Archive for the ‘Hard Drives & Storage’ Category

Samsung first with 20-nm NAND Flash

Let it sink in, 20 nanometers. It wasn’t that long ago when 45-nm manufacturing processes were all the rage. Now we’ve got Samsung following Toshiba with a sub-25nm flash memory announcement all its own. Samsung’s 20-nm class 32Gb (gigabit) MLC NAND is sampling now, however, for use in embedded memory solutions and SD memory cards ranging from 4GB [...]

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OCZ bids for solid state throne with new Vertex 2 and Agility 2 SSDs

For the past nine months, Intel’s X25-M G2 has been the solid state drive to beat, and manufacture as it might, rival OCZ hasn’t been able to mass produce a SSD capable of matching its fantastic all-around performance. The original Vertex 2 Pro might have done the trick, but the company scrapped it after the speedy SandForce [...]

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RED Station makes modular storage look good

ARRI may have attracted the majority of attention from camera nerds at this year’s NAB show with its ALEXA camera, but RED is making a respectable showing itself, and has now introduced its new RED Station modular storage unit. That consists of a typically RED-looking base station, along with either a CompactFlash card reader module or [...]

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Dane-Elec comes clean with external USB 3.0 HDDs / SSDs

It’s been almost an entire year since we heard a peep from the good lads and ladies at Dane-Elec, but those very individuals have today informed us that a few USB 3.0 drives are on the way from its labs. ‘Course, we’d like to point out that it’s being a little ambitious with that whole “world’s first” thing, but given the [...]

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Origin unveils 750GB and 1TB Data Locker encrypted external HDDs

Origin Storage’s extra-capacious Data Locker Secure Drive is certainly the one to get if you’re paranoid about whatever it is you’d keep on such a large platter. Also available in 750GB, 500GB and 320GB models, the drives are secured by AES hardware encryption and a 6 to 18 digit PIN number which must be entered [...]

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