Toshiba confirm plans for Blu-Ray powered products
Toshiba has announced that they are going to launch Blu-Ray technology powered products in the coming months.
The company would launch standalone players along with drives and laptops.
The first generation products from the company could go on sale as early as later this year.
Toshiba incidentally was the company [...]
Apple launches a 2 TB Time Capsule
Mac maker Apple has launched a new variant of their Time Capsule device.
The company is now offering a 2TB version of the Time Capsule.
This model is for sale for USD 499. Incidentally, this was the price tag of the existing 1 TB Model.
Apple has dropped the price of the [...]
General Electric develops a 500 GB media Disc
General Electric has announced that they have managed to develop a media disc that is capable of storing 500GB of data.
This is equivalent to storing data worth around 100 regular DVD discs.
The company said that the disc was developed using a technology named “micro-holographic storage”.
This [...]
Western Digital launches a 2TB external hard drive
Storage solutions provider Western Digital has announced the launch of their latest product.
Western Digital is now offering a 2TB My Book external hard drive.
The company claimed that this is the first product in the market with so much capacity in a single drive system.
WD [...]
Dell offers 256GB SSD on some laptops
US based personal computer maker Dell is now offering a 256GB solid state drive as an option on some of their laptop models.
Customers opting for Dell’s XPS M1330 and M1730 laptop lines can now opt for this drive for around USD 400.
The company has stated that they plan [...]
SanDisk push button backup USB drive launched
SanDisk has announced the launch of their latest USB Flash drives.
Some of these models feature push button backup functionality which the company claims is unique to these drives.
The company said that these flash drives come loaded with its own built-in backup software solution, which is available when [...]
Samsung now mass producing 256GB SSDs
South Korean tech giant Samsung has announced that they are now mass producing 256GB solid state drives.
These drives could soon be available in laptops from major PC manufacturers around the world.
Samsung claims that this is the highest capacity available on SSDs in the market yet.
It is already available on [...]
SanDisk promises much faster solid state drives!
SanDisk has announced that they would soon launch solid state drives which would be much faster than the products currently available in the market.
The company talked about their new advanced flash file system which SanDisk claims can accelerate random write speeds by up to 100 times over existing systems.
This [...]
Psystar launches Mac OS X compatible machines with Blu-Ray drives
Steve Jobs recently stated that the Blu-Ray storage format technology was a bag of hurt.
Apparently, Apple is still not prepared to bet on the Blu-Ray format for the Apple Mac platform.
Psystar thinks otherwise.
The company which is facing a lawsuit from Apple has announced the launch [...]
Amazon S3 now cheaper for heavy users
Amazon has announced a change in the pricing for their Amazon S3 service.
The price update would only affect users who use a lot of resources on the service.
The service still charges a monthly fee of 15 cents per gigabyte of storage.
But the rates drop as the [...]
