Posts filed under 'Storage'
Panasonic’s
Toughbooks are designed to withstand abuse from workers with ‘in the field jobs’ that might bump, knock, drop or scratch their laptops. SentrySafe hopes to complement those laptops with a new breed of
hard drives
that are fire and water resistant. Inside sits a Maxtor OneTouch 4 Mini
hard drive and thanks to Sentry Safe’s special casing can withstand temperatures of 1,500 degrees F for 30 minutes and can survive submersion in water for up to 24 hours.
SentrySafe hard drives come in 80GB ($260) and 160GB ($340) models.
More info here.
[Gearlog]
March 24th, 2008
What can I say, it’s just one of those days. The details on this product, the Cellink M, aren’t entirely clear, but from the looks of it, it doubles as a USB plug for compatible phones (not sure on the serial port) and can also be used as a USB
memory stick. It might also be a ‘mobile charger’ according to some text slapped on the outer casing of the device, but I don’t see how it accomplishes that. Lastly, it looks like it can also work as an SD
memory card reader.
More pics after the ‘leap’
[Aving]
March 21st, 2008
If you’re running low on space on your
PS3’s HD and have a 3.5″SATA HDD, then you’ll want this cable to connect the two and expand your storage. Looks like it’s probably only available in Japan, but if you get over there the model number is CRGM-BK2 and it’s made by Century.
[Akihabaranews]
March 10th, 2008
I can’t tell you how many times I’ve gotten fed up with the rat’s nest of cords created from charging all my devices. Bluelounge’s Multi-device (and they mean multi) Charging Tray clears the cord clutter by neatly integrating it into one box with up to 10 adapters: Nokia, Samsung, Audiovox, Kyocera, Palm, LG,
Sony Ericsson, Apple, Mini-USB, and USB.
Available here for $129 and comes in black or white.
[Gadgetgrid]
March 9th, 2008
Corsair will show off its newest USB Thumb stick, the Flash Voyager GT, at CeBIT next week. What makes it so special, aside from its memory capacity (2 - 32GB), are its transfer rates which are 4 times faster than standard USB 2.0 drives. Additionally, the drive is shock resistant (yeah, it’s flash memory), water resistant and includes a 10 year warranty with ‘on demand support’.
Available here and other retailers at a max price of $170.
February 28th, 2008
MetaRAM, a company founded by AMD’s former CTO, claims to have invented a single DIMM 8GB RAM module. Currently DIMM RAM capacity is maxed out at 2GB. Its founders, Fred Weber, a former chief technology officer of AMD for a decade, and Suresh Rajan, a former Nvidia executive said they’ve used “a sort of 3D stacking technique to maximize how much memory fits aboard the chip, then using a proprietary controller to trick the host computer into thinking it’s an ordinary memory module”. Ultimately, and to MetaRAM’s point. the new 8GB single DIMM memory chips should cut the cost of adding new memory chips to servers by 90% - just replace the old 2GB chips without having to upgrade to new and often costly hardware. Expect MetaRAM’s memory modules to start showing up in servers at the end of ‘08, but don’t expect them in laptops anytime soon.
Via Digitaltrends
February 26th, 2008
Google will begin to offer a web based storage system in the coming months - no word on official release date just yet. Dubbed “My Stuff” - at least that’s the internal name - will be free and then cost the user a few green backs (no word on price) if they’d like additional storage beyond a certain point. Google intends to make the service seamless, such that you can access the device from your desktop, or phone, as if it were an external
hard drive on your desktop - bandwidth allowing of course. A number of services, such as iBackup and Yahoo’s Briefcase, already exist. Just do a Google search for ‘free online storage’ or checkout the below chart (credit to WSJ). Currently, Google offers a number of free storage systems such Picasa for pictures and GMAIL email (it can be modified to serve as storage system). The addition of “My Stuff” to Google’s arsenal of free tools is yet another means of pushing folks to a ‘web based computing world’ where they can monetize your eyeballs.
Google Plans Service to Store Users’ Data [WSJ]
November 27th, 2007
In an effort to stay on top, Google is changing their ‘email capacity algorithm’. Makes sense considering today’s file sizes - especially photo file sizes - are growing every year. Course our compression technology will get better and so will the cost of storage.
Here’s how the storage increase will break out:
- 2912MB by October 11, 2007 midnight Google time
- 4.2GB by the 23rd of this month
- 6GB by January 4th next year
- 42GB by the year of 2038
- 2.70266701 × 1072 TB* by 1/2/3456 7:00
Gmail To Increase Email Capacity With New Counter Algorithm [SearchEngineLand]
October 15th, 2007
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