Netflix seems to be looking at film streaming as its only future business model, but really tell me, are things that desperate? Making rare visits to video clubs in recent months, I discovered three weeks back that my local video club offers a program called freezz (sorry guys no Netflix over here in Greece). Basically [...]
Surely the 50GB that Blu-Ray discs have to offer is a nice large capacity. It is a shame that all of it goes for just a single HD movie. Is there a more practical use? As we store more and more stuff in our hard discs, it gets very tempting to go beyond DVD for archiving [...]
Every day the future of digital downloads looks brighter and brighter. It was only yesterday that we learned that 51% of Altantic’s revenue now comes from digital downloads, a percentage bound to increase as the CD decline is accelerating. And although total music sales declined from $14.6 billion in 1999 to about $10.1 billion this year, [...]
As Samsung is finally starting mass production of its 256GB SSD, anyone that ever had problems with a crashing hard disc (and there has been many of us) hopes that solid-state storage will gain enough momentum to soon become mainstream. At a time when flash memory supply far exceeds demand, SSDs are also a big hope [...]
What is the difference between SSDs and flash storage in the form of USB sticks or cards for digital cameras? As for classic hard discs, the larger the capacity of a SSD the better. I have never met a single person, novice or professional, saying that they never need their hard discs capacity no matter [...]
When its competitors were fiddling with 4GB CompactFlash cards, Pretec already had released 12GB and 16GB models. So when Sandisk presents its new Extreme IV CompactFlash at 16GB and 45MB/s in Photokina, it is no surprise that Pretec goes to 50GB, 64GB (pictured) or 100GB capacities!!! Here is some model details and prices:
100GB CF card, [...]
CompactFlash is still the preferred solution for above entry level DSLR models and thanks to Sandisk and its new Extreme III offering we are now up to 32GB and 30MB/s speeds. This is faster than the 20MB/s of previous Extreme III models and of course the 50% increase speed is always welcome.
The price is $299. [...]
Dell is not exactly the most responsive kid in town so the fact that they offer SSDs as an option at a reasonable price is quite an event. We are talking about 128GB solid state drives for the XPS, Alienware and Precision laptop lines at an extra cost of $600.
Dell is rightly not going for [...]
The Drobo storage solution is unique in that the drives it uses do not have to be matched and the integrated software automatically takes care of the safety of your data. The second generation Drobo is coming with some improvements:
Firewire 400 and 800 connectivity as an addition to the standard USB2, resulting in the new [...]
There 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 [...]
