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Intel Bringin’ SSD Drama: 160GB Capacity, 50% Price Drop

We already told you about Intel’s new ultramobile SSDs, but their tiny size means high cost and low capacities, only up to 16GB. That’s why the company promised SATA-II SSDs in the 1.8″ and 2.5″ sizes with capacities up to 160GB, with read and write speeds exceeding Samsung’s 100MB/s and 70MB/s, respectively. Best of all,…

Toshiba Speeds 1.8-Inch Drives Up to 5400rpm

The bitch about using 1.8″ drives in computers is that they run at a sluggy 4200rpm, as opposed to the 5400rpm commonly clocked in 2.5″ laptop drives. Toshiba today announced a 1.8″ drive that runs at 5400rpm in capacities of 80GB (MK8016GSG) and 120GB (MK1216GSG). This is good news for near-future UMPCs and refreshes of…

Self-Powered eSATA On the Way; Power Bricks Everywhere Shudder In Fear

The Serial ATA Standards guys just approved a bus-powered eSATA spec that may see the light of day as early as late summer or early fall. This comes as a relief since eSATA is making its way into the mainstream via the home-theater realm (as DVR add-ons), where demands for the power brick to just…

Micron’s Future Concept of SSD is RAM-Module Like

In addition to Micron’s traditional solid state drives announced today, they also showed off a concept for a SSD module that resembles RAM in physical design and would fit into a similarly designed port. It’s obvious but genius: while the SSD drives with SATA interfaces are terrific because they can be used in current laptops…

SanDisk Vaulter 16GB SSD Sneaks In Via PCIe Port

Today SanDisk revealed Vaulter, a 8GB or 16GB flash drive that can hold your entire OS, designed to sit on the PCIe port inside a laptop. In Windows, this creates a separate letter drive, which speeds the hell out of your computer, without taking the place of your 2.5″ SATA-connected HDD. It’s not a Santa…

Drive eRazer Tabula Rasas Hard Drives, No Computer Required

Need to kill the data on a hard drive you have lying around but don’t wanna bother hooking it up to a PC? Wiebetech’s pocket-sized eRazer plugs directly into lonely hard drives and genocides whatever naughtiness you have have etched into it at a rate of 35MB/s, leaving a 250GB hard drive scorched earth in…

Samsung Unveils New 64GB SATA II SSDs

Samsung is intent on leading the way in SSD adoption with their new 1.8-inch and 2.5-inch 64GB solid state drives featuring a super-fast SATA II interface. With a combination of speed, 100 MBps write speed and a 120MBps read speed and lower power consumption, it won’t be long before we see these babies popping up…

Sans Digital NAS with iTunes Support

At first glance the Sans Digital’s MN2L NAS looks pretty standard. It has two SATA drive bays, USB2, Ethernet, and even FTP access. But what sets this NAS apart is the built in iTunes support. It can take your music files and dupe iTunes into thinking that it’s just another PC and then streams the…

Brando Ships Yet Another USB to SATA/IDE Combo Kit

Brando’s making a cottage industry out of USB 2.0 to SATA/IDE adapters, with this one, and then this one that costs 40 bucks, and now the company’s offering yet another one that costs $29 and appears to do just about the same thing. https://gizmodo.com/brando-sata-eide-to-usb-2-0-cable-168149 This one also lets you plug in two drives at the…

Mtron’s Latest Solid State Drives the Fastest Ever Tested

Flash-based SSDs have come a long way since their 1995 introduction by msystems (now SanDisk). The problem constantly plaguing the motionless, rough-and-tumble drives has always been speed; even though reading data from any point on a flash drive should theoretically be faster than a conventional HDD, real-world performance just hasn’t lived up to the hype…until…

Seagate is the first major hard drive manufacturer to halt production of IDE drives. Seagate will be SATA only in 2008 and beyond. [Ars ]

Install Any SATA Hard Drive Into The PS3 (Because You Can?)

Japan’s Kurouto Shikou insists that the 60GB hard drive found in the PS3 is too small. (It’s from Japan, of course it’s small.) To that end they’ve designed a SATA and eSATA slot for the system that lets you install third-party hard drives. You have to remove the built-in hard drive before installing the slot,…

Hitachi Travelstar 5K160: Bigger than Mikey, but Groundbreaking Anyway

Hitachi calls the hard drive “the new bling,” as exemplified by its Microdrive 3K8 (“Mikey”) worn by the sumptuous model here. This post is not about that, but now that we have your attention, get your mind out of the gutter and think about hard drives for a minute. While desktop hard drives have been…

USB 2.0 To SATA/IDE Adapter With One-Touch Backup

Here’s an adapter that makes any SATA or IDE disk function as a backup unit, and with its included PCClone EX Lite software it can back up your hard drive with the simple push of a button. This adapter lets you either backup from PC to a bare drive or copy from one drive to…

Xeno 360 Connectivity Kit – Transfer Files From Your Xbox 360

Another kit’s coming down the pipe to allow you to back up your files from your Xbox 360 hard drive, say, before sending the unit in for repair. The kit comes with a Optical Disc Drive Adapter, Xeno SATA HD Connection, and SATA-SATA cable. This allows you to “Effortlessly transfer files from your 360 hard…

Buffalo DriveStation: Serial ATA, Fanless Design

The Buffalo DriveStation line of SATA USB 2.0 external drives gives you a 7200RPM serial ATA disk at less than a buck-a-gig. They’re available in capacities from 160GB ($159) to 500GB ($449) and are compatible with both Macs and PCs. We like the DriveStation’s auto power feature that turns on and off automatically with your…

Brando SATA/EIDE to USB 2.0 Cable

Brando is offering a converter cable to make all your internal SATA/EIDE devices USB 2.0 compatible. The cable works with all hard drives, CD drives and DVD drives. It’s no slouch on the performance side either, with a tested transfer rate of 165.3Mbps. The unit also comes with AC power adapters so you don’t need…

Deal on Seagate Barracuda 300GB SATA Drives

Always on the lookout for you, dear readers, we point you toward newegg.com, where there’s a sale on Seagate Barracuda 300GB SATA drives running at 7200RPM. Normally these drives cost between $125 and $130 at their lowest (and we’ve seen a few at $145 or $150), but this deal has them at $100. Good price,…