Victorinox Swiss Army has launched several new series of pocket knives with USB flash drives embedded – the Victorinox Slim, Victorinox Slim Duo and Victorinox Secure SSD. The drives are both stylish and functional; they come in several different color shells which protect the drives.
We’re live from the Corsair press event at CES and Corsair has dropped a bit of a bomb. While they’re not abandoning SandForce processors, they are expanding their SSD options with the Marvell 9174 SATA 6Gb/s processor.
Other World Computing (OWC) announced several new series of Solid State Drives (SSDs), including drives for the 2010 and 2008-09 Apple MacBook Air notebooks up to 480GB, a world-first 1.8-inch SandForce-based SSD, and 2.5" and 3.5" IDE/ATA interface SSDs.
Seagate has introduced a version of its external GoFlex hard drive series for Mac. The new models include both 2.5-inch portable and 3.5-inch desktop versions. Seagate introduced the GoFlex storage system in May of 2010.
The trend in computing generally seems to gravitate toward "smaller is better." That’s certainly true when it comes to client-side computing and the related storage devices. Hard drives are coming out in single-platter 7mm height and SSDs are seeing more adoption of form factors in sizes other than 2.5". Intel’s new 310 SSD is a good case
Rocstor has announced the latest additions to its ENTEROC line of enterprise storage products. The new 2U and 3U rackmounted products house up to 16 drives and SAS, SATA, iSCSI, and Fibre interface options.
Iomega announced its latest storage technology, the Iomega Personal Cloud. The web-based service connects an Iomega Network-Attached Storage (NAS) server to the Internet, making it remotely accessible to yourself and selected others. Unlike other Cloud storage services, Personal Cloud is self-owned and there are no subscription fees or usage/service charges.
ioSafe has released a new rugged external hard drive, this time a 2.5" portable model. The Rugged Portable comes in an aluminum case with either an HDD or SSD inside. If you need a little more physical security, there’s also an SSD version with titanium case. All of the Rugged Portable drives feature data recovery
Rocstor has announced two new external drive lines: The Blazer B7 Ruggedized and the Commander 2U3 hardware encrypted drive. Common features include USB 3.0 and FireWire 800 ports plus a choice between hard drives (HDDs) and SSDs.
Marvell has launched its new 88SE9130 6Gb/s SATA controller powered by HyperDuo embedded processor technology. The device can combine a traditional hard disk drive (HDD) and a solid-state drive (SSD) together to provide the best of both worlds: the speed of an SSD and the capacity of an HDD.
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