Cloud Engines has announced today the second generation Pogoplug. That’s all fine and dandy but what’s a Pogoplug most people will ask. A Pogoplug is an interesting device that will let you access all the content you want from your USB drives over the Internet. That means you don’t have to carry with you portable hard drives anymore. Instead just get a Pogoplug and access everything on those USB drives from anywhere in the world. It’s like setting up your own cloud.
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Imation are now shipping their M-Class SSD Upgrade Kits which is aimed specifically at users looking for an all-in-one SSD upgrade solution for those wishing to swap out their HHDs for SSDs with the minimum of fuss.
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OCZ, who are no strangers to TFTS, have officially introduced their new Colossus range of SSDs. The new OCZ Colossus solid states drives, aside from boasting maximum read speeds of up to 260MB/s, are also particularly interesting as they top out with a 1TB capacity SSD – namely the OCZSSD2-1CLS1T – which offers somewhat higher capacity than are usually offered in OCZ SSD ranges.
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Google officially announced in a blog post today that it’s ready to offer “twice the storage for a quarter of the price.” In other words if you need a piece of the cloud then Google will happily rent it to you every year. The offer sounds especially good as most of us have various files that we’d like to be able to retrieve at any given point without having to carry around portable storage solutions.
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Having only recently announced their new Aviator 312 SuperSpeed USB 3.0 SSDs Active Media have just officially unveiled their latest USB 2.0 SSD range in the form of the 2.5” Predator X7 SSD range which takes in 32GB, 64GB, 128GB and 256GB capacities.
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After being silent for over an year now, the nice chaps from Dane-Elec have finally announced something new for us to crave for. We’re talking about their new So SuperSpeed USB 3.0 external hard drives that range between 500GB and 2TB, while on top of that the company is also bragging with the “world’s first USB 3.0 Solid State Drive”

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For many of us external hard drives exist not only for being mobile, but also for backup reasons. While storing and protecting all of your highly sensitive data are two different things, the folks from Origin have acknowledged that in the event of losing or getting your drive stolen it’s important to know that everything is being kept secure from naughty eyes, hence why they’ve upgraded their Data Locker external HDD lineup with the 1TB and the 750GB models.

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Clickfree has a new portable hard drive solution for us, the C2, which comes packed with backup, storing and file sharing features. The new hard drive will be available in three versions: 250GB, 320GB and 500GB but before we talk about prices, let’s see what these babies can do!
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Hitachi have unveiled two new Ultrastar hard drives, namely the 2.5” Ultrastar C15K147 and the 3.5” Ultrastar 15K600, that are aimed specifically at mission-critical, enterprise storage applications and which, apart from offering self-encrypting capabilities also boast 15,000rmp speeds offering data transfer speeds of up to 6Gb/s.
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Iomega officially unveiled today the StorCenter ix2-200 NAS which is a basically an updated version of the StorCenter ix2 NAS dual-drive backup and media-sharing solution.
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We’ve already covered a fair few USB 3.0 touting devices here at TFTS but it looks as though buffalo are set to get the jump on everyone thanks to officially confirming that the Buffalo HD-HU3 USB 3.0 Hard Disk is set to become available as of this month in Japan.
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Western Digital has decided to teach its external hard drives some new tricks. The new My Book Elite and Studio will both get a digital label while the My Passport Elite portable drive gets a dock. The question is, do we really need new accessories for our external hard drives?
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LaCie have paied up with renowned designer Philippe Starck once again to produce their just unveiled LaCie Starck Desktop Hard Drive series of external USB hard disks that, apart from topping out at 2TB capacity, come with what LaCie term as an ‘intelligent touch-sensitive surface’.
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Following on from out heads up yesterday concerning the newly unveiled Active Media Aviator 312 SuperSpeed SSDs today Super Talent have announced their new Toshiba co-branded UltraDrive DS SSD series which boast a number of security enhancements to ensure your data remains uncompromised.
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Active Media Products have unveiled their first range of USB 3.0 external USB SSDs in the form of their Aviator 312 SuperSpeed SSD series which  boast data transfer speeds of up to an astounding 4.8Gbits/sec (which makes them 10x faster than USB 2.0 based solid state drives) whilst still retaining USB 2.0 backwards compatibility.
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Exactly as expected, more USB 3.0 gadgets are going to miraculously appear in the following period. After we’ve seen the first USB 3.0 external hard drive, the Freecom XS 3.0, we now have the second (we will eventually stop counting them) USB 3.0 external drive! The Buffalo DriveStation HD-HXU3 is expected to arrive in the following months and you should definitely get it by Christmas.
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For those who’d like to smash their portable hard drives to the sidewalks or wave them in the rain without fearing data loss or any other issues, A-DATA has a new toy you can play with. Dubbed A-DATA SH93, the external HDDs are encased in an innovative molded rubber-plastic material and special cushion materials that actually makes them both waterproof and shock resistant — an industry’s first, the company said.

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If you were wondering when those USB 3.0 hard drives are going to pop up on the market, it’s going to happen sooner than you expected, as today, Freecom have taken the wraps off the new XS 3.0 HDD. Slated as the world’s first USB 3.0  to run on the new technology, the external drive is available in up to 2TB capacities (1TB, 1.5TB and 2TB) and boasts speedier data transfer rates of up to 130 MB/s.

