Intel Announces Serial Flash Memory Availability

Subject: Storage | September 14, 2006 - 03:09 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
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SANTA CLARA, Calif., Sept. 14,
2006 - Intel Corporation today announced that Intel® Serial Flash
Memory (S33) products are shipping to meet the memory requirements of a
range of applications, including digital TVs, DVDs, PCs, modems and
printers. Intel's serial flash is based on an industry-standard
package, pin-out and command set to simplify board design and save
board space.

Samsungs SpinPoint hard drives

Subject: Storage | September 13, 2006 - 02:10 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
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The Tech Report reviews Samsung's SpinPoint T, a 400GB SATA drive with a 16MB cache and only 3 platters.   It does an impressive job of keeping up with the competition, even spinning at only 7200RPM, and it does it quietly and fairly cheaply too.

Lacie gives you lego storage

Subject: Storage | September 7, 2006 - 01:44 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
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Hardware Zone presents a review of the Lacie Brick Desktop Harddrive.  Available in 3 colours, white that holds 160GB or 500GB, red is 250GB and blue at 300GB.  Take a look for yourself, they're dead ringers for Lego bricks.

"The Brick is truly a jaw-dropping desktop hard drive, as it can store massive amount of data and combines functionality and design all in

one beautiful package."

Here are some more Storage reviews from around the web:

Burn your own Blu-ray disks

Subject: Storage | September 1, 2006 - 03:26 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
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25Gb gives a lot of space to back things up.  HardwareZone has tested LG's Blu-ray burner, which can burn onto just about any CD or DVD format on the market.  Drop by and take a look at this drive, which is a big improvement on previous Blu-ray burners.

You'd better not need this just for your "picture" collection

Subject: Storage | August 30, 2006 - 03:20 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
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Using VIA mini-ITX boards, Capricorn is now selling racks with an incredibly high amount of storage.  At 3TB per 1U node, 120TB per 19 inch rack, you will not run out of storage sapce anytime soon, and it will probably make a really good space heater as well.  Find out more from The Inquirer.

The future of hard drives is volitile

Subject: Storage | August 25, 2006 - 02:38 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
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CNET looks at the future of harddrives, and how data density can continue to increase.  As the article points out, the current method of storing data, after a certain density, could become volitile at room temperature, to say nothing of the temperatures seen in some overclocked systems.  The next few years should be interesting for the R&D departments of major storage manufacturers.

"To increase the areal density, which is the amount of data a single platte

Forgot to back up you files, here's 3 tools to help

Subject: Storage | August 22, 2006 - 01:28 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
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Nothing gets your heart racing like a hard drive dying, when the latest backup you did was ... you didn't do a back up?!?
ExtremeTech reviews 3 programs designed to help you get your files back, if the horrible happens.

Biometrics on a thumbdrive, or is that finger drive

Subject: Storage | August 16, 2006 - 03:27 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
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Big Bruin found a secure thumbdrive from Transcend, the JetFlash 210.  It comes in 1 and 2 Gb sizes, and you can set it up so that accessing certain secure partitions require your fingerprint.  Check out how well it managed that, and take a peek at the other features on it.