Category: Hard Drives
IFA 07: LG DVR Pause and Play TV and PC users
For those of you into your pause and play TV, LG also had new 160GB DVRs with dual digital tuners on display. Each will naturally allow you to watch one program while recording another. They’ve got Freeview Playback Certification from the UK’s Digital TV group, so you can record subtitles and closed captions, in addition to video and audio, as well as intelligently schedule recording times in case a TV programme over-runs.
Price per GB of external hard drives drops by one-third in a year
Let's be honest, hard drives aren't exactly the sexiest bits of computer gear, but they're increasingly important as we download yet more data from the Net and have to store it. A new report from GfK shows that the price…
Is Samsung bringing a 160GB drive to your pocket media player?
Samsung has unveiled a 1.8-inch drive with 160GB of storage – and that should be good news for the next-generation of media players.
Buffalo boosts TeraStation storage to 4TB
Forget running out of storage space – Buffalo has introduced new versions of the TeraStation Live and TeraStation Pro II, boosting the storage to 4TB.
Fujitsu lining up gargantuan 1.2TB hard drives for notebooks
Fujitsu’s found a way to start charging more money for hard drives – inventing a new technology to increase their capacity.
We’ll copy the method it used directly from the Fujitsu announcement as, frankly, it’s all a bit bewildering. Apparently, “one-dimensionally aligned alumina nanohole patterns with 25nm pitch were produced to support one Terabit/in2 bit recording density.”
LINDY launches NAS enclosure matching Mac Mini
LINDY has launched its latest enclosure designed to complement and sit underneath a Mac Mini, but usable by any home network configuration. It’s a NAS (Network-Attached Storage) device which is compatible with standard 3.5-inch ATA hard drives (which you supply yourself).
It features a built-in FTP (file transfer) server allowing up to five consecutive users on a network connect, plus support for Samba server, and a password-protected browser-based user interface to allow configuration.
Netgear ships Storage Central Turbo – network your storage
Netgear is now shipping the Storage Central Turbo, a network storage device that houses two serial ATA drives of any size for accessing and backing up data.
Hard drives with ultra-powerful zaps of LASER beams
New tests, from Radboud University Nijmegen in the Netherlands, show pulses from ultra-powerful lasers outperform magnets by two orders of magnitude. By flipping polarity of the laser to either positive or negative, binary sequences of one or zero are indicated. Data in these tests transfered in intervals of 40 quadrillionths of a second, which is about a hundred times faster than we’ve got now, which means we could store a hundred times as many Lol cats pictures in the same amount of time. Oh, efficiency! [GT]
Lighting a Fire Under Hard Drives (via Crunchgear)
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Philips unveils its first external Network Attached Storage (NAS) hard drive
Philips has continued its busy week, launching its first Network Attached Storage (NAS) hard drive – the SPD8020 – for file sharing between different home computers.
