directly handle up to seven USB 3.0 SuperSpeed devices. It is powered by two VIA Labs controllers, b... |
7 May 2012
12:01 GMT |
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Sharkoon decided it was time two of its cases got upgraded, so instead of re-branding or otherwise trying to make them unique, it added the lacking features and sent the enclosures on their way.
The two cases that have received extra functionality are Sharkoon Nightfall and Sharkoon Rebel9 Aluminum.
They used to ... |
7 May 2012
05:48 GMT |
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Verbatim, being the maker of storage products that it is, decided to go ahead and launch a new series of USB flash drive units, the Store 'n' Go V3 USB 3.0.
The name alone is enough to spell out more or less everything worth knowing about the devices: they are meant to be carried anywhere and transfer dat... |
2 May 2012
07:44 GMT |
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Memory cards are nice and useful, but interfacing with PCs, especially desktops, can be a chore, so Lexar decided to do something about it.
Even though they may not support all types of memory cards, laptops have integrated card readers, mostly.
Desktops, however, don't usually have these things by default, ... |
27 April 2012
09:47 GMT |
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Owners of DVRs or smart TVs might want to buy an external HDD, so Freecom, part of the Mitsubishi Chemical Holdings Group, decided to make a very special one.
Thus it was that the Hard Drive Sq came to be, a 3.5-inch external unit with a square shape.
It comes in capacities of 1 TB, 2 TB and 3 TB and uses the USB 3... |
25 April 2012
10:16 GMT |
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Well-known chipset and CPU designer, VIA Labs, has recently announced the new USB 3.0 HUB controller called VIA Labs VL812, on its official website.Taiwanese company VIA Labs Inc has long been know for designing and manufacturing processors, chipset and platforms that are very power efficient, very cool and easy to i... |
21 April 2012
08:43 GMT |
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Less than a year after renouncing the MiniDisc Walkman products and after a less than successful twenty-year long campaign for the wide adoption of the MiniDisc format, SONY reportedly announces another custom storage format. It is called the Optical Disc Archive and it is likely that it uses some sort of cassette w... |
17 April 2012
07:55 GMT |
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People who want to buy a new USB 3.0 storage device might want to check out Buffalo's SSD-PEU3 series, assuming they live in Japan that is.
Long story short, the company has released three new solid state drives with capacities of 64 GB, 128 GB and 256 GB, respectively.
In that order, they bear prices of $105,... |
12 April 2012
10:06 GMT |
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There are some new external Blu-ray drives selling in Japan, courtesy of Logitec. Dubbed LBD-PME6U3V, LBD-PME6U3LBK and LBD-PME6U3MSV, they can be colored black, silver or red and are essentially the same, except for the software they are bundled with. In that order, they get the TotalMediaExtreme 2 Blu-ray authori... |
12 April 2012
08:49 GMT |
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Japanese company Buffalo has announced today the release of its new external Blu-ray drive on its official website. The new drive is connected through a fast USB 3.0 interface. The new device is called BRXL-14U3 and is able to write a single layer BD-R at a speed of 14x. A double-layer BD-R will be written at a fa... |
12 April 2012
07:52 GMT |
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Kingston's DataTraveler collection of USB flash drive units is fairly extensive, but the company didn't see any reason not to release yet another set.
The latest product line is called DataTraveler Elite 3.0 and, in spite of the name, it is actually supposed to be one of the more economical options out th... |
10 April 2012
13:41 GMT |
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Flash storage company Team Group has expanded its line of USB drives with the model S112, which comes equipped with USB 3.0 interface. In addition to its primary purpose, the drive can act as a stylish accessory, as it is packed in a polished metal case with a black lace loop for one of its ends. The case has a zinc... |
6 April 2012
05:11 GMT |
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Pericom Semiconductor Company has announced today, the mass production and availability of the USB 3.0 ReDriver chips during the IDF (Intel Developer Forum). These products are intended for use in electronic devices with USB 3.0 support that require an increase in the length of the connection without compromising sig... |
4 April 2012
09:06 GMT |
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It looks like there is a new maker of USB 3.0 chips in the house, one that even has great ambitions as far as its particular segment of the IT market goes.
Etron wants to become one of the top two suppliers of USB 3.0 flash drive controllers before the year is over (2012).
