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RunCore SSD Goes Down in Smoke at the Press of a Button

RunCore may not have given its newest solid-state drive the fastest interface in the world, but it did give it something that will make the day of people who want to be absolutely, undeniably certain they can make it impossible for others to see their files. The InVincible SSD goes to more absurd lengths to erase y...

17 May 2012
02:32 GMT

Century Ships New USB 3.0 SATA Drive Dock with Cloning Capabilities

Japanese company Century Tech started shipping its new CRAS2U3CP SATA HDD/SSD cloning dock in stores around the Land of the Rising Sun.The dock allows the user to clone a SATA HDD/SSD, without using a computer or a laptop. This method is much faster, simpler and even cheaper and eco-friendly, as you don’t need ...

12 April 2012
06:05 GMT

Microsemi Reveals SSDs with Rugged SATA Connectors

Makers of storage devices, in this case solid state drives, usually advertise their inventions by emphasizing their speed or capacity, but Microsemi Corporation chose a different tactic. If we were to guess, we might venture saying that what Microsemi did is something that other makers of solid state drives could e...

11 April 2012
20:01 GMT

“Magical” SATA Cables Make Your Music Sound Better

Korean company WireDream has just started shipping their new, especially designed and manufactured, SATA cables. These are not your ordinary run-of-the-mill SATA cables but special, some might say “magical” ones that will make your audio output sound “better.” The cables are made of 97% ste...

27 March 2012
07:30 GMT

I-O Data Puts Together New Blu-ray Writer

Showing that it hasn't only been working on new monitors, I-O Data has officially introduced a Blu-ray writer called BRD-S14X. The new optical disk drive (ODD) is a fairly common-looking piece of hardware, one that uses the regular SATA connection to communicate with a motherboard. It boasts 4 MB of buffer m...

21 March 2012
14:11 GMT

SATA-IO Releases SATA DevSleep For More Efficient Storage

Mobile devices may already be able to go into idle states and, thus, consume less energy, but the Serial ATA International Organization (SATA-IO) didn't think it was enough. Thus it developed the SATA DevSleep, a feature that reduces the power consumption of SATA storage drives items. Basically, DevSleep allow...

6 January 2012
15:01 GMT

PMC Makes Data Easier and Quicker to Manage With 6Gb/s SAS/SATA controller

To help with data security on the cloud and data center market, PMC has created a pair of 6 Gbps SAS/SATA protocol controllers that aim to provide data security, not just performance.Consumers might not know, but how fast they get access to online data and how safe their devices are from cyber threats depends, in a ...

24 October 2011
13:11 GMT

SanDisk Makes SSDs Use a Lot Less Energy

SanDisk may have actually outdone itself with its latest solid state drive standard, since it isn't every day that a product, which is already praised for power efficiency, gets to become so much less energy-hungry. Solid state drives have, so far, been gaining market share thanks to their high speeds and low ...

13 September 2011
09:56 GMT

Green House Sets Loose mSATA and SATA SSDs

Companies often issue a press release to trumpet the availability of a product, but Green House really let the floodgates loose this once, revealing many SLC and MLC solid state drives.Solid state drives are something that Green House seems to be especially fond of, if the sheer size of tis newest batch of products ...

18 August 2011
08:52 GMT

Buffalo Creates New SATA 6.0 Gbps SSD

The past week has definitely seen its share of new storage solutions, especially of the external variety, but it appears that things are hardly over on this front, with Buffalo making its move as well.External storage solutions have definitely been getting bought lately, although this is hardly surprising considerin...

26 May 2011
09:46 GMT

VIA's Low-Power VL701 USB 3.0 to SATA Bridge Chip Gets Certified by USB-IF

VIA has just announced that its VL701 low-power USB 3.0 to SATA bridge controller has just been certified by the USB Implementers Forum (USB-IF), making it the first company to achieve USB-IF bus-powered certification using a traditional hard disk drive. This means that manufacturers can now build high-capacity ex...

12 May 2011
09:34 GMT

Sans Digital MS8X6 SAS Expander Can House Up to 8 SAS or SATA 6Gbps Drives

Sans Digital, a company well known for its high-performance storage subsystems, has just announced that it has introduced a new MobileSTOR SAS expander tower unit that can house up to eight SAS or SATA drives in a JBOD configuration. The new MobileSTOR MS8X6 is based on the EliteSTOR SAS expander series and connec...

29 April 2011
07:18 GMT

Apacer 2.5-Inch SATA External HDD Is Easy to Carry Around

Like so many other companies on the IT market, Apacer came forth and released a new storage unit, namely an external, portable hard disk drive that benefits from the most recent iteration of the USB standard.It seems that Green House is not the only company dealing in storage devices designed with support for the Su...

5 April 2011
05:05 GMT

Prepare Breakfast with Toaster-Equipped SATA Dock

It seems that, nowadays, there is a tendency to merge together certain device types, but few can really be said to have developed something truly unusual, although StarTech does claim something of the sort.Hybrid devices are definitely not news on the consumer and enterprise market, with HDDs (hybrid hard drives) be...

1 April 2011
04:37 GMT

Sharkoon SATA to USB 3.0 Adapter Available in Europe

There are quite a few sorts of connectors on the market, and sometimes it becomes necessary to come up with such things as converters, something that Sharkoon knows well if its new adapter is anything to go by.While at one point floppy disks and optical disks were the only widespread means of moving data form one PC...

