Showing posts with label Hard Drive. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Hard Drive. Show all posts
LaCie wants to ensure that your data is safe. Like really safe. The company took its Rugged hard drive line, added a fingerprint scanner and 128-bit AES encryption and in turn, made what might be the Mad Max of hard drives.
Seems like Seagate is trying to make up for some lost time in the storage technology field. After a late entry into the SSD market, Seagate may be getting a jump start on the ultra-thin drive market. One of the issues with the new ultra-thin generation of notebook computers is the hard drive size. You can only make a computer so thin before you run into issues with the thickness of the components.
Seagate, the big huge hard drive company, has just now officially announced its first ever solid state drive. The press release title says “Seagate Introduces Its First Solid State Drive: Pulsar” and above the title it says “December 08, 2009.” To be fair, Seagate CEO Bill Watkins hasn’t been keen on solid state drives, saying a little over a year ago that his company wasn’t really considering the solid state market aside from these enterprise-level drives that have just been announced.
Western Digital has begins production of their hard drive with SATA 6Gb/s (SATA 3.0) support. The SATA 3.0 interface is compared with SATA II would increase the throughput in half, from 3Gb/s to 6Gb/s. Specification of SATA 3.0 also includes improved power management and performance optimization technology for streaming data.
Just in September this year, Toshiba proudly announced a 1.8-inch HDD with 160GB capacity, which was pretty impressive already (their new SSDs aren’t too shabby either). But today, not even two months later, Toshiba unveiled another 1.8-inch HDD with 320GB capacity [press release in English].
Its been sometime since the USB 3.0 technology got the seal of approval. And here's the world's first external drive powered by USB 3.0 technology. The Freecom external drive comes in capacities of up to 2TB and boast of speedier data transfer rate of 130 MB/s.
The Amex Portable BLU-RAY Super Multi Drive is a new drive equipped with the quiet Drive Technology, allows you enjoy music and videos without loud disturbing noise from the disk drive. This main features will be its Dual/Double Layer recording and Slot-loading Blu-ray Super Multi Drive. It will require an Intel Core 2 DUO CPU or better, and an ATI HD2000 Series upwards system to make it working, oh yeah it’s compatible with Mac OSX or Windows XP/Vista. The Amex Portable Blu-ray Super Multi Drive is available for $289.
