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Archive for the ‘Storage’ CategoryLost your dog? Use your phone to track Rover downThursday, March 11th, 2010
This little bit of useful technology (for dog-lovers, at least) comes by way of Retrieva, who makes the world’s first tracking and anti-theft dog collar, and ViewRanger, who develops GPS mapping software. It’s a pretty simple partnership that ties the two services together, allowing you to track your Retrieva collar-wearing dog using ViewRanger’s app installed on your Symbian-based smartphone. OCZ’s new Onyx SSDs will sell for less than $100Wednesday, March 10th, 2010
We’ve been barraged by a lot of new solid state drives the whole of last year, but it was just a bit hard to get on the solid state bandwagon when they’re still priced at the equivalent of an arm and a leg per gigabyte of storage space. OCZ’s latest is a breath of fresh air though, offering average Joes the chance to pick up a solid state drive upgrade on the cheap. WD intros My Passport AV that works with home entertainment setupsWednesday, March 10th, 2010
WD outs new My Passport Studio drive for Mac-loversTuesday, March 2nd, 2010
Western Digital has released the new models for their line of My Passport and MyBook external drives, but they left an updated “Studio” version out. So what’s new with the updated My Passport Studio? It’s still basically a portable drive designed with the new My Passport line’s curves, but adds an e-paper display to the mix. Next-gen CF 5.0 card format can fit 144 petabytesMonday, February 22nd, 2010
Corsair’s Padlock 2 flash drive comes with a keypadSunday, February 21st, 2010
Flash drives are flash drives, and flash drives that count “security” among its top features usually end up to be pretty boring—but necessary—products for Average Joe. But here’s how it gets interesting: by adding hardware-based encryption and an actual numpad for keying in a password. We first saw this on the Aegis Padlock Secure portable drive, but that was a 2.5-inch portable drive. Corsair’s Flash Padlock 2 adds the keypad onto a compact USB flash drive that can fit into a pocket, somehow making “security” way more cool compared to having to deal with encrypting software every time you have to push or pull data securely. Kingston outs faster-entry level SSDNow drives with TRIM supportMonday, February 15th, 2010
Samsung fills 500GB drive with MJ’s ‘This Is It”Monday, February 8th, 2010
Before tackling this bundle, we just have to say that we love gimmicky hard drives filled with anything that isn’t bloatware. We loved the National Geographic drive that they filled with 120 years of the magazine’s earth-loving content, and we love the idea behind this new special edition Samsung drive, preloaded with Michael Jackson’s full-length movie “This Is It” . Now, we’re not necessarily MJ fans (we stopped buying his stuff after Bad), but for those of you who are, this is definitely something you’d want to pick up. It’s a must-buy. He won’t be making any more of these after all. Active Media outs car key-shaped MotKeyMonday, February 8th, 2010
Remember when LaCie somehow got out attention when they came out with USB flash drives—or USB keys—that were shaped like silver keys? It seems the obvious novelty has caught on. Here comes Active Media Products and their take on the key-shaped USB key called the MotKey. Available in 4 and 8GB capacities, the MotKey is still unique in its own right, with a shock and scratch-resistant rubber housing designed to make it look like a car key. (In comparison, LaCie’s CooKey and WhizKey drives look like stainless steel house keys. See? They’re different.) WD launches its fastest external drive (ever), the MyBook 3.0Wednesday, January 27th, 2010
Ok, it’s actually just the MyBook external drive that they’ve released in the past, but enhanced with a USB 3.0 interface. If you’re looking for serious file transfer performance from an external drive—for animation, graphic design, or plain old large-file-transfers-that-you-can’t-wait-to-get-done—Western Digital’s 2TB MyBook 3.0 offers up to 5Gb/s, or ten times the transfer speed of traditional USB 2.0 drives. | ||
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The CompactFlash Association, the guys behind the CF card format, has just released the details for the CompactFlash revision 5.0 spec. What’s new with the old card format? Oh not much. Except for a higher storage ceiling. So high, in fact, that it’ll probably take some time before we’ll ever see the full extent of its potential.
Memory maker Kingston has just announced that they’ll be boosting the performance on their second-gen 
