Tag Archive for 'storage'
Although there have been a couple of external RAID arrays launched recently, none have been quite as slick as Sonnet’s new Fusion F2. Despite the name, which sounds suspiciously like a men’s razor, it’s actually a 5.9 x 6.2 x 0.72-inch aluminum case containing two bus-powered 2.5-inch SATA II hard-drives for up to 1TB of [...]
Hard-drive company Seagate have announced their latest network-attached storage (NAS) device, the Maxtor Central Axis network drive. Containing 1TB of storage, the monolithic block supports DLNA and UPnP media streaming and secure remote access via the internet.
TechRestore is offering a certified exchange of your hard drive for a new 500 Gig one, but it’ll cost you. This procedure will be done within two days and is door to door shipping for an extra $50, if not standard shipping will cost you $20. this company will clone your old hard drive to [...]
Typical, you wait all this time for a straightforward twin-drive RAID array and two turn up on the same day. Well, maybe it’s not something we’ve been actively waiting for, but hot on the heels of Western Digital’s My Book Mirror Edition comes I-O DATA’s HDL2-G. Again, it’s a dual-drive unit offering 1TB or 2TB of storage in [...]
Western Digital’s latest attempt to cash in on our general guilt over not backing up files is the My Book Mirror Edition. Effectively bridging the gap between a traditional standalone USB hard-drive and a full-spec network-attached storage (NAS) device, the Mirror Edition still connects to a single computer via USB but automatically duplicates files across [...]
Iomega has announced a number of new storage-based products, ranging from simple external hard-drives to media converters and DVR accessories. Most interesting are the Screenplay HD and the Media Xporter Drive. The former, shown here, is a hard-drive and media player, that hooks up to a HDTV and surround sound system (via HDMI) to play [...]
Distributed media specialists CodexNovus have announced their largest home entertainment server, the DMS-6000, which packs 6TB of storage and can support multiple streams of high-definition video and surround sound audio. A 120MBps pipe can simultaneously deliver up to eight 1080p video streams, 12 standard definition video streams, 16 uncompressed audio streams or 48 MP3 [...]
Back when MSI first announced their Wind budget ultraportable, one of the snarkier parts of the press release was their justification for using a traditional hard-drive rather than flash or SSD storage. MSI described rivals as having “compromised the memory capacity to decrease [their notebooks] in size”, picking instead a 2.5-inch 80GB HDD. Since then the company [...]
Last Friday, when Seagate announced its intention to build Enterprise-level SSDs, iSuppli analyst Krishna Chander described rival Western Digital as “too deeply lost” in traditional hard-drives. Today, rumors are spreading that WD, far from being “lost”, are in fact planning a platter-based alternative to high-speed solid-state storage. According to sources close to the hard-drive industry, WD [...]
Super Talent has announced a new range of 1.8-inch solid-state drives, the MasterDrive KX series, which at only 5mm thick could likely be squeezed into the smallest of UMPCs or MIDs. Using a Micro-SATA interface, the new models are available in 15GB, 30GB, 60GB and 120GB capacities. They also use up to 85-percent [...]
