Jan 05

Clickfree aims at the suits with Traveler for BlackBerry auto backup card

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Clickfree already showcased a trio of new automatic backup devices, but it managed to save just one for dexterous crowd: the Traveler for BlackBerry. Similar in design to the Traveler SD, this 16GB microSD card is tailor made to slip inside of your BlackBerry and then backup critical information from your PC or Mac. This one’s aimed primarily at business travelers, who are entirely more likely to have their BlackBerry on them than some random hard drive. If 16GB just won’t cut it, the company is expected to reveal larger versions a little later in the year. The process works as such: slap the card within your phone, connect it to your PC via USB and watch as the software syncs new files and creates a backup of anything that has changed. It’ll start shipping by April for a lofty $89.99 (16GB) / $149.99 (32GB), so make sure you can plop this thing on that corporate card before mashing “go.”

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Clickfree aims at the suits with Traveler for BlackBerry auto backup card originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 06 Jan 2010 00:01:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Jan 05

OCZ unveils ultraslim USB 3.0 external SSD, Vertex 2 and new PCI-e SSDs

Posted in: external hard drive, ExternalHardDrive, solid state drive, SolidStateDrive, SSD, storage, Today's Chili, usb, usb 3.0, Usb3.0

OCZ has a thing for pumping out some pretty swank concepts at trade shows, and sure enough, the company’s storming onto the CES floor with a number of drool-worthy introductions. Up first (and dearest to our hearts) is the ultrathin USB 3.0 external solid state drive, which offers up a 5Gb/sec transfer rate and should ship in 64GB, 128GB and 256GB capacities. Someday, for some price. The outfit is also dishing out the Vertex 2 line of MLC-based internal SSDs as well as a second-generation PCI-Express design that’s aimed for the enterprise crowd. Specifics are few and far between, but we’re hoping to get a little hands-on time (with as many details as we can gather) soon. Really soon.

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OCZ unveils ultraslim USB 3.0 external SSD, Vertex 2 and new PCI-e SSDs originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 06 Jan 2010 00:01:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Jan 05

Seagate unveils USB 3.0 BlackArmor PS110 hard drive

Posted in: Features, hands-on, hard drive, HardDrive, storage, Today's Chili, usb, usb 3.0, Usb3.0

You knew it wouldn’t be long before Seagate hopped on the USB 3.0 bandwagon, right? Right. Here in Vegas, the company just announced its BlackArmor PS110, which is its first USB 3.0 portable HDD. What makes this one a touch different than the rest is the “performance kit” that it ships in, which is comprised of a 500GB USB 3.0 HDD (a 2.5-incher with a 7200RPM spindle speed), a power cable and an ExpressCard USB 3.0 adapter. ‘Course, your shiny new MacBook won’t take too kindly to this type of gesture — but hey, at least you can read SD cards without breaking a sweat! The kit is up for purchase right now for $179.99, and if you’re looking to take a closer look before pulling the trigger, you’ll find our hands-on below along with a glance at a for-demonstration-only 7mm 2.5-inch drive that was first announced last month.

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Seagate unveils USB 3.0 BlackArmor PS110 hard drive originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 05 Jan 2010 23:45:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Jan 04

ioSafe’s Solo SSD ditches platters, isn’t worried about buildings collapsing on it

Posted in: rugged, solid state drive, SolidStateDrive, SSD, storage, Today's Chili

Remember when ioSafe unveiled its original Solo right around this time last year? Man, that thing’s looking mighty sluggish now. This year, the company is introducing the Solo SSD, which is hailed as the planet’s first solid state external drive built to protect data from a building collapsing on it. Yeah, a building collapsing on it. It’ll be available with capacities as large as 256GB and will get connected via eSATA or USB, and if you care to know, the ruggedness is due to the firm’s own proprietary ArmorPlate steel outer casing. As for specifics, said tech helps the drive survive 5,000 pound crush forces, 20 foot drops onto rubble and blazing infernos to boot. It’ll be available next month in the US for $499 (64GB), $749 (128GB) or $1,250 (256GB), with the full details / press release hosted up after the break. As soon as we catch some benchmarks on this thing, we’ll be sure to pass ’em along.

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Jan 04

AirStash expands your iPhone’s storage, wirelessly

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AirStash expands your iPhone's storage, wirelessly
You may be able to get your iPhones and iPod Touches in 32GB flavors these days, but what’s an unlucky early adopter stuck with an 8GB model to do? Get an AirStash, maybe, a device that pledges to add wireless storage to those devices and, potentially, make internal storage constraints a thing of the past. It looks like an oversized thumb drive, with a USB plug on one end and an SD slot on the other. Charge it up, dump some content on that memory card, throw it in your pocket and, according to the manufacturer, you’ll be able to connect to it wirelessly from your handset — and your friends too, if you like. There are some obvious security concerns here but right now we’re going to completely ignore those because of the potential for greatness here, which we hope to see in the flesh in the next few days.

