Archive for 'Storage Devices'

US inventors have created alternative to Blu-ray and HD DVD

15 February 2008

American company V Media Research has created compact alternative to Blu-ray and HD DVD - disk V Media, which is only 3,8×3,8 centimeters.
A new disk also uses blue lasers for reading. The novelty can store only 1 GB, but due to its compactness it can be used in any portable devices.
Developers inform, that quality [...]

First high speed NAND product from Micron

8 February 2008

On February, 1 Micron has presented high-speed flash-memory NAND. Reading speed of a new memory-store makes 200 MB per second, and speed of record - up to 100 MB per second.
Usual NAND devices have reading speed no more than 40 MB, and speed of record makes less than 20 MB.
New storage is created [...]

USB 3.0 in Las Vegas

11 January 2008

During the exhibition CES 2008 in Las Vegas, experts have presented for the first time slots and prototypes of USB 3.0 interface for data exchange, informs Engadget.
The new standard, for the first time declared last autumn, will allow to transmit information with a speed up to 600 megabyte per second. For comparison, previous USB version [...]

Buffalo has announced 100 GB USB-drive

26 December 2007

Company Buffalo informed about fast release of the new pocket USB-drive UHR100GS, which can contain up to 100 GB. The sizes of the device are comparable with a credit card, and the weight makes only 60 g, informs Engadget.
To achieve so high capacity the manufacturer had to take advantage of two different types of [...]

Fujitsu promises 320 GB winchester for laptops by February

6 December 2007

Fujitsu has announced 320-GB HDD for laptops which is expected to be put on sale in February, 2008, informs Reg Hardware.
Winchester MHZ2 BH weights about 100 g, is equipped with 8 MB of buffer storage and SPI SATA with throughput in 3 Gbit/second.
HDD is capable to carry load impact in 900g in the [...]

Europeans give preference to Blu-ray

30 November 2007

Europeans, as well as Americans, give preference to Blu-ray High Definition format, which has been shown by the statistical data. From the beginning of the year more than 1 million Blu-ray-disks (BD) has been sold in Europe, that has made about 73 % of all sold high definition carriers. HD DVD sales have made 27 [...]

New generation of Solid-State Disks

12 November 2007

Company Samsung has presented the new generation of 64 GB Solid-State Disks (SSD) based on 50-nano-meter 8 GB single-level flash-memory microchip, informs DailyTech.
Technologies, which are the base for new generation of stores, provide, according to developers, data reading speed from the device in 120 MB per second and recording speed at a level of 100 [...]

Leadtek presents new hi-end video cards

9 November 2007

The Taiwan manufacturer of graphic solutions Leadtek Research presents new hi-end video cards for gamers, WinFast PX8800 GT and PX8800 GT Extreme. In the company mark, that cooling system, which needs only one slot, and 112 data flow processors raise productivity by 10-35 % in comparison to competing products.
New cards are graphic processor Nvidia [...]

320 GB HDD for laptops has gone on sale

6 November 2007

It is difficult to find a laptop with memory more than 200 GB, anyway, with one Winchester drive. The new product from Western Digital (WD) can solve this problem. One of these days the company has started sales of 320 GB HDD for mobile personal computers, informs Reg Hardware.
WD3200BEVS, which is made in 2,5 [...]

Sony offers 80 GB for storage of family photos

29 October 2007

There are some ways for digital photos import. First, they can be recorded with the help of the built-in device for memory cards reading, second, with the help of the built-in recording CD/DVD-drive, thirdly, to copy from a personal computer - for this purpose there is Ethernet port. Besides built-in USB interface allows to keep [...]

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