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Seagate certainly isn’t new to the wireless external hard drive business — they released the Satellite drive a couple months ago, and they’re back here at CES 2013 to show off the successor to the Satellite, the Wireless Plus. We ended up getting our hands on the new storage solution to see what this new edition offers.

Essentially, Seagate booted up the storage to 1TB (from 500GB), doubled the battery life (now 10 hours), made it smaller, and kept the price the same as its predecessor ($199). The drive comes with the company’s adapter system, where you can plug in and swap out different interfaces (even Thunderbolt) and use it as a normal external hard drive.

As far as size and weight, the Wireless Plus is still a bit large, but it’s smaller than its predecessor and is only barely larger than Seagate’s regular hard drives. It can also connect up to eight mobile devices over its WiFi network, which by the way creates its own WiFi network to connect to tablets and smartphones, so there’s no need to be around a home WiFi network.

The Wireless Plus comes with a USB 3.0 adapter to use as a regular hard drive, and it’s priced at $199. Pre-orders start today, and the device is expected to ship in 1-2 weeks.

Seagate Wireless Plus WiFi hard drive hands-on is written by Craig Lloyd & originally posted on SlashGear.
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Here comes a new line of SSDs from SanDisk, the Ultra Plus. Available in 64GB, 128GB and 256GB sizes, these 2.5-inch SSDs are packed with 19nm MLC NAND Flash memory chips, a SATA 6.0 Gbps interface, a Marvell controller, a MTBF of 2 million hours and capable of delivering read/write speeds of up to 520/155 MB/s (64GB Model), 530/290 MB/s (128GB Model) and 530/445 MB/s (256GB Model), respectively. The 64GB, 128GB and 256GB models are priced at $120, $170 and $250, respectively. [Product Page]

Yes, we’re back in magical Las Vegas. And while it was tough getting it through airport security, for the second year in a row, we’ve brought our stage with us. Starting Tuesday, we’ll be spending the week talking tech with some of CES’s biggest and most innovative companies. You can lock into an on-going livestream of the week’s events after the break and check out a full schedule of interviews just below that (Note: All of the below times are listed in ET).

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We’ve certainly seen 1TB flash drives before, but today at CES, Kingston unveiled the world’s highest-capacity USB 3.0 flash drive, the HyperX Predator, with a capacity of 1TB — 1,024 large, sweet gigabytes. While the high capacity usually gets priority over speed in most flash drives, Kingston’s Predator doesn’t skimp on that, promising read/write speeds of up to 240MB/s and 160MB/s, respectively.

It’s certainly not as fast as most of the SSDs that ship in many of today’s laptops, but it’s definitely plenty fast for a storage device that fits in your pocket, and we’re assuming that most people won’t expect SSD-type speeds anyway, considering it’s just a flash drive and nothing more.

The HyperX Predator comes in at a size of 2.84″ x 1.06″ x 0.82″ without the attached keyring, and it jumps to 3.49″ long with it on. It’s a pretty average size for a flash drive, so don’t expect anything spectacular in that respect once you get your hands on it. Either way, it’s still plenty portable to take with wherever you go, and the zinc metal alloy casing keeps it safe from the elements.

The 1TB HyperX Predator will be available later in Q1, and while the price hasn’t been disclosed yet, the 512GB version of the same flash drive model is available now for a staggering $1,750, so we’re guessing the 1TB version will be at least double that. The company is also releasing 32GB and 64GB versions for those who don’t quite want to spend that much dough.

Kingston announces HyperX Predator 1TB USB 3.0 flash drive is written by Craig Lloyd & originally posted on SlashGear.
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[CES 2013] Solid State Drives (SSDs) are becoming more common by the day, and it doesn’t look like the trend is going to stop. At CES 2013, SanDisk has announced the launch of two more SSDs: the Ultra Plus SSD and X110 SSD. While the latter is for OEMs to create new faster and slimmer devices, the Ultra Plus SSD is designed for consumers who want a high performance drive.

The Ultra Plus SSD delivers up to 530MB/sec sequential read and up to 445MB/sec sequential write speeds, so if you’re looking for a huge performance boost on your PC, you can’t go wrong with picking up one of these SATA 3.0 bad boys. The SanDisk Ultra Plus SSD is available now in 64GB, 128GB, and 256GB capacities, and priced at $74.99, $109.99, and $219.99 respectively.

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