USB Flash Drive Meets Security Standards DataTraveler BlackBox is a USB Flash drive available in 2GB, 4GB and 8GB capacities that has met Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS).
USB Drive Worth Weight In Gold UCC Australia has imported Super Talent Technology’s PICO-C Gold, a 24-carat gold-plated, water-resistant USB drive that weighs less than 5gms. It is smaller than an SD card, and can store over 2,000 MP3 songs.
Home Networked Storage--How Far Can It Go? According to ABI Research, more than 50 per cent of US high-speed Internet subscribers have set up some kind of home broadband network- a figure that could be equally applied here in Australia.
LaCie Releases Little Big Disk For Storage LaCie today announced the Little Big Disk Quadra 1TB, the industry’s largest capacity, most powerful mobile storage solution to fit comfortably into the palm of your hand.
Dual Back-Up From WD My Book Mirror Edition from Western Digital is a dual-drive storage system, which can automatically store valuable personal content not once, but twice.
Samsung Starts 128Gb SSD Production Samsung Electronics has begun mass production of solid-state drives (SSDs) with a 128 Gb capacity and says it will begin production of a 256 Gb drive later this year, the company said.
Space Saving Welland Docking Station Welland Sunbright ME-601J SATA HDD is a docking station, which is said to help eliminate desk clutter of a storage drive and the knotted tangle of SATA-to-USB adapters.
Portable & Rugged Hard Drive From LaCie The portable LaCie Rugged All-Terrain drive offers the speed of FireWire 800 along with FireWire 400 and Hi-Speed USB 2.0 interfaces for universal connectivity.
Sony Slashes Blu-ray Drive Prices Sony Australia has announced significant price drops for its internal desktop Blu-ray drives. The Sony Internal SATA Blu-ray Burner is now 30 percent cheaper, while its Internal SATA BD-ROM Drive lowers its price by 15 percent.
WD Unveils Black Notebook Hard Drive The Scorpio Black hard drive from Western Digital comes with a couple of features to protect important data.
SanDisk Rolls Out Solid State Drives For ULPCs SanDisk has introduced a line of flash memory-based solid-state drives (SSDs) that are designed for an emerging new category of portable consumer electronics – the Ultra Light PC (ULPC) - that allow users to have an enhanced experience while easily surfing the Internet using wireless communication.
Huge Growth In Micro SD Cards Says Lexar According to Jeff Cable, Director of Marketing, Lexar, a wholly owned subsidiary of Micron Technology, the fastest growth in mobile digital storage technology will come from the Micro SD card market.
Iomega Unveils Removable Backup Drive The latest Iomega REV 120GB Backup Drive claims to be the perfect backup tool around, offering sensible backup and disaster recovery for small and medium-sized businesses as well as remote workgroups.
LG Unveils Blu-ray External Drive The new BE06 External Super Multi Blue Blu-ray Disc Rewriter from LG can back-up a large number of files in a snap with its 6x read and write speed, making it the world’s fastest Blu-ray Disc Rewriter to date.
Seagate Ships Drive Number 1 Billion Seagate Technology announced today that it has shipped 1 billion hard drives, a number emblematic of the massive amount of digital content being created in the home, hand, office, car and dozens of other markets.
Seagate Profits Go Ballistic Cayman Islands based hard-drive maker Seagate Technology scored a massive profit jump in the first quarter with its profits skyrocketing some 62 per cent from a year ago.
Microsoft Blamed For Surge In USB Infections USB-equipped devices have not only become ubiquitous – they are also an ever- growing security issue because of the way computers inherently trust them. And thanks to Microsoft’s autorun feature, malware is being installed these days as easily as legitimate programs.
IBM Invents Monster Media Storage Device In the latest issue of US magazine Science, a team at IBM’s research centre in California claim they have developed a new type of digital storage technology which enables a device such as an MP3 player to store about half a million songs or some 3,500 films.
Seagate Begins Shipping 1 TB Drives Globally Seagate has announced it has begun worldwide shipment of its 1 terabyte (TB) Barracuda ES.2 hard drives with a Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) interface.
Adults Not Used To Backing Up Data A study has revealed that 30 percent of Australian adults don’t back up critical data such as photos, e-mails, and personal and business documents because the whole process is too complex.
EMC Moves Into Comsumer Market EMC is set to buy well-known SMB storage vendor Iomega for some US$213 million, thereby allowing EMC to reach into the consumer and small business markets.
WD Releases Two-Platter 640GB Hard Drive WD has released its Caviar SE16 640 GB 3.5-inch hard drive range based on 320 GB-per-platter technology and which are designed for data-intensive applications, high-performance computing and multimedia systems.
Toshiba Cans HD DVD, Backs NAND Flash With SanDisk Following the end of its HD DVD businesses, Toshiba is now going after the storage market, announcing a joint venture with SanDisk to manufacture NAND flash memory.
Apple Rolls Out Time Capsule Storage Apple has used the Macworld Conference in San Francisco to roll out new storage solutions called "Time Capsule".
