Tag Archive for 'hard-drives'
For those that don’t know, eSATA is a version of the SATA connector that works externally, allowing you the same speeds of an internal drive with all the hassle of USB, except it requires a separate power cord. Bus powered refers to ability to transfer the necessary amount of power to operate the drive over [...]
I’m a Drobo user and it is one of the best storage systems I’ve seen today. Drobo is not without shortcoming, it is lack of network storage support. Data Robotics has stepped up to fix that by introducing DroboShare, an add-on for Drobo that adds NAS capability to the unit.
So I stumbled upon this at one of the shows surround CES and thought it was pretty cool and I’m pretty sure I’ve never seen it or anything like it before. It looks like a fairly run of the mill external, pocket-sized, bus-powered hard drive, but its not.
As solid-state drives (SSD) continue to move from PMPs and into notebook computers, manufacturers are pushing the limits so as to give picky customers as much room as they’d get on a traditional hard-drive. Samsung is leading the charge, having announced a whopping 128GB SSD at CES 2008.
This is for those that are truly concerned with security. It has a biometric fingerprint scanner and 128-bit AES hardware encryption.
Verbatim is set to launch a new line of portable hard drives. The best part, from my perspective, is that they are all bus powered, that means no need to find a power outlet, just a USB or FireWire port.
So you know those new 500GB laptop hard drives we showed you earlier today, the ones from Hitachi? Well ASUS was lucky enough to get in on Hitachi’s good graces and the two have cranked out a laptop with a 2-drive configuration that totals a terabyte of storage, on the go.
The Compay 6820s, 6720s, and 6520s laptops have all been blessed with Intel’s latest Penryn chips. In order, the laptops are 17, 15.4, and 14.1 inches respectively and are considered business laptops.
The DriveWire is a product I could really use. I tend to have some… difficulties with computes. I kill them. It’s only after everything I hold near and dear is gone that I remember I didn’t back anything up and I’ve lost it all.
Other than it being a Microsoft project, it screws with the files you save on the server if you modify and then save them while they are on the server. They are, however, working on a bug fix and apparently whole home server team is working through the holidays to fix it.
