Recent postsThere is no doubt SSDs are the new darlings of the PC industry, especially for laptops and mobile applications. As projections predict cost effectiveness and a major SSD assault by 2011, suppliers like Samsung and SuperTalent are rushing to promote new promising products.
So where does this leave traditional hard disc manufacturers? They are probably very [...]
Most SSD proposals had so far a 128GB capacity limit. Samsung is certainly out to impress everybody with a 2.5 inch form factor, 256GB of capacity, read speeds of 200Mbps, write speeds of 160Mbps, MLC technology and SATA 2 connectivity.
Every one of us would love to have one but don’t expect pricing to help much [...]
After being successful with memory chips, SuperTalent is extending its reach to SSD drives. Its new models that have capacities of 30, 60 and 120GB will cost $299, $449 and $699 respectively. The good thing is that they incorporate the newer MLC (Multi-Level Cell) technology. As previously mentioned, MLC technology is one of the technical [...]
I recently wrote a post about how SSDs are expected to become ubiquitous and cost competitive by 2011. At the end of the post, I mentioned that it is not just a matter of technological development pushing things forward, and that it is also in the interest of laptop manufacturers to sell SSD equipped models [...]
Holographic storage is a promising storage technology that has been demonstrated in NAB 2008 and is finally commercialised by InPhase this May. By storing data in effectively three dimensions of the storage media -conventional optical discs store data in planes- it achieves very high capacities, in line with ever larger hard discs and the exploding [...]
Happy with your super spacious 320GB hard disc? Wait till SSDs really start to come. At the moment they have fast read/write speeds, but that’s about it. You have to wrestle with limited capacities and prices that can instead get you some really nice tech goodies.
For laptop companies, SSDs are something like a godsend as [...]
Only last week we talked about how Fujifilm will sell P2 cards and how the 64GB model will offer enough capacity to avoid changing storage media while recording longer events. The fact that Panasonic -the company that brought us P2 cards- responds with its own P2 card is no coincidence.
Everybody is salivating over Panasonic’s P2 flash storage cards for digital video. They offer all the right -fast- data flow rates and are robust enough for even the roughest video applications. The main sticking point has always been incredibly high prices.
Fujifilm decided that now is the right time to market P2 cards and will initially [...]
Hard-disc? What hard-disc? Spinning platters and moving heads are not yet out of fashion for our personal computers, but in high performance space and military applications expectations are very different. BiTMICRO is very experienced in this field and is now upping the ante by offering 1.6 TB of capacity -up from the previous 832 GB- [...]
eSATA is offering the convenience of internal SATA speeds with a connector that lets external drives be connected to a PC. The aim is to provide the convenience of USB or Firewire. The later have been around for some time now, have a huge user pool and present a formidable obstacle to wide eSATA adoption. [...]
With the Drobo storage device Data Robotics dared create the storage device everybody was dreaming of. A box that can take up to four SATA disc drives of differing sizes that can safely store our files. This array overcomes the limitation of using identical discs for a regular NAS or a simple mirror array. At [...]
The craze started with camera storage. Flash memory is now taking faithful care of all our photographic needs while people typically carry flash memory sticks with them at all times. In fact, we have become so spoiled, that hard disc drives look big, noisy and old fashioned. I am not saying of course that I [...]
