Storage Archive

  • Samsung Spinpoint MP4: A 2.5-inch 640GB 7200 RPM drive meant for us

    Samsung Spinpoint MP4: A 2.5-inch 640GB 7200 RPM drive meant for us

    Posted on April 7, 2010 | No Comments
    Doesn't it seem like 2.5-inch hard drives have been stuck at 500GB for a while? Well, Samsung is the latest to announce its next-gen hard drive platform and while it doesn't have the same 750GB capacity as WD's latest 5400 RPM drive, we'll take the Sammy's 7200 RPM speed with a little less storage any day.

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  • Buffalo Japan to release four new SSDs, six HDDs and two NASes

    Buffalo Japan to release four new SSDs, six HDDs and two NASes

    Posted on March 31, 2010 | No Comments
    Buffalo announced a slew of new SSDs [JP], HDDs [JP] and NASes [JP] in Japan today, all of which might soon be available outside this country, too. Available with 32GB ($160)/64GB ($230)/128GB ($440) and 256GB ($840/build-to-order) on board, the four 2.5-inch SSDs are part of the Buffalo SHD-NSU2 series (pictured above). All of these SATA devices support Windows XP/Vista/7 andMac OS X 10.5, are equipped with 64MB of DRAM cache and come with a USB 2.0 interface.

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  • The PQI H566 USB 3.0 external hard drive is a looker

    The PQI H566 USB 3.0 external hard drive is a looker

    Posted on March 30, 2010 | No Comments
    >PQI was one of the first companies to out a USB 3.0 flash drive back in 2009 and it's back again with a 2.5-inch USB 3.0 external hard drive. You should know the drill by now. Nearly all of these hard drives are the same. The H566 comes either in 320GB, 500GB, or 640GB flavors and utilizes USB 3.0 to transfer files at speeds that max out at 5.0Gbps while providing backwards compatibility with USB 2.0. The drive dons a rather sexy metallic silver casing and ships with data encryption tools for the aluminium hat-wearing folk.

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  • Western Digital is now shipping the Scorpio Blue 750GB 2.5-inch hard drive directly to our hearts

    Western Digital is now shipping the Scorpio Blue 750GB 2.5-inch hard drive directly to our hearts

    Posted on March 30, 2010 | No Comments
    Western Digital here, While other companies are just announcing their large 2.5-inch drives, we've started shipping ours and wanted to thank everyone involved with the industry-leading Scorpio Blue 750GB 2.5-inch hard drive: the engineers for crafting the drive, the bean counters for pricing it well at $149, but most importantly, you, the consumer. It was you that pushed us to stuff even more storage capacity in the small 2.5-inch form factor and demanded a quiet and battery-efficient drive. Thank you.

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  • Buffalo boards the USB 3.0 train with the MiniStation Cobalt

    Buffalo boards the USB 3.0 train with the MiniStation Cobalt

    Posted on March 22, 2010 | No Comments
    The Western Digital MyBook 3.0 and Seagate BlackArmor PS110 have company. No longer are those two hard drives tasked with holding up USB 3.0's banner because the Buffalo MiniStation Cobalt is launching in April and is ready to help along the cause.

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  • AirStash: Wireless portable storage

    AirStash: Wireless portable storage

    Posted on March 16, 2010 | No Comments
    If you’re like me, you thought the AirStash was a mustache that floats in the air, like those seed things in Avatar, only not glowy. But the AirStash is actually a USB key with built-in SD card slot that can, in a few seconds, create a private hotspot that allows you to share the media [...]

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  • SSD Roundup: the drive to succeed

    SSD Roundup: the drive to succeed

    Posted on March 4, 2010 | No Comments
    I got up this morning and started thinking about the next thing I wanted to add to my PC. Like many of you, I'm into upgrading when I see fit to increase performance, and I think that putting Windows 7 on an SSD might be the way to go. So, like many of you, I decided to look at some of the most recent reviews and see what looked interesting from the price/performance standpoint.

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  • Corsair unleashes the Force SSD line

    Corsair unleashes the Force SSD line

    Posted on March 4, 2010 | No Comments
    Forget about the just-announced Corsair Reactor and Nova SSDs because you're not going to want those after you hear about the upcoming Force models. This new line forgos the Indilinx Bareboot controller for the faster SandForce SD-1200 processor, which enables the Force line to read at 285MB/s and write at 275MB/s. Yeah, that's quick. Trim support is also present on the SATA II drives as long as you're running a Trim-friendly OS like Windows 7. Don't expect all this SSD goodness to be affordable, though.

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  • GameStop selling 250GB Xbox 360 drive

    GameStop selling 250GB Xbox 360 drive

    Posted on March 2, 2010 | No Comments
    Well lookie at that, GameStop is selling a 250GB Xbox 360 drive separately from a console. Microsoft has said in the past that they don't plan on selling the larger drives without a bundle, so I doubt these are a new or official product, but rather GameStop coming up with something on their own.

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  • Lexar announces new line of “Gamer” SDHC cards

    Lexar announces new line of “Gamer” SDHC cards

    Posted on November 19, 2009 | No Comments
    Lexar announced their new "gaming" memory cards today. I"m curious what exactly makes these cards specifically for gamers? Do they drink Mountain Dew? Do they call other memory cards 'Bro' while giving them dead leg? Other then labeling, I'm not sure what else makes these gamer level memory cards special.

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  • OCZ Colossus finally hits retailers

    OCZ Colossus finally hits retailers

    Posted on November 18, 2009 | No Comments
    Get your wallet ready; OCZ's Colossus line has finally hit the shelves. We were expecting them back in August, but it seems that there must have been some difficulties.

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  • The world’s smallest 16GB flash drive

    The world’s smallest 16GB flash drive

    Posted on November 17, 2009 | No Comments
    USB drives keep getting smaller and smaller. For your viewing pleasure: the Wink. Advertised as the world's smallest USB drive, it really is quite diminutive. It's ideal for attaching to a keychain or necklace, or smuggling out of a secure data facility in on your body.

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  • World’s smallest NAS: the Thecus N0204

    World’s smallest NAS: the Thecus N0204

    Posted on November 16, 2009 | No Comments
    So this is kind of cool. It's a NAS that uses 2.5" hard drives, making for a much smaller form factor. In fact, it's about the size of a standard USB hard drive enclosure. The best part? The price. The Thecus N0204 retails for just $150; you'll have to provide your own drives, though.

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  • Review: Iomega StorCenter ix2-200 NAS

    Review: Iomega StorCenter ix2-200 NAS

    Posted on November 4, 2009 | No Comments
    With the terabyte to dollar ratio decreasing every day, there's no excuse for not having adequate digital storage space. The new Iomega ix2-200 Network-Attached Storage (NAS) unit makes adding storage to your home or business network about as easy as it can get. Its a very powerful, versatile unit that is quite nearly plug-and-play. Let's take a closer look shall we?

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  • Convergence! Fancy lighter packs an 8GB USB drive, costs $35

    Convergence! Fancy lighter packs an 8GB USB drive, costs $35

    Posted on October 30, 2009 | No Comments
    If you're dedicated to smoking or camping (or smoking while camping), then there’s a good chance you've purchased a nice refillable metal lighter in the past. But the past is the past and sooner or later you’ll need to step into the future (which, coincidentally, will almost immediately become the past). Whatever happens, please take with you the knowledge that there exists a refillable metal lighter that doubles as an 8GB flash drive.

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