WD Launches 320GB Scorpio Hard Disk Drive Western Digital has just made mobile digital storage a lot bigger with its new WD Scorpio 320GB 2.5-inch SATA (Serial ATA) hard drives for notebook computers and portable storage devices.
LG Unveils New Blu-ray And HD DVD Dual Drive LG Electronics has announced its new and upgraded versions of its Super Multi Blue drive. The two models include a Blu-ray Disc Rewriter and HD DVD dual format drive, as well as a Blu-ray and HD DVD compatible drive.
A Green Terabyte HDD From Western Digital Western Digital Corporation has today announced a new line of desktop, enterprise, CE, and external hard drives that claims to be environmentally friendly.
Sub $200 PC Blu-ray Reader Coming From Sony While Sony Australia is talking of an entry level price point for a Blu-ray player at $699, Sony in the US is set to introduce a sub-$200 Blu-ray disc reader for the PC aftermarket in early 2008.
WD Unveils Quad Interface External Hard Drive Western Digital has introduced its My Book Studio Edition, external hard drives that is equipped with quadruple interfaces (USB, FireWire 400/800, and eSATA) and comes in 500GB to 1TB capacities.
Seagate Extends Data Storage Line-up Seagate Technology has expanded its storage line-up with the announcement of nine new products, which the company says focuses on data security and increased capacity to meet the explosive worldwide demand for all types of digital content.
Affordable & Expandable Linksys Network Drive Linksys is today releasing to retailers a storage product which the company calls “affordable” and “expandable” that allows consumers and small business users to share, use and secure sensitive data over their networks.
WD Offers More Digital Storage Space Consumers and businesses alike are increasingly requiring huge amounts of hard disk drive storage space to save documents, videos, photos and music. WD is catering to this need with the release of its 750GB RE2 (RAID Edition) hard disk drive.
Whopper Sized USB From Toshiba Toshiba is set to go up against Samsung in the storage market with the release of "whopper" sized USB drive.
Store And Go Seagate Hard Drives Not too many years ago, my 30GB portable hard drive was more than enough to satisfy my storage needs. Of course, today, a mere 30GB is not nearly enough for the thousands of songs, photos and HD movies that people are wanting to store on the go. Seagate is one of a few companies pushing for bigger, better, and surprisingly smaller storage devices, with the launch of its FreeAgent portable storage drive range here in Australia.
A New DataTraveler From Kingston Kingston has released the DataTraveler 100 USB Flash drive – a flash drive that sports a capless design by safely housing the USB connector inside its casing. And with a new “thumb-action” slide positioned on the side of the drive, anyone can retract and protract the USB connector with just a simple, single-hand operation.
Sony Announces 5th Gen DVDirect DVD Burner Sony has announced the fifth generation product in its popular DVDirect DVD recorder category, which for the first time adds the ability to store high-definition (AVCHD) videos taken with consumer HD camcorders to standard recordable DVD discs.
Netgear Turbo-Charges Storage Netgear has updated its Storage Central NAS device with the new Storage Central Turbo, which the company claims is the industry’s most versatile, high performance and affordable network storage product or the home.
8GB Of Pure Storage Grunt From SanDisk When I first started writing about technology, Windows was DOS based and 8GB of storage cost over $500,000 and had to have its own room and air conditioning. Now the same level of storage grunt fits into my pocket thanks to a new USB 2.0 high-end flash drive from SanDisk called the Cruzer Contour for a mere $299.
Microsoft Enters Online Storage Market Microsoft is ramping up pressure on Google and Yahoo by announcing that it is set to roll out a new web storage service online which will allow consumers and the SMB market to automatically store content avoiding the neec to back up a local PC everyday.
1000GB Blu-ray Recorder Announced By Hitachi Hitachi has revealed a 1 Terabyte Blu-ray recorder at the Harvey Norman retail conference being held at the Melbourne Convention Centre.
Oops I Have Just Deleted $48 Billion. True. How would you like to be the person who has to go to their boss and say "Excuse me I have just deleted $48 Billion dollars" oops.
CE Market Chewing Up Hard Drives The CE market is now chewing up Hard-disk drives (HDDs) at a fast rate of knots according to a new report by IDC. The drives which are being used for entertainment storage are also doubling in size.
WD Launches New My Book Media Storage The new Western Digital My Book Premium ES Edition external hard drive now incorporates eSATA and USB 2.0 to ensure future connectivity and compatibility, the company says.
Fastest USB Flash Drive A new USB flash drive is the industry’s fastest, its manufacturer claims.
Toshiba To Launch 160GB USB Drives at CES 2007 Toshiba Australia is set to have it's work cut out this year following the decision to consolidate all CE technology sales under Toshiba Australia. At the CES show in Las Vegas Toshiba's storage division has announced that it is working on its entry into the portable storage market, with a line of portable USB external hard drives set for release in mid 2007.
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