Hard Disks & Solid State Drives Category - Page 8

The humble SD card, folks–it’s long had a place in a whole lot of different pieces of hardware. From televisions to cameras, to even cell phones, anywhere you’ve wanted to store or record information and not take up a whole lot of space in the doing of same, well, that’s [...]

Okay, okay, so the whole “USB 3.0″ thing isn’t going great guns. It’s shaping up more like a nonevent than it is the next revolutionary way of transferring files, but I can’t help but think this one will be big…eventually, if nothing else. Especially with the weight of announcements like [...]

Storage media keeps getting smaller and smaller, but with bigger and bigger capacities. Hitachi’s latest Travelstar 500 GB hard drives are a great example, being miniaturized to 7 millimeters thick (or thin!).

You’ve really, really got to hand it to LaCie for pushing that old design envelope. They’re showing off the LaCie Float, a combination hard drive and external touch pad, and a device that makes me wonder why no one ever thought to do this until now.

Well, it’s pretty much official at this point–when you think USB 3.0, you’re probably going to have to think Super Talent first by virtue of the sheer amount of USB 3.0 related stuff they’re putting out. And they’ve just tacked on a whole new level of USB 3.0 joy with [...]

Who else is excited for the upcoming theatrical release of TRON: Legacy? If you can’t afford the $55,000 price tag of an actual ridable TRON Light Cycle, maybe you can settle for a USB drive instead for less than thirty bucks.

I know a lot of people out there have been somewhat dismayed by the SSD market; it’s hard not to look at a 256 gig SSD and wonder why they should take that when they can get four times the storage (or more!) from a conventional hard drive for a [...]

We bring out a lot of news about Super Talent–seems like they’re always up to something in the whole USB drive sphere–but this time they’ve got a little extra surprise up their sleeve for us: a whole PC wedged inside one of their new USB 3.0 drives.

First off, let me assure you that this article is absolutely safe for work, as the most objectionable thing you’ll see is a photo of the box with the ubiquitous logo on it. I’m sure that’ll leave many disappointed, but still, we must carry on. The folks out at Playboy [...]

Well folks, color me all nice and dazzled–the crew who brought out the world’s first USB 3.0 thumb drive, the RAIDDrive from Super Talent, has now added a firmware upgrade that’s going to do some really impressive things to its transfer rate.