The first time it promised such chips was ... |
3 April 2012
08:12 GMT |
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Well-known case make BitFenix has announced on its official website that it's upgrading its cases to offer USB 3.0 connection on the front panel.The three cases, part of BitFenix’s upgrade initiative, are the Colossus Window, Shinobi and Shinobi Window models.The new front-panel configurations a... |
31 March 2012
04:56 GMT |
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BitFenix, one of the newest makers of cases and peripherals for gamers, has announced updated versions of the Shinobi and Colossus Window cases.
"Our vision is one of constant improvement," says BitFenix Product Manager David Jarlestedt.
"This latest upgrade for our award-winning Shinobi and Colossus Window brings ... |
30 March 2012
09:27 GMT |
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Some new flash drives are on the way, courtesy of Elecom, but they won't be here soon at all.
In fact, shipments will only start in October (2012).
Still, USB 3.0 will truly be common by then, perhaps even among Ultrabooks.
Anyway, the MF-MSU3 series comes in four capacity sizes and just as many colors.
That... |
27 March 2012
09:34 GMT |
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Lian Li has apparently made a habit out of announcing new and innovative compact desktop PC cases based on the mini-ITX form factor, the recently announced PC-Q15 being the latest to join the party.
According to Lian Li, this chassis was designed as a data storage center for the numerous hi-tech mobile devices of th... |
20 March 2012
19:01 GMT |
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Synology has just introduced an updated version of the high-performance 4-bay DiskStation DS412 NAS (Network Attached Storage) server, the DS412+, which adds a couple of new features to its predecessor.
In order to build the DS412+, Synology started by redesigning the case of its previous model so that it could add ... |
20 March 2012
11:04 GMT |
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It looks like current marketing conditions and customer preferences are creating a fairly clear picture of the future, as far as the NAND Flash memory market is concerned anyway. Digitimes has published its most recent report regarding the likeliest evolution of the NAND Flash chip storage segment. Granted, this i... |
20 March 2012
10:44 GMT |
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There are motherboards that still have no USB 3.0 ports, or just don't have enough of them, so Kurotoshikou decided to release the USB3.0R-P4-PCIe.
Powered by a Renesas μPD720201 chipset, it uses the PCI Express 2.0 x1 interface to power four USB 3.0 SuperSpeed ports.
Only three of them are on the rear expa... |
19 March 2012
12:05 GMT |
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External storage devices are all well and good, but for those who have regular SATA drives lying about, Japanese company Marshal has created a pair of enclosures and a docking station. The three devices that Marshal has created are called MAL-3235SBK, MAL-3335SBKU and MAL-3635SBK. The first two are external drive ... |
15 March 2012
16:51 GMT |
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USB 3.0 connectivity is becoming more and more common, and you get to see the blue ports so more often in both notebooks and motherboards.
Intel's new USB 3.0 driver version 1.0.4.220 is developed for a specific range of motherboards and promises better stability and faster transfers with USB 3.0 compatible dev... |
15 March 2012
11:42 GMT |
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iStorage, a company specialized in building encrypted portable storage devices, just announced the availability of the diskAshur DT, “the world’s first” 3.5-inch external HDD featuring military grade hardware encryption and USB 3.0 support.
The diskAshur DT series includes three drives with capaci... |
15 March 2012
08:56 GMT |
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After writing about servers and their latest storage products, we are bringing you information on the RocketStor SMART Backup product from HighPoint Technologies. The RocketStor SMART Backup is basically a dual-bay storage device that connects to PCs or Mac Systems via USB 3.0. This means that it is not a NAS (netw... |
12 March 2012
10:00 GMT |
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Not one to flinch from losing its position as leading HDD provider, Seagate is almost ready to start selling a new hard disk drive, one that will stand out from the fold through being smaller than most, as odd as it may sound.
The consumer IT industry is strange in the way that the smaller a gadget is, the more not... |
12 March 2012
08:54 GMT |
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If you live in Japan and want to get a flash drive one of these days, the Elecom MF-BSU304GBK may warrant at least a passing glance, especially if you care about safety. It is not a large-capacity storage unit by any means. There are only 4 GB available. On the other hand, there is 256-bit AES data encryption, as... |
9 March 2012
09:53 GMT |
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CeBIT is still underway in Hannover, Germany, and ASUS has various things to show there, such as the unusual PA248Q monitor.
