With fewer and fewer computers packing an optical drive, you might be under the impression that the accompanying media is dead. Not if you’re to believe Sony and Panasonic, who are planning to develop a next-gen optical disc with capacity of at least 300GB.
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These days, it’s fairly easy to find a PCI Express-based SSD to transform one’s desktop — Angelbird, Fusion-io, Micron and ASUS will sell you one, just to name a few. That said, the last of those three has just revealed a new entrant that will certainly catch the eye of many, as the RAIDR Express claims to be the first PCI-e SSD to be compatible with both legacy and UEFI BIOS. The so-called DuoMode feature is joined by 240GB of storage space, sequential 830MB/s read and 810MB/s write speeds and a reported 620,000 hours mean time between failure (MTBF).
You’ll also find the latest LSI SandForce controller, Toshiba-built 19nm MLC flash, and 100,000 4K read/write input/output operations per second (IOPS). The bundled RAMDisk utility allows users to dedicate up to 80 percent of a computer’s available RAM for use as a high-speed virtual drive, and if you needed any further proof that it’s fast, look no further than in the video after the break. Curiously, ASUS isn’t talking pricing just yet, but it should start shipping in the very near future.
Filed under: Gaming, Storage, ASUS
Via: PC Perspective, Engadget Japanese
Source: ASUS
ASUS has dropped their latest PCIe SSD, the RAIDR Express PCIe SSD. Coming in 240GB capacity, this high-speed PCIe SSD is equipped with 19nm MLC NAND flash memory chips, a PCI-Express 2.0 (x2) interface, a Marvell 9230 RAID controller, 2x SandForce SF-2281 SSD controllers, a MTBF of 620,000 hours and capable of delivering read and write speeds of up to 830MB/s and 810MB/s, respectively. The RAIDR Express PCIe SSD retails for 40,000 Yen (about $402). [ASUS]
Elecom has come out with a new line of ultra-small USB flash drives, the MF-KSU2A. Available in 16GB and 32GB capacities, these tiny USB flash drives feature a USB 2.0 connection interface and make use of the PASS (Password Authentication Security System) for data protection. The MF-KSU2A will start shipping from late July, prices unannounced yet. [Elecom]
Asustor is proud to announce their latest 4-bay NAS server, the AS-304T. Designed for home office users, this compact NAS server is packed with a 1.6GHz Intel Atom dual-core processor, a 1GB DDR3 RAM, four 2.5-/3.5-inch SATA HDD/SSD bays, a built-in HD multimedia player, 2x USB 3.0 ports, 2x USB 2.0 ports, Gigabit Ethernet, 1x HDMI output port and a built-in 120mm cooling fan. The AS-304T will begin shipping from late July for 60,000 Yen (about $603). [Asustor]
We hope you weren’t just getting used to having 2GB of RAM in a smartphone, because Samsung is already moving on. The company is now mass-producing 3GB LPDDR3 packages whose 0.8mm (0.03in) thickness can accommodate most device sizes. The capacious, 20nm-class memory should also be quick when there’s a pair of symmetric channels to keep data flowing. The first smartphones with 3GB of RAM should ship in the second half of the year; Samsung isn’t revealing which phones will have the honor, but it’s not hard to make some educated guesses.
Filed under: Storage, Mobile, Samsung
Source: Samsung
At some point, competition and catch-up should iron out many of the differences between rival cloud storage platforms. For now though, each option focuses on slightly different things, and Stream Nation’s main specialism is private video streaming, which it has just made accessible to users in the US, UK and elsewhere. Unlike Flickr Pro or Dropbox, for example, there’s no limit to the length or file size of a video clip that can be streamed to someone else’s browser. The service’s founder, Jonathan Benassaya, who also co-founded Deezer, says he originally designed it to help him share vacation videos with his family.
Then again, there are few hold-ups to consider: you need to install an uploader application to store photos and videos, unless you’re grabbing them from Dropbox or elsewhere on the web, and from our experience the whole process is rather slow — it took a good 20 minutes to encode a 90MB clip we brought over from Dropbox. Furthermore, you can only share a video with people who are also registered on Stream Nation, and you have to pay for anything over 2GB (or suffer the indignity of inviting all your Google contacts, which nets you a bonus 8GB). So yeah, this won’t suit everyone, especially if they need unlimited space or if their friends and family are savvy enough to know what to do with a Dropbox link, but it might just come in handy.
Filed under: Misc, Storage, Internet, HD, Mobile
Source: Stream Nation
Smartphones and tablets are great for so many things, but file-sharing is not one of them. Transferring things to and from mobile devices is painful and annoying, like a rash. But today, we get a refreshing salve.
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Wireless storage and streaming solutions have been around for awhile, and most of the big storage companies have out their own version of wireless storage, mostly in the form of a hard drive that you can connect to wirelessly if you’re short on space on your mobile device. However, SanDisk is implementing a different method that includes nothing but a flash drive.
SanDisk’s new Connect line of devices aims to help you out with transferring files between your computer and mobile device, whether it’d be a smartphone or tablet. There are two products in the Connect line. First, there’s a flash drive that crams in up to 32GB of storage, as well as WiFi and a microSD card slot. Just plug it into your computer and you can transfer files to it. Then, your mobile device can connect directly to the flash drive to obtain the files, or vice versa.
There’s also a larger Roku-sized SanDisk Connect box that comes with a full-size SD card slot and a twice the battery life of the flash drive. However, it only tops out at 32GB, but the added SD card slot can bump that up quite a bit. The box may be a better option for those who want to quickly transfer photos from their camera to their devices quickly and easily.
The only catch is that you’ll have to use SanDisk’s own mobile apps in order to transfer files to and from devices using the flash drive or box. This can either be fine or really bad depending on how easy the app is to use, but seeing as how you’ll be forced to use a specific app, we’re guessing that’s something that users will have to live with.
As for pricing and availability, the flash drive will start at $49 for the 16GB, with the 32GB version costing $59. The larger box will cost $79 and only comes in a 32GB model. The 32GB flash drive seems like the better deal to us, but we’re letting you be the judge of that. SanDisk says that the Connect line will be available sometime next month.
SOURCE: SanDisk
SanDisk Connect arrives for wireless storage and streaming to mobile devices is written by Craig Lloyd & originally posted on SlashGear.
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Sandisk has just revealed a couple of brand new products: the Sandisk Connect Wireless Flash Drive (16GB-32GB), and Sandisk Connect Wireless Media Drive. Both are WiFi-based storage units and the main idea behind them is to serve mobile devices like […]
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