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Google unifies 15GB of shared storage for Gmail, Drive and Google+

, May 13th 2013 Discuss [0]

Google has announced that it'll be changing the way it does cloud storage across Gmail, Google Drive, and Google+. Instead of each service having it's own allotted amount of space. All three will be joined together and will share a pool of 15GB of cloud storage space, allowing Google Drive users to essentially have more free space than the previous 5GB that was originally offered. Read The Full Story

miniStack Max external storage device gets DVD drive option

, May 9th 2013 Discuss [0]

If you're a Mac user who is looking for an external storage device that features an integrated optical drive, Newer Technology as an offering that is rather interesting. The device is called the miniStack Max and it's been around for a while featuring an integrated Blu-ray drive. The problem for a lot of people who like the idea of this product was that they didn't necessarily need a Blu-ray drive and that added significantly to the cost. Read The Full Story

Seagate SSDs make mainstream play with 600 and 1200 series

, May 7th 2013 Discuss [0]

Seagate has been in the solid state business for a while now, but they were only catered towards the enterprise market at the time. However, the company announced a new series of solid state drives that are aimed at consumers. This marks Seagate's first steps into the consumer solid state business. Read The Full Story

WD and SanDisk ship TARDIS-like Black solid-state hybrid drive

, May 7th 2013 Discuss [0]

Pairing flash storage and traditional spinning-platter drives for the best of both worlds isn't new, but SanDisk and WD think they're collectively on to a winner with the newly-shipping WD Black SSHD. The solid-state hybrid drive squeezes together 500GB of Western Digital storage with a chunk of SanDisk iSSD flash capacity, which is used as a caching drive to boost data transfer times much in the way of a regular SSD. Read The Full Story

Synology DS213j jolts NAS brain for faster home storage

, May 7th 2013 Discuss [0]

External storage maker Synology has announced a new storage product called the DiscStation DS213j. The company says the new storage devices a budget-friendly dual bay NAS server designed for file storage and sharing with data protection in the home. The device can also be used as a product cloud storage device for small offices as well. Read The Full Story

Buffalo DriveStation DDR claims SSD speed without the wallet hemorrhaging

, May 7th 2013 Discuss [0]

Buffalo has announced a new high-capacity storage solution that promises the speed of an SSD while offering the capacity and cost of a traditional hard drive. The storage solution is called the DriveStation DDR and it's a high-performance external USB 3.0 hard drive featuring 1 GB of DDR3 RAM cache. That 1 GB of DDR3 RAM allows for accelerated transfer speeds. Read The Full Story

Apple tacks on 256GB and 512GB SSD to iMac storage options

, May 2nd 2013 Discuss [0]

If you're in the market for a new iMac and want it to be as fast as possible, naturally a solid state drive is the way to go, and Apple seems to agree with that. The Cupertino-based company has added 256GB and 512GB solid state options in the online Apple Store, allowing customers to boost the speed of their new rig if they don't need a lot of storage space. Read The Full Story

Flash Rods unveils souped-up USB 3.0 muscle car drives

, Apr 29th 2013 Discuss [0]

Flash Rods are flash drives that have been crammed inside of toy cars. These interesting storage devices have been around for a while. In fact, we talked about a version couple years ago that crammed a 250 GB hard drive inside of a Mercedes SLS replica. Read The Full Story

Western Digital releases 5mm UltraSlim 2.5-inch hard drive

, Apr 23rd 2013 Discuss [0]

Western Digital has just begun shipping a new 2.5-inch internal hard drive that's only a mere 5mm thick. The company is calling it the UltraSlim, and it packs in 500GB of whatever you can stuff in it. the new drive will fit in any standard 2.5-inch drive bay, but will take up less vertical space than a typical 9.5mm drive. Read The Full Story

Space Monkey personal cloud hits Kickstarter

, Apr 18th 2013 Discuss [0]

Back in early March, we talked about a new product that turned up called Space Monkey. The product gave the user the benefits of a hosted cloud storage account with pricing you would expect to find for an external hard drive. We mentioned at the time that the people behind Space Monkey hoped to launch the product in the next few months. Read The Full Story

Samsung begins mass production of 128-gigabit 3-bit MLC NAND flash

, Apr 11th 2013 Discuss [0]

Samsung has announced that it has begun mass production of its latest high-performance flash memory chips. The new memory chips are 128 Gb three-bit multi-level-cell NAND using a 10 nm class process technology. Samsung says that these highly advanced memory chips will enable high-density memory solutions for embedded storage and solid-state drives. Read The Full Story

Rebranded Dropbox for Business launches with single sign-on feature

, Apr 10th 2013 Discuss [0]

Dropbox has decided to rebrand its "Dropbox for Teams" name to "Dropbox for Business", because it feels that its a more fitting name for the small and large businesses its service is used by. Currently, Dropbox is being used by 95% of Fortune 500 companies, as well as over 2 million businesses. To celebrate its rebranding, Dropbox is launching a brand new feature that business users have been asking for; Single sign-on (SSO). Read The Full Story
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