16 February 2011
06:50 GMT

Maingear to Replace Intel 6-Series Motherboards Used in Their Systems Starting March 17

Intel's announcement regarding the problems encountered by its 6-series Sandy Bridge chipsets has forced computer manufacturers to take action, Maingear just letting us know that they plan to replace all the buggy motherboards once models based on the new revision of the chipsets become available in mid March. ...

1 February 2011
08:09 GMT

SATA/SATA II to USB 3.0 Adapter Developed by Novac

Right now, most desktop computer owners (who do tend to fiddle with their inside of their PCs) have to rely on the SATA or USB interfaces in order to transfer data, but the people over at Novac have decided to add a little bit of USB 3.0 to this equation, given the fact that, after all, this interface will play a piv...

20 January 2011
04:03 GMT

DuraDrive SSDs from Super Talent Get SATA

Not long after Super Talent's newest series of industrial SSDs made its debut, the same collection of drives gained members equipped with the SATA interface, dubbed DuraDrive AT2.Super Talent apparently decided that it was time to offer something newer and better for the enterprise sector in terms of storage.As...

23 December 2010
02:38 GMT

Sharkoon QuickPort Line Houses 2.5-Inch HDDs and SSDs

For those end-users that want to use regular hard disk drives or solid state drives as external units, there are a variety of docks and special enclosures on today's market, and Sharkoon has just revealed its latest QuickPort Series product.There is a number of reasons for which consumers would choose...

19 October 2010
06:34 GMT

Poor Windows 7 Startup Performance Can Be Caused by Unused External SATA Ports

Microsoft is helping Windows 7 customers deal with poor startup performance in the context in which they have at least one external SATA port that is not used. The Redmond company has confirmed an issue related to the latest iteration of the Windows client, in which customers can experience sluggish boot times on co...

9 September 2010
12:57 GMT

Viking Modular Solutions Trumpets Slim SATA SSD

Since solid state drives are known for being fast, reliable and power-efficient, Viking Modular Solutions decided to add super compactness to that list of advantages and, thus, came up with the Slim SATA SSDs, a number of very thin devices designed for various industrial applications.There is no question that the co...

17 August 2010
04:07 GMT

Active Media Products SATA DOM Flash Drives Debut

When thinking of flash drives, end-users' minds usually drift to those very small 'sticks' that provide an amount of flash storage inside a plastic or metal casing. However, there is a certain type of flash drive that does not see to the needs of consumers and, instead, is meant for embedded systems a...

9 August 2010
03:11 GMT

PhotoFast Gbox Mini Changes SATA Into USB 3.0

News on the storage front may mostly consist of new hard drives, solid state drives and flash drives, but there is a certain product category that, instead of offering storage by itself, allows other devices to do it. Such small gadgets usually go by the names of interface adapters and PhotoFast is quite eager to sh...

29 June 2010
05:47 GMT

HighPoint's SATA 3.0 Host Adapter Has RAID 5 Capability

HighPoint has announced a host-based RAID controller that will double the data rate for high bandwidth PC applications such as gaming, video and audio applications, as well as video streaming and graphics applications. The RocketRAID 620 series is a user-friendly and economical way to optimize performance to capacity...

12 January 2010
04:06 GMT

Brando Makes SATA HDDs as Fast as USB 3.0

With the advent of newer and faster connectivity technology, old storage solutions end up gathering dust because they no longer perform well enough to be included in the latest system configurations. Sometimes, old hard drives can't even perform well enough as auxiliary external storage. Brando, however, launche...

28 December 2009
10:06 GMT

Windows 7 RTM and 1 Terabyte (TB) SATA Hard Disk Don’t Play Nice Together

As more and more users deploy the latest iteration of the Windows client on their computers, additional issues affecting the platform come to light. After all, even with an 8 million strong Beta testing pool, Microsoft could not replicate all real life usage scenarios that would cause Windows 7 glitches. The latest i...

23 December 2009
09:13 GMT

SATA-IO to Develop New mSATA Connector

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

Elecom nanoSSD Can Be Installed Directly on the Motherboard

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

Phoenix Unveils SSD-Based Storage Module for the Military

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

Apacer Debuts New SSDs Designed for Tough Environments

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

MSI Adds Power Over SATA Port to Several Products

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
05:09 GMT

Download Intel SATA SSD Firmware Update

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
04:26 GMT

Seagate and AMD Demonstrate SATA 6Gbps Transfer Speed

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

First SATA 6GB/s Drives to Debut in Q2 2009

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
02:58 GMT

Hitachi Also Delivers 2.5-Inch 500GB HDDs with ‘Green’ Features

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

1.8-Inch 250GB SATA HDD Has Arrived

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

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 compa...

11 June 2008
02:54 GMT

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 shou...

10 June 2008
03:09 GMT

Western Digital Releases New Family of Hard Drives

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

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 2...

19 May 2008
10:00 GMT

Transcend Adds Active Cooling to Its eSATA StoreJet HDD

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

Transcend Unveils High-Performance SATA Module

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

Imation to Introduce Odyssey USB Removable HDD Cartridge

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

NewerTech Introduces All-In-One USB 2.0 Adapter

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

Fujitsu Announce 320 GB on a 2.5-inch disk

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

Samsung SH-S203N - World's Fastest DVD Burner

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

A Very Fast Serial ATA Controller Launched

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

G-Tech's Fast and Spacious External Storage Devices

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

IDE Data Transfer Interfaces Are Obsolete

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

AOpen Launches a New DVD Burner

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
05:06 GMT


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