Intel this morning warned of a serious bug with the Cougar Point chipset that would force it to delay desktop PCs using its Sandy Bridge processors. Those using the 6 series have a flaw that gradually degrades the performance of the SATA ports over time, eventually affecting the speed of hard drives and optical drives. […]
Jan 31 2011 | Posted in
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Toshiba Storage Device Division has introduced its MKxx39GS series 1.8-inch spinning platter drives with SATA connectors. This gives the drives a 10 percent smaller footprint when compared to standard 1.8-inch drives, allowing the drive to be used in a wider range of applications. Intended uses include tablets, netbooks, and compact external drives. The new drives […]
Jan 25 2011 | Posted in
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Newer Technology’s universal drive adapter, a driverless connector with ports for ATA (5.25/3.5 and 2.5 inch versions) and SATA (standard or SSD) drives to plug into a USB external drive without a housing, has now been updated to feature a USB 3.0 connector allowing potential speeds of up to 500 megabytes/second and which is backward […]
Nov 22 2010 | Posted in
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Samsung today announced the F3EG, its new high-performance environmentally-friendly HDD (hard disk drive) for the desktop market. The EcoGreen F3EG, a higher capacity model from its predecessor the F2EG, features 2TB capacity with 500GB per disk that is capable of storing up to 880 hours of DVD video or 500,000 or more songs in MP3 […]
Other World Computing has announced the release of the Mercury Elite-AL Pro Dual-Bay “Quad Interfac”storage solution for Mac and PCs. It features a high performance Oxford chipset with two SATA I/II hard drive bays for high-performance RAID storage of up to 3.0TB and fast transfer speeds of 300MB/s. Built for performance-intensive applications, such as […]