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The amount of digital data is increasing everyday, making consumers continuously search for new storage solutions, that can provide enhanced capacities, performance, and reliability, features that are required to store and protect one's digital content. On that note, ioSafe has announced today the availability ... |
13 November 2009
05:26 GMT |
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Lake Forest, California-based Western Digital, one of the world's leading vendors of hard disk drives and the world's leader in external storage solutions, has announced today the launch of a couple of updated external storage solutions, part of the company's My Passport Elite, My Book Elite and My Boo... |
6 October 2009
10:05 GMT |
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Hitachi Global Storage Technologies has recently announced that it has agreed to acquire Fabrik Inc, a supplier of personal and professional storage solutions. With the acquisition, Hitachi has basically consolidated its position in the market for external storage solutions, as it now owns leading storage brands such... |
24 February 2009
05:35 GMT |
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Fujitsu Siemens Computers, a leading European IT infrastructure provider, has announced the introduction of its new NAS Blade meant to fulfill the SMEs' needs for affordable, embedded shared storage in their Blade Server environments. The company's PRIMERGY Network-attached storage (NAS) Blade NX650 has bee... |
11 December 2008
05:02 GMT |
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"Green" electronic products are extremely popular nowadays, since more and more people are becoming aware of the major environmental issues of our planet and actually try to do something about it. And that's exactly the case with the EarthDrive USB flash drive from ATP, a device that really screams "green," star... |
24 November 2008
15:31 GMT |
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It seems that the mainstream size of enterprise-grade hard disk drives is on its move from the current 3.5 inches toward 2.5 inches due to the major power gains the smaller form factor HDDs offer. According to Paul Martin, Western Digital senior director for Worldwide Channel Marketing and Enterprise, a 10,000rpm 2.5... |
24 November 2008
06:06 GMT |
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Up until now, most external storage devices connected to a computer via the ubiquitous USB (Universal Serial Bus) interface. However, given the increasing popularity of eSATA interfaces (due mostly to their capacity of reaching very high data transfer speeds), the Kanguru company has decided that it would be a very g... |
20 November 2008
13:11 GMT |
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Seagate, the leading provider of storage solutions, announced that its new award-winning FreeAgent Go portable hard drive is now available in all the colors of the rainbow, including: think pink, ruby red, solar orange, spring green, forest green, royal blue, sky blue, champagne gold, titanium silver and tuxedo black... |
20 November 2008
02:56 GMT |
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Over the course of 2008, the storage capacities attained by USB flash drives have reached some values nobody even thought possible a few years ago, with 16 and 32 GB becoming mainstream numbers rather than highly expensive oddities. However, most flash drive manufacturers are actually pushing things even further, and... |
20 November 2008
01:54 GMT |
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Over time, the guys over at mimoco have come up with what could be described as the funniest USB flash drives ever, since these portable storage devices are entirely hand-made and have some highly "artistic" form factors. And since Halloween is rapidly approaching, the company has just released an ultra-limited editi... |
24 October 2008
10:31 GMT |
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Lately, flash memory solutions manufacturer Super Talent has made quite a few interesting announcements, related mostly to solid-state drives (SSDs). However, the company's not ignoring its flash drive business, either, and introduced a new series of such devices, dubbed Luxio, which combines a very attractive e... |
23 October 2008
08:41 GMT |
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I don't know what's with A-DATA and its Disney obsession (read financially-lucrative contract), but the company seems keen to cover just about everything there is about the latter's famous animated characters, Mickey Mouse in particular. And by "everything" I do mean just about anything related to the ... |
20 October 2008
10:48 GMT |
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Given just how easy it has become for manufacturers from all around the world to insert flash memory chips in just about everything they might think of (from hamburgers to pieces of wood), it's no wonder that we're faced with an avalanche of weird-looking flash drives, taking every shape and form factor ima... |
13 October 2008
02:38 GMT |
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Ever since the first product from this family arrived in stores, Corsair's Voyager drives have been quite renowned for providing fairly large storage capacities in a very tough and shock-resilient body. And that is also the case with the company's latest product, which packs no less than an amazing 64 GB of... |
1 October 2008
15:51 GMT |
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It would seem that there's some sort of competition between the various manufacturers of USB flash drives for the title of "world's smallest drive", one of the most important contenders for this title being the Super Talent company. Over time, they've come up with several "record-breaking" models, and ... |
14 August 2008
02:39 GMT |
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One of the most important shortcomings of the digital world is that people don't take time to read printed books anymore. While digital libraries are growing larger and larger, the living-room book-shelves accommodate less and less hardback books. Peripheral manufacturer Sarotech found an ingenious way of blendi... |
