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Seems like everyone’s aching to store your files, these days — Dropbox, Sugar Sync, that new startup, Google. Logmein’s gotten into the game as well, launching its Cubby service in beta earlier this year, letting folks share files on their Windows machines, Macs and iOS and Android devices. The company’s looking to entice interested parties by offering up 1GB of storage for users who refer a friend to the service. Also new is unlimited sharing of “Cubbies” and a refreshed iOS app.

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Western Digital has come out with a new line of 3.5-inch internal HDDs, the WD Red. Designed specifically for home and small office NAS servers, these HDDs (1TB, 2TB and 3TB models) are equipped with a 64MB of cache memory, a SATA 6.0 Gbps interface, an MTBF of 1 million hours and WD’s exclusive NASware technology. The 1TB, 2TB and 3TB models are priced at $109, $139 and $189, respectively. [Western Digital]

Just how loyal must you be to deserve Dropbox’s latest slathering of free storage? Well, that’s not exactly clear, but some early subscribers to the 25GB Pro option have been receiving emails congratulating them on having “a ton of cred” and telling them they’ll “no longer receive a bill” for the rest of time — unless of course they choose to upgrade to one of the doubled-up plans announced yesterday. Generous? Sure, but then again it wasn’t exactly fair that folks were paying for 25GB when some non-premium members were swanning around with upwards of 50GB simply for buying a nice phone or uploading a few photos. So, consider it justice.

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Dropbox rewards early Pro members by stopping their bills originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 12 Jul 2012 03:33:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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The SSD market has finally reached the point where we can afford to be picky, but the M5S’s blend of price and performance make it worth a look. It claims random reads / writes of up to 73k and 70k IOPS respectively, supported by Plextor’s True Speed technology to deliver consistent rates even as the drive fills up, along with price tags of $99 for 64GB, $160 for 128GB and $299 for 256GB. The M5S has already been given the once-over by The SSD Review, which found nothing much to criticize other than the lack of a five-year warranty (as seen on the MS3) and overall gave it hearty recommendation — check the More Coverage link for the full review.

Continue reading Plextor M5S SSD coming mid-July: healthy speeds starting at $99 for 64GB

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Plextor M5S SSD coming mid-July: healthy speeds starting at $99 for 64GB originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 11 Jul 2012 18:36:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Western Digital (WD) has just announced that its WD 2go app now communicates with Dropbox and lets users copy, more, rename and delete files on Dropbox and the Western Digital personal cloud devices. This means that users can easily have a cloud copy of their data, and/or extend the storage which is managed via WD2go.

This is an important step for Western Digital as its software has been traditionally locked to its own devices, but the company recognizes that supporting a leading 3rd party storage system can benefit WD users, and ultimately WD itself. After all, the cloud may provide virtually unlimited storage, but local storage is still king when it comes to how convenient and fast this access is. For example, web uploads often have a relatively low limit in how big each files can be (300MB on Dropbox). When that happens, it is possible to upload a file to the WD box, and share a direct link to it.

WD 2go is a free application that run on iOS and Android, and now we are wondering if other cloud storage systems such as Amazon S3 or Box will be integrated in the future.

By Ubergizmo. Related articles: WD 2go Pro Mobile App for Personal Cloud, Dropbox for Android 4.0 updated with video streaming capabilities,