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more about #storage Cash907Censored: "Are you still there?" more » KnifeySpooney: I would never trust this hard drive with my data... Everyone thought the economy was 2Big to fail... and look where that got us. more » OldCrow: Seriously stay away from LaCie. I've had 7, count 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 power supplies go bad at work. Never again. more » lankysob: 2 Live Crew will be pleased. more » DMF: What's failed to be mentioned here is that this Lacie 2Big drives have been plagued issues. Most notably, an extremely loud fan. So loud that many use... more » fUnKiE: 110cm? That's 1 meter long. more » Segador: It looks Thinkpad-esque. more » Nick Livingston: Does the name of this product remind anyone else of riki tiki tavi? more » jsparakov: Western Digital: on the frontier of cutting-edge porn storage technology. edit... sorry, I meant family photos and HD camcorder footage of my dog. more » orbitbreak: Doesn't formatting at smaller cluster size always mean more space, but at a drop in performance for reading bigger files? more » Nitesh Singh: Polishing brass on the titanic. WD, just start working on affordable SSD's for the masses, mmkay? more » Digo: Well, Racetrack has two versions. The American one and the World one. The main difference is the American one only makes left turns and crashes a lot ... more » Mad as a Hatter: How about instead of just larger and larger capacities they concentrate on making data storage more durable and less prone to "crapping out" as one wo... more » otko: The Racetrack memory consists of tiny horses running really fast inside a piece of silicon. more » Gordonium: Well, that sounds spiffy and all, but every Seagate drive that I or my brother have ever owned has died within three years. I just don't trust the nam... more » Ssscorpion: Five year lifespan? I thought the big advantage of SSD was no moving parts. Why does it have the same lifespan as my spinning hard drive that will be ... more » blash: Well, last I checked Intel sold some 40 GB SLC drives with specs close to that for around $390 on Newegg? So we'll see how the prices are. $300 for th... more » Italianguy: These SSD use some sort of flash memory right? So is the life expectancy 5 years because after that estimated time it’ll be worn out (not able to be... more » HungryMoose: These SSDs are SLC-based which means that rather than costing the usual arm and leg, they will also cost you your eldest child. I'm holding out some h... more » andrelix: Someones got to say it, so.... Macbook Pro update in January maybe??? more » -
#storage
LaCie 2Big: The First USB 3.0 RAID Drive
You can't buy them until early 2010, but LaCie's next generation 2Big drives will be the first USB 3.0 devices to support dual-SATA-disk RAID 0/1 configurations, promising real time HD video editing and burst speeds up to 275MB/s. [BW] -
#lacie
The LaCie Rikiki Is the Tiniest 2.5-inch Portable Hard Drive On the Market
With LaCie, you always expect the product to look good—and the Rikiki portable HDD is no exception. They also claim that it is the smallest 2.5-inch drive on the market. More » -
#harddrives
Western Digital Advanced Format Gives You 11 Percent More Hard Drive Space
Western Digital's come up with a fancy new way to format hard drives—changing sector sizes to 4KB that use a pooled Sync/DAM header and ECC blocks—that promises to give back 7 to 11 percent of hard drive space. More » -
#memory
Five Possible Futures of Computer Memory
New Scientist has a feature on five conceptual successors to flash memory. These are all technologies currently under development that could fit terabytes of information on a single tiny chip—and some of them aren't too far off. More » -
#ssds
Seagate Pulsar is the Drive Maker's First Solid-State Drive
Seagate just announced their first line of SSDs, named Pulsar. It's a 2.5-inch drive in slightly odd 50GB, 100GB and 200GB sizes, and it looks ready to compete with the current SSD leaders.
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#ssds
Micron RealSSD Drives Claim Title of World's Fastest (by a Lot)
Micron's new C300 2.5-inch SSDs are incredibly fast. We're talking 50% faster than the current market leaders, and fast enough to downright shame any hard drive. Yeah, there's a new SSD speed champ every week, but these are damned impressive. More » -
#storage
SD Cards About to Get a Whole Lot Zippier (Like, 300MB a Second Zippy)
I prefer CompactFlash cards to SD, despite the bulk, for speed and durability. (Also, I shoot with big cameras that take big cards.) SD card version 4.0 fixes the speed issue, with transfer speeds of up to 300MB a second. More » -
#infographic
Man, We’ve Come a Long Way From Floppies
This infographic makes me so glad that we came up with storage methods other than floppy disks. Imagine replacing your 2TB hard drive with 1,422,222 floppies. No thank you. Update: More » -
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#storage
Drobo S: A Faster, Fatter Storage Robot With eSATA
What's the 'S' stand for in Drobo S? Speed. Uh, more speed. And more storage. Specifically, a fifth drive bay for more redundancy, faster FireWire and a new eSATA port. As always, it's not cheap—$800 sans drives. [Drobo] -
#storage
Is There Any Point to the World's First Wireless USB Drive?
I get that it is cool technology, but I don't get the Imation Pro WX. It's the world's first Wireless USB disk drive, sure, but there are already drives that are Wi-Fi enabled. So, how is this different? More » -
#ssds
Fusion-io IoXtreme SSD: Fastest Consumer SSD on the Market
HotHardware took a look at this consumer-focused PCI-Express SSD from Fusion-io, and found that while it's pretty damn expensive at $900 for 80GB, it's blazingly fast, hitting 700MB/s read and 300MB/s write speeds. More » -
#storage
The World's Smallest 16GB Flash Drive and Oh Hey, Sarah Palin
Somehow the presence of a winking Sarah Palin does not make me any more inclined to believe in the veracity of Wink's claim to be the tiniest 16GB flash drive "on the planet." But maybe it is, have a look: More » -
#remainders
Remainders - Stuff We Didn't Post (and Why)
Google Cuts Price of Online Storage by 800%...Apple Updates Genius Bar Reservation System...Gold-Dipped PS3 Slim: The Hot Holiday Gift (in Donald Trump's House)...Sanyo's "Stick Booster" Looks and Sounds Far Dirtier Than It Is... More » -
#storage
The World's Wittlest 320GB Hard Dwive
Toshiba has just squeezed 320GB of storage into their 1.8-inch 5400RPM line of SATA drives. (That's enough to double the storage of the iPod Classic.) Available this December for an undisclosed price. [Toshiba via I4U] -
#usb30
The First USB 3.0 Flash Drive Is a Wide Load
Super Talent's first USB 3.0 flash drive, is huge—about the same size as Corsair's Voyager, in 32GB, 64GB and 128GB sizes. It'll push those gigs of Zatoichi rips at 4.8Gbps, or about 10x faster than USB 2.0. More » -
#nsa
The NSA to Store a YOTTABYTE of Your Phone Calls, Emails and Other Big Brothery Stuff
In Utah, the National Security Agency is building a $2 billion storage facility that will house and analyze all forms of electronic communication...a potential yottabyte of everyone's (formerly) personal data. So how big is a yottabyte? CrunchGear puts it well: More » -
#review
Iomega Ix2-200 NAS Review: It Does All This?
Iomega's Ix2-200 NAS shows that you don't need to run Microsoft's Windows Home Server to take care of everything a home, or even a small business, needs for its network storage. It's just surprising that it's this cheap. More » -
#peripherals
Brinell Purestorage Drives Celebrate Steel, Leather, Carbon and Wood
In case you're as sick of plastic as we are, Brinell Powerstorage hard drives combine the best tech of Asian tech with the best of European craftsmanship. More » -
#nowavailable
Now Available
Western Digital's update to the TV Live adds support for some essential streaming standards. More »
