Hard Disks & Solid State Drives Category - Page 4

Lyndonville And Ramsdale Specs Leak [The Specs On Intel's New Solid State Drives, the SSD 710 "Lyndonville" and SSD 720 "Ramsdale" Get Their Specs Leaked]

By on Thursday, 16. June 2011

Interesting news for fans of the solid state drive out there–seems the specs for Intel’s newest iterations of same has dropped and significantly earlier than expected, too. What’s more, the specs look impressive…possibly too much so.

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Samsung Spinpoint M8 1TB Notebook Hard Drive Unveiled [Samsung 1 Terabyte Hard Drive Comes With 2 500 GB Platters; Available Soon for $129]

By on Thursday, 9. June 2011

Portable devices are getting smaller and smaller, but our storage requirements keep increasing. Samsung addresses the need for more space, with the 1 TB Spinpoint M8.

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Kingston Wi-Drive Expands Storage Via Wi-Fi [Connect Your iPad, iPhone, Android Device or Other Smartphone & Tablet With Kingston's Wireless External Hard Drive]

By on Friday, 3. June 2011

Most people will find their tablet computer storage sufficient, but if you want to store all your music, movies and other media, you might find yourself filling up that 16 or 32 GB storage sooner than later.

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Computex 2011: SanDisk Shows Off New Solid State Drives [SanDisk Brings Out the U100 and I100 At The Computex 2011 Show, Promises Impressive Speeds]

By on Tuesday, 31. May 2011

We’ve heard a lot here of late about solid state drives, and the folks out at SanDisk are looking to really put some spark in their new line. And whether you think these are going to be a huge boon to speeding up your hardware or they won’t be a [...]

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WD Releases Hard Drive That May Be Too Big For Your PC [WD's AV-GP Drive Won't Actually Run On PCs Running Windows XP As It's Too Large]

By on Monday, 16. May 2011

It’s a strange concept, to be sure, but the folks out at WD are wheeling out a hefty new hard drive for you, the WD AV-GP series. The down side is, though, if you don’t have a recent PC, you may not be able to use it in the first [...]

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Seagate GoFlex Satellite Puts Serious Extra Storage On Your iOS Gear [Seagate's New Drive Connects By Wi-Fi, Runs On Batteries, Plays Nice With Apple Gear Too]

By on Monday, 16. May 2011

We haven’t heard a lot out of Seagate lately since our own J. Angelo Racoma picked up on their move to buy out Samsung’s hard drive business, so it’s definitely great to show off some of the fruit of their labors, the GoFlex Satellite. And this one may look like [...]

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SSD Price Drop Coming In 2011? [Analyst Group Gartner Reports That Solid-State Drives Will Hit The Anticipated $1/GB Mark By 2012, To Cause A Huge Decrease In SSD Prices?]

By on Wednesday, 11. May 2011

We just had a discussion about this here at TFTS World Headquarters, but solid-state drives for your computer are still expensive! You can expect to pay at least $80 for a 40GB model, and the prices just go up and up from there, with some 480GB SSDs hitting $1,500! But, [...]

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OCZ Brings Out First New Solid State Drives [After Ditching The Memory Game Back In January, OCZ Shows Off The Agility 3 And Solid 3 Solid State Drives]

By on Tuesday, 10. May 2011

You’ll remember back in January when we first talked about how the folks at OCZ were looking to get out of the memory game and instead devote their research and development dollars to solid state drives. They’re an emerging technology with a lot of potential behind them, but they need [...]

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Other World Computing Brings Out 480 Gig Solid State Drive For MacBook Air [The OWC Mercury Aura Pro Express Drive Runs At Up To 275 Mbps, But At A Hefty Price]

By on Friday, 6. May 2011

I’ve long been skeptical of the solid state drive in general. Sure, there are plenty of speed advantages, not to mention durability, but price and storage capacity have long been the thorns in the concept’s side. But the folks at Other World Computing have taken a serious step toward fixing [...]

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New Line of LG Portable HDD Supports USB 3.0 [LG XE1 & XE2 Portable Hard Drives Run on USB 2.0 & 3.0; Comes in 500GB, 750GB & 1TB]

By on Friday, 6. May 2011

LG Electronics of Korea has introduced two new hard drive lines, namely the XE1 and XE2. Both feature USB 3.0 support for fast data transfers.

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