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Buffalo, D-Link, LaCie & Seagate sign up to offer Marvell Plug Computers

Chris Davies, Jun 24th 2009 Discuss [0]

Marvell's SheevaPlug wall-wart Linux PC has finally come of age, with the company announcing mainstream retail partners including Buffalo, D-Link, LaCie and Seagate, together with beginning distribution of the Plug Computer development kit in Europe. The original SheevaPlug has a Marvell Kirkwood processor with a 1.2GHz Sheeva processor, 512MB of RAM and 512MB of flash storage; resembling a wall-wart, it plugs directly into a power socket and offers a single USB 2.0 port and a gigabit ethernet port. Suggested uses included a home server, NAS or other form of network-connected device. Read The Full Story

Buffalo SHD-NSUM SSD with SATA-II and USB 2.0

Chris Davies, Feb 25th 2009 Discuss [0]

Buffalo have announced their latest SSD range, the SHD-NSUM, and while we're used to seeing solid-state drives nowadays, these new models do have at least one feature to differentiate them. As well as giving the 2.5-inch drives the usual SATA-II interface, there's also a micro-USB 2.0 port that lets you access data before you install the SSD. Read The Full Story

Buffalo FTD-W71 7-inch USB sub-display

Chris Davies, Jan 28th 2009 Discuss [1]

Buffalo have become the latest firm to roll out a USB LCD sub-display. The 7-inch FTD-W71, like the Nanovision MIMO monitors and Century Japan display, is a compact desktop screen intended to give a little extra real-estate for IM windows, media players, Twitter clients and other often-glanced-at apps. Read The Full Story

Buffalo unveils World’s fastest FireStix Series PC3-17600 DDR3 2200Mhz memory

Daniel Lim, Dec 26th 2008 Discuss [1]

Broadening its FireStik Extreme performance series of memory and done it with World’s fastest high speed fashion, Buffalo push frequencies above 2000MHz, announced the 2200Mhz FireStix Series PC3-17600 DDR3 dual channel memory kits in Japan. Read The Full Story

16GB Buffalo USB drive measures 8mm in thickness

Daniel Lim, Dec 17th 2008 Discuss [0]

Manufacturer seems to be coming with peculiar USB flash drives in creative design and interesting shapes. If you can’t fabricate one likes a bottle opener, or a no-punt-intended’s thumb drive, or a luxury 80 carat gold’s Super Talent, then you have to be creative with physical appearance. Read The Full Story

Buffalo SSD NAS drive is no better than HDD-based Mini Linkstation

Daniel Lim, Dec 15th 2008 Discuss [0]

The use of SSDs in the first of its kind, palm sized Buffalo Linkstation NAS drive is reported facing performance bottleneck in team of speed and power consumption despite having a power efficient and high speed NAND Flash based storage drives. Hardware controller is the one to blame; Impress has reported the SSDs based LS-WSS240GL/R1 internal components are virtually identical to the company hdd-based Linkstation mini, the $1,150 price tag only get you the benefit of a high reliability, low temperature SSD NAS drive in whisper quite operation. Read The Full Story

Buffalo Linkstation Mini is NAS drive with SSDs

Daniel Lim, Dec 10th 2008 Discuss [0]

Buffalo has expanded its Linkstation NAS lineup with diminutive SSD drives. The palm-sized Linkstation Mini features a dual 120GB SSD drives paired in a fan-less enclosure. It omits noisy fans (2.3db) and has a unique power saver apps works conjunction with PC to manage power usage. Read The Full Story

Buffalo 16GB & 32GB SSDs for Dell Inspiron Mini 9

Chris Davies, Dec 3rd 2008 Discuss [0]

Buffalo have announced two new SSD upgrade kits for the Dell Inspiron Mini 9 netbook. Available in 16GB and 32GB capacities, the chips replace the standard SSD storage in the budget ultraportable, which can be specified with as little as 4GB from Dell themselves. Read The Full Story

Buffalo 500GB 2.5-inch SATA hard drive launches

Brenda Stokes, Nov 6th 2008 Discuss [0]

In this day and age, everyone could do with a little bit more hard drive space. After all, with all of our MP3s, movie files and multimedia, it's pretty easy to blast through the space allotted when you buy a new laptop. But the 500GB 2.5" Sata HDD from Buffalo launched today should help put the space issue to rest for many mobile warrior. Read The Full Story

Buffalo TeraStation Pro NAS with 6TB capacity

Chris Davies, Oct 16th 2008 Discuss [0]

Buffalo's TeraStation Pro has just received a significant capacity bump, with the Japanese arm of the company announcing a 6TB version of the network-attached-storage device, the TS-H6.0TGL/R5. Four 1.5TB hard-drives are set up in a quick-swap RAID array, capable of RAID 0, 1, 5 or 10 setups, with gigabit network connectivity and jumbo frame support. Read The Full Story

Buffalo MicroStation SSD: USB solid-state storage

Chris Davies, Sep 8th 2008 Discuss [0]

Buffalo have unveiled their latest MicroStation portable storage solution, and this time around the company has used SSD rather than a traditional hard-drive. Available in three capacities - 32GB, 64GB and 100GB - the MicroStation SSD is USB powered, with no external PSU required, and the cable itself wraps around the drive when not in use. Read The Full Story

Buffalo 32GB & 64GB SSD expansion for ASUS Eee

Chris Davies, Jul 29th 2008 Discuss [0]

Buffalo have announced an expansion board for the ASUS Eee which adds extra SSD-based storage. The board, which plugs into the Eee's mini PCI-Express slot, will be available in 32GB and 64GB capacities. Read The Full Story