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Hitachi Accelerated Flash storage is designed specifically for enterprise workloads.

Friday, 17 August 2012 09:19

IBM buying flash storage specialist

IBM has agreed the acquisition of high-performance flash storage developer Texas Memory Systems.

Published in Listed Tech
Microsoft is licensing its exFAT file system for flash memory. Sony, Canon and Sanyo are among the first licensees.

Published in Cloud Computing
Wednesday, 22 July 2009 10:49

World's first 256GB USB 'Fla$h' drive arrives

256GB, or a quarter of a terabyte, is now available from Flash manufacturer Kingston Technology, which it says “allows users to store and carry an entire digital library in a small mobile device”, but early adopters will need well over $1000 to pay for the privilege!

Published in Fuzzy Logic
Tuesday, 17 February 2009 14:59

Wozniak solid state storage scientist at Fusion-io

No longer content to Segway up and down the boulevard of Infinite Loop listening to his iPod or teaching children about computers, Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak has accepted the role of chief scientist at solid state storage provider Fusion-io.

Published in Market
So you thought the SDHC memory card spec that allows for capacities up to 32G was enough to meet your mobile data needs for a while yet? Wait until you see the forthcoming SDXC specs.

HTML clipboardSanDisk Corporation has announced its latest G3 family of solid-state drives, using multi-level cell flash memory technology to establish new benchmarks in performance in the SSD industry.

Published in A Meaningful Look
Friday, 19 December 2008 13:26

Toshiba bringing 512GB SSDs to market in 2009

Solid state drives (SSDs) keep on challenging regular mechanical hard drives in storage capacity, with the industry’s first 512GB SSD set to be showcased at January 2009’s Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.

Published in Fuzzy Logic
Friday, 05 December 2008 09:29

LaCie coins a priceless design for new USB drives

LaCie have minted two new USB drives that look like bronze and silver coins, giving them the currency inspired name of the “CurrenKey” in 4 and 8GB sizes. Will consumers be impressed and flash their cash for these coin-like flash drives?

Published in Fuzzy Logic
Although camcorders with “YouTube” recording modes aren’t new, Samsung has finally joined the YouTube revolution by releasing a camcorder with a dedicated YouTube mode.

Published in Fuzzy Logic
Just as most CDs are DRM-free, so are SanDisk’s new “slotMusic” microSD cards, offering music in “up to 320kbps” DRM-free MP3 format. Available in stores pre-loaded with music from a range of popular artists and selling at an RRP of US $14.95 each, with some packaged with a Shuffle-like SanDisk player (on sale for US $20 alone) for a total of $34.95, is this a new front in the digital music revolution, or a waste of time in the face of the download reality?

Published in Fuzzy Logic
Professional photographers in Australia and NZ will likely be smiling at the availability of SanDisk’s Extreme IV 16GB card, matching SanDisk’s “Ducati Edition” in speed but doubling the capacity, although at AUD $450 a pop you’ll need to be a pro-photographer to pay for it!

Published in Fuzzy Logic
Monday, 13 October 2008 21:31

Kingston pops 32GB into a USB flash drive!

The flash memory revolution keeps on revving up, with 32GB now a standard USB flash memory drive capacity at prices that anyone can afford. Cool!

Published in Fuzzy Logic
Tuesday, 30 September 2008 09:34

Seagate claims fastest 500G notebook drive

It might have rivals from Samsung and Western Digital, but hard disk maker Seagate claims its 500 G Momentus 5400.6 notebook drive has the highest areal density and the fastest data transfer rate in its class.

The 16GB barrier has been broken for the microSDHC and M2 (Memory Stick Micro) formats with SanDisk set to launch 16GB models in October. It gives added weight to its “Wake up your phone” campaign, forces phone manufacturers to work on firmware updates that are 16GB compatible and further shames Apple into rethinking its policy of omitting memory card expansion for its mobile devices.

Published in Fuzzy Logic
Is a new format for physical music sales sufficient to stem the online tide, or will the iTunes Store and other download services continue to rule the roost?

Published in Entertainment
Wednesday, 04 June 2008 12:31

SanDisk pushes SSDs for UMPCs

A new range of solid state drives (SSDs) intended for use in low-cost and ultra-mobile PCs will arrive from SanDisk in August.

Yes, it’s a Memory Stick with a mouthful of a name: the Sandisk Extreme III Memory Stick Pro-HG Duo, and with read/write speeds of 30MB per sec, it’s the fastest yet! Sony device owners, start your engines!

Published in Fuzzy Logic
Since 1979, when Seagate was called Shugart and the first hard drive stored a mere 5 megabytes, Seagate has shipped 1 billion hard drives and says it’s the first company to do so. 116,000 Terabytes are shipped each day – more than 1TB per second!

Published in Fuzzy Logic
Sunday, 06 April 2008 11:02

The 3G iPhone cometh... soon?

With the second coming of the 3G JesusPhone said to be nearly upon us, rapturous excitement is breaking out across the web. Those who haven’t yet converted to the religion of the iPhone must now await the passage of around 60 days to see if the rumours are right!

Published in Mobility
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