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The CD turns 30 today

, Oct 1st 2012 Discuss [0]

Exactly 30 years ago, the first commercially-released CD album hit store shelves. On October 1, 1982, Billy Joel's sixth studio album, 52nd Street, was re-released to the public. The album was originally launched in 1978, but it was selected for re-launch on the all-new digital compact disc to coincide with the release of the first CD player, the Sony CDP-101. Read The Full Story

ADATA launches the world’s thinnest external hard drive

, Sep 27th 2012 Discuss [1]

ADATA has unveiled a new external portable hard drive that it claims to be the world's thinnest. The drive is only 8.9 mm thick and connects to computers using USB 3.0. That means not only is the drive thin, but it should have impressively fast data transfer as well. The drive is called the DashDrive Elite HE720. Read The Full Story

Toshiba Ships First MQ01ABDH Hybrid Series Drive

, Sep 26th 2012 Discuss [0]

Toshiba is one of the biggest names in storage products, and it offers a wide range of internal storage devices and external storage devices. Toshiba has announced that it has started shipping its first Hybrid Drive MQ01ABDH series (PDF) storage devices. These new Hybrid Drives combine the performance of a SSD with the capacity and pricing of a traditional HDD. Read The Full Story

Toshiba outs Canvio Slim as world’s thinnest 500GB hard drive

, Sep 24th 2012 Discuss [0]

The folks from Toshiba look to continue the trend of packing tons and tons of storage into an extremely small space. Today they've outed their latest Canvio Slim portable hard drive and are stating it's the "world's thinnest" portable hard drive. Coming in at just 9mm thick offering 500GB of storage for only $115 -- lets take a look. Read The Full Story

ioSafe N2 fireproof and waterproof NAS Indiegogo campaign kicks off

, Sep 18th 2012 Discuss [1]

Using network-attached storage is a good way to make sure that your important data is safe from things like hard drive crashes and security breaches, but what happens when natural disasters hit? Most NAS systems don't protect against water and fire damage, but ioSafe has a new NAS that protects against both of those. The company has introduced the ioSafe N2, which is a fireproof and waterproof NAS, but in order for this product to see the light of day, it needs your help. Read The Full Story

Monster Digital unveils Daytona Series SSD drives

, Sep 17th 2012 Discuss [0]

Monster is a company that is probably best known for very expensive cables for home theater and car audio systems. That's not all Monster has in its repertoire though. The company also has a line of audio product such as headphones that have proven to be very popular. You may or may not have heard of Monster Digital, which is the storage and memory card arm of Monster. Read The Full Story

Netgear adds personal cloud and remote Time Machine to ReadyNAS

, Sep 11th 2012 Discuss [0]

Netgear has updated its prosumer NAS range to take on cloud backup upstarts, adding a Dropbox-esque ReadyDROP cross-device sync option, and the ability to back up using Time Machine remotely. The new firmware for the ReadyNAS DUO v2 and ReadyNAS NV+ v2, version 5.3.6, expands the ReadyNAS Remote feature already on the standalone network-attached storage, creating monitored folders on each of your devices which, just as with Dropbox, are automatically synchronized whenever you add or change files. Read The Full Story

WD My Passport offers slick storage for Macs and PCs

, Sep 6th 2012 Discuss [2]

Western Digital has launched a new range of compact external storage, the My Passport Edge, for PC and Mac users, promising high-speed connectivity and up to 500GB of capacity. The new, pocket-scale drives rely on USB 3.0 for their hook-up, handy given Apple has succumbed to the port for its 2012 MacBook Pro and MacBook Air line-ups, and come clad in aluminum for extra resilience. Read The Full Story

D-Link 4-bay Cloud Storage 4000 aims at small offices and home users

, Sep 5th 2012 Discuss [0]

D-Link has announced a new cloud storage solution aimed at home and small business users. The device is the four-Bay Cloud Storage 4000 DNS-345. The device is now available for purchase and has its own speedy CPU inside supporting multiple users at the same time. The device also promises increased memory to boost performance and supports four drives for up to 16 TB of total storage capacity. Read The Full Story

Western Digital Announces MyBook VelociRaptor Duo with Thunderbolt and 2TB

, Aug 30th 2012 Discuss [4]

If you're a fan of Western Digital and their popular VelociRaptor line we might have something for you. All those folks with a spare Thunderbolt port on their Mac might just want to check out this new release from WD. It's called the Western Digital MyBook VelociRaptor Duo and offers Thunderbolt speeds and 2TB of capacity. Oh and it'll cost an arm and a leg. Read The Full Story

Kingston unveils new enterprise focused SSDNow E100 SSD

, Aug 28th 2012 Discuss [0]

Kingston is a technology company that offers all sorts of computer hardware from power supplies and computer RAM to storage devices. Kingston's line of SSD storage devices runs the gamut from consumer devices to enterprise storage aimed at corporate use. Kingston has announced a new SSD specifically aimed at enterprise customers called the E100 Enterprise SSD. Read The Full Story

Drobo B1200i SSD announced with 300x performance

, Aug 21st 2012 Discuss [3]

It's time to get serious about a solid state drive upgrade with Drobo's brand new B1200i SSD, complete with what the manufacturer says will be a performance boost of up to 300 percent over previous product iterations. This hardware will bring on a hybrid of solid state technology and traditional hard disk drives like SAS or SATA. And what's fabulous for current owners of the B1200i is this: a software update is all you'll need to gain new performance and functionality from Drobo, and it's free! Read The Full Story
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