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| Do-It-Yourself: Build a 96 GB SSD Drive for Less than $450 |  | Solid-state drives are gaining more and more popularity among notebook users, but their high sale price makes regular users stick to older HDD drives. However, you can now enjoy the benefits of using flash-based storage while keeping the budget low with the DIY Century Compact Flash to SATA adapter.
A similar approach was presented a while ago, but the new offering from Century comes with extra features. The device is a Compac ... [read more >>] | | 23 April 2008, 08:24GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| LaCie Boosts its Rugged Disks to 500 GB |  | LaCie has just announced a storage capacity boost across its rugged HDD line-up. The new drives, signed by industrial designer Neil Poulton, now come with 500 GB of storage space in a shock-resistant form factor.
The drives are aimed at mobile users who are always on the road. LaCie's Rugged series of portable hard drives are stuffed in a scratch-resistant aluminum shell with orange rubber bumpers that act as a shock damp ... [read more >>] | | 23 April 2008, 06:05GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Seagate Serves the 1 Billionth HDD – More Are Yet to Come |  | Storage specialist Seagate has just announced that it is the first hard-disk drive manufacturer to have shipped 1 billion HDD units. The huge number makes a statement about Seagate's position on the storage market, but it also draws attention to the amount of information stored by computer users.
According to the company, the billion drives shipped have a joint storage capacity of approximately 79 million terabytes. This ... [read more >>] | | 22 April 2008, 11:28GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Bull Gets Cryptic With Its USB-Based Bootable Hard-Disk |  | Bull has just introduced a new security application aimed at business and enterprise users who work with sensitive information. The company's new addition is a pocketable, bootable hard-disk drive, that features multiple layers of protection, including password protection and a built-in cryptographic processor.
The new drive is called Globull and comes in a miniature form-factor with a bright-red casing. The hard-disk enc ... [read more >>] | | 19 April 2008, 05:42GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Obducat Spills the Beans over Monstrous Capacity Hard-Disks |  | Sweden-based equipment manufacturer Obducat has spilled the beans over a mysterious HDD manufacturer that is currently buying lithography equipment in order to deliver incredible-capacity hard-disk drives. The new storage media is alleged to hit the shelves in less than one year and is based on patterned technology.
According to the company's spokespersons, Obducat just inked an agreement with a large HDD manufacturer to ... [read more >>] | | 18 April 2008, 10:55GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Self-Destructing DVD Cuts The 48-Hour Movie Marathon |  | Germany-based video company DVD-D unveiled a new optical medium that is able to store data just like a regular DVD disk, except for the fact that data mysteriously disappears after 48 hours. The new single-use DVDs are already available on the French, Italian and Scandinavian markets, and are mostly used in movie rental businesses as self-destructive storage media.
The DVD-D versatile media discs come in sealed cardboard envel ... [read more >>] | | 18 April 2008, 07:00GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| New Switch Technology Brings 150,000 Times More Music to Your iPod |  | Researchers at the Glasgow University unveiled a revolutionary switch technology that will bring a significant increase in the memory capacity for consumer electronics devices such as the extremely popular iPod media player.
The new switches are molecule-sized pieces that boost data storage up to 150,000 times without having to increase the surface of storage media. The group of researchers exemplified their discovery by nami ... [read more >>] | | 17 April 2008, 09:53GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Hitachi Cancels its Exit From HDD Market, Starts Consolidating its Business |  | Japanese conglomerate Hitachi has announced that it dropped its plans of exiting from the hard-disk drive business, and is now gearing up to make a comeback by cutting down on production costs. The news was broken by Hitachi's storage division head during yesterday's conference.
Hitachi's decision is somewhat surprising, given the fact that the company reconsidered its options two days after its arch-rival Seaga ... [read more >>] | | 17 April 2008, 04:10GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Maxell Unveils Rugged Removable Camcorder Hard-Disk Drive |  | Maxell has just announced a new lightweight, rugged and shock resistant compact removable hard drive, primarily targeted at field archive operations. Maxell's new offerings on the storage sector are efficient and resistant devices that can be connected to any appliance using a standard USB 2.0 cable or an eSATA adapter.
The Maxell iVDR hard-disk drive can store up to 160 GB of information in a small form factor, and can ... [read more >>] | | 14 April 2008, 17:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| IBM Paves the Way to Nano-Scale Solid-State Drives |  | IBM is currently working on a new breed of memory chips, that is alleged to deliver extended reliability at cheaper costs than the existing DDRAM offerings. According to the company, the new type of memory is an interesting mixture of the technologies used in solid-state storage media and hard-disk drives.
