Posts Tagged ‘Hard Drives’
Ex-Employee Says Seagate Stole Quiet Hard Drive Tech From MIT Researchers [Seagate]
Posted by: Gadget Boy in Gadget News, Technology on December 29th, 2009
An ex-Seagate employee turned whistle-blower claims that Seagate not only stole hard drive-silencing technology from the MIT researchers who developed it and they company they formed, Convolve, but destroyed blueprints to hide the evidence. [NYT, Image via Scoblizer]
You Will Want the Unitek SATA to USB 3.0 Adapter One Day [Usb 3]
Posted by: Gadget Boy in Gadget News, Technology on December 28th, 2009
This is so cool: Unitek's new adapter will connect any spare SATA hard drive to a PC using the 5 Gbps USB 3.0 standard. And it only costs $48. There's only one little itty bitty problem:
Who has a PC or a Mac with USB 3.0? Anyone? Anyone?
Features
Supporting USB3.0 specification
The maximum transmission speed of USB3.0 allows for example 10-30 GBytes of video data to be copied to a 3.5 inch hard disk drive in 1/4 to 1/3 the time compared to the existing USB2.0 interface
SuperSpeed (5 Gbps) / high-speed (480 Mbps) / full-speed (12 Mbps)
Compliant to Universal Serial Bus 3.0 Specification, Revision 1.0
Compliant to Universal Serial Bus Specification, Revision 2.0
Mass Storage Class Bulk-Only Transport Compliant to Mass Storage Class Bulk-Only Transport, Revision 1.0
SATA Gen2i (3 Gbps) & Gen1i (1.5 Gbps) Compliant to Serial ATA Specification Revision 2.6
Supports ATA / ATAPI device
Supports 2TB over HDD
Supports Window 7 / Vista / Xp, Linux / Mac OS X
Dimension: 69 x 40 x 12mm (approx.)
Weight: 67g
One day I will get you, Unitek SATA to USB 3.0 adapter! *shakes fist* Oh, you teaser you. [Brando]
LaCie 2Big: The First USB 3.0 RAID Drive [Storage]
Posted by: Gadget Boy in Gadget News, Technology on December 17th, 2009
You can't buy them until early 2010, but LaCie's next generation 2Big drives will be the first USB 3.0 devices to support dual-SATA-disk RAID 0/1 configurations, promising real time HD video editing and burst speeds up to 275MB/s. [BW]
The LaCie Rikiki Is the Tiniest 2.5-inch Portable Hard Drive On the Market [LaCie]
Posted by: Gadget Boy in Gadget News, Technology on December 15th, 2009
With LaCie, you always expect the product to look good—and the Rikiki portable HDD is no exception. They also claim that it is the smallest 2.5-inch drive on the market.
I'm not sure if that is accurate or not, but with measurements at 4.3 x 2.9 x .5 inches it is even smaller than the popular FreeAgent line from Seagate. The USB 2.0, self-powered drives are available in 250GB, 500GB and 640GB flavors for $75, $109 and $149 respectively.
Today, LaCie introduced the most compact 2.5" hard drive on the market – LaCie Rikiki, in metal. Measuring just a mere 110cm, its sophisticated form factor holds up to 640GB of media that you won't mind storing in a pocket or purse.
Encased in brushed, sturdy aluminum, the LaCie Rikiki, which means "tiny" in French, represents a resilient aesthetic that protects your media from everyday blunders and unwelcome fingerprints. Its lightweight design makes it a perfect companion for keeping your digital world close at hand.
"We are part of a generation that wants more from our electronics, but in the smallest form factor possible, and with a competitive price," said Anne-Sophie Marchand, Consumer Product Manager. "With the LaCie Rikiki, we have done just that by fitting high-performance and high-capacity in the palm of your hand, for under $100."
Leveraging the versatile USB 2.0 interface, the LaCie Rikiki is instantly compatible with your PC or Mac. Simply plug it in and you're ready to store and share your favorite media with high-speed performance. LaCie Rikiki also offers USB Boost software for enhancing speeds up to 33% (Windows® only).
LaCie Rikiki also comes with a simplified software suite – for quick setup and easy-to-use backup management – enabling complete configuration in just a few clicks. The LaCie Rikiki is an all-in-one solution for storage mobility.
Availability
The LaCie Rikiki will be available in 250GB, 500GB, and 640GB capacities through the LaCie Online Store, LaCie Reseller+, and LaCie Corner, starting at the suggested retail price of $74.99 (excluding VAT). For more information, visit www.lacie.com.
