Silicon oxide has long played the sidekick, insulating electronics from damage, but scientists at Rice University have just discovered the dielectric material itself could become a fantastic form of storage.
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Silicon oxide forms solid state memory pathways just five nanometers wide
How do you differentiate one portable HDD from the next ? Well, let’s see: You can bump the storage capacity up to 1TB. Or you can give the monkey a mohawk.
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LaCie Rikiki Go external HDD features 1TB storage, new and improved monkey
Ferroelectric isn’t just a ridiculously fun word to say, it might just also be the future of computing . While that possibility is still a ways off, researchers have been making considerable progress in recent years, and a team from Japan’s Tohoku University has now set a new record for ferroelectric data storage. That was accomplished with the aid of a scanning nonlinear dielectric microscope, which allowed the researchers to hit a data density of 4 trillion bits per square inch.
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Researchers set new record for ferroelectric data storage
Looking for a quick and easy way to bridge the gap between your camcorder and your TV? Then you might want to consider I-O Data ’s new 500GB HDPN-U500/V portable hard drive, which packs a USB port to pull video directly off a compatible Sanyo Xacti, JVC Everio, or Sony Handycam camcorder, and an HDMI port to let you play that video on your TV straight from the hard drive.
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I-O Data’s HDPN-U500/V portable hard drive pulls video from your camcorder, plays it on your TV
Looking for a quick and easy way to bridge the gap between your camcorder and your TV? Then you might want to consider I-O Data ’s new 500GB HDPN-U500/V portable hard drive, which packs a USB port to pull video directly off a compatible Sanyo Xacti, JVC Everio, or Sony Handycam camcorder, and an HDMI port to let you play that video on your TV straight from the hard drive. Of course, it’ll also function just fine as a regular external hard drive for your computer, and it boasts a shock-resistant design that should let you toss it around a bit without too much worry
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I-O Data’s HDPN-U500/V portable hard drive pulls video from your camcorder, plays it on your TV
Just under two months ago, Seagate pushed the capacity envelope once more by introducing a $250 3TB hard drive meant to be used by archivists the world over. It all sounds peachy on paper, but AnandTech managed to uncover a dirty little secret about the drive that serious power users should know about. For starters, the crew cracked open the case to find a 3.5-inch, five platter Barracuda XT — that’s a drive that Seagate doesn’t intend to sell for internal use until the end of the year, but it’s available now if you’re willing to spring for its enclosure.
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Seagate’s 3TB GoFlex Desk hard drive reviewed: hot, in more ways than one
We made a point to mention last November that USB 3.0 and eSATA were both sorely missing from ioSafe’s Solo hard drive, and lo and behold, the company seems to have answered our prayers directly.
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ioSafe SoloPRO takes rugged external storage to USB 3.0 heights
Think your mobile device couldn’t eat another byte, that it’s stuffed full of storage? Surely it has room for a tiny little thin SSD ? This is Sandisk ’s solution for storage in portable devices, the creation of a new class of storage: integrated SSD, or iSSD.
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Sandisk’s 64GB integrated SSD is no bigger than a wafer-thin mint
We’ll be honest: we thought SSDs would suck down most of platter-based storage’s milkshake by now — that magnetic disks would follow tapes into obscurity. Alas, SSDs are still niche items, and Toshiba is doing all it can to keep them that way, demonstrating a successful prototype of a new storage technique called bit-pattern recording that currently generates a storage density of 2.5Tb per square inch.
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Toshiba demonstrates successful BPR HDD, is 2.5Tb per inch a platter’s last stand?
Toshiba announced a new self-encrypting disk technology today, which is sure to be welcome news to the those of you who work with sensitive data, wish to keep your extensive True Blood fanfiction collection under wraps, or are just plain paranoid. The imaginatively named Wipe ships with the company’s TCG-spec’d Self-Encrypting Drive models, allowing sysadmins to securely erase user data when a machine powers down, when an encrypted HDD is removed from the system, or when a leased machine is returned to its owner. And this ain’t just for PCs — the system is also designed to work with your copier and / or printer system
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Toshiba Wipe deletes your encrypted data so you don’t have to
