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We love us some speedy NAND Flash here at Engadget, and Mushkin’s just unveiled a trio of SSDs full of the stuff packing Sandforce SF-2281 controllers. The Chronos Go offers 560MB/s sequential writes and 525MB/s reads in drives up to 480GB in size.
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Mushkin debuts three new SSDs at CES
Elgato’s decided to go back to its FireWire-roots with two new high capacity Thunderbolt -totin’ SSDs . The 5.2 x 3.3-inch drives have a transfer speed of 270MB/s, drawing power from the port and promising silent operation for when you need to access data during those quiet winter nights.
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Elgato’s Thunderbolt SSD brings no noise, brings the pain(less) operation
Shocker! Victorinox has officially pulled the wraps off of its latest pocket-knife and thumb drive combo here at CES — you know, the one we spied just yesterday during the show-floor setup. Simply titled, SSD, the “pocket-sized drive” is apparently the only one in the world that connects to eSATA II / III and USB 2.0 / 3.0 with a single connector, and it’s also being touted as the smallest one around. Furthermore, SSD features a 96 x 48 Bi-Stable monochrome graphic display for keeping track of what’s stored inside of it, and Victorinox states that you won’t find this on any other drive currently available
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Victorinox SSD official: up to 1TB of high-speed storage crammed in a Swiss Army Knife
OCZ has jumped on the Thunderbolt bandwagon with its latest external SSD, the OCZ Lightfoot, a compact drive offering up to 1TB of high-speed storage. Previewed ahead of CES this week, the Lightfoot is the successor to OCZ’s Enyo USB 3.0 SSD, boosting transfer rates to up to 750 MB/s according to the company
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3D printing . Sure, that’s pretty neat, but there are other ways to make three dimensional objects at home. Roland’s new iModela, for example, is an “affordable” ($899) digital hobby mill that can carve 3D shapes, jewelry, textures and prototypes out of balsa wood, foam, modelling wax and plastics
Sony Ericsson is looking to start a bromance with the McTwist-loving, Double-Cork-landing, A-Frame-riding masses jonesing for a new Android device. The handset maker has announced a “global strategic alliance” with Billabong to launch the Xperia Active Billabong Edition smartphone in select markets. The handset will come preloaded with exclusive content, including Billabong screen savers, and bundle several Billabong-branded games and applications
(Credit: Screenshot by Eric Mack/CNET) What do you desire most right now? A drink?
