Kanguru Unveils Low-Power Drive
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The new Eco drive powers down to save energy by as much as 75 percent.
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Enhanced midrange storage array, network hardware released.
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New 1.8-inch hard drives may boost battery life in portable devices.
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Samsung Electronics is shipping hybrid hard-disk drives that mix conventional magnetic storage with flash memory. The company claims that the system delivers a 70% to 90% cut in power consumption thanks to its ability to use NAND for caching data.
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Over the several months, Computerworld has reviewed the latest in hard disk drive technology, from 1TB models and energy-efficient "green" drives to solid-state disks that outpace their spinning disk counterparts on every dimension of speed and power consumption.
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French media player maker Archos has launched what may the world&#39;s smallest 20GB hard drive-based music player. The Gmini XS200 measures just 7.6 x 5.9 x 1.9cm and weighs 120g.
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Plug and RAID SGI has popped out a new low-end storage system that it bills as its "easiest-to-deploy" "plug-and-play" box to date.â¦
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The Disk Mini is available in capacities from 80- to 250GB and connects via USB.
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Mtron is launched new solid-state disk drives later this year with 120M Bps read and 90M bps write speed performance.
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The disk drive maker has unveiled three palm-sized portable hard drives.
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Seagate&#39;s native SATA interface technology with Native Command Queuing (NCQ) allows the Barracuda 7200.8 to match the performance of 10,000-rpm SATA drives without sacrificing capacity
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Despite a few rough edges, the SimpleDrive represents a good overall value. It packs a large amount of storage into a petite, classy-looking package, though the USB-only design limits its performance.
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HP is offering a 16GB drive with its dc7800 PC, which it said will greatly reduce the computer's energy consumption, start-up time and application load and execute much faster when disk access is needed.
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80GB external hard drive is on offer at a 50% reduction.
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Opteron to gain power preservation tech - and other goodies
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The new DiamondMax 10 drives are designed to help people run multiple applications, such as games and music, without overwhelming their PC system.
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(InfoWorld) - Solid-state disks (SSDs) are fastÂ becoming popularÂ as drop-in replacements for hard-disk drives but they are not all alike, said South Korea's Mtron. SSDs use flash memory rather than magnetic storage, which means faster reading and writing of data, lower power consumption, and zero noise. They've been around for several years although it is only recently, after flash memory chip prices fell, that they have become practical for use in laptop computers. Major PC makers are starting to offer them as options in some laptop models, but consumers looking to SSDs for a performance boost should pay close attention to the specifications, said Sean Roh, assistant manager of the marketing department at Mtron . The company, which is based near Seoul, makes its own SSD that it claims is faster than any other on the market. It offers a sustained read speed of 100MBps and a sustained write speed of 80MBps, he said. By comparison, SandiskÂ reports a read speed of 67MBps and a write speed of 47MBps for its recently announced 64GB SSD and Samsung ElectronicsÂ said its SSD reads at 56MBps and writes at 32MBps. The faster speeds are possible thanks to the use of a custom-designed drive control chip. In a demonstration at the SEK show, which opened in Seoul on Wednesday, the company had five competing 2.5-inch drives and its own 2.5-inch drive hooked up to a personal computer running benchmarking software. The test appeared to confirm that the Mtron drive performed at around the speeds claimed and also beat out the competition. Among the competing drives, all of which had labels to cover the manufacturer's name, the slowest read data at about 28MBps and the fastest at about 96MBps, while write speeds ranged from 17.6MBps to 68MBps (the fastest read and write speeds were not on the same drive). The Mtron drive hit a read speed of 97MBps and a write speed of 72Mbps in the test, the benchmark software reported. Mtron, which is about three years old, has already signed up distributors in some markets and is looking to sell its 2.5-inch and 3.5-inch drives to PC makers for use in their machines. It isn't planning to offer the drives direct to consumers. Â