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One of the categories that you will see a lot of at CES 2012 are Solid State Drives (SSD). With the price of regular hard drives going up due to the flooding in Thailand. (Although the price of standard hard drives seem to be going back down at this time.) As SSD drives becoming more reasonably priced they increase in
Other World Computing (OWC) will be introducing their newest Solid State Drive (SSD) line called Mercury Extreme. It is 3G with a combination of Sandforce Dura Class technology and Tier 1/Grade A NAND. Tier 1 (Grade A) is the top of line chips and are laser etched with a serial number. This combination produces data rates over 275MB. It is
Back in November Monster Cable license their brand name to SDJ Technologies a Simi Valley based technology business creating the company Monster Digital. At CES 2012 Monster Digital will be showing off several of their new products, including an Ultra Speed SSD, Hybrid Hard Drive, Standard Drives, Micro SD Cards and high performance flash. They will be showing off the
The Buffalo DriveStation Velocity is a 2 TB USB 3 external drive, and given the size and the interface, it's aimed at people who want lots of data and want it quickly. Let's get the external features of the device out of the way and then check how quick it is. In the box, there's only the drive, the power
If you are thinking about getting a hard drive you may want to wait. Thailand has been hit by terrible flooding during the yearly monsoon season. Up to 500 have died and whole areas have been devastated including areas where the majority of the world’s hard drives are manufactured. Companies including Western Digital and Toshiba have been hit hard. As
Buffalo Technology has announced the launch of the MiniStation Extreme, a ruggedised USB3 portable hard drive. Conforming to the US Military's MIL-STD-810F 516.5 Procedure IV, the shock protection on this drive means that it will survive a fall from over 2 m or 6 ft. And if securing your data against physical damage isn't enough, the MiniStation Extreme also comes
Storage, both HDD and SSD, is growing in capacity and shrinking in price all of the time. With hard drives currently as large as 2 TB available, and promises of even bigger ones coming it seems there is almost more storage already than anyone of needs. Plus, for those willing to pay a premium, there are SSD's, which are smaller