[LaCie]
Black Friday Deals List Updated [Black Friday]
Posted by: Gadget Boy in Gadget News on November 25th, 2009
Our Black Friday List is updated with deals from Vizio, WireFly, HP and Amazon, including an entirely new page for Blu-rays and DVDs. That's in addition to Best Buy, Office Depot, Dell, Target, Walmart, K-mart and more. Start saving here.
OCZ Colossus 3.5-Inch SSD Reaches 1TB, Super Speeds [Ssds]
Posted by: Gadget Boy in Gadget News on November 23rd, 2009
OCZ’s new Colossus drives are among the first SSDs designed for desktops, and they’re the very first to store up to 1TB of data. Oh, and on top of all that, they work pretty well, too.
PC Perspective tested one of OCZ’s 256GB Colossus drives and found “read and write speeds are about as fast as SATA 3Gb/sec will go!” It’s nuts that our drives are finally catching up with the plentiful, SATA pipelines, even if OCZ has hacked speeds a bit by essentially building one giant drive out of four smaller SSDs.
Whatever works. Now to sell a spare kidney for the $3300, 1TB configuration. Read the full testing results at: [PC Perspective]
Let’s Count the Ways NES Modders Have Decimated My Fondest Childhood Memories [Mods]
Posted by: Gadget Boy in Gadget News on November 15th, 2009
So a new, potentially very popular Mario title comes out today. Sweet, sweet nostalgia. To celebrate, let's revisit all the 2009 NES hacks and mods that have, thus far, utterly destroyed or otherwise corrupted my most cherished memories, shall we?
Our first mod is a relatively recent one. The modder took a nice, fully functioning Super Mario Bros./Duck Hunt combo cartridge, gutted it, and turned it into an admittedly clean and portable NES emulator. Sure, the gutting made most of my 1986 memories fade into a terrifying pit of blackness, but at least this wasn't a golden Legend of Zelda cartridge or anything.
Christ! That's ugly. But pimpin' ain't easy, so we'll give it a break. Unfortunately for me, my psyche receives no such break, and I am reduced to but two hearts, and my Master Sword no longer shoots laser beams.
The greatest platformer ever created by human hands, now a lowly 160GB USB drive. When will the insanity end?
Never, apparently. A mere month before the Super Mario Bros. 3 USB "creation" came to light, someone took a classic Game Boy, removed everything in it that made it a timeless piece of video game lore, and replaced it with a hard drive. Half a heart left, and there's this incessant beeping in my ears. Jack needs food, badly.
When I grip an NES control pad in my hands, its hard edges digging unforgivably into the soft flesh, I go to my happy place. When modder Taylor Merrill does the same, he hears the theme song from Sanford and Son. He also hears friends and relatives because he managed to get a Samsung Eternity phone into the controller that defined a generation of early console gamers. Good for you all. My childhood just ran into a goomba, jumped straight up into the air, and fell off the screen.
The World’s Wittlest 320GB Hard Dwive [Storage]
Posted by: Gadget Boy in Gadget News on November 5th, 2009
Toshiba has just squeezed 320GB of storage into their 1.8-inch 5400RPM line of SATA drives. (That's enough to double the storage of the iPod Classic.) Available this December for an undisclosed price. [Toshiba via I4U]
Brinell Purestorage Drives Celebrate Steel, Leather, Carbon and Wood [Peripherals]
Posted by: Gadget Boy in Gadget News on October 23rd, 2009
In case you're as sick of plastic as we are, Brinell Powerstorage hard drives combine the best tech of Asian tech with the best of European craftsmanship.
German-based design group Brinell has developed a line of Purestorage USB drives housed in materials including wood, stainless steel, leather and carbon. Ranging from 160-500GB and $284-$344, of course you can get a hard drive cheaper. But chances are it'll look that way, too. [openpr via Newlaunches]
Origin Data Locker Backs Rugged Looks with AES Hardware Encryption [Hard Drives]
Posted by: Gadget Boy in Gadget News on October 18th, 2009
The Origin Data Locker: For the paranoid geek who lives with his parents in their fortified underground bunker.
Doubt it? Everything from the belongs-on-a-battleship looks to the AES encryption software to the 6-18 digit PIN screams "you will not get the 1TB of porn inside me."
Even the touchscreen keypad is paranoid, as it changes randomly each time you use it so the spies you think are on your tail can't memorize the PIN. One touch drive erase means the hentai secrets get scrubbed instantly the moment your parents those spies catch you.
Pricing starts at $488 for the 750GB version and $652 for the 1TB. [Slashgear]
