Archive for 'Storage Devices'
Toshiba produces the thinnest optical disk drive
6 June 2007These days Toshiba Company announced the first optical disk drive for laptops, which can record disks in HD-DVD-RW format. The new disk drive is as well the thinnest drive in the world - only 0,5000 inches.
It is informed, that record speed of disks with high clearness makes only 1Ñ…, and it means that the drive [...]
Samsung`s memory-cards has reached 8GB
22 May 2007South-Korean company Samsung has declared creation of a 8 GB microSD memory-card - which, according to the developers, is enough for storage of 2000 sound recordings in MP3format, 4000 pictures or five DVD-quality films.
As it is known, nowadays SD cards are widely used in portable electronics.
The tiny version of microSD-cards has hold return compatibility with [...]
Samsung Sense R55: first laptop with hybrid HDD enters the market
26 April 2007Soon buyers can choose according to their needs a laptop, equipped with 80-, 120- or 160- GB hybrid HDD supplied with 128 or 256 Mb flash-memory OneNAND. Flash-memory is used by Vista ReadyDrive technology and allows reducing time of the personal computer loading, to increase time of battery life and to increase productivity.
In the rest [...]
1 terabyte hard disk computers came into the US market
16 April 2007Computers Zone 51 with hard disk capacity in one terabyte came into the market in the USA.
This is - billion byte of the information, or - if printed - 50 billion sheets. To produce such amount of paper manufacturers would need 50 thousand trees. This new “winchester” is able to store 380 hours (about 16 [...]
Samsung puts on the market 1,8-inch SSD 64 GB
2 April 2007The next Samsung novelty is the solid-state drive (SSD) on the flash-memory basis. The volume of the product executed in the form - factor of 1,8 inches equals 64 GB. In the basis of submitted SSD - SLC NAND chips of 8 GB density. Application of SLC as they affirm, has allowed to increase the [...]