Shortly put, the "racetrack" memory will combine the absence of moving parts in SSDs with the inexpensive, non-v ... [read more >>] | | 11 April 2008, 06:59GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| EMC Zips Iomega in Buyout Deal |  | Storage specialist EMC has just announced that it has completed the acquisition of its rival company Iomega for $213 million. The acquisition is more than a merger: it's the end of the Zip-drive era, that almost terminated the "obsolete" floppy disk.
Zip drives are a big chunk of history, and readers that have begun their IT quest a while ago should remember the magnetic cartridge that allowed them to store the ... [read more >>] | | 10 April 2008, 11:15GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| SanDisk's Cruzer Enterprise USB Stick Gets Security Update |  | USB sticks are extremely common and comfortable storage media. Most of the PC users carry large amounts of important information from work to their home computers and the other way around. While losing a flash drive would punch an insignificant $12 hole in your pocket, value of the information lost with the disk can be a little more difficult to evaluate.
SanDisk has just announced an important security update to its Cruzer En ... [read more >>] | | 08 April 2008, 16:56GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Seagate Adds Self-Encryption Technology to Its Enterprise HDD Line-Up |  | Storage specialist Seagate Technology announced that it will add automatic encryption capabilities to its upcoming offerings in the Cheetah 15K series of enterprise hard-disk drives. The underlying encryption algorithm is compliant to the Trusted Computing Group specifications.
According to Dianna DaGiau, senior product marketing manager at Seagate, the company plans to release the first secured drives by June or July, but the ... [read more >>] | | 07 April 2008, 09:31GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Petabyte Optical Media, Due to Arrive in 5 Years |  | Researchers at the University of Technology’s Centre for Micro-Photonics are currently developing a new type of optical media that promises to deliver huge storage capacities, ranging to a full petabyte. The disk will be able to host the equivalent of as many as 200,000 DVDs and will revolutionize the storage and media industries.
In order to achieve the new medium, researchers are using nanoscopic particles that can exponenti ... [read more >>] | | 05 April 2008, 07:50GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Falcon MVIX: the Intelligent Media Streaming Server |  | High-Definition enthusiasts will surely appreciate the new media streaming server solution from Falcon, that lets users watch high-definition content directly on the living-room plasma screen. Since all the multimedia content one might need can be downloaded or streamed, Falcon's MVIX promises to create the bridge between the computer and the HDTV.
The Falcon MVIX media server can stream multimedia content over a wireless ... [read more >>] | | 03 April 2008, 11:35GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Intel Shows Pre-Production Solid-State Drives |  | Intel has just showcased pre-production units of its upcoming large-capacity solid-state drives, expected to kick in during the second quarter of the year.
Solid-state drives are extremely popular among mobile computer users, as they are touted to be more reliable, more resistant to physical damage and faster than the "obsolete" hard-disk drives. Intel was expected to join the large-capacity SSD manufacturers crowd, ... [read more >>] | | 03 April 2008, 05:33GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| 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 performance and speed in a minimalistic package by using non-volatile solid-state memory. According to the compan ... [read more >>] | | 31 March 2008, 06:44GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Elite Portable Hard Drives from Western Digital |  | Western Digital is one of the most important and well established hardware companies that are in the business of providing reliable and top of the line data storage solutions. While other similar companies like Seagate and LaCie are already well known and appreciated for their families of portable storage hard disk drives, for Western Digital this is still somewhat of a new market, as the company has just a few products aimed at mobile con ... [read more >>] | | 31 March 2008, 02:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Super Talent Starts Shipping World's Slimmest 256 GB SSDs |  | Hardware manufacturer Super Talent has just announced mass availability for its industry slimmest solid state drive that packs 256GB of storage space in a few square inches. Called the FSD56GC25H, the newest offering from Super Talent comes with a SATA-I interface and is completely interchangeable with any SATA-based conventional hard-drive.
According to company officials, Super Talent's drive can pack an enormous amount ... [read more >>] | | 26 March 2008, 10:53GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| A-Data Unveils New Eee PC Storage Accessories |  | Memory manufacturer A-Data has just unveiled two new storage accessories especially targeted at the Eee PC users. The S701 USB flash drive and SDHC memory card Eee PC special edition come to complement the default storage space the Eee PC ships with.
