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Silicon Image to port HDMI receiver IP core to UMC's 90nm process technologyApr 12, 2006 - in News
Silicon Image, a leader in the secure distribution, presentation and storage of high-definition content, and United Microelectronics Corporation (UMC), yesterday announced an agreement to port to UMC's 90nm process technology a High-Definition Multimedia Interface (HDMI) receiver intellectual property (IP) core from Silicon Image.
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Going the SAS Storage WayApr 7, 2006 - in Reviews
Fast, scalable and reliable, Serial Attached SCSI's day has come. Our comprehensive look at hard drives, host adapters and storage applications shows what you can expect out of SAS for enterprise storage applications.
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Transcend unveils new OTG HDD, StoreJetApr 4, 2006 - in News
Taiwan-based memory module maker Transcend Information recently announced the availability of a hard disk drive (HDD) based portable storage device called the StoreJet OTG (On-the-Go).
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InPhase exceeds 500 Gbit/in<sup>2</sup> data density in holographic mediaMar 27, 2006 - in News
InPhase, which has promised to bring the first holographic disk drive to market later this year, has reached another milestone in the development of its storage media. The company more than doubled the storage density on its holographic disks within one year to 515 Gbit/in2 which should lead the way to DVD-sized media with well above 500 GB capacity.
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Hard drives to increase storage size per sector 8xMar 24, 2006 - in News
According to a report published on German IT news website Golem.de, the "International Disk Drive, Equipment and Materials Association" (IDEMA) has agreed to increase the size of hard sectors from currently 512 Byte to 4096 Byte
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Samsung launches 32 GB Flash disk for mobile computersMar 20, 2006 - in News
Samsung is first to announce a Flash storage device that aims to completely replace the traditional hard drive in some mass market mobile computers. The 32 GB solid state disk (SSD) drive comes in a 1.8" form factor and reads data at more than twice the speed of hard drives. Best of all: The SSD is promised to consume 95% less power than a hard drive.
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Buffalo Boosts External Hard Drive PowerMar 20, 2006 - in Reviews
Energy supply can be an issue for external hard drives. Buffalo wanted to get rid of the usual bulky and heavy PSUs, so it ships its current external drive with a novel USB power unit. How well does it work?
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An Amazon storage space for developersMar 14, 2006 - in News
Amazon Web Services today rolled out Amazon S3, a new storage service to help programmers house large amounts of data for their Web development projects.
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Mvix Adds Multimedia Player Sauces to External StorageMar 10, 2006 - in Reviews
An external hard drive. A music and video player that can also stream audio to your FM car stereo. Mvix' Multimedia Center MV-5000U is all of these things.
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Matsushita develops 4 GB SD memory cardMar 9, 2006 - in News
Matsushita, best known for its Panasonic consumer brand, today said that it is developing a higher capacity SD memory card.
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Seagate unveils SV35 HDD for security monitoringMar 3, 2006 - in News
Seagate Technology recently unveiled the SV35, its latest hard disk drive (HDD) specifically for use in video security monitoring systems, with launch scheduled for next month.
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Notebook Drives At Up To 160 GB Put Under the MicroscopeMar 3, 2006 - in Reviews
The latest 2.5" drives by Fujitsu, Samsung, Seagate and Toshiba bring a breath of fresh air to the market. We took a close look at eight new models.
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Everplay standard to preserve digital images and moviesFeb 22, 2006 - in News
Fuji, Konica Minolta and Eastman Kodak today released the final specification of "Everplay," a set of rules that promises users to ensure compatibility of today's digital pictures and movies with future storage media. Formerly known as "picture archiving and sharing standard (PASS)," the group hopes that Everplay makes its way into media post-production and eventually into digital cameras and playback devices thereafter.
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Trusted Computing platform, DRM coming to hard drivesFeb 15, 2006 - in Reviews
This week's announcement of the publication of a Trusted Platform Module implementation that enables TPM functionality to be shifted to hard disk drives, creates an intriguing scenario. Hard drive manufacturers may get involved in driving a single standard for DRM functionality, to which Microsoft and others may actually find themselves succumbing.
