Hard Disks & Solid State Drives on TFTS - Page 10

Posted by Andrew Tingle on March 12th 2009 | 1 Response

We’ve seen many figures bandied about when it comes to SSD read/write speeds with many a company hailing their latest SSDs as offering blisteringly quick data transfer speeds that outstrip that offered by the competition, but nothing gets close to the newly announced Fusion-io ioDrive Duo SSD which Fusion-io bill …

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Posted by Andrew Tingle on March 11th 2009 | No Responses

A-DATA have unveiled their new range of 300 Plus Series solid state drives which, according to the company’s press release, utilises a new memory controller design as well as ’special mobile SDRAM’ that serves to increase drive read and write data transfer speeds by up to 40% and 60% respectively …

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Posted by Andrew Tingle on March 5th 2009 | No Responses

A-DATA have chosen CeBit to announce their new 512GB XPG Notebook/Laptop SSD which they claim is (as at the time of writing) the highest capacity 2.5″ solid state drive in the industry and which they bill as being ‘designed for notebook and PC enthusiasts seeking for both fast transfer rate …

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Posted by Andrew Tingle on February 24th 2009 | No Responses

If you’re looking to duplicate a hard drive (perhaps as a full backup, for example) but are keen to get an exact clone of the original drive as opposed to merely copy files, the Aleratec 1:1 HDD Cruiser Hard Disk Duplicator could prove of interest in being capable of cloning …

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Posted by Andrew Tingle on February 24th 2009 | No Responses

Panasonic have announced an updated, premium edition of its W8 Toughbook notebook for the Japanese market which sees the introduction of an Intel X-25M 80GB SSD (as opposed to the standard edition’s 120GH HDD) offering 250MB/s read and 70MB/s write speeds, the addition of which sees the new premium Panasonic …

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Posted by Piyush on February 12th 2009 | No Responses

The new VIA NSR7800 8-bay 2U rackmount storage server is an energy efficient storage solution that uses 50% less power than comparable solutions. The NSR7800 uses eight 3.5″ hard drive bays with a 2U form factor for improved performance.

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Posted by Andrew Tingle on February 10th 2009 | 2 Responses

Along with announcing their new LaCie d2 8x Blu-ray Buner, Lacie have also unveiled their new LaCie LaCinema Black MAX media streaming hard disk which builds upon the previously released LaCie LaCinema Classic in offering not only the capability to stream all manner of digital media files (audio, photos, video) …

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Posted by Andrew Tingle on February 6th 2009 | 1 Response

It’s not as if we aren’t already spoilt for choice when it comes to portable hard drives but this particular portable HDD , known as the iDrive Portable, manages to distinguish itself from the masses not only due to the fact that it’s the slimmest and lightest portable USB hard …

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Seagate have taken the wraps off a number of new hard drives, known as the Constellation and Constallation ES ranges, which include their highest ever capacity HDD, the 7,200rpm 2TB Constellation ES – which is set to compete directly with Western Digital’s recently announced 2TB HDD.

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Posted by Andrew Tingle on February 4th 2009 | No Responses

With not only the speed, but the far superior durability offered by solid state drives (SSDs) in mind (thanks in no small part to the fact that they employ no moving parts) they undoubtedly lend themselves to the role of portable mass storage particularly well and this is something that …

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Posted by Andrew Tingle on January 21st 2009 | No Responses

Just as rumours began surfacing concerning Corsair’s plans to enter with Solid State Drive (SSD) market an online portal has already put up a product page concerning a new Corsair 2.5” SATAII 128GB SSD – namely the Corsair CMFSSD-128GBG1D.

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