One of the most criticized aspects of the extremely popular Eee PC is its reduced storage capacity. Although the maximum amount of 8 GB is enough for running the pre-installed Xa ... [read more >>] | | 26 March 2008, 04:08GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Western Digital Stops Shipping Platters to its Competitors |  | Storage specialist Western Digital announced that it will not ship its platters to competing companies as of May this year. The company is currently producing hard-disk drives platters through its Komag subsidiary, also known as WD Media.
"This action sizes our media and substrate operation to the current demands of a single customer - WD's hard drive business. It efficiently streamlines our media and substrate opera ... [read more >>] | | 25 March 2008, 10:54GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Fujitsu Unveils 7,200RPM 320GB Notebook HDD |  | Fujitsu has just announced the addition of a new series of 2.5-inch hard disk drive to its mobile storage portfolio. The new MHZ2 BJ-series can spin at 7,200 rotations per minute and will be available in capacities of up to 320 GB.
Fujitsu's new drive is not the first one to pack 320 GB in a 2.5-inch form factor, nor the first one to reach 7,200 RPM speeds, but it's the first 320GB drive to spin at 7,200 rotations pe ... [read more >>] | | 24 March 2008, 21:36GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Prestigio Data Safe II: the Fashionable USB HDD Enclosure |  | Prestigio has just released the Data Safe II external HDD enclosure that blends fashion with state-of-the-art technology. The new USB HDD enclosure is fully covered in leather and rather resembles a cigarette box than a miniature hard-disk drive.
The USB hard-disk drive enclosure is fully covered in a luxurious looking tan colored leather and measures 62×101x12 mm. It is truly portable, given its miniature size and the mere 11 ... [read more >>] | | 24 March 2008, 07:45GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Chip Startup Claims Miraculous Storage Recipe |  | US-based semiconductor startup Nanochip claims to have made significant progress in its array-based memory research that will result in soon-to-arrive storage prototypes with immediate shipment. According to Gordon Knight, Nanochip CEO, the new memory will be efficient for at least 10 generations.
The new kind of flash memory technology is alleged to be more reliable than the NAND flash and will allow researchers to increase t ... [read more >>] | | 20 March 2008, 11:47GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| New Storage Method Turns Hydrogen Metallic |  | Although being the most abundant and lightest element in the universe, hydrogen is one of the most difficult to store in bulk. Take classical gas storage containers for example. The temperature and the pressure inside them must be closely correlated to ensure that the container is able to hold. Maintaining the right pressure is easy, however maintaining temperature is somehow problematic because it requires a input of extra energy. This si ... [read more >>] | | 20 March 2008, 10:54GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Western Digital Stuffs 640 GB on Two Platters |  | Storage specialist Western Digital has announced that it started shipping the 640 GB version of the Caviar SE16 3.5-inch desktop hard-disk drive. The storage capacity may be no reason for the company to be proud, given the fact that 1 TB drives are almost mainstream parts, but the technology inside the 3.5-inch casing is quite an achievement.
While the vast majority of the currently shipping 750 disk drives come as 3-platter ( ... [read more >>] | | 19 March 2008, 12:28GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| InnoDisk Unveils Ultra-Reliable 128 GB SSDs |  | InnoDisk has just introduced its newest 2.5-inch solid-state drive in the FiD 2.5-inch SATA 10000 family, that is alleged to be the highest capacity SLC NAND Flash drive at 128 Gb densities. If you were impressed by OCZ's recently introduced ultra-fast solid-state drive ... [read more >>] | | 17 March 2008, 11:10GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Iomega Announces Removable Backup Drive With REV Technology |  | Iomega has announced its newest storage offering, the 120GB Backup Drive with third-generation REV technology. The drive is especially designed to mix the performance features of hard-disk drives with the hot-swap capabilities of tape drives, for simple and safe operation.
The new REV 120GB Backup Drive comes with updated transfer rates that can reach up to 35MB/second and an estimated 30-year archival life. The REV 120GB disk ... [read more >>] | | 17 March 2008, 09:09GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Intel Prepares 160 GB Notebook Solid-State Drives |  | Intel confirmed that it is working on a new solid-state drive product line for mobile computers. The upcoming solid-state drives will feature storage capacities of between 80 and 160 GB.
According to Intel spokespersons the chip manufacturer will unveil its high-capacity offerings during the second quarter of 2008. However, the company declined to disclose further details about Intel's high-capacity drives, such as the e ... [read more >>] | | 13 March 2008, 05:44GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| OCZ to Introduce Next-Gen, 2x Faster Solid-State Drive |  | Overclocking specialist OCZ technology has just announced its newest offering in the SSD market, comprised of extremely improved solid-state drives. The new generation of storage devices offer twice the speed of the previous technology.
