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Super Talent’s dual interface UltraDrive MX SSD does SATA II and mini-USB

admin — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 15:09:00 +0000

She ain’t the first solid state drive to ship with a keen understanding of both SATA II and USB, but in the case of niche storage devices, the more the merrier, right? The newest member of the UltraDrive family (that’d be the UltraDrive MX, if you’re curious) has given Super Talent its first two-faced SSD, complete with a dual interface that enables it to be used as an internal or external drive

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Super Talent’s dual interface UltraDrive MX SSD does SATA II and mini-USB

Lexar’s 128GB Echo SE USB thumb drive continuously backs up your netbook, mobile life

admin — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 08:36:00 +0000

Previously available in 16GB and 32GB versions, Lexar ’s Echo SE line just got gigantic. And a lot more useful, if we should say so ourselves. With many SSDs topping out at 128GB, and quite a few netbooks shipping with 160GB HDDs, having this USB drive plugged essentially allows your entire laptop to be continuously backed up.

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Lexar’s 128GB Echo SE USB thumb drive continuously backs up your netbook, mobile life

Pogoplug Biz adds corporate skinning, usage stats and other metrics

admin — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 17:00:00 +0000

Remember that second generation Pogoplug we unboxed last December? Meet its corporate cousin, fresh out of LinkedIn and ready for that 40 hour work week.

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Samsung ships 1TB Spinpoint MT2 2.5-inch hard drive, but it won’t fit in your laptop

admin — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 16:05:00 +0000

So, we’ve good news and bad news. Given that we aren’t accepting votes for which you’ll be fed first, we’ll go ahead and extol the virtues of cramming a full terabyte of space into a 2.5-inch form factor. Not that this feat hasn’t been accomplished before, but the 2.5-inch 1TB HDD realm could certainly use the competition

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Sharp intros first 100GB BDXL discs, Japan gets first dibs on July 30

admin — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 07:49:00 +0000

It took a little while after the BDXL specification was finalized , but here’s Sharp busting down the door to expanded storage with the first official products adhering to said spec. The new VR-100BR1 discs will use triple-layer fairy dust to squish 100GB of data inside, and Akihabara News reports that they’ll be swiftly followed by quad-layer 128GB variants as well.

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Sharp intros first 100GB BDXL discs, Japan gets first dibs on July 30

RevoDrive PCIe SSD reviewed, deemed awesome, cheap, and awesome because it’s cheap

admin — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 19:09:00 +0000

Just the thought of an almost affordable PCIe SSD inspires some serious gadget lust, so we’re glad to see reviews of the OCZ RevoDrive starting to pop up ’round the net.

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RevoDrive PCIe SSD reviewed, deemed awesome, cheap, and awesome because it’s cheap

SD cards branded with an upper-case ‘I’ are faster, yo

admin — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 08:50:00 +0000

Since they’re theoretically capable of 300 megabyte per second transfer rates, we knew SDXC cards wouldn’t stay slow forever .

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SanDisk’s 1GB WORM SD card stores evidence longer than your prison sentence (video)

admin — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 09:34:00 +0000

You can think of SanDisk’s latest WORM SD card like a mini time capsule…

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Toshiba cooks up 128GB NAND flash for next-gen phones and PMPs

admin — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 09:31:00 +0000

Leave it to Toshiba to make even the latest smartphones feel somewhat undernourished. Quadrupling the current high-end standard of 32GB of embedded memory, the Japanese company has announced an all-new 128GB slab of storage, built on a 32nm production process. It’s somehow managed to fit sixteen 8GB NAND chips, plus their controller, inside a 1.4mm tall structure, and samples are about to exit the factory doors this September

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SanDisk works it harder, unveils G4 and P4 solid state drives

admin — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 23:04:00 +0000

Still haven’t dropped a speedy solid state drive into your PC? SanDisk might just tempt you with its latest batch. At Computex 2010 the memory manufacturer announced its fourth-generation SSD lineup, consisting of the laptop-sized SSD G4 and the diminutive SSD P4 — those tiny mini-SATA netbook boards you see chilling outside Jefferson’s posh, nickel-plated mansion

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