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Here we go again. We’ve had another swimmer jump into the waters of the network attached storage (NAS) pool and this time it looks like something straight out of an episode of Buck Rogers. You know, the one where Buck argues with Twiki and Dr. Theopolis about how dangerous and seemingly impossible his mission is going to be. Anyway, 80’s retro looks notwithstanding, the latest entrant into the NAS market is the new Thecus N2200 from, who else, Thecus. (more…)

Network Attached Storage, or NAS, is still a relative newcomer to the technology scene. What used to be the realm of corporate IT engineers is now making its way into the consumer market. People want the ability to access and store their multimedia files on a centrally located HDD that can be poked into from just about anywhere. Looking to provide yet another viable option for those home users looking for NAS solutions, NETGEAR has just announced the launch of their latest NAS device, the 1TB Stora network-attached storage device. (more…)

Today is the day that hard drive makers worldwide are placed on notice. Seagate has fired the shot heard ‘round the world and it has data storage architects scrambling to find their footing. So what’s the big deal, you ask? How about the HDD equivalent of the first sonic boom? Seagate Technology announced today that it had began global shipments of the Barracuda® XT HDD. Oh, sure, yet another hard drive. Big deal.  The Barracuda just so happens to be the world’s fastest, largest-capacity mainstream desktop hard drive on the market. Does that have your attention? Thought so. (more…)

Of late OCZ have certainly been doing their part to push down the pricing of solid state drives – and are to be commended for doing so – but, if you’re looking for a high-performance SSD, such as their just released Z-Drive PCI-Express SSD, there’s simply no getting away from the fact that it’s going to cost you (and cost you dear).
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Those who’d like a faster laptop hard drive have where to choose from, and the latest to grab one from is Toshiba who have just recently announced their 2.5-inch MKxx56GSY 7200rpm laptop HDD that features a top-end half-terabyte storage capacity.

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It’s all about sharing. People want to share their lives with anyone that’ll listen and sites like YouTube and FaceBook are a testament to this personal media exodus. On top of this, we all want to be able to access our data and information no matter where we are on the planet and if we have friends we want them to have access to it as well. Could we be any more high maintenance? Seagate has just announced a new network adapter called the FreeAgent DockStar and it too is all about sharing.
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The days of the old spinning platter hard drives may soon be numbered. The gap in both price and performance between hard disk drives (HDDs) and the up-and-coming solid-state disk (SSD) technology is getting razor thin and we may soon see a point of parity that could spell the death knell for the old stalwart HDD. This means that your storage will get faster and cheaper as designers and data storage architects work to integrate the devices into the flash memory of the computer’s motherboard. Speaking directly to this market shift, relative newcomers, Pliant Technology, have just announced the release of two new enterprise-grade SSDs that it claims have more than doubled the speeds of its closest competitors. (more…)

Only just last week we offered you a heads up concerning OWC’s latest 750GB Mercury On-The-Go portable HDD (the highest capacity to grace their Mercury On-The-Go line-up to date) and now OWC have followed up with the a new range of Mercury On-The-Go portable SSD units that, like its aforementioned HDD series, boasts USB and optional FireWire connectivity.
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Network Attached Storage. This brings to mind devices like the Apple Time Capsule that allow users to store massive amounts of multimedia data on a storage device that can then be accessed via a wireless network or DLNA compliant device (think Xbox 360 or set-top multimedia box). Now that’s something worthwhile, especially as more and more people are hoarding massive high-definition movie collections or decades of high-res family photos on their hard-drives with little recourse should they suffer a massive system failure. The thought alone sends chills down my spine. Rest easy people. LG has just announced a new network attached storage device (NASD), the LG AN2R1, which is sure to have wireless home networkers sighing with relief. (more…)

Western Digital is known for their cutting-edge digital storage solutions so it should come as no surprise to anyone that they have decided, yet again, to give their fairly extensive line of external hard drives a makeover to keep up with the times. Their latest introduction features five new external HDDs in a pretty wide variety of flavors. According to Western Digital, the latest product portfolio move is an effort to move storage solutions into a “smaller, smarter, and safer” arena. To this end, every one of the new drives will come dressed up with 256-bit hardware encryption, built-in automatic backup software, and password protection. (more…)

With SSD pricing coming down not quite as quickly as we need SSD total capacities to rise the traditional hard drive market is far from dead and, to that end, Samsung have unveiled a new 2.5″ hard drive in its Spinpoint M7 HDD range that serves to up the range’s maximum capacity from 500GB to 650GB.
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As I reported earlier today, Intel has just announced the launch of their newly updated Core i5 and Core i7 series CPUs and the marketplace is all atwitter. Actually, they are probably really just twittering. But the point is, that when Intel launches new CPUs the memory manufacturers take notice and typically follow suite with a new launch of their own. The memories mavens over at Kingston have decided to get a jump on the competition with their newest product which just so happens to be RAM that is designed to work with the new Intel Core i5 and i7 architecture. Coincidence? We think not. (more…)