The first generation of solid-state storage devices from OCZ used to deliver read speeds of 58 MB/s and write speeds of up to 35 MB/s. The manufacturer's new technology gives a performanc ... [read more >>] | | 13 March 2008, 04:27GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Imation to Release its Own Solid-State Drive Offering |  | CD and DVD manufacturer Imation has just introduced its newest line of storage media based on NAND flash memory. The company is mostly known for its CD, DVD optical media and the tape backup products, and the new SSD offering is a shot at a completely new market.
The Imation-branded solid-state drives are built with high-performance NAND flash chips from the South Korean Mtron Company, one of the first pioneers in the SSD indu ... [read more >>] | | 11 March 2008, 11:50GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Samsung to Introduce Spinpoint M6 500 GB Notebook Hard-Disk Drive |  | Samsung Electronics has just introduced a 500 GB hard-disk drive in a 2.5-inch form factor. Targeted at the notebook users, the new storage offering from Samsung can be paired in order to achieve 1 TB of storage space, while preserving the notebook's mobility and light weight.
The Spinpoint M6 is a 2.5 inch form-factor drive spinning at 5,400 rotations per minute, that perfectly fits into the chassis of a regular notebook ... [read more >>] | | 05 March 2008, 10:08GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Samsung Plans to Roll Out 256 GB SSDs Next Year |  | Samsung is planning on delivering increased capacity hard-disk drives, and the company might release a 256 GB version in 2009. The new capacity will quadruple the company's current offering that can offer as much as 64 GB per solid-state drive.
According to Jim Elliott, vice president of memory marketing for Samsung Semiconductor, the company has just implemented its 64 GB version in Lenovo's ThinkPad X300 ultra-port ... [read more >>] | | 05 March 2008, 09:02GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Retrodata Introduces User-Friendly Data Recovery Device |  | Data recovery wizard Retrodata has just announced world's first device for data recovery that can be successfully used by non-trained IT personnel. The System P.EX ("platter extraction system") is a monolithic device that weighs no less than 75 kilograms, but will get your data from a damaged disk drive with a minimal user intervention.
The platter extracting device is fitted with laser-guided positioning device ... [read more >>] | | 04 March 2008, 08:29GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Corsair Preps Ultra-Fast 16 GB Voyager “GT” Flash Drive for CeBIT 2008 |  | Corsair's Voyager USB flash drives are quite famous for being among the toughest such portable storage solutions around, but it seems that the company's not about to settle just for a very tough exterior. Thus, Corsair has just announced that it will release at this year's CeBIT 2008 another model from its GT series, offering 16 GB of storage space as well as enhanced data transfer rates.
Thus, the new Flash Vo ... [read more >>] | | 29 February 2008, 03:40GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Hitachi to Release 320 GB Notebook Hard-Disk Drive |  | Hitachi has just announced the availability of its new 320GB notebook hard-disk drive in its TravelStar family. Despite the launch, the company is still way behind its heavy-weigh competitors such as Toshiba, Western Digital, Fujitsu and Seagate, that have previously released 320 GB versions and now they're competing for over-500 GB spinning platters.
The new travelStar 5K320 is a 5,400 RPM hard-disk drive and comes with ... [read more >>] | | 26 February 2008, 11:12GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Cold-Boot: HDD Encryption Cracking Crash-Course |  | Hard-disk drive encryption has been widely promoted as the safest way to keep your data away from prying eyes. The advent of Windows Vista and its BitLocker functionality in the Ultimate flavor has made the whole process simple, but Princeton University researchers have proven again that the user is wrong.
The latest reports from the Princeton specialists show that both Windows Vista's BitLocker, the Mac's FileVault ... [read more >>] | | 25 February 2008, 09:59GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Samsung Touts Reliability of Solid-State Drives |  | Solid-state drives seem to become extremely popular especially with notebook users, despite the fact that they are expensive and limited in write cycles. Leaving the price aside, the NAND flash can be written to for a limited number of times, ranging from 10,000 (for multi-level cell flash) and 100,000 (for single-level cell devices).
