portable storage
LaCie announces Thunderbolt external hard drive
Saturday, February 26th, 2011Intel announced a completely new I/O peripheral protocol today called Thunderbolt, which had previously gone by the code name Light Peak. In a nutshell, Thunderbolt is a superfast peripheral standard with the speed of 10Gbps (1.25GBps) and almost no overhead. This means devices can be connected at a real-word throughput speed of around 1.25GBps. Thunderbolt [...]
SanDisk claims 45MB/sec write speeds for new SDHC
Tuesday, January 18th, 2011Announced about a year ago, the SD Card Association’s SD 3.0 specification has yet to gain much traction. Panasonic and Toshiba both announced UHS-I SDHC products last September, with Toshiba claiming ultrafast write speeds of up to 80 megabytes per second. But those cards have yet to materialize. At CES 2011, Kingston announced a new [...]
Lexar Introduces 32GB Class 10 microSDHC Memory Card
Thursday, January 6th, 2011Lexar Media, a leading global provider of memory products for digital media, today introduced the 32GB Class 10 Lexar High-Speed Mobile microSDHC card. The 32GB Class 10 microSDHC card guarantees a minimum sustained write speed of 10MB per second and a read speed up to 20MB per second, allowing users to quickly load files onto [...]
CompactFlash sequel arrives: CFast memory cards
Saturday, November 6th, 2010Transcend, a major manufacturer of flash memory cards, has begun selling models built with the new CFast interface designed to succeed the CompactFlash format. CompactFlash is still widely used in high-end SLR cameras but is increasingly threatened by the more mainstream SD format, notably the new high-capacity SDXC variety. But CompactFlash allies are working to [...]
Iomega intros SSD-based USB 3.0 portable drive
Sunday, October 17th, 2010Iomega announced Friday its–and possibly the world’s–first portable storage solution that’s based on solid-state drive (SSD), the Iomega External USB 3.0 SSD Flash Drive. Traditionally, most portable drives are based on internal laptop (2.5-inch) hard drives. As the name suggests, the new drive also supports USB 3.0, which offers the ceiling speed of up to [...]
The World’s New Fastest SDHC Memory Card
Friday, September 3rd, 2010Reading at a maximum of 95MB/s and writing at 80MB/s, the new Toshiba SDHC UHS-I memory cards are the fastest in the world. Now, good luck finding a camera that can saturate that kind of bandwidth. Tweet this!
EDGE Tech DiskGO Backup flash drive
Saturday, August 14th, 2010So you’ve read about the DiskGO Mini and its super small dimensions, well, the EDGE Tech DiskGO Backup flash drive also comes in a similar form factor except with one added advantage, you will be able to benefit from a powerful Dmailer Backup software that will back up selected files to the device thanks to [...]
Kanguru Solutions Releases Kanguru Defender Basic, an Affordable, Entry Level Hardware Encrypted Flash Drive
Sunday, August 8th, 2010Kanguru Solutions today announced its latest security product, the Kanguru Defender Basic, a hardware encrypted, secure flash drive designed for everyday use. The Kanguru Defender Basic is the latest in the Defender line of encrypted flash drives, following the FIPS 140-2 Certified Kanguru Defender Elite and the Kanguru Defender V2. The Defender Basic offers security [...]
Hitachi’s LifeStudio External Hard Drive Family Goes Stylish
Wednesday, July 21st, 2010It 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 rather striking external designs. Now, it’s Hitachi’s turn. They’re attempting to [...]
Mimoco Monster Molly flash drive gets limited debut run
Saturday, July 10th, 2010Mimoco’s Monster Molly flash drive is a collaboration between Mimoco as well as popular Hong Kong-based designer Kenny Wong, where there will only be 500 units of this unique looking flash drive available. Apart from that, the infamous cyborg Lobot that you see on the right will make his debut at this year’s International Comic [...]