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The aluminum-encased 2big has arrived, with its (up to) 311 MB/s transfer rates scorching the ground behind it. With hot-swappable disks and dual Thunderbolt ports for daisy chaining, the Portal -esque 2big is on sale now from LaCie ‘s online store with a three-year warranty. Prices start from $649 for 4TB, moving up to $799 for 6TB.
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LaCie 2big Thunderbolt series available now in 4TB and 6TB sizes
After the numerous leaks that preceded the Droid 4′s launch, you’d think we’d have a handle on every detail (read the review here ) but some day one buyers have one more question.
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Motorola Droid 4 advertises 16GB internal storage, only reports 8GB — here’s why
Seagate took some time out from its busy earnings reporting schedule to address supply concerns stemming from the recent devastating floods in Thailand. The storage manufacturer announced that hard drives supply will likely fall 150 million units short of demand by year’s end.
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Seagate expects flood-related hard drive shortages to continue
Keeping its Q1 delivery promise, Seagate is now shipping its GoFlex Thunderbolt Adapter for portable drives of the same moniker. We got our mits on this bad boy back at CES , witnessing first-hand the much improved transfer speeds of Intel’s tech over the standard USB 2.0 for the smaller external drives
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Seagate GoFlex Thunderbolt Adapter now shipping, snag one for $100
Suing’s easy. It’s the “winning” that trips folks up.
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US government rules three Barth patents invalid, sends Rambus scrambling
IBM’s Almaden Research Center is filled with some of the best and brightest minds in the world, and its researchers just released new findings that detail how just how far IBM has come in the realm of magnetic storage. Andreas Heinrich is leading the team at Big Blue that figured out how to create atomic storage based on the fact that atoms of ferromagnetic material align their spins in one direction — so the ability to control the spin direction is what’s needed to make such minature memory possible.
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IBM stores bits on arrays of atoms, shrinks magnetic storage to the scientific limit
There’s more than one announcement this week from Iomega regarding storage solutions for your own home network, this particular one on Iomega StorCenter ix2 Network Storage speaking specifically to the business crowd instead of your living room. This solution works with Linux, Mac, and PC, and will be bundled with such unique brands of cloud management as EMC Atmos and Mozy. Get your small business on the same piece of hardware to make all things one, and all things simple!
This solution for businesses includes such enterprise features as RAID 1 and video surveillance IP camera support. You can replace your hard drives for disaster recovery on your own with this newest move by Iomega, and there’s an app called Iomega Link that’ll allow you to manage your network on your iPhone or iPad remotely. This product has VMWare and XenServer certification for virtual desktop implementation, and the ix2 NAS works with your Windows Active Directory Service as well – iSCSI storage is also included here.
There are one whole heck of a lot of options when it comes to purchasing different components for this solution. There’s first a $ 199.99 completely diskless model. That’s as inexpensive you can get for starting this environment up for yourself. Then there’s partially-populated (with one drive) models available at $ 249.99 for 1TB, $ 349.99 for 2TB, and $ 449.99 for 3TB. For a completely populated (two drive) model, you’ll be dropping $ 419.99 for 2TB, $ 579.99 for 4TB, and $ 769.99 for 6TB. This setup is also planned for late February for a general release.
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
Until the cost of flash storage comes down to the same plane of existence as most human wallets, hybrid solutions — which pair an HDD with an SSD cache — remain a smart way forward. OCZ scored some attention with its Synapse products, so now Crucial has to wave its arms in our faces and point to its own offering: the Adrenalin Solid State Cache Solution, which pairs a 50GB m4 SSD with proprietary caching software, and which will be out sometime this quarter for an undisclosed but surely rivalrous price
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Crucial outs Adrenalin Solid State Cache Solution, less long-winded m4 SSDs
Pogoplug, as they say, just got served. Sanho — the same geniuses responsible for the HyperMac — is introducing yet another intelligent box here at CES 2012
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Sanho’s bantam CloudFTP puts USB storage devices online, streams on battery power and sheer will
Virgin Mobile’s feature phone arm just added a third tier, delivering unlimited talk and texting, along with 50 megs of web access for $40 per month. This offering joins Sprint’s other payLo budget offerings, including an entry-level option that includes 400 minutes of talk time for $20 per month, and a $30 monthly plan that delivers 1,500 minutes, 1,500 texts and 30MB of data
(Credit: Blizzard Entertainment) One week after its release, Diablo III remains the only PC game anyone is talking about .
Nuance, of Dragon TV fame announced today that it was licensing Rovi’s (formerly known as Macrovision ) metadata for its talky-TV platform .
If you’re tired of bananaphones that just make calls, the crew at Gadget Gangster now has a homebrew project to use them for musical escapades. A custom-coded (and appropriately named) Adafruit Propeller board turns a bunch of bananas into the Bananaphone TouchSynth, a synthesizer using the same capacitive touch principles that let a MaKey MaKey turn anything into a controller
Bicom, makers of the Corian -hewn playGo USB will unveil a new AP1 AirPlay device, but only you if help fund it.
Matilda Ceesay, a Cornell fiber science and apparel design major from Gambia, adjusts the anti-malarial garment on model Sandy Mattei. Who knew mosquito nets could be so fashionable?
Plants , like pets, need to be constantly cared for, but not everyone’s blessed with the requisite green thumb. So, for those of you imbued with what we’ll call the bad, brown touch, Swiss outfit Koubachi’s got a cloud-based solution to sidestep those negligent ways and keep your window garden thriving. Dubbed the WiFi Plant Sensor, this wireless peripheral nestles into the soil of any potted flora or fauna, sending relevant vitality data off to the company’s servers where it’s then analyzed and beamed back to your handset (via iPhone app) or online account with care instructions in tow
The HTC 4G LTE will finally land in Sprint customers’ hands this week.
Pentax didn’t wait long after a rather conspicuous leak to make the details official: welcome the K-30, the company’s spiritual successor to the long-serving K-r . The camera makes its biggest numerical jump in sensor size, from 12.4 megapixels to 16, but you’re primarily shelling out for a much tougher body that’s both resistant to rain as well as to dust and temperature extremes; one of the cheapest cameras to do so, if you go by Pentax’s word. We’re slightly down on the light sensitivity being unchanged from three years ago at ISO 100 to 25,600, though you can now shoot video at a much higher 1080p at 30 frames per second — and that French catalog was wrong about a drop in burst speeds, which still top out at a healthy 6 fps.
