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Samsung S1 Mini and S2 portable USB HDDs unveiled
Samsung unveiled the S1 and S2 stylish portable hard-drives today in Korea. LG introduced similar fashion portable hard-drives back in July with the LG XD1. I guess Samsung just did not want to be left behind here.
The Samsung S1 mini contains a 1.8 inch hard-drive, where as the Samsung S2 portable uses 2.5 inch HDDs.
The stylish and cleanly designed Samsung portable USB drives come in piano black, snow white, wine red, and chocolate brown.
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Posted on Tue, 7 Oct 2008 02:15:56 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr
SimpleTech Updates Pro Drive External HDDs
Fabrik has announced updates to its Pro Drive external storage solutions. The new updated drives are the 1.5TB SimpleTech Pro Drive and the Duo Pro Drive 3TB RAID 0/1 solution. Both of the external hard drives include a quad interface with eSATA, FireWire 800, FireWire 400, and USB 2.0 connections.
Data transfer rates are up to 3Gbps with eSATA. SimpleTech offers a ProSpeed eSATA PCI adapter card for $69.99 to add eSATA to desktop systems lacking the significantly faster connection. The Dup Pro drive is $279.99 for 1TB, $419.99 for 1.5TB, and $549.99 for 2TB. Pricing is not yet set for the 3TB version that will ship in late Q4. The Pro Drive is $159.99 for 500GB, $209.99 for the 750GB, and the 1.5TB version will ship in Q4 at undisclosed pricing. Read more
Posted on Mon, 29 Sep 2008 12:31:58 CDT | by Shane McGlaun
Toshiba Unveils 1.8-inch 250GB HDD
Toshiba announced its latest 1.8-inch HDD called the MK2529GSG that has 250GB of storage space. The small HDDs are intended to be used in consumer electronics and PCs. Performance from the drives should be decent with a 5400-rpm rotation speed.
The drive uses the SATA 3 GB/s interface and features a free fall sensor to enhance shock protection. The areal density for the drive is 378.8 GB/in. Power consumption is low at 0.0016 watts-per-GB. Read more
Posted on Thu, 25 Sep 2008 16:00:00 CDT | by Shane McGlaun
Eltrinex netbook features 320GB HDD
Czech company Eltrinex offers a netbook with a 320GB HDD. The Eltrinex netbook runs on a 1.6GHz VIA C7-M CPU and features a 10.2 inch display.
The MobilePC seems to retail for around $700 in the Czech Republic.
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Posted on Tue, 16 Sep 2008 19:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr
WD 500GB Notebook HDD Now Shipping
Western Digital has announced that its new Scorpio Blue 2.5-inch notebook HDD is now shipping in volume to OEMs. The drive offers up to 500Gb of storage and has 250GB of storage space per platter. The drive is also available in 400GB capacity.
Other features of the drive include a 3 Gb/s transfer rate and SATA connectivity. WD says that the Scorpio Blue is the highest capacity 2.5-inch 9mm thick drive to ship to date. The drive was developed for OEM use. The drive will retail for $219.99 for the 500GB and $189.99 for the 400GB. Read more
Posted on Fri, 12 Sep 2008 15:00:00 CDT | by Shane McGlaun
Toshiba Announces 1.8-inch 240GB HDD
Toshiba has announced a new 1.8-inch small form factor hard drive that packs 240Gb of storage. Toshiba says that this is the world's first dual-platter 240GB drive and the world's first single platter 120GB drive in the 1.8-inch size.
The hard drive will eventually find its way into MP3 players and camcorders among other things and will ship in time for holiday shopping. It's safe to say that we will be seeing 240GB iPods and Zune's using the drive. Read more
Posted on Wed, 10 Sep 2008 12:12:53 CDT | by Shane McGlaun
Sony BDZ-X100, BDZ-X95, BDZ-L95, BDZ-L55, BDZ-T75, and BDZ-T55 Blu-ray HDD Recor
Sony announces 6 new Blu-ray hard-drive digital recorders with the Sony BDZ-X100, BDZ-X95, BDZ-L95, BDZ-L55, BDZ-T75, and BDZ-T55 in Japan.