AirStash expands your iPhone’s storage, wirelessly originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 04 Jan 2010 15:09:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Jan 04

QNAP gets serious with Turbo NAS line, packing Pineview, iSCSI, and VMWare certification

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QNAP gets serious with Turbo NAS line, packing Pineview, iSCSI, and VMWare certification
QNAP is generally known around these parts for its ever shrinking line of NAS devices that pack plenty of goods in a small space. The company’s latest series sets a new bar for functionality, but does so in a device you probably won’t be wedging in on a bookshelf between your well-worn (but never finished) copy of Ulysses and your leaning tower of software boxes. The latest Turbo NAS series is intended for small businesses, available in sizes ranging from one to the eight bay monster you see above, each packing an Intel D510 processor with enough oomph to fuel virtualized environments, so VMware vSphere4 certification and Windows Server 2008’s Hyper-V are on-tap. iSCSI is also supported, as is IPv6 and, in one small nod toward consumers, Apple Time Machine backups have been enabled. We’re expecting to see the full suite of devices at CES just a few days hence, while they’re all slated for retail release in the coming weeks at prices ranging from $599 for the two-bay TS-259 Pro all the way up to $1,499 for that eight-bay TS-859 Pro flavor. You didn’t think all this professionalism would come cheap, did you?

QNAP gets serious with Turbo NAS line, packing Pineview, iSCSI, and VMWare certification originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 04 Jan 2010 07:49:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Dec 30

A-DATA’s USB 3.0 / SATA II flash drive announced for January

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We’re a few precious breaths from 2010, and if there’s anything we’re looking forward to, it’s some wicked fast USB 3.0 storage — Intel be damned. Set to hit shelves sometime in January, A-DATA’s N002 Combo Flash Drive sports both SATA II and a USB 3.0 connection. Using the latter, the drive boasts up to 200MB/sec read and 170 MB/sec write speeds. Or if you’re feeling retro, you can take advantage of that backwards-compatibility and connect via USB 2.0. Now, we don’t know how much this bad boy will cost, but it will be bundled with A-DATA UFD to GO software. Of course, this thing is not nearly as cute as the Kissing Octopus USB drive, but we’re sure it’s not without its charms.

A-DATA’s USB 3.0 / SATA II flash drive announced for January originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 30 Dec 2009 23:17:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Dec 30

LG’s XG1 Chic external hard drive looks just dainty

Posted in: external hard drive, ExternalHardDrive, hard drive, HardDrive, korea, South Korea, SouthKorea, storage, Today's Chili, usb

It’s true: there’s nothing particularly extraordinary about LG’s newest external hard drive, but it’s the design here that has managed to catch our eyes. Available in black or white and with 1TB, 1.5TB or 2TB of storage within, these stylish 3.5-inch USB drives are slated to ship next month in South Korea. There’s nary a mention of a stateside release nor of any USB 3.0 editions, but we’re sure that’ll come in due time. Patience leads to great things, or so we hear.

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LG’s XG1 Chic external hard drive looks just dainty originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 30 Dec 2009 02:04:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Dec 28

Brando’s USB 3.0-to-SATA adapter gives any old HDD those SuperSpeed powers

Posted in: adapter, hard drive, HardDrive, peripheral, storage, Today's Chili, usb, usb 3.0, Usb3.0

Oh, Brando — how we do love thee. Be it random accessories we don’t need at all or legitimate peripherals that make our lives all that much easier, you’re always there — steadfastly waiting for us to fall in love over and over again. Mushiness aside, the outfit’s new USB 3.0-to-SATA adapter is indeed one of those remarkably useful devices, enabling any old SATA hard drive to be accessed externally at USB 3.0 speeds. Essentially, this is the pocket-friendly version of Sharkoon’s latest SATA QuickPort, but rather than forcing you to carry around a dock, this simple dongle travels easy and plugs directly into the port-laden side of your spare HDD. Granted, you’ll need a USB 3.0-enabled PC or expansion card in order to take advantage of the additional speed, but for $48, this looks to be an excellent excuse to get that dusty, unused drive of yours back into service.

Brando’s USB 3.0-to-SATA adapter gives any old HDD those SuperSpeed powers originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 28 Dec 2009 09:19:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Dec 21

Lacie’s USB 3.0 RAID Drive is Desk-Burning Fast

Posted in: Accessories and Peripherals, storage, Today's Chili, Usb3.0

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The folks in Lacie’s hard drive research kitchen have a need. A need (dramatic pause) for speed. And a need that they have managed to sate with the shiny new USB 3.0 2Big RAID drive.

Not happy with the already huge speed-jump gained by switching from boring old USB 2.0, the 2Big throws in a RAID 0/1 setup to open the throttle even further, striping the information across two drives to reach a blistering 275MB/s burst speed. Compare that to USB 2.0’s pedestrian theoretical maximum of 480 Mb/s. Notice the lowercase b in the latter, which stands for bits not bytes. This is, Lacies says, fast enough to throw many HD streams around at once, editing and watching in full resolution at the same time.

For you and me it means less waiting when, erm, borrowing our friends’ movie collections.

The 2Bigs will be on sale early in the new year, for a presumably high price-point, and will come in sizes up to 4TB. Of course, this will be rather pointless unless you have a computer capable of using USB 3.0 peripherals at full speed.

LaCie Partners with Symwave to Introduce World’s First USB 3.0 Dual-Drive RAID Storage Solution [Business Wire]


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