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Iomega unveils new Mac Companion Hard Drive with charge port

Shane McGlaun, Aug 2nd 2011 Discuss [3]

Iomega has announced a new Mac external storage solution called the Mac Companion Hard Drive with a high-power charge port on it for charging your devices via USB. The drive is small, designed to sit under the screen of an iMac, and has a pair of FireWire 800 interfaces for connectivity. The HDD inside the device is a 7200 RPM unit. Read The Full Story

Buffalo ships new TeraStation Pro Windows Storage Servers

Shane McGlaun, Aug 2nd 2011 Discuss [0]

Buffalo has unveiled a new range of storage solutions that are aimed at the professional user. The storage solution is the TeraStation Pro Windows Storage Server (WSS) and they come in several different RAID enabled versions. There new storage servers are offered in two, four, and six bay versions. There is also a 4-bay rack mount solution as well. Read The Full Story

GE announces breakthrough in holographic data storage performance

Shane McGlaun, Jul 21st 2011 Discuss [0]

The Blu-ray disc is only a few years from winning the battle with HD-DVD to become the defacto format for HD films. Blu-ray discs are also being used when people have a large amount of data on their computer that they need to archive in a small amount of space. One of the key draws to Blu-ray from DVDs and CDs for storage was to get more data in the same physical space for data archival. GE is hard at work on a storage medium that is even higher capacity than the Blu-ray disc. Read The Full Story

Super Talent MasterDrive KX3 SSD for tablets and notebooks debuts

Shane McGlaun, Jul 20th 2011 Discuss [0]

Super Talent has a wide-ranging line of SSDs for all sorts of different uses from enterprise use to the general consumer. Super Talent has unveiled a new SSD that it is aiming at the market for compact notebooks and tablets that need a 1.8-inch form factor drive to fit into very small footprints. The new SSD is called the MasterDrive KX3. Read The Full Story

OWC Data Doubler For MacBooks Adds Up To 2TB Internal Storage

Rue Liu, Jul 12th 2011 Discuss [1]

Other World Computing (OWC) today announced a new OWC Data Doubler 1TB DIY Kit that can add up to 2TB of internal storage to your MacBook or MacBook Pro. The kit offers a conversion bracket and a 1TB 9.5mm hard drive to swap out the your current internal optical drive. You can also replace it with an up to 2TB drive, a RAID array, or some other customized configuration. Read The Full Story

Samsung launches new Class 10 microSDHC cards for 4G smartphones

Shane McGlaun, Jun 30th 2011 Discuss [4]

If you have a 4G smartphone and happen to live in a 4G coverage area you are very lucky. You get to enjoy the blazing fast 4G speeds that the rest of us wish for. I would be happy right now with a 3G network that was faster than dial up. If you have a fast new 4G phone the last thing you need is a microSD card that is slow and holds up your device when reading or writing data to and from the memory card. Read The Full Story

Buffalo debuts new MiniStation Plus portable storage solution

Shane McGlaun, Jun 29th 2011 Discuss [2]

Buffalo has launched a new portable storage device called the MiniStation Plus. Previously we talked about other MiniStation storage devices and this new offering is similar. The new MiniStation Plus connects to a USB 3.0 port to offer fast storage for whatever the user needs. The storage device is compatible with USB 2.0 ports as well, but using a USB 2.0 port will reduce the performance of the drive. Read The Full Story

Promise Technology ships Thunderbolt Storage System

Shane McGlaun, Jun 28th 2011 Discuss [1]

There are a few storage systems that will work with the new Apple and Intel designed Thunderbolt port for more bandwidth for devices. Promise has announced that it is now shipping a new storage device that uses the Thunderbolt port. The new storage device is called the Pegasus RAID solution. The Pegasus comes in 4-bay and 6-bay flavors depending on the needs of the user. The storage arrays support from 4TB to 12TB. Read The Full Story

Apple Time Capsule gets 3TB storage boost [Ouch: $499!]

Chris Davies, Jun 21st 2011 Discuss [0]

Apple has outed its updated Time Capsule, and as expected the storage has been boosted to up to 3TB. Two models are now available, an entry-level Time Capsule with a 2TB SATA drive, or a new 3TB version. Both support WiFi a/b/g/n with simultaneous use on the 2.4GHz and 5GHz bands. Read The Full Story

New AirPort Extreme and Time Capsule details emerge, launch imminent

Shane McGlaun, Jun 21st 2011 Discuss [0]

Earlier this month I mentioned that the AirPort utility update had revealed the new Time Capsule and AirPort Extreme were inbound with mention of the new products in the new software update. New details of the updated products have now landed thanks to a mystery source over at 9to5Mac. The new details include part numbers and storage capacities for Time Capsule devices. We still don’t know for sure when they will land and what they will cost, but the launch is said to be soon. Read The Full Story

Intel 710 and 720 series SSD specs revealed

Shane McGlaun, Jun 16th 2011 Discuss [0]

Intel has been pedaling some SSDs to enterprise and consumers for a while now and the enterprise versions of its SSDs have been a long time without a significant refresh. The specs on the replacements for the aging X25-E lineup of SSDs has now surfaced and the new 700 series are aimed at that enterprise like their forbearers. The new SSDs are the 710 and the 720. The 710 caries the codenamed Lyndonville and the 720 is dubbed the Ramsdale. Read The Full Story

Reviews

Iomega Home Media Hard Drive Cloud Edition Review

Rue Liu, Jun 14th 2011 Discuss [13]

The Iomega Home Media Hard Drive, Cloud Edition is a network attached storage (NAS) that will not only store and backup your data, but also let you share and access it via the web. These days, it seems like everything computing is heading towards the cloud, which has come to be known as storing your data on remote servers so that it can be accessed from anywhere with an internet connection. This convenience typically comes with a monthly cost and may not be ideal for those who have a lot of data or prefer to have their data stored locally. This is where Iomega’s Cloud Edition NAS hopes to save the day.