All new Sony Blu-ray recorders feature new 14bit image processing, HD Reality Enhancer, Super Bit Mapping and BD-Live support.
The top of the line Sony BDZ-X100 features a 1TB hard-drive and two tuners.
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Posted on Wed, 3 Sep 2008 00:51:52 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr
MSI Wind with 160GB HDD coming
MSI is apparently releasing a new MSI Wind U100 netbook with a 160GB HDD instead of the 80GB HDD available in the currently sold models.
Apparently Microsoft lifted the HDD storage limit on the low-cost XP license to 160GB.
MSI already offers also some 120GB MSI Wind models on their shop. Other features are the same, only the hard-drive sizes vary.
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Posted on Tue, 2 Sep 2008 06:27:11 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr
Aluratek Tornado External HDD with RFID Security
Aluratek announced the latest version of its tornado one-touch external hard drive that features a RFID security key and onboard data encryption. The drives can be had with storage capacity of up to 1TB with the lowest capacity 160GB.
The drives come in two different sizes -- 2.5-inch and 3.5-inch. Connectivity is via USB 2.0 and the drives are compatible with Windows and Mac computers. The drives ship with a pair of RFID security keys for an added layer of protection. The 160GB version of the external drive retails for $119 with the 1TB version going for $249. Read more
Posted on Wed, 27 Aug 2008 13:33:59 CDT | by Shane McGlaun
Rosewill RX81-MP-SC-SLV SATA External HDD Enclosure Review
Today we are looking at a very nice external HDD enclosure from Rosewill. The Rosewill enclosure has four connectivity options and offers very good performance.
The enclosure will support HDDs up to 1TB and is easy to install. The drive is compatible with Windows and Mac computers. The enclosure is made for aluminum for heat dissipation as well. Read more
Posted on Fri, 8 Aug 2008 14:55:55 CDT | by Shane McGlaun
VOX V1 500GB USB and eSATA External HDD Review
Tweaktown published a review of the VOX V1 500GB USB and eSATA External HDD.
Quote from the review: "Aaah, storage. As far as I’m concerned, you can’t have enough of it. Be it in a server or on the go, you can’t really ever have too much hard drive space. Today we’re taking the time to have a look at a hard drive caddie from a company called VOX.
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Posted on Mon, 4 Aug 2008 21:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr
Hitachi Launches New CinemaStar HDDs for DVR Use
Hitachi announced two new hard drives today aimed at storing digital video in DVRs. Both new drives are in the CinemaStar series. The CinemaStar 7K1000.B is available in several different capacities up to 1TB. The CinemaStar 5K320 is available with up to 320GB of storage and uses Hitachi CoolSpin technology.
CoolSpin drives use technology that optimizes drive speed for low power and low acoustics. This helps the drive be quieter and more energy efficient. Both drives are optimized for use 24/7 and have silent-seek acoustics for nearly inaudible operation. Read more
Posted on Wed, 30 Jul 2008 05:59:24 CDT | by Shane McGlaun
Why talk about a HDD for the Sony PSP if there is SSD?
Sony's Jack Tretton warmed up the Sony PSP with HDD rumor that is 3 years old at the E3 2008.
Sony highlights the fact that you can use downloaded movies from the new Playstation Store Video shop also on the PSP. This of course requires storage on the PSP.
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Posted on Sat, 19 Jul 2008 09:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr
OCZ Core Series SSD versus VelociRaptor HDD
Hothardware compares the performance of the new low-cost SSD from OCZ (OCZ Core SSD) with one of the fastest hard-drives available - the WD VelociRaptor.
The OCZ Core Series SATA II 64GB Solid State Drive has been tested and compared. The 64GB OCZ Core SSD sells right now from NewEgg for $239 after a $40 mail-in rebate.
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Posted on Sat, 19 Jul 2008 05:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr
Toshiba 400GB 2.5 inch HDD announced
Toshiba today announced the 400GB MK4058GSX 2.5 inch Hard-drive.
The MK4058GSX boosts areal density to 477Mbit/mm2 (308Gbpsi) to achieve a capacity of 400GB on just two platters, plus five drives that bring new levels of performance and 7,200rpm rotational speeds to the company’s full range of storage capacities.
