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Ray Willington - Tue, Jul 20, 2010
When it comes to hard drives, "biggest" is never "big enough." Samsung knows all about this problem, and they're pushing the limits of 2.5" storage with their first terabyte-sized Spinpoint MT2. This drive, which packs 1TB of capacity into a 2.5" form factor meant for gaming/multi-media...
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Ray Willington - Mon, Jul 19, 2010
Seagate is expanding their hard drive line once more, with the latest device fitting into the "at-home backup" category. Yes, it's a new NAS drive, but it's unlike any standard consumer NAS device you've seen before. The new GoFlex Home is a wireless backup device that's highly flexible, and...
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Jennifer Johnson - Wed, Jul 14, 2010
Seagate introduced the new BlackArmor NAS 400 network storage server. Targeting small businesses and households that want data storage protection, performance, and flexibility, the new BlackArmor server has a four-bay storage enclosure...
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Paul Lilly - Wed, Jul 14, 2010
Don't let it ever be said that Toshiba doesn't love its PC and Mac brethren equally, lest how would you explain the Canvio, Toshiba's latest portable backup solution for Macs? The thing comes in 500GB, 750GB, and 1TB capacities, each one pre-loaded with Mac specific backup software. "Toshiba...
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Ray Willington - Mon, Jul 12, 2010
Say what you will about Apple (and yes, there's a lot to be said), but the company has proven fairly reliable when it comes to repairing or replacing defective gear over the years. They're even confessing to a "bar issue" on the iPhone 4, which can't be an easy thing to do. The only problem we...
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Ray Willington - Fri, Jul 09, 2010
It's a good business to be in, this storage sector. Regardless of how much people have, they seem to always end up wanting more. As media grows in size and things become larger and more space-consuming to archive, people are turning to NAS drives and big RAID stacks to handle all of the content that they'd like to keep safe. Netgear has been...
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Ray Willington - Wed, Jul 07, 2010
It seems that the whole world is trying out new external HDD designs. We know that's not true at all, but being in this business, it sure feels like it. Western Digital has their My Book line, and even Seagate has recently produced some...
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Marco Chiappetta - Wed, Jun 30, 2010
Introducing Thecus D0204 Portable Storage Device Big storage in a small package featuring USB 3.0 connectivity 06/30/2010 – The age of USB 3.0 is almost here. Today, storage leader Thecus Technology is proud to announce its first portable storage device featuring the new USB 3.0...
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Marco Chiappetta - Wed, Jun 30, 2010
G.SKILL extends its warranty for its performance leading Phoenix SSD series to 3 years Taipei, Taiwan - G.Skill International Co. Ltd., manufacturer of extreme performance memory and solid-state storage, has today announced the warranty extension of the Phoenix and Phoenix Pro SSD series to 3...
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Ray Willington - Wed, Jun 30, 2010
Can it ever be big enough? If we're talking about hard drives, the answer is definitely "no!" As multi-media continues to grow larger and larger, and digital photographs do the same as the megapixels swell, having enough storage is becoming more and more difficult. Hard drive makers are...
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Marco Chiappetta - Mon, Jun 28, 2010
OCZ Technology Unveils the RevoDrive with up to 80,000 IOPS, the World’s Fastest Consumer Solid State Drive OCZ Increases Performance but not the Price of High-End PCIe Solid State Storage SAN JOSE, CA - June 29, 2010 - OCZ Technology Group, Inc. (Nasdaq: OCZ), a leading provider...
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Ray Willington - Mon, Jun 28, 2010
It's true: Blu-ray is outgrowing itself, but thankfully, there's room for expansion on the current format. There have been rumors for years that larger optical discs were on the horizon, and even hints that Blu-ray itself may grow. But now it's official, and those who always assumed that a...
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Marco Chiappetta - Fri, Jun 25, 2010
Shortly after publishing a recent 5-way SSD round-up, a number of the manufacturers that employ Sandforce controllers in their products released updated drives that offered more usable capacity to end users. The first wave of SF-1200 based drives to hit the scene had about 22% of their flash memory over-provisioned for cache purposes, wear-leveling,...
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Marco Chiappetta - Fri, Jun 25, 2010
It is hard to believe that almost two years has passed since we first rounded-up some of the first solid state drive offerings for the PC. Since that time, the landscape has changed dramatically. Capacities have increased somewhat, but performance has been improved significantly. Many early...
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Ray Willington - Thu, Jun 24, 2010
No matter how you slice it, everyone needs a slice of solid state storage. At least that's how we see it. And that includes the enterprise, or consumers who need ultra reliable goods for continual or business-related use. Super Talent...
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Ray Willington - Wed, Jun 23, 2010
DVRs are nice, and TiVo units are usually even nicer. But what good is a DVR when there's no room left to record that next critical show? No good at all, we'd say. Western Digital is out to solve your existing "no storage" problem with their new My Book AV DVR Expander, which is essentially an...
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Ray Willington - Wed, Jun 23, 2010
Talk about a marvelous name for a product. In the world of flash memory, it's hard to keep any two devices apart. They all just seem to bleed together, accomplishing the same task regardless of the label. But SanDisk has somehow figured out a way to perk itself up in the midst of such an...
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Ray Willington - Tue, Jun 22, 2010
Need some extra external storage? Can't deal with yet another "plain" enclosure? Iomega is right there with you, today introducing a new line of external storage devices that have style like no other. In fact, we can't recall if we've ever seen a truly "skinned" external hard drive, but that's...
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Ray Willington - Tue, Jun 22, 2010
Even the new Mac Mini supports SDXC, so it's pretty safe bet that SDXC will be a recognizable format in the coming months and years. In order to prepare for the future demand, yet another mainstay in the flash memory business is introducing an SDXC card today. Transcend has went ahead and...
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Ray Willington - Sat, Jun 19, 2010
Google has done it again. And when we say "it again," we mean "set a new bar for everyone else to jump over." For years now, online storage has been hit or miss, particularly the free variety. There are numerous services that charge a monthly rate to store your files online, but few of these...
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Ray Willington - Fri, Jun 18, 2010
Here's something that's not so uncommon any more: a solid state drive. SSDs are everywhere, and they're growing in popularity. But most of them are of the 2.5" variety, with very few being offered in the 3.5" (desktop) and 1.8" (portable media player) form factors. But OCZ Technology isn't one...
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Ray Willington - Fri, Jun 18, 2010
Every other day, it seems that some company, somewhere is producing yet another solid state drive. It's good for the industry, and it's good for the consumer. But it certainly makes choosing that much harder. But Corsair's newest drive is very specific in who it's aimed at: the SSD newbie, of...
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