If you’re looking for a high-speed, high-capacity flash drive, then here’s what Kingston just cooked up to fill that void: the Kingston DataTraveler HyperX 3.0, a USB flash drive that offers 225MB/s read and 135MB/s write speeds (on a USB 3.0 connection) in a drive that packs in up to 256GB of storage. Basically giving you the power to store up to 10 Blu-ray discs or 54 DVDs in your pocket. This kind of performance won’t come cheap though; prices start at $193 for the 64GB version, while the 128GB model costs $377. The top-end 256GB version is still listed as “coming soon,” but you get where this is going. It’s not for the faint-of-heart. Official press release and promo video after the break.
Western Digital has announced that they’ve updated their made-for-Mac line of My Passport external drives: the My Passport Studio, and the My Passport for Mac. The most obvious difference for the updates involves the drives’ physical design, with WD wrapped these new drives in an all-metal enclosure instead of the usual shiny plastic. The result? They’re more durable than their predecessors. As a bonus, the new drives look pretty good, with design cues that match Apple’s aluminum-clad Macs.
As a user who’s had to go through a number of failed drives and lost photos, music and videos over the past couple of years (seriously Seagate, you just lost a customer) I’ve personally been waiting for something like this. Specifically, a drive that promises to preserve your most precious data for 100 years… or at least as long as you live. Or as long as you’re still aware that you have some important data lying around from a few decades ago. Anyway, that’s exactly what SanDisk is promising with this fancy silver brick they just unveiled. Called the SanDisk Memory Vault, this drive was designed to keep your data safe for up to a century.
Toshiba has announced that they’ll be coming out with the FlashAir, an 8GB SDHC card that they labeled as “the world’s first SDHC memory card with embedded wireless LAN functionality to meet the SD Memory Card Standard.” It’s pretty similar to the Eye-Fi Pro X2 (which is already available for $100), but unlike the Eye-Fi card that supports only one-way transfers, this one comes with an extra function that will let you receive files from other devices and not just send. It’s basically an 8GB SDHC card that’ll allow you to wirelessly transfer photos to and from other network-connected devices, letting you upload shots directly from your digicam straight to your computer or smartphone, or other FlashAir-compliant digicams.
Toshiba didn’t give any pricing yet, but the FlashAir 8GB card is set for a release in February 2012. Press release after the break.
Unless you go SSD, you don’t usually buy a mobile hard drive for performance – you buy them for the compact form factor and, well, the storage. But what if you want some performance to go with that portable form factor and sub-1 Terabyte combo? Well, here’s your answer: Seagate just announced the GoFlex Turbo, a mobile hard drive built for better-than-usual speed, thanks to a USB 3.0 port and a 2.5-inch 7,299rpm drive.