It isn't some special resolution, brightness or other display parameter that makes this thing stand apart from all of the others of its type.
Granted, the IPS panel does give it better... |
9 March 2012
09:02 GMT |
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It was just yesterday that we wrote about Patriot's newest solid state drives and, now, the company has also been found to have created a new flash drive unit.
The IT player has officially introduced the Supersonic Boost XT USB 3.0 flash drive, the sort of NAND Flash-based storage device that emphasizes endura... |
6 March 2012
08:31 GMT |
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Buffalo has announced a pair of items that people don't often hear or read about.Dubbed BSCR09U3 and BSCRD04U3, they are memory card readers that connect to systems over USB 3.0.Notebooks may all have card readers of varying support ranges, but the same cannot be said about desktops.As such, Buffalo made the BSC... |
5 March 2012
16:11 GMT |
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ADATA has officially launched the DashDrive Durable HD710 family of portable and rugged hard disk drives. Thanks to their unique housing, they are both shockproof and waterproof, even compliant with the IPX7 specification, which means they can survive for 30 minute when submerged underwater at depths of 1 meter or ... |
29 February 2012
09:57 GMT |
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Most PCs and a lot of other consumer electronics devices have HDMI outputs nowadays, but just in case your system doesn't, Ratoc has the solution.Sure, you'll need an USB 3.0 port for it to work, but if you do have a product that, as odd as it sounds, has USB 3.0 but couldn't be bothered to integrate H... |
24 February 2012
10:03 GMT |
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Anyone who wished there was a new external HDD to feast their eyes on will be glad to learn that there are two of them coming out of I-O Data's labs.The company has built the HDPC-UT series, which is made up of two members, for now, both of which are meant to connect to PCs, or whatever else, via USB 3.0.They me... |
16 February 2012
04:55 GMT |
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SuperSpeed USB continues to gain market traction among the consumer electronics industry, the recently announced Nikon D800 and D800E professional DSLR cameras being the first such products to feature USB 3.0 support.Nikon’s digital SLR’s were certified by the USB Implementers Forum to support this standa... |
10 February 2012
20:01 GMT |
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Aerocool’s Strike-X series mid-tower PC cases have now begun selling in Europe where they will retail for prices starting at 34.99 EUR ($46 US), making them some of the most budget-friendly gaming PC enclosures around.
The series includes two models, the Strike-X One and Strike-X One Advance, both of these fea... |
9 February 2012
08:05 GMT |
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If you feel the need of attaching more monitors to your notebook computer but all you have at your disposal is an USB 3.0 port, Targus has unveiled a solution that might be just what you are looking for.
Dubbed the Targus USB 3.0 Dual Video Card, this compact device adds both an HDMI and a DVI output to your compute... |
31 January 2012
14:01 GMT |
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Silverstone has already presented quite a few cases at this year CES fair, but the company still has one more model to show us, this being the Kublai KL04 mid-tower chassis which is scheduled to become available later this month.Contrary to other more advanced Silverstone creations, the Kublai KL04 drops the aluminum... |
20 January 2012
10:38 GMT |
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When it released the Kage K1 SATA SSD, PureSilicon also delivered a storage unit designed with the USB 3.0 interface.The so-called Kage K1 USB drive can transfer data at up to 400 MB/s and has a thickness of just 4.5mm (0.17 inches).More precisely, it measures 76.75 mm x 22 mm x 4.5 mm (3.02 x 0.86 x 0.17 inches).Tha... |
18 January 2012
15:21 GMT |
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When it released the DataTraveler HyperX USB 3.0 Flash drive, Kingston said that its USB 3.0 dongle could offer SSD-like performance without the bulk of a regular solid state unit. We were so intrigued by these claims that we decided to take the drive for a spin to see how well it performs in the real world. The Da... |
16 January 2012
13:01 GMT |
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VIA showed a surprising level of interest in the Universal Serial Bus interface at the 2012 edition of the Consumer Electronics Show, even inventing a new cabling solution.
VIA has officially announced the VIA Labs VO510 5Gb Optical Transceiver, a USB 3.0 Active Optical Cable (AOC) solutions.
It can send multimedi... |
13 January 2012
15:31 GMT |
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