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  • Bills USB flash drive protects your data with a combination lock

    Designer Yun Hwan Sung came up with a concept USB flash drive called the “Bills USB” (Bills as in Bill Gates?). Ditching the whole idea of encryption, Yun opted for a combination a lock instead. The USB connector remains hidden and retracted until you get the right combination to unlock it. That is a pretty neat idea, but the USB drive seems to be a little too big for me. Some people may find the…

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Hitachi achieves a storage density of 2.5 Terabits per square inch

by Cheng Hung on Feb 3, 2010 at 03:18 PM

Let’s face it, we can never have enough storage space on our hard drives. Current hard drives that use perpendicular magnetic recording technology already have densities of 300-400 GB per square inch, and they are capable of achieving up to 1 terabits per square inch density. The technology is being… Continue Reading »

Samsung goes green with the EcoGreen F3EG 2TB HDD

by Cheng Hung on Feb 2, 2010 at 01:51 PM

Samsung has just updated its EcoGreen HDD line with a new green hard drive called the EcoGreen F3EG, boasting a massive capacity of 2TB with a 3Gbps SATA interface and 16MB or 32MB buffer memory. It has 4 platters of 500GB each, totaling up to its 2TB capacity. What’s green… Continue Reading »

Samsung announces industry’s first 30nm DDR3 DRAM, low power consumption sweetness

by Cheng Hung on Feb 1, 2010 at 11:55 AM

Dubbed the greenest DDR3 DRAM in the industry, Samsung’s newest 30nm DDR3 DRAM features a reduction in power consumption by up to 30% compared to 50nm DRAM modules. To illustrate the efficiency of these modules, the new 30nm modules can be used in a 4GB DDR3 module for a notebook,… Continue Reading »

Sarotech Hardbox external hard drive comes with USB 3.0 connectivity

by Cheng Hung on Jan 30, 2010 at 09:22 AM

If you’re looking for a distinctive style, huge capacities and great speed in an external hard drive, the Sarotech Hardbox will not let you down. The Hardbox boasts capacities of 1TB all the way to 3TB, coupled with USB 3.0 giving you incredible transfer speeds to better utilize your massive… Continue Reading »

Kingston DataTraveler 5000 comes with built-in 256-bit AES hardware-based encryption

by Cheng Hung on Jan 28, 2010 at 07:01 PM

Apart from the fact that the Kingston DataTraveler 5000 comes in 2GB, 4GB, 8GB and 16GB capacities, this is no ordinary USB flash drive. It comes with a built-in 256-bit AES hardware-based encryption. In the unlikely event that you lose your USB flash drive, it would take ages to crack… Continue Reading »

Upgrade your netbook to a 128GB 1.8-Inch PATA ZIF SSD

by JG Mason on Jan 25, 2010 at 02:54 PM

Active Media Products announced a new SSD to their line up, a 128GB member of the SaberTooth ZX family.  Quieter and faster than a HDD, the Active Media Products drive will add more storage and speed to applications.  The drive is available now for $379 at Amazon. The SaberTooth fits… Continue Reading »

Panasonic to be first to market with $700 64GB SDXC card?

by JG Mason on Jan 20, 2010 at 10:12 AM

The day is finally here when you can spend more on media than on the device using the media.  Panasonic Japan announced two new SDXC cards: a 48GB and a 64GB.  The cards will be available February 19, presumably in Japan for $550 for the 48GB and $700 for the… Continue Reading »

No one hacks Swiss Army drive -  $100,000 prize goes unclaimed

by JG Mason on Jan 18, 2010 at 02:02 PM

At CES, Victorinox demonstrated their new Presentation Master featuring a finger print scanner in addition to data encryption for even more security.  The company put up a $100,000 prize for any attendee that could hack the device and break the code.  No one was able to claim the prize. In… Continue Reading »

Boost your system performance with an $80 Kingston SSDNow V 30GB Flash Drive

by Cheng Hung on Jan 15, 2010 at 04:48 PM

For only $80, you can get a Kingston SSDNow V 30GB Flash Drive that will boost your system performance. Boasting speeds of up to 180MB/sec. read speed and 50MB/sec. write speed, it is a surefire way of decreasing your boot time or even your software startup time. SSDs are known… Continue Reading »

CF cards strike back with a 128GB CF card by Silicon Power

by Cheng Hung on Jan 15, 2010 at 10:08 AM

Just when you thought CF cards will become obsolete soon and be replaced with SD cards, Silicon Power took its liberty to announce a world’s first 128GB 400X CF card. SD cards which currently have a maximum capacity of 32GB or 64GB pale in comparison with this 128GB CF card.… Continue Reading »

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