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Seagate announces 12 GB mini hard diskFeb 13, 2006 - in News
Perpendicular recording will be a key technology to keep the capacity of hard disks growing in coming years. Seagate isn't wasting time upgrading its products: The company will be shipping a massive 12 GB 1" drive later this year and increase the storage space gap to mainstream flash memory.
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Low picture resolution fails to meet camera phone users' expectationsFeb 10, 2006 - in News
Phones with the ability to take images, both still and video, have captured about 40% of the wireless phone market, according to a recent report by In-Stat.
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iSCSI The Open-E WayFeb 8, 2006 - in Reviews
Open-E says its storage area network (SAN) solution can turn any computer into a powerful and flexible iSCSI target - all for a reasonable price. We look at what iSCSI can do for small- to medium-sized businesses in general and how Open-E compares to high-end alternatives.
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WD1500AD Raptor X-Tends Performance LeadFeb 6, 2006 - in Reviews
In its new 10,000 RPM Raptor drive, Western Digital improved the technology, doubled the capacity to 150 GB, and added a clear cover option. It hammers single drive competitors, of course, but can it stand up to a RAID 0 setup consisting of two 7,200 RPM drives?
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Teac launches 4 GB and 8 GB 1" hard drivesFeb 3, 2006 - in News
Teac on February 2 (in the US) announced the launch of external 1" portable USB 2.0 hard disk drives in 4 GB and 8 GB capacities.
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The TeraByte Drives Redefine External StorageFeb 3, 2006 - in Reviews
TeraByte drives do not need to be slim and sexy, because their capacity of almost 1,000 GB speaks for itself. We looked under the hood of two amazing storage mammoths by LaCie and Maxtor.
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WD adds mobile 120 GB, desktop 500 GB hard drive to portfolioJan 27, 2006 - in News
Western Digital (WD) announced that it has expanded its mobile and desktop hard disk families. New in the catalog are a 120 GB 2.5" drive that is available with EIDE or SATA interface and spins its platters with 5400 rpm.
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Sabio rolls out multi-TeraByte consumer storage boxJan 26, 2006 - in News
San Diego-based Sabio Digital has introduced a consumer-level storage device capable of storing one teraByte and up worth of data. The Sabio Storage CM-4 box sports an Intel Xscale 400 megahertz processor and four hard-drives. The box runs on an embedded Linux operating system and is compatible with either PCs or Macs.
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Acard's Small Business RAID ApplianceJan 23, 2006 - in Reviews
Acard's rackmount storage appliance uses SATA hard drives, but connects to the host system with an UltraSCSI interface. Is this the right mix for small businesses?
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Interview with Scratch-Less Disc inventor Todd KuchmanJan 20, 2006 - in News
Modern compact discs are remarkable storage devices, but because data on these discs are just as optical as scratches are, serious scratches can invalidate tracks or entire discs.
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Samsung to offer external PC Blu-ray recorder in Q2Jan 19, 2006 - in News
Samsung claims it has completed the "technical development" of upcoming Blu-ray disc drives intended for use in PCs. The drives will go into production soon, but will not to support the full feature set of Blu-ray technology, especially as far as storage capabilities are concerned.
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Seagate announces 160 GB perpendicular notebook hard driveJan 16, 2006 - in News
Seagate today announced its first commercial hard drive that uses perpendicular recording technology. The new 2.5" form factor Momentus 5400.3 drive stores 160 GB on two platters and will be available in volume in February.
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Fujitsu announces 200 GB 2.5" hard drives for 2006Jan 13, 2006 - in News
Fujitsu announced that it will be expanding its portfolio of 2.5" hard disk and entering the 1.8" drive business to take advantage of the fastest growing segment of the market. Among the announced products are high-end desktop drives, a 120 GB 1.8" hard disk and a 200 GB 2.5" version.
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Sony adds SATA interface to tape drivesJan 11, 2006 - in News
Sony claims it is the first manufacturer of tape drives that integrate a SATA interface.
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Maxtor unveils new network storage device for MacsJan 10, 2006 - in News
Maxtor has shown off its new Shared Storage Plus device for the Mac at this week's Macworld in San Francisco. The network storage drive allows Mac users to backup their photos, videos and other files. A print server is also integrated.