Samsung seems not to be concerned with the data stored on flash-based devices and defends the ... [read more >>] | | 25 February 2008, 02:54GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Seagate, WinMagic Team for Enterprise-Level Data Security |  | Seagate Technology has teamed up with encryption specialist WinMagic in order to provide enterprise-class security solutions for data-at-rest. The two companies will base the new security solution on their best technologies.
Seagate's Secure disk drive technology is a hardware-based full disk encryption system with bundled data security, that can be controlled via a programmatic interface. Moreover, it allows the user ad ... [read more >>] | | 19 February 2008, 09:50GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Clickfree HD 700: Backup at the Cost of No Clicks |  | There are many backup solutions on the market, and many of them have made a true obsession of displaying the fact that they are one-click applications (although, most of the times, they're not true). That's why an application that claims there's no click attached would rank up in the top of attention.
The new ClickFree HD 700 device comes in handy especially when you realize that you have formatted the wrong ha ... [read more >>] | | 18 February 2008, 05:47GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Mtron to Unveil 1.8-Inch 128GB Solid State Drive |  | Mtron Storage Technology has just unveiled its new 1.8-inch ZIF-type solid state drive with 128GB of NAND flash-based storage space. The company has previously released a SSD based on Single-Level Cell flash memory, that could read data at a maximum rate of 120MB/s. The writing speed was also robust and situated at 100MB/s.
The Multi Level Cell flash devices released this time feature the same increased storage space, yet the ... [read more >>] | | 18 February 2008, 05:17GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Forget Solid-State Drives, Get a SDRAM Disk! |  | Solid-state drives are considered to be way better than the old hard disk drive, with its high power consumption, noisy spinning platters and excessive heat. However, the performance gain is demolished by its high price, yet computer enthusiasts pay it gladly, in order to take advantage of the fastest storage media in the world. Wrong!
Flash memory is the best choice for use in solid-state drives, but it's far from being ... [read more >>] | | 18 February 2008, 03:32GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Samsung Starts Shipping Ultra-Fast SATA-II Solid-State Drives |  | Samsung Electronics announced today that it has begun mass producing 64 GB solid state drives (SSDs) with a new Serial-ATA-II Interface (SATA-II). The 64GB solid-state drive model has begun shipping in sampling quantities earlier this month.
The new interface will allow the disk to reach dazzling reading speeds of 100 megabytes per second while reading and 80 MB/s while writing. The company's solid-state drive with SATA- ... [read more >>] | | 15 February 2008, 10:39GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Panasonic Announces the World's First 20MB/s, 32 GB SDHC Memory Card |  | Everyone seems to be hopping onto the SDHC bandwagon these days, as the most important names in the industry keep rolling out all sorts of "world's firsts", whether we're talking about storage space or transfer speeds. And one of the latest such announcements comes from none other than Panasonic, who has just announced the imminent release (well, don't get your hopes high just yet, they're talking a ... [read more >>] | | 13 February 2008, 12:51GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Intel Starts Sampling Its First Phase Change Memory Chips |  | Intel has successfully created a viable replacement for the nowadays NAND flash memory and now is shipping its first units of phase change memory chips. While SanDisk is desperately trying to revive the (already) old NAND flash technology ... [read more >>] | | 07 February 2008, 10:17GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Electron Beam HDDs – the Next Generation of Storage Media |  | Japanese corporation Crestec, a specialist in electron-beam lithography systems, claims to have developed a device for manufacturing the masters for a next generation storage media technology, called patterned media disks.
Crestec is using its electronic-beam lithography process for manufacturing these patterned media disks. They are alleged to store data at great densities of 0.5 Terabit per square inch, but the process can ... [read more >>] | | 07 February 2008, 08:39GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Yahoo! Offers Unlimited Website Storage and Data Transfer |  | Amid great turmoil, Yahoo! is looking back to where it did manage to impose its presence on the market and is trying to feed off of that in order to keep going. It’s the corporate version of people looking back at what they have accomplished and deciding that if they were able to do that, they could overcome the problems up ahead.
The difference that being a giant company provides you with is that you can rely on something mo ... [read more >>] | | 07 February 2008, 08:22GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Buffalo's LinkStation Pro Duo - 2x500GB Hard Drives Storage Server |  | The first surprising thing about Buffalo's LinkStation Pro Duo is the fact that, when you take it out of the box, it seems really small in comparison to the performance you expect it to reach. But all you have to do is to plug it in, connect it to your router and install its software and you'll see that it can perform as expected. It is easy to install, easy to configure its settings and easy to use, and features little ... [read more >>] | | 07 February 2008, 08:21GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
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