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SanDisk Memory Vault promises to protect your pics for a century

Shane McGlaun, Sep 15th 2011 Discuss [2]

SanDisk has unveiled a new storage device for archiving your important photos that is designed specifically for long term storage for your photos and videos. The product is called the SanDisk Memory Vault. The device is described as the photo album for the new age and it is made to be rugged to survive the knocks that hardware are subjected to in the real world. Read The Full Story

Intel announces new SSD for the data center

Shane McGlaun, Sep 15th 2011 Discuss [2]

Intel has announced a new SSD that it is aiming at the data center. The new SSD is designed to be reliable, fast, and power efficient. The new drive is called the 710 Series and it uses 25nm MLC NAND flash memory and will be offered in three capacities. The SSD will come in 100GB, 200GB, and 300GB capacities. Read The Full Story

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Iomega Mac Companion Hard Drive Hands-on [Video]

Chris Burns, Sep 15th 2011 Discuss [0]

This week we’re getting all sorts of opportunities to get our hands on some soon to be released products from various companies, the latest of which is the Iomega Mac Companion Hard Drive. We spoke about this hard drive back at the beginning of August noting that its uniqueness lied in both its ability to sit perfectly nicely under the newest series of iMac Core i5 devices as well as its unique new ability to charge your iPad and other Apple devices as it worked to keep your main computer unit free from clutter.

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WD offers WD 2go and WD 2go Pro apps for My Book Live Personal drive

Shane McGlaun, Sep 14th 2011 Discuss [0]

Western Digital's My Book Live Personal is sort of a cloud drive that you can host at your home or office. The drive gives you access to files and documents remotely. If you like the idea of a cloud service, but want to be able to secure your own data this drive and the two new apps that have been announced might be perfect for you. The WD My Book Live storage drive itself sells for up to $249.99 with 3TB of storage. Read The Full Story

Kingston SSDNow KC100 SSD for businesses launches

Shane McGlaun, Sep 14th 2011 Discuss [1]

Kingston has been making SSDs for data storage in the consumer market for a while now along with RAM for its computers. The new SSD this time around is aimed at the business user and it is called the SSDNow KC100. This is the first SSD from Kingston that is SATA rev. 3.0 6Gb/s and aimed at the business user. The KC100 uses the latest SandForce controller inside for more performance in the business world. Read The Full Story

Hitachi GST unveils 1TB per platter HDDs

Shane McGlaun, Sep 6th 2011 Discuss [0]

Hitachi has started to ship its latest HDD called the Deskstar 7K1000.D globally. The coolest thing about the new HDD is that the drive has 1TB of storage space crammed onto a single platter. The HDD comes in both Deskstar and CinemaStar flavors with a storage capacity for the line of 250GB - 1TB in versions that spin at 7,200 RPM and low-RPM CoolSpin versions. Read The Full Story

Active Media Products unveils SaberTooth M1 Mini SATA SSD

Shane McGlaun, Aug 30th 2011 Discuss [0]

Active Media Products has a ton of SSDs for all sorts of products and uses that are in its SaberTooth line. The last of the products we talked about was the SaberTooth ZF SSD that was aimed at use in small notebooks and other devices. Active Media Products has rolled out another new SSD in the series called the SaberTooth M1. This storage drive is very small and made to slip into an mSATA port. Read The Full Story

IBM builds 120-petabyte storage array!

Shane McGlaun, Aug 26th 2011 Discuss [0]

IBM is staffed with some geeks with big aspirations for sure. The gang at IBM has whipped up a little storage array for an unnamed customer that will use it for some unnamed task. The storage array happens to be the largest in all the land at 120 petabytes. That is 120 million gigabytes. Apparently, the storage array is being designed for a new supercomputer installation IBM is working on. Read The Full Story

OWC outs cheap 60GB SSD called the Mercury Electra 6G

Shane McGlaun, Aug 26th 2011 Discuss [0]

SSDs are getting ever more popular as the price comes down and the storage capacity goes up. OWC has announced a new SSD that it says is one of the cheapest around at $129.99 for a 60GB device. That isn't enough storage for most of us, but it would make a very nice boot drive if you have more storage to put in. I can tell you from experience that even loading most software to a bulk storage drive, 60GB will fill up very quickly. Read The Full Story

Samsung SSD 830 Series SATA 3 drives revealed

Chris Davies, Aug 17th 2011 Discuss [1]

Samsung has outed its latest solid-state drive range, the Samsung SSD 830 series, offering up to 512GB of high-speed storage with a SATA 3.0 interface. Promising double the bandwidth of the SSD 470 series that so impressed us late last year, the new model keeps the sleek brushed-metal chassis and proprietary Samsung firmware. Read The Full Story

Samsung unveils new high-performance 512GB SSD with SATA Revision 3.0 interface

Shane McGlaun, Aug 11th 2011 Discuss [0]

Samsung has rolled out a new SSD that uses the fast SATA Revision 3 interface good for 6Gb/s of data throughput. The SSD is model number PM830 and it comes in capacities up to 512GB. Samsung is aiming the new SSD at ultra-slim notebooks and tablets. The PM830 SSDs began sample production back in May and are now in volume production. That means we should start seeing the SSDs in devices soon. Read The Full Story

Active Media Products SaberTooth ZF SSD upgrade kits debut

Shane McGlaun, Aug 8th 2011 Discuss [0]

Active Media Products has launched a new series of SSD upgrade kits that will work for smaller notebooks and netbooks including the MacBook Air first gen notebook. The SSD that the upgrade kits use is the 1.8-inch Turbo Speed PATA ZIF SSD. The SSD has a parallel ATA ZIF interface and will work with just about all notebooks that use that interface. Read The Full Story