Tag Archive for 'storage'
An eSATA port might not have been your first priority when specifying your latest notebook PC, but as external storage gets cheaper and files get bigger you may end up regretting that. Greenhouse have a possible solution in the shape of their EXC-ESA2 ExpressCard. With two eSATA ports, it’s a straightforward way of [...]
Hitachi have revealed their latest 2.5-inch hard-drive, the Travelstar 7K320. With 320GB of storage, its claim to fame is its 7,200rpm speed and low power demands. Hitachi claim that the 7K320 only shows the equivalent power consumption of a 5,400rpm drive, despite the higher platter speed.
LaCie has announced an update to its ruggedized external storage range, ideal for the clumsy traveller who insists on carrying all their media around with them. Now available in a 500GB version, with almost no size increase on the older, smaller capacity models, LaCie have given the drive a shock-resistant rubber bumper and scratch-proof aluminium [...]
Aiming to bring user data together and aid collaboration, Microsoft have announced Live Mesh, an example of so-called ‘cloud computing’. The system, eventually to be compatible with PCs, mobile devices and Apple’s hardware, synchronizes data via the internet while also maintaining an online store that can be accessed from anywhere with web access. [...]
Whereas in the past 2.5-inch drives were the low-speed, low-capacity lesser siblings of the 3.5-inch desktop HDD, recent advances have meant that the latest compact units - such as Western Digital’s VelociRaptor VR150 - can fight on pretty equal ground when it comes to performance. In fact, the smaller platter size can make for faster [...]
If you don’t already have a large flash drive or an external hard drive for the purpose of playing the media from your computer on your game systems, then this wouldn’t be a bad purchase. It looks good, can pack up to 160GB on its tiny 2.5” disk, and it will fit in your pocket.
These two new machines from Acer’s subsidiary Gateway’s subsidiary eMachines are squarely aimed at users that will never use the max capacity of a quad-core processor with 13GB of RAM and 657GB of HDD storage in RAID 0 using SAS or some other junk like that. They are prices at $299.99 and $399.99 just to [...]
So Asus has apparently sold over a million Eee’s sold in 5 months, since its launch date, and in celebration Asus decided to let us all in on the details of its next concoction. Obviously it will have an 8.9-inch LCD screen, a 1.3MP camera, 12 or 20GB of flash storage depending on OS, and [...]
This isn’t your standard MP3 player, its packing stereo speakers, FM radio, a microSD card slot, line-in, and a new D-Click system. On top of all that it has a large 2.4-inch TFT LCD screen.
This notebook has a 12.1-inch screen that is LED backlit, a Core 2 Duo ULV U7700 processor, a couple gigs of RAM, a DL-DVD-RW drive, and then the 128GB SSD drive. This might actually be one of the most energy efficient notebooks there is that still maintains a respectable about of storage space.
I mean, sure [...]
