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LaCie announces Thunderbolt external hard drive
Intel 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
Announced 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
Lexar 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
Transcend, 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
Iomega 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
Reading 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!
Mimoco Monster Molly flash drive gets limited debut run
Mimoco’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 [...]
Seagate Announces Its 3TB FreeAgent GoFlex Desk External Drive
Folks who are forever running out of hard drive space will be glad to hear that Seagate has just announced its 3TB FreeAgent GoFlex Desk drive, which packs a single 3TB hard drive inside, and is huge enough to store about 120HD movies. Aside from its massive capacity, the drive sports USB 2.0 support, but [...]
Huge Seagate GoFlex Storage Update Emphasizes Flexibility
Seagate on Tuesday launched the next generation of its FreeAgent hard drives, an innovative GoFlex family that combines interchangeable cables with a number of storage and external connectivity solutions. Seagate’s new FreeAgent GoFlex family is made up of three components: ultra-portable and desktop drives; storage system devices, which include an HD media player, network sharing [...]
WD Introduces New My Passport Studio Portable Drives, Delivering Super-Fast, Go-Anywhere Performance for Mac Computers
E-Label Smart Display Helps Creative Professionals Organize Their Storage Western Digital, the world’s leader in external storage solutions, today introduced its new My Passport™ Studio™ portable drives featuring the super-fast FireWire® 800 interface and a customizable e-label that’s always visible, even when the drive is unplugged. Sporting a sleek and stylish design, the new high-performance [...]