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Posted on Wed, 16 Jul 2008 01:25:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr
Seagate Annonces 1.5TB HDD for Desktop and 500GB for Notebooks
Seagate has announced the world’s highest capacity desktop hard drive at 1.5TB is capacity. The drive uses four platters to reach its capacity and Seagate says that this is the biggest increase in hard drive capacity in 50 years.
It has been about a year since Seagate launched its 1TB hard drive. The drive is called the Barracuda 7200.11 and spins at 7200 rpm. Seagate has also announced new notebook hard drives that both have a 500GB storage capacity. One of the notebook drives comes in 5400 rpm and the other is 7200 rpm, both have the same 500GB capacity. The drives will be available in Q4 2008 at undisclosed pricing. The 1.5TB drive also features the option of bulk data encryption with AES encryption. Read more
Posted on Fri, 11 Jul 2008 07:53:19 CDT | by Shane McGlaun
TrendFOCUS Says SDDs will Replace Tens of Millions of HDDs in the Future
I’m not sure we need another report from another market research firm to tell us that SSDs today suck, but in the future they will be huge. That didn’t stop TrendFOCUS from putting out its own report that says SSDs aren’t a factor today but in the future they will replace tens of millions of HDDs.
The report does offer a lofty number though saying that SSDs will replace over 50 million HDDs within a few years. The enterprise market will be the first place SSDs are adopted and the mobile market will follow once prices come down and capacities go up. Read more
Posted on Wed, 9 Jul 2008 13:29:04 CDT | by Shane McGlaun
Hitachi’s Second Generation 1TB HDD Unveiled
Hitachi has announced the second generation of its 1TB Deskstar hard drive. The drive is called the Deskstar 7K1000.B and will ship worldwide in July at undisclosed pricing. Hitachi claims the new drive is the most energy efficient 7200 rpm 1TB hard drive in the world.
The drive uses three platters and improves idle power consumption up to 43% over the first generation 1TB drive from Hitachi. The drive also supports bulk data encryption (BDE) as an optional feature for users. The drive delivers 375Gb of storage per platter. Read more
Posted on Wed, 9 Jul 2008 09:21:01 CDT | by Shane McGlaun
VOX TV-R HDD Media Player/Recorder Review
Today we are looking at the VOX TV-R HDD Media Player/Recorder. The device allows you to record movies and TV shows from your TV to the VOX TV-R HDD Media Player/Recorder internal HDD. You can also copy files and images directly from camcorder and digital cameras.
The VOX TV-R HDD Media Player/Recorder works well enough, but the image and video quality isn’t tops. Still if you are looking to transfer video files to a PMP or view them on any TV screen the VOX TV-R HDD Media Player/Recorder is a nice little device. Read more
Posted on Mon, 7 Jul 2008 13:57:09 CDT | by Shane McGlaun
OWC announces On-The-Go 320GB 7200RPM portable HDD
Other World Computing announced today the highest capacity 7200RPM portable bus-powered storage solution on the market - the Mercury On-The-Go 320GB 7200RPM portable storage drive.
Immediately available and priced starting at $239.99, the new Mercury On-The-Go 320GB 7200RPM drive has models available with USB 2.0, USB 2.0+eSATA, FireWire 400+USB 2.0, and FireWire 800/400+USB 2.0 Interfaces.
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Posted on Wed, 25 Jun 2008 09:38:04 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr
Toshiba unveils 160GB 1.8 inch SATA HDD
Toshiba Corporation today announced a new line-up of 1.8" SATA hard disk drives including the industry's first drive of this type with a capacity of 160GB.
The new 160GB HDD, MK1617GSG, and the 80GB drive, MK8017GSG, will enter mass production in August.
Toshiba’s new 1.8-inch hard-drives boost interface speed to 1.5Gbps and offer a rotation speed of 5,400 rpm, faster than the current generation of Toshiba 1.8-inch HDD (MK1214GAH, parallel ATA, 120GB).
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Posted on Wed, 11 Jun 2008 00:21:40 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr
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