Western Digital has launched its all-new SiliconDrive N1x 2.5-inch Solid State Drive family. The new device is to offer fast read and write speed along with high storage capacities and is mainly designed for the OEM applications which require superior performance and high reliability.
The SiliconDrive N1x comes with USB 3.0 Interface which helps to render a read speed of upto 240MB/s and write transfer speed of upto 140MB/s.The drive is availble in various storage capacities upto 128GB. WD has also incorporated its innovative speed Assurance Technology in the SSD to ensure consistent read/write performance.
Further the device offers Patented and Patent-pending WD technologies combined with Native Command Queuing and Windows 7 TRIM Command support for high data reliability and sustained performance. +Continue Reading
Kingston Digital had launched its new 256GB DataTraveler 310 USB Flash Drive. The new DataTraveler 310 will be replacing the 256GB DataTraveler 300, which is released in july 2009 for the Asia Pacific and Europeans regions.
The new DataTraveler 310 comes with a Password Traveler Software which allows the user to save their data by creating a password-protected privacy zone. The secure area of the drive can account for up to 90 percent of the drive capacity and does not require administrator rights.
The DataTraveler 310 comes with a protective cap that snaps onto the back for the drive for convenient storage when the drive is not in use. +Continue Reading
WD has introduced its new My Passport Studio portable hard drive for the Mac PCs. The new drive comes with FireWire 800 interface and a customizable e-label. The new sleek and stylish looking drive offers automatic and continuous backup with WD SmartWare and 256-bit hardware-based encryption.
The new drive is available in various storage capacities of 320GB, 500GB and 640GB. The drive is mainly designed for the creative professionals and Mac enthusiastic. The e-label smart display on the upper side of the My Passport Drive can be changed using the including WD Smartware software , users can create labels to personalize the drive. +Continue Reading
SanDisk has announced that it has commenced the shipping of its all new G3 Solid State Drives to retail stores in North America and Europe.
The device is based on flash-based storage solution and can be used as an alternative to the 7200RPM hard drives. It ranks high on durability and performance, and in its 120GB space over 80TB of data can be written throughout its life span.
The device incorporates a new smart flash management system called ExtremeFFS technology which accelerates random write performance and extends the endurance of the drive inside computer that runs on operating system like Windows XP and Windows 7. +Continue Reading
Seagate has begun the shipping of the 3.5-inch Constellation ES drive. The company claims it to be the first 2TB drive to incorporate 6GB/s SAS and is designed for tier 2 storage requirements.
The 4G Constellation drive comes in a 3.5-inch form factor and is designed for 7200 RPM environments. The new device will be offering cost-effective and efficient storage solution for the enterprise companies. The device is available in various storage capacities of 500GB, 1TB and 2TB. It offers owners 6GB/s SAS or SATA 3GB/s performance and comes with PowerChoice Power and Cooling Intelligence. +Continue Reading
SanDisk has begun the shipping of its 64 GB Ultra SDXC card high capacity SD memory card.
Offering 64GB storage capacity and 15MB/s of read speed with Class 4 Speed rating, The new memory card is based on SD 3.0 specification which helps to record HD videos for a long duration. It can store upto 8 hours of HD video with a recording speed of around 9Mbps.
Since the SD 3.0 specification is recently introduced, only a few device are available in the market that supports SDXC cards. However, the newly introduced many DSLRs supports SDXC cards. +Continue Reading
Sony has extended its range of portable storage media with the launch of new SD/SDHC and microSD/microSDHC cards. These new memory cards are available across all sony outlets and major retails stores across India.
These SD/SDHC cards offers Class 4 data transfer speed for HD Video recording and are available in various storage capacities upto 32GB. While, the microSD/microSDHC cards are made available with storage capacities upto 8GB. Both the memory cards will come preloaded with file rescue software for retrieving damaged or deleted data and X-picts to combine photos with music inorder to create a slideshow. +Continue Reading
Active Media Products has revealed the Aviator-2 SuperSpeed USB 3.0 external SSDs with the capacities of 64GB and 128GB. The drive will be offered along with external case so that it can also accomodate the standard 2.5-inch standard SATA HDDs.
The SuperSpeed USB 3.0 offers transfer speed of 4.8GB/s which is ten times faster than the older USB 2.0 interface drives. The drive is also compatible with USB 2.0 and USB 1.1. The drive can be purchased with the 64GB and 128GB Predator X7 SSD installed in it already. The Aviator-2 with Predator X7 SSD offers a data transfer speed upto 200MB/s and comes with a carrying pouch and USB 3.0 Cable. +Continue Reading
Kingston Digital has launched a new flash drive for the US market, dubbed DataTraveler 310. According to the company it will be the first flash drive in US with 256GB storage capacity. The new flash drive will be replacing the DataTraveler 300 which is introduced by the company last year.
The new DataTraveler includes Password Traveler Software which enables the customer to safeguard their personal data stores in the drive. The secure area of the DataTravel 310 accompanies about 90% of the drive capacity. When the drive is not in use users can easily snap on the protective cap which goes on the back when the drive is in use.
The new drive is perfect for users who need to carry big size files along with them. +Continue Reading
Transcend has introduced the new Store Jet 35T in it Store Jet range of external hard drives. The 3.5-inch external hard drive come with Turbo HDD USB transfer mode and One Touch auto-backup button to carry out easily uploads, downloads, storage and trasnfer function.
The Store Jet 35T’s Turbo HDD USB technology boosts the performance of the device and delivers writing speed ranging from 33MB/s to 42MB/s, showing a 30% increase than the older ones. The LED indicator of the drive changes its color from green to bright blue along with displaying transfer speed when the drive is switched from standard mode to Turbo mode. It also incorporates Store Jet Elite software to provide 256-bit AES file and folder encryption with compression option. +Continue Reading