Storage Media, Drives & Devices

We can think of exactly one reason Samsung still won’t dish out a price on its completely mind-melting 256GB FlashSSD: because those that have to know, can’t afford. The drive, which was announced way back in May of the year two-thousand and eight, doubles the performance rates of the firm’s 64GB and 128GB SSDs. More specifically,

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Seagate kicked out a couple of FreeAgent Go hard drives a few months back, but it’s now gone all out and let loose an even more colorful batch in the hope of attracting a bit more attention among holiday shoppers — as usual, Festivus revelers luck out year ’round with the ever-present, aluminum pole-matching silver option. From the looks of it, the drives are still available in the same 250GB, 320GB, and 500GB capacitiies as before for $120, $150, and $200, respectively, and those that register their drives between November 28th and New Year’s day will get a bonus multimedia package including 50 free songs from eMusic and some other goodies.

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Jealous your almost instantly-obsolete Eee PC doesn’t have that speedy new SSD with integrated controller ASUS is using in newer models? Well, Runcore’s got you covered — it’s just launched a line of MLC SSDs with similar integrated controllers that offer 70Mbps read and 50Mbps write speeds. Even better, they’re pretty damn cheap: just $70 for 16GB, $199 for 64GB, and a slightly less cheap $389 for 128GB. Sadly, they’re mini-PCIe, so you probably can’t go sticking them in your daily driver machine for a little speed boost, but you can’t have it all, Chico.

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One of the best time to buy a new large capacity thumb drive! SanDisk is offering up to 30% discount on all 16GB usb thumb drives as well as flash cards during its 16GB Sale through November 23. The sad part? Quantities are very limited - so hurry and place your order today!

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It’s been a while since we’ve seen anything truly interesting in the thumbdrive space, but this certainly qualifies. Kanguru has taken a regular-looking USB 2.0 flash drive and slapped an eSATA plug on the other end, finally breaking the performance barrier for thumbdrives. The eSATA is powered, and Kanguru tossed in a eSATA + Power bracket and eSATA + Power cable for whichever scenarios might present themselves. With an increasing number of laptops housing eSATA plugs these days — not to mention all the other great scenarios that present themselves here — we’d say the time is exactly right for this kind of mojo. Kanguru is shipping these now in 16GB ($85) and 32GB ($120) capacities, and will add a 64GB version in January of 2009.

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FYI Samsung just started the Mass production of its 256GB SSD, which apparently has better performance than the previous SSDs from Samsung with a sequential read rates of 220MB/s (megabytes per second) and sequential write rates of 200MB/s.

So if you were holding on to jump into the SSD world due to the lack of performances or simply because 128GB is not enough for you, well just wait a little longer and Samsung will have exactly what you were waiting for !

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Oh hey, welcome to 500GB laptop drive announcement party Toshiba. Shame you had to come dressed in the same 9.5-mm slab, 2.5-inch 3Gbps SATA interface, 1.4 watt idle power draw, 5,400rpm spin, and 25dB hum as everyone else in the room. Pretty, but still embarrassing. No full-disk, hardware encryption but at least you can take comfort at besting some (but not all) of your competition by actually shipping your drive in December.

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Hitachi Maxell will launch Professional Disc with rewritable 50GB recording capacity worldwide in December 2008, offering compatibility with dual layer Professional Disc system for Sony XDCAM system. Maxell’s new Professional Disc PD-50DL is a recording media which is specially designed for Professional Broadcasting optical disc system XDCAM, offering high capacity storage and fast transfer rate by introducing a blue-violet laser. Incorporated dual-layer structure on one side and optimized recording layer which is ideal for high density recording, Maxell achieved enormous 50GB recording capacity in addition to high dependability which was enabled by precise spin-coating and durable hard-coating technology.

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Hitachi Maxell will launch the world’s first iVDR for commercial broadcasting, iVDR Xtreme, which features significantly higher shock resistance, and a compatible adapter from December. Maxell iVDR Xtreme features heightened shock resistance and outstanding functionality for editing processes in broadcasting operations. The reverberation of external shocks from the case to the hard disc drive is inhibited by a buffer material that separates the hard disc drive from the case. Consequently, iVDR Xtreme is resistant to shocks from falls of 140cm. The compatible adaptor for iVDR Xtreme incorporates USB and IEEE 1394b (FireWire 800) interfaces.

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Kingston’s DataTraveler DT150 USB flash drive has reached the 64GB storage mark, making it the top dog of DataTraveler USB drives. Chances are you won’t run out of space unless you really really love video. The size makes it a great portable backup drive. The Kingston DataTraveler 150 works with Windows Vista, XP, Windows 2000, Mac OS X 10.3 and Linux 2.6 and above. Your $177 purchase will get you a five-year warranty and 24/7 tech support too.

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