| Transcend Announces 32GB ExpressCard/34 SSD |
| Author: Alessandra Carneiro |
Date: June 27, 2007 - 11:06 AM PST |
| Category: Storage |
| More Info: http://www.transcendusa.com/products/ModDetail.asp?ModNo=162 |
Transcend announces its latest 32GB ExpressCard/34 SSD. With a low power consumption, it is perfect as a mobile storage solution in notebook computers with ExpressCard slot.
It also supports USB 2.0 and PCI Express Applications, and perfectly matches mobile and desktop systems. Moreover, it comes bundled with a portable USB adapter, which makes it work as a regular USB flash drive. Suggested price: USD 509.
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| Seagate Ships 1 TB Barracuda 7000 series |
| Author: Alessandra Carneiro |
Date: June 26, 2007 - 6:11 AM PST |
| Category: Storage |
| More Info: http://www.seagate.com/www/en-us/products/ |
Seagate will begin shortly shipping in volume its first 1 TB Barracuda 7000 series, for desktops (Barracuda 7200.11) and enterprises (Barracuda ES.2). They deliver a 105MB/s sustained transfer rate, as well as a low power rating of 8 watts at idle. They also feature 7,200-rpm spin speeds, average seek times of 8.5ms and caches up to 32MB. Seagate's newest hard drives pack 1TB of data on four discs. The 1TB Barracuda 7200.11 will cost USD 399.99.
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| Samsung Begins Mass Producing 1.8" 64 GB SSD |
| Author: Alessandra Carneiro |
Date: June 25, 2007 - 5:51 AM PST |
| Category: Storage |
| More Info: http://www.samsung.com/Products/StorageProducts/index.htm |
After introduces 32GB SSDs into ultra-mobile personal computers, Samsung has begun mass producing 1.8-inch solid state drives (SSD) at 64 GB - the highest density SSD available today for notebooks, says manufacturer.
The read and write performance of the new SLC flash-SSD have been increased by 20% and 60% respectively over the 32 GB flash-SSD Samsung introduced last year.
In comparison with a 80 GB HD, which reads data at 15 MB/s and writes at 7 MB/s, the new SSD reads at 64 MB/s and writes at 45 MB/s. It weights 15g and 80 GB hd weights 61g. It also has less power comsumption.
The Korean company used the 51nm process technology. Company expects that sales of SSD units will increase at a 270 percent between now and 2010 to become the largest growth segment in the NAND flash industry.
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| Samsung Launches SH-S203 DVD burner |
| Author: Alessandra Carneiro |
Date: June 21, 2007 - 4:35 PM PST |
| Category: Storage |
| More Info: http://www.samsung.com/Products/OpticalDiscDrive/DVDWriter/index.asp |
Samsung launches Super-WriteMaster SH-S203 DVD burner, the world's first to offer 16x recording for DVD+R DL media. It features 20X DVD±R recording, 12X DVD-RAM recording, 16X DVD+R Dual Layer recording, 12X DVD-R Dual Layer recording, 8X DVD+RW recording and 6X DVD-RW recording. SH-S203 supports the SATA interface, eliminating the need for Master/Slave jumper settings. Suggested price: USD 70.
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| Samsung Announces 1 TB HD |
| Author: Alessandra Carneiro |
Date: June 20, 2007 - 8:05 AM PST |
| Category: Storage |
| More Info: http://www.samsung.com/Products/HardDiskDrive/index.htm |
Samsung announced its one terabyte F1 Series hard disk drive, which features the world's highest recording density in a 3.5" hard disk drive using only 3 disks, says manufacturer.
NoiseGuard and SilentSeek technologies guarantees quiet operation and less vibration emanating from the drive.
The F1 Series drive features a 334 GB per-platter capacity, a 7200rpm spin speed, a 32MB cache, and up to a 1.2 million hour MTBF. It features a SATA 3Gb/s interface . Suggested price: US$ 399.
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| Toshiba Announces HD-DVD for Notebooks |
| Author: Alessandra Carneiro |
Date: June 18, 2007 - 6:56 AM PST |
| Category: Storage |
| More Info: http://www.storage.toshiba.eu/ |
Toshiba announced the world's first slim re-writable HD-DVD drive for notebook PCs. The SD-L912A drive wirtes HD-DVD-R SL at 2x; HD-DVD-R DL at 1x; HD-DVD-RW SL at 1x; HD-DVD-RW DL at 1x; DVD-RAM at 3x; DVD-R SL at 4x; DVD-R DL at 2x; DVD-RW at 4x; DVD+R SL at 4x; DVD+R DL at 2.4x; DVD+RW at 4x; CD-R at 16x; CD-RW at 4x; High Speed CD-RW at 10x and Ultra Speed CD-RW at 10x.
Single and double layer HD DVD discs are already available and offer capacities of 15 GB and 30 GB respectively. Triple layer HD DVD ROM discs that will offer capacities up to 51 GB are currently in development and will be available in late 2007.
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| White Stripe Launches Album in USB Drive |
| Author: Alessandra Carneiro |
Date: June 13, 2007 - 4:11 PM PST |
| Category: Storage |
| More Info: http://whitestripes.kungfunation.com/index.php?main_page=product_music... |
White Stripes announced its new album, Icky Thump, in USB drives of Jack and Meg White. Each USB 2.0 flash drive has a 512 MB capacity and are Windows and Mac compatible. The Jack and Meg figures are available separately for USD 57,50, or you can purchase the set at a discount, for USD 99. They are produced in a limited edition of 6,666 drives.
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| Western Digital MyBook’s Now with 750 GB and 1.5 TB |
| Author: Alessandra Carneiro |
Date: June 12, 2007 - 3:40 PM PST |
| Category: Storage |
| More Info: http://www.wdmybook.com/en/ |
Western Digital has announced new generation of its MyBook series, with 750 GB and 1.5 Terabyte (these ones are RAID systems that use two of the 750 GB drives together). MyBook is a external hard-drive family with remote-access to store and share data, photos, even when your local computer is off. They work with PC and Mac.
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| Seagate Intros first 250GB-per-disc HD |
| Author: Alessandra Carneiro |
Date: June 8, 2007 - 6:09 AM PST |
| Category: Storage |
| More Info: http://www.seagate.com/www/en-us/ |
Seagate started to ship industry's first 250GB-per-disc, 3.5-inch disc drive on the strength of second-generation perpendicular magnetic recording technology. The advantage of running a single platter in a drive comes down to lower power consumption, lower operating temperatures and less noise. The Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 drive is built with a fast SATA 3Gb/s interface and will serve as the foundation for Seagate's 1-terabyte desktop, enterprise, consumer electronics and external hard drives.
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| Panasonic Ships DVD Supermulti Drive |
| Author: Alessandra Carneiro |
Date: June 5, 2007 - 12:47 PM PST |
| Category: Storage |
| More Info: http://www.panasonic.com/flash.asp |
Panasonic has released the DVD Supermulti drive for notebooks, which has just 7 mm of thicknes and weighs 99 gr. The drive supports writing of 3x DVD-RAM, 8x DVD-R, 8x DVD+R, 4x DVD-RW, 4x DVD+RW, 16x CD-R and 16x CD-RW.
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