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OCZ Pitches 2.5" SSDs
at Mac Users
OCZ
Technology Group today unveiled new
2.5"
SATA flash SSDs for MacBooks.
OCZ has also published
a
list of MacBooks which the company says are compatible.
G-Tech Launches Desktop SSD RAID for Macs
Macworld, San
Francisco - January 5, 2009 - G-Technology today announced a new
family of external drives based on 2.5" SSD technology.
The
G-DRIVE mini SSD has a FireWire and USB interface and costs $599 for 120GB and
$1,299 for 250GB.
The G-RAID mini SSD has
eSATA,
FireWire and
USB interfaces and upto
195MB/sec data transfer rates. Price is $2,199 for 500GB. ...G-Tech profile
Oxford Semi Dangles DAS Dongles
MilpitasCalif. -
November 4 , 2008 - Oxford Semiconductor today unveiled 2 new DAS
security encryption chips.
Aimed at
storage oems - the
OXUS931SE and OXUFS936DSE feature an embedded hardware encryption engine
enabling real time encryption with no loading on the host PC.
The
OXUFS936DSE
supports FireWire,
USB and
eSATA interfaces and
2 directly connected SATA disks. In addition, the device offers a range of LCD
and LED user interfaces that are supported by the flexible software framework,
greatly enhancing its capacity for product differentiation.
The OXUS931SE
is aimed at the consumer who needs low cost, single-drive secure storage. In a
traditional implementation, the OXUS931SE acts as a high performance bridge from
USB2.0 or eSATA ports to a SATA
hard disk drive in an
external storage box
supporting all current PC and Mac platforms. And, because of the OXUS931SE's
high performance, it can also be implemented as a internal security dongle
between a SATA port on the system motherboard and any internal SATA disk drive
without any loss of throughput, for a fast and easy upgrade to a secure
information system.
...Oxford
Semiconductor profile, storage
chips, Storage
Security
Firewire SSD aims at Camera Market
NAB,
LAS VEGAS- April 14, 2008 - Shining Technology, Inc. launched the
CitiDISK SSD aimed at the digital video camera market.
The 32GB
unit (140 minutes recording time) has a
FireWire interface,
weighs 6 ounces and can run for 3 hours using its internal battery. MSRP is
$1,800. ...Shining
Technology profile
SpyderHUB Brings eSATA Disks to MacBook Air
LAS VEGAS, Nevada -
April 14, 2008 - FirmTek, LLC today nnounced the SeriTek/SpyderHUB at
NAB 2008.
This ultra small, 4 ounce
USB /
Firewire hub enables
MacBook Air and other notebooks to connect to and boot from external eSATA
hard disks.
The SeriTek/SpyderHUB supports
JBOD,
RAID 0 and SPAN
(concatenate) formats. The RAID 0 setting includes the capability to create a
striped RAID set while SPAN allows 2
SATA
hard drives to be
combined into one large volume. Users can create a hardware RAID and partition
it with the "Master Boot Record" format to provide compatibility with
both Mac OS X and Windows platforms.
...FirmTek profile |
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| LaCie Disks
and NAS Win Design Awards |
Hillsboro, OR -
April 10, 2008 -
LaCie announced today that it has been awarded 4 Red Dot Awards for
superior design across multiple product families.
Winning products
include the Neil Poulton designed
2big family of
SMB NAS, the Sam Hecht designed
Little Disk
family and the Ora-Ïto designed
Golden Disk.
These LaCie products were selected by an international jury of design experts
from among more than 7,000 entrants from 60 countries.
The Red Dot
Award, organized by Essen's Design Zentrum Nordrhein Westfalen since 1955, has
ranked amongst the largest and most renowned design competitions in the world.
...LaCie profile
Editor's
comments:- in 2007 the Red Dot awards for storage went to
Freecom.
Proavio Signs Benelux Distributor
Santa Fe Springs, CA - October
18, 2007 - Proavio announced today a strategic partnership with
optical system leader Duplidata.
This alliance will
establish a new European distribution point for Proavio's popular video products
within the Benelux creative markets.
...Proavio profile,
...Duplidata | |
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Squeak! -
Animal Brands and Metaphors in the Storage Market
Animal
marketing metaphors are popular in service industries, but you'd be surprised
how many companies have used animals in their marketing of data storage
products and services.
The storage market was worth over $150 billion
in 2005, and as it gets bigger - more companies will turn to animal brands to
help differentiate their otherwise bland products and lend them artificial
(or deserving) characters and virtues.
The idea behind this type of
marketing is to suggest positive connotations so it's unlikely that anyone will
choose to associate their products with gremlins. But you may be surprised by
the population of the storage ark.
This reference articles lists all
known companies who have furry marketing brands, and also includes some which
are slimy, scaly and scary too. ...read the article,
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| Z's Laws - Predicting
Future Flash SSD Performance |
A few months ago a
reader asked me a very good question.
"Is there an industry
roadmap for future flash
SSD performance?"
That prompted other questions like...
- How fast are flash SSDs going to be in 2009?, 2010? or 2012?
- What are the technology factors which relate to flash SSD throughput and
IOPS?
- How close will flash SSDs get to
RAM SSD performance?
There wasn't a simple answer I could give at the time. Clues lay
scattered all across this web site
and in my many one on one discussions with readers about the market... |
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But I agreed there should be
a single place on the web where these answers could be found.
Forget
Moore's
Law. That gives you the wrong answer, and this article explains why. ...read the article | | |
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Sanitization
Methods for Cleaning Up Hard Disk Drives - article by Intelligent Computer
Solutions
Removing the data on old unwanted disk drives has
become a concern for all users. In 2005
Pointsec found that
they were able to read 7 out of 10 hard-drives bought over the Internet
at auctions such as eBay, for less than the cost of a McDonald's meal, all of
which had "supposedly" been "wiped-clean" or "re-formatted".
This article reviews the various methods available to sanitize hard disks along
with the advantages and disadvantages in each case....read the article,
...Intelligent Computer
Solutions profile,
disk sanitizers | |
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the
Dangers of Removable Storage Media - article by Pointsec
In
the early
James
Bond films of the 1960s, viewers were introduced to an array of implausible
(at the time) portable high tech spy gadgets. Nowadays we know from our own
everyday experience that something the size of a cigarette lighter can actually
be a video camera with its own wireless internet access.
The
proliferation of miniature high capacity storage devices creates a serious
problem for commercial and national security. This article provides an up to
date picture of the intrinsic dangers posed by current removable storage
technologies. ...read
the article, ...Pointsec
profile, Security,
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