Archive for 'Storage Devices'
Europeans give preference to Blu-ray
30 November 2007Europeans, 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 2007Company 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 2007The 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 2007It 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 2007There 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 [...]
Samsung has created first-ever 30-nanometer flesh-memory module
26 October 2007Developers from Samsung have managed to create the first 30-nanometer flesh-memory module with cells capacity in 8GB, informs TG Daily.
The novelty is Multi Level Cell (MLC) based which consists in use of multilevel cells for data storage.
According to developers, standard MLC-stores have capacity up to 2GB, therefore to achieve quadruple increase in store capacity [...]
Sony produces second generation Blu-ray-drive
19 October 2007Sonу Electronics has announced computer Blu-ray-drive of second generation BWU-200S, able to record BD-R disks on 4х speed and DVD±R on 16x speed. The device records BD-R twice faster, than drives of the last generation, - burning of 50-GB Blu-ray-disk takes about 45 minutes.
The drive is made in 5,25 inches form-factor with SATA interface [...]
Hitachi has developed 100 GB Blu-ray-disk
10 October 2007The Japanese manufacturer of electronics, Hitachi has informed about the development of four-layer Blu-ray-disk, containing 100 GB that is twice higher than capacity of the standard drive, informs PCPRO.co.uk.
Companies TDK and Panasonic have informed earlier, that they have managed to achieve similar recording density, but developed by them disks demanded special optical heads for reading. [...]
SanDisk Cruzer Micro: new 8 GB flash memory
12 September 2007SanDisk has officially added in a series of Cruzer Micro new model for 8 GB.
The case of a model is made in traditions of a series. The additional capacity, according to SanDisk, allows to keep in addition on the average up to 2000 musical compositions or up to 5 hours of typical “home” video.
Windows users [...]
New portable flash-carriers from A-Data Technology
7 September 2007The list of novelties includes 16-GB card Turbo SDHC Class 6, 8-GB Super SDHC Duo and 32-GB Speedy Compact Flash.
Memory-cards from A-Data Technology has twice larger capacity, than the majority of similar format carriers submitted in the modern market.
The manufacturer believes that these models will suit demands of digital cameras owners, those? Whi have pocket [...]
