Samsung ready to launch its new external hard drive called Samsung S2. Will be preloaded with Michael Jackson’s “This Is It” movie, Samsung S2’s will be available starting February 22ndin Europe, in par with the release date of DVD and Blu-ray version of the movie. For data protection, S2 also packed with Samsung Auto Backup, [...]
storage
Aviator 312 External SSD
Active Media Products releasing its external Solid state drives called Aviator 312. Aviator 312 is the first first USB 3.0 devices, so technically speaking, Aviator 312 cap[able to gives 240MBps read speeds and 160Mbps write speeds, just about 10 times faster than USB 2.0 devices.
storage
A-DATA SH93 Slim Portable hard drive
Meet the A-Data SH93, a ruggedized Slim Mobile hard drives which includes waterproofing compliant with IEC 529 IPX7 standards and shock-proofing to MIL-STD-810F standards for drops and general jostling. Will be available in 250GB, 320GB, 500GB or 640GB capacities, Adata SH93 comes in bright yellow or red rubber enclosure . Sorry no words on [...]
storage
Samsung Spinpoint N3U HDD
Samsung announced its first Spinpoint N3U Series HDD. Spinpoint N3U will be the first HDD which use Mini USB 2.0 as its connection port natively. This will make N3U has smaller foot print, less power consumption and optimized performance. Perfect for portable external storage devices. Spinpoint will be available in
120GB, 160GB, 200GB and 250GB [...]
storage
Slim Data USB Card
It has been claimed to be the world’s slimmest flash drive. Is it? Anyway, this Slim Data USB Card from TopTech measures only 3.54″ x 0.1″ x 1.97″ and weighs less than 9g. You can put it together with your credit card in your wallet. The Slim Data USB Card is available in 1GB and [...]
OCZ announces storage and memory for Mac
In an effort to expand their user base, OCZ just announced their latest storage and memory devices will be tailored to Mac users, a first for the company. The Apple products that will receive the OCZ treatment include Mac minis, MacBooks and iMacs
Netbook
ViewSonic VG2427 LCD display unveiled
ViewSonic is on a roll lately. They just recently announced their new VT2230 LCD TV and now they’ve quietly revealed their VG2427 LCD monitor . And if you are in the market for a new monitor, this one definitely might be worth checking out
PC
Data Robotics DroboPro: 8 bays, up to 16TB storage
It’s been almost 18 months since we reviewed the Drobo , and now Data Robotics are back with their latest model, the DroboPro . Aimed at small businesses and professionals with huge quantities of data, the Data Robotics DroboPro has a full eight SATA I/II bays each happy with up to 2TB drives for a maximum of 16TB storage. It also features the company’s intelligent monitoring and management system. That means automatic setup, mixed capacity drives and even hot-swapping: you can pull out one drive at a time when in single-redundancy mode, or two at a time in dual-redundancy. Even swapping between those redundancy modes is automated, and you can flip either way as often as you like with DroboPro working out all the details. If you’re very rich and have a lot of data, you can hook up sixteen different DroboPro units (each rocking 16TB) and address them as one common store
Apple Time Capsule to reach 2TB?
Now, this is probably just a rumor that will end up nowhere, but it seems there’s some buzz floating about that Apple will be updating their Time Capsule device shortly, ramping up the storage to 2 terabytes worth of space. What’s strange about this is that Apple recently updated the Time Capsule and the Airport Extreme–just last month, in fact–so it seems rather unlikely we’d be seeing this update anytime soon. But a tipster saw on a ClubMac promo box pic that the Time Capsule clearly has 2TB of space.
Sun store the Internet in a Box
Sun have been commissioned to fit the internet into a box : a shipping-container sized box, to be exact, packed full with 60 of the company’s Sun Fire X4500 Open Storage Systems. It’s all for The Internet Archive , who wanted a secure way to keep their three petabytes of backup data safe. The container-sized backup system is monitored for power, heating and cooling, fire, smoke, and water detection, together with physical access points, and Sun can dispatch technicians or security as the need arises. More details in the overview video here