13 May 2008
09:28 GMT |
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Plextor has just announced an update to its network-attached storage product offering. The two new additions come with a re-engineered unit and interface, and are touted as being the next-generation high performance external storage devices.The Plextor StorX PX-NAS500L comes with a storage capacity of 500GB, while t... |
10 May 2008
06:29 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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Iomega has introduced a new portable external hard-disk drive that can substitute an entire computer when it comes to watching high-definition content. The new product comes in 500 GB capacities, and allows enthusiasts to easily share and stream multimedia content to high-definition TV sets and home theater systems. ... |
24 April 2008
09:31 GMT |
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Other World Computing has just introduced a new 500 GB portable hard-disk drive model to its Mercury On-The-Go lineup. The new drive spins at 5,400 rotations per minute and sports three connectivity options to maximize compatibility with the host computer, while delivering the highest possible data transfer rate.The ... |
19 April 2008
04:45 GMT |
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Storage specialist Iomega has just introduced its Media Xporter Drive, a portable hard disk drive pitched at the gaming console market. The cross-platform media storage solution is fully compatible with the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 consoles, and allows users to transfer data between the personal computer and the h... |
18 April 2008
05:21 GMT |
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Storage specialist LaCie has announced its latest external storage devices signed by industrial design specialist Neil Poulton. The drive comes with a triple interface including USB 2.0, eSATA, and Firewire 400 in order to maximize compatibility with the host system and ensure smooth data transfer rates.The hard-driv... |
4 April 2008
05:59 GMT |
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Buffalo Technologies has just announced another external hard-disk drive in its DriveStation external storage lineup, called the DriveStation Combo4 TurboUSB. The new storage device can be regarded as an external hard-disk on steroids, given the fact that it connects via four different types of interfaces to maximize... |
4 April 2008
05:04 GMT |
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LaCie has started shipping an increased capacity version of its apocalypse-ready Rugged All-Terrain Hard Disk. The new drive now has four times its initial capacity and allows the user to store up to 32 GB of data in a portable and user-friendly form-factor.The drive is the exclusive creation of the world-renown indu... |
18 February 2008
11:24 GMT |
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Buffalo Technologies announced that the company has no plans of releasing the world's first external storage solution based on NAND flash memory. Called the MiniStation SHD-UHRS, the 100GB device is a solid-state drive enclosed in a polished casing.It seems that the MiniStation SHD-UHRS that was so proudly displ... |
16 February 2008
05:06 GMT |
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Verbatim has just launched a whole new line of 2.5-inch portable hard-drives. The external storage media comes as a free space bonus for the notebook and ultra-mobile PC users. The devices allow the user to scale the storage space according to their needs, by adding 120, 160, 250, or 320GB hard-disk drives.The manufa... |
15 February 2008
11:14 GMT |
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Just as I thought that Buffalo's devices could never get better than they are now, the company has announced yet another product to complete its portable storage offering. The new drive comes with 500GB of space and has arrived earlier than Seagate, Maxtor and Hitachi would have estimated.Buffalo's half-a-t... |
15 February 2008
06:42 GMT |
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The automated teller machines are hardly new on the market, but nobody thought to port their security system to hard drives enclosures. Well, at least, until now, because a Japanese hard-disk enclosure manufacturer has launched a portable hard drive that features a built-in ATM-like keypad.The EZSecu EZ850 is a 2.5-i... |
4 February 2008
12:30 GMT |
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Japanese storage expert Buffalo is one of the few relatively new companies on the market that managed to impress in a short time. The peripherals manufacturer is especially concerned with producing external storage devices, such as portable hard-disk drives, Blu-ray players, USB flash drives. Buffalo was also the fir... |
4 February 2008
10:07 GMT |
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The days when quality devices were enough for worldwide recognition are long gone, or so it seems. There should be a special category for such devices, such as hardware fashion, or fashionable hardware or whatever. We have talked about Pinafarina having designed an external unit for Seagate's USB disk, now it�... |
6 December 2007
06:57 GMT |
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Apricorn has releaser their Aegis Vault portable storage suite. What strikes most is the very name of the product and the manufacturer has managed to make a somehow redundant statement in terms of security when joining Aegis (the Greek equivalent for protection) and the Vault. In some respects, there is no overstatem... |
4 December 2007
10:55 GMT |
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As the amounts of data we work with on a daily basis have seriously increased over the past few years, the same phenomenon has applied to the market demand for external storage solutions with very high capacities. And one of the latest companies to join the 1 TB club is TrekStor, which has finally released its DataSt... |
17 July 2007
05:56 GMT |
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