Hard Disks & Solid State Drives on TFTS - Page 8

In a market where portable external drives have become more and more popular, OWC (Other World Computing) have just release their Mercury models. Dubbed “On-The-Go Pro”, the bus-powered mobile drives are the fastest (up to 100 MB/sec) and the highest capacity (up to 500 GB of storage) the company …

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

QNAP have introduced their latest NAS (network attached storage device), namely the QNAP SS-439 Pro Turbo NAS, which is billed as a high performance server offering advanced RAID protection, built-in iSCSI target service and AES 256-bit volume-based encryption which is being specifically targeted at business use.

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Iomega has announced that it has updated its eGo range of portable hard disk drives, with new Iomega eGo external hard disks offering not only a revised design but also enhanced ruggedness as well as coming bundled with ‘the broadest suite of bundled data protection software in the industry’.

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A couple of months ago we updated you concerning Super Talent’s new solid state drives, namely the Super Talent UltraDrive ME SSD and UltraDrive LE SSD, and now by way of making them a more attractive proposition, Super Talent are offering update firmware update for Windows 7 which serves to …

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Posted by Andrew Tingle on May 14th 2009 | No Responses

Toshiba have introduced the first ever netbook to feature a 512GB SSD in the form of the Toshiba Dynabook SS RX/WAJ which, apart from boasting a solid state drive offering read speeds of up to 230MB/s and write speeds of up to 180MB/s comes with a 1.40GHz Core 2 Duo …

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Posted by Andrew Tingle on May 12th 2009 | No Responses

If you’re looking for some serious network storage capacity, and the previously available iterations of the LaCie 5big RAID NAS (which previously topped out at 7.5TB) just didn’t have quite the capacity you were after, you’ll be pleased to know that, thanks to LaCie updating their 5big network storage array, …

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

Following on from their CMFSSD 128GB SSD, Corsair’s new solid state drive, the Corsair CMFSSD-256GBG2D, which serves to double up the storage capacity of the previous version to 256GB, has just become available and it’s not just far greater capacity that’s on offer as Corsair’s CMFSSD 256GB SSD also offers …

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Back in March we covered the original PhotoFast G-Monster PCIe SSD which offers data transfer speeds of up to 750MB/s write and 700MB/s read and now we have the PhotoFast G-Monster Promise (again a PCI Express based solid state drive) that builds further on the speeds offered by the original …

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

RunCore have unveiled their new Pro IV 2.5″ SATAII solid state drive which are billed as featuring the world’s fastest MLC SSD allowing the Pro IV range of SSDs to ‘offer superior random read and random write speeds compared to the other main stream SSD on the market today’.

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Posted by Andrew Tingle on April 29th 2009 | 1 Response

Samsung have released details concerning their new, curiously entitled Samsung STORY Station external hard drive which boasts 1.5 terabytes of storage capacity as well as aesthetics described by Samsung as offering ‘passionate red lines against a high-tech “brushed” aluminum surface with red cable ports’ (Some PR bod at Samsung obviously …

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Posted by Andrew Tingle on April 28th 2009 | No Responses

Power Quotient International (PQI) have introduced their new 2.5″ PQI X25-M SATAII SSD which boasts an impressive range of features not least of which is a purported maximum read speed of 250MB/s and a maximum write speed of 70MB/s.

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