Earlier this week OCZ released information on its upcoming PCI-Express based SSD, the Z-Drive.

“It is our goal to deliver tailored SSD solutions for the complete spectrum of high performance applications,” said Eugene Chang, Vice President of Product Management at the OCZ Technology Group. “Designed for ultra high performance consumers, the Z-Drive takes the SATA bottleneck out of the equation by employing the ultra fast PCI-Express architecture with a RAID controller and four Vertex controllers configured in four-way RAID 0 within an all-in-one product, making this solution ideal for applications that put a premium on both storage performance and maximum capacity.”

Utilizing a combined 256MB of local cache and an onboard RAID controller the Z-Drive is capable of speeds up to 510MB/s read and 480MB/s write. The drive also features ultra-fast data access, lower power consumption,  and superior durability in comparison to traditional disk-based hard drives.

The Z-Drives will come in  of 250GB, 500GB and 1 TB sizes. No prices were announced, but looking at the performance specs alone these appear to be the Lamborghini of hard drives so expect them to be priced accordingly.

source: Hothardware

Toshiba has created the industry’s first 2.5-inch 512GB SSD. It has maximum read/write times of 240MB per second and 200MB per second respectively. The 512GB SSD is part of family of SSDs based on 43 nanometer (nm) Multi-Level Cell NAND. …Continue reading … »

Earlier this week Hitachi announced that they will be releasing a new group of 2.5-inch hard drives called the MHZ2 BJ series. These hard drives run at a speed of 7200 RPM and the largest one has a capacity of 320GB. They use only use 2.3W of power to perform read or write operations. The MHZ2 BJ series support the Serial ATA 3.0 Gb/s interface and will be available near the end of June 2008. …Continue reading … »

This new portable hard disk drive, I-O Data’s HDMC has really got my attention. It can hold alot of data because it has a capacity of 16GB, its small and it seems to be very capable of surviving any abuse that normal life can through at it - and then some. …Continue reading … »

The 4GB USB flash drive from Corsair has a built-in display that shows the remaining capacity on the drive. …Continue reading … »

In the coming months Toshiba will be bringing to the market the world’s first 32GB SDHC (Secure Digital High Capacity) card.

For those who do not need all that capacity Toshiba will also bring a 16GB version of this card and a 8GB micro SDHC card.

The 16GB SDHC card will be on the market in October of this year.Both the 32GB SDHC card and the 8GB microSDHC card will be available January of 2008.

Toshiba did not release any pricing information.

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PQI has debuted a 2.5 inch SSD drive which has a capacity of 256GB. This is the first SSD drive of this capacity that is suitable for notebooks. It has a transfer rate of up to 60MB/sec. This solid state disk drive is basically like a flash drive. Because it has no spinning platters like a convential harddrive it consume far less energy. As well SSD drives last twice as long convential harddrives with 10 year life spans versus 5 years for a conventional hard drive.

Lacie has available for preorder a 2 terabyte external harddrive. It is compatible with windows, mac and linux operationing systems. It has a firewire, gigabit ethernet and 2 usb ports. If you want to increase its storage you can connect an additional drive via the usb port. It is priced at $1099. Very cool. You can never run out of space. I think I’ll pick up one when the price drops a bit.
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I’m not sure who is going to win the high definition DVD format war but Blu-Ray is the superior format. The Blu-Ray disc holds 25GB on a single sided disc and 50GB on a dual layered disc. In comparison the HD-DVD holds 15GB on a single sided disc and 30GB on a dual layered disc. More storage space means more data more software, mp3s, standard definition video, and documents. As well in terms of high definition video theoretically more storage space means better picture quality. …Continue reading … »