Published on Sunday, July 11, 2010 by admin The world’s leading innovator and provider of digital storage products, Hitachi Global Storage Technologies has officially announced the launch of its new high-performance, powerful Hitachi LifeStudio external hard drive portfolio, which the company claims as the first all-in-one external drives that able to automatically find and organize photos, videos, m...

Published on Wednesday, June 30, 2010 by admin One of the global market leaders for hard disk drives, Seagate has expanded the FreeAgent GoFlex family with the launch of its new high-capacity 3 terabyte FreeAgent GoFlex Desk external desktop drive, which the company claims as the world’s first 3TB external hard drive, capable of storing up to 120 high-definition movies, thousands of photos or 1500 video...

Published on Tuesday, June 29, 2010 by admin Hitachi Data Systems is updating its Adaptable Modular Storage 2000 line to reduce data-center costs through consolidation and allow up to a full petabyte on a single floor tile. Hitachi said Fibre Channel and iSCSI ports allow customers to protect their storage system investment. Hitachi's SAS disk option allows high-density consolidation. Hitachi Data Systems i...

Published on Saturday, June 26, 2010 by admin Samsung and Seagate are each offering new high-capacity drives that strive to cram tons of data into a 3.5" form factor. Today's battle is the eco-friendly Spinpoint against the nearline Constellation, low power against business-class. Which one is best? Samsung may be the challenger and Seagate the 800-pound incumbent, but both companies are very serious about...

Published on Tuesday, June 15, 2010 by admin If you are looking for a brand new hard drive for your computer, maybe, this new Samsung Spinpoint F4 HDD can be a perfect choice. Its a 3.5-inch dektop HDD which has a 320GB capacity on a single disk platter with 7,200rpm and 10% faster than other Samsung’s 320GB HDD. [ad#300x250_image_ads] The Spinpoint F4 HDD also has 70% fewer moving parts with a sing...

Published on Tuesday, June 1, 2010 by admin PCIe based SSDs have been reserved for enterprise use ever since their introduction. Generally limited by pricing, even OCZ's own forays into the PCIe SSD market have been targeted at enterprise customers. That may all change with today's announcement. Meet the RevoDrive: [ad#300x250_image_ads] This PCIe x4 card takes a pair of SF-1200 controllers and RAI...

Published on Monday, May 24, 2010 by admin Hard disk systems have recently encounted a storage density ceiling. Most methods in use today have a limit of a few hundred gigabytes per square inch thanks to perpendicular recording. To try to keep storage density rising, scientists have looked at technologies from holographic storage to molecular polymers, but few have made it past the demonstration stage. In ...

Published on Monday, May 24, 2010 by admin A few years ago it seemed as if Hybrid Hard Drives were the future. Yet after a bunch of announcements and hope today we find ourselves in a world with two distinct markets: HDDs and SSDs. If you're willing to pay the price premium and limit maximum capacity, today's SSDs are very fast and if you choose well, reliable. For a desktop PC this isn't a tough choice to ...

Published on Wednesday, May 19, 2010 by admin With the storage market expanding at a breakneck pace and solid state drives taking center space, people’s focus has very much been on internal storage solutions. There has been very little news regarding one of the mainstays of many users’ daily file transfer needs: the ubiquitous flash drive. The inclusion of USB 3.0 on many motherboards has somewhat restored ...

Published on Thursday, May 13, 2010 by admin The name 'Mushkin' may no longer be familiar to you.  A few years ago, they were big players in terms of DDR performance memory - but have not always kept up the pace with hardware development. In 2010 however, alongside OCZ, SanDisk, Intel, Corsair, and other SSD manufacturers, they are diving head first into a highly competitive arena. Earlier this year, Mushkin...

Published on Wednesday, May 12, 2010 by admin Sources close to Seagate roadmaps have leaked the potential of a 3TB SAS drive being released this year. The quest for storage is almost a never ending saga.  Dubbed the Constellation-ES, the replacement for the Seagate Barracuda-ES, the drive is expected to arrive later this year with a 7200 RPM rotation speed, and a 6Gbit/s SAS interface.  A 1TB version of the ...

Published on Wednesday, May 5, 2010 by admin Corsair have announced today that they are expanding their Nova SSD range to include both the 32GB and 256GB models. Using the Indilinx Barefoot™ controller, Corsair is marketing the 32GB model at basic configurations as a boot drive, or high-performance multi-RAID setups, with a modest speed of 195MB/sec read and 75MB/sec write. The 256GB model, with speeds of 2...

Published on Monday, May 3, 2010 by admin I had a lot of stuff come in this morning. First the iPad 3G, then Zotac's next-generation ION box and a bunch of NDA'd CPUs. A little earlier in the week however I got a delivery of a few new SSDs that I've been diligently working on. While the point of This Just In was to catalog parts as they come in so you could see what I'm working on, one particular SSD was...

Published on Saturday, May 1, 2010 by admin The global leading maker of computer peripherals for Windows, Apple and Linux users, LaCie has launched its new power–efficient and high-performance external hard drives designed by Neil Poulton, named as LaCie Rugged USB 3.0, which combines ultimate rugged design that able to absorb drops up to 2.2 meters with high-speed USB 3.0 interface delivering speeds up to 11...