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LaCie Rolls Out Triple-Interface HDD

LaCie Rolls Out Triple-Interface HDD

Peripheral and accessory maker LaCie has long believed that a hard disk only gets better if it sports a designer case—that’s why the company has pulled in industrial designers like Sam Hecht, F. A. Porsche, and Ora-Ïto to spiff up its storage offerings. But the company apparently also believes a hard disk isn’t any good unless you can plug it into a computer, and to that end the company has revamped the LaCie Hard Disk—design by Neil Poulton—to sport not one, not two, but three interfaces so users can plug it into darn near any system they like. The black LaCie Hard Disk sports a blue underglow courtesy of a blue LED, comes in 500 GB, 750 GB, and 1 TB capacities, and offers USB 2.0, FireWire 400, and eSATA interfaces.

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LaCie Offers 1.3-inch Portable Hard Drive

It’s funny: some of LaCie’s hard disk products keep getting bigger, adding more bays and more capacity, while others keep getting smaller. LaCie’s latest update to its Little Disk form factor packs either a 30 or 40 GB 1.3-inch hard disk drive into a package that barely fills the palm of your hand, offering a solution for folks who need portable storage but don’t have much room to carry it.  Read more...

LaCie’s Latest Hard Disk is Golden

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Let’s face it: external hard drives have been commodity items for many years now, so it’s no surprise that accessory and peripheral maker LaCie is trying to differentiate its products with dramatic looks and designs. And sometimes, those designs can be pretty darn dramatic, as evidenced by its new Golden Disk.

Boasting a unique liquid-inspired, shiny gold casing by famed designer Oro-Ïto, the Golden Disk offers USB 2.0 connectivity (via a single port) and comes with backup software for both Windows and Mac OS X. The drive itself is a 7,200 rpm device with an 8 MB cache and an average seek time less than 11ms. Perhaps best of all, the fanless drive offers nearly silent operation.

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Three-Layer Disc Combines DVD, HD DVD

Toshiba and Memory-Tech have announced (Japanese) that they have created a three-layer optical disk which can be read both by HD DVD players and standard DVD systems. In theory, the disk could make it possible for movie studios and other content providers to create a single disk which would operate in standard DVD players as well as provide high-definition content to consumers with HD DVD players, eliminating consumer confusion over which format they need, and enabling not-so-early adopters to purchase media which will work on high-definition systems in the future.  Read more...

Samsung Q1, Q30 Sport Solid-State Storage

Samsung Q1, Q30 Sport Solid-State Storage

Electronics maker Samsung

Samsung Prepping Hybrid Hard Drives

Samsung Electronics has found another use for all that flash memory it’s manufacturing: packing it into hard drives. At next week’s WinHEC 2006 conference, Samsung plans to demonstrate new Hybrid Hard Disk (HHD) storage devices, which combine a conventional magnetic platter storage with NAND flash memory.  Read more...

Xbox 360 Live Update Addresses Bugs, Hacks

Microsoft has released a free, mandatory update to the Xbox 360 gaming console via its Xbox Live service. The software patch does not offer new features, but instead corrects a number of minor issues with the Xbox and closes a potential security opening being investigated by the so-called “modder” community as a possible way to circumvent the Xbox 360’s copy protection technology.

The update now enables users to choose to retain saved games when deleting a user profile and improved synchronization of games between the Web and the console itself. The update also includes unspecified improvements to the Xbox Guide, network configuration improvements for Xbox Live users in the Netherlands, and more detailed error messages when the system encounters a disk that is unreadable or produces a region error.  Read more...

Seagate Ships Perpendicular Notebook Drives

Seagate Ships Perpendicular Notebook Drives

Seagate Technology has announced it has begun shipping the Momentus 5400.3 (PDF), what it claims is industry’s first 2.5-inch notebook disk drive with perpendicular recording technology.

Loosely described, perpendicular storage increases the data density on a disk drive by storing individual bits in layers on top of each other, rather than side-by-side. Although researchers have speculated about as many as 10 distinct layers of storage, perpendicular recording currently uses two layers, effectively doubling the amount of data which can be stored in a particular area of a disk. Perpendicular storage also offers other advantages, including more efficient use of disk area, better tolerance of heat and temperature change (the disks are actually thicker), and raw performance improvements without increasing drive speeds, power consumption, and heat output.

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G-Drive minis Add New Storage Sizes

At MacWorld in San Francisco this week external disk storage solutions company G-Technology unveiled three new units to the company’s line of G-Drive mini mobile disk drives. These new units are available now with prices starting at $249.

G-Technology’s G-Drive mini mobile disk drives, of which the company added new 60, 80 and 100GB models which spin at 7200RPM and sport an 8MB cache, weigh less than nine ounces and are bus powered, eliminating to the need for a separate power supply. Interface options on these models include dual FireWire 800 or FireWire 400 and USB 2.0 and the drives are enclosed inside an all aluminum enclosure with a built-in heat sink.  Read more...

Samsung to Ship Hybrid Hard Drives in 2006

“The drive will be initially targeted at notebooks, where the drive’s low power consumption will yield the most benefit.

The hybrid hard drive will mount a one-gigabit OneNAND flash chip inside a hard drive, which will serve dual duty both as a write buffer and as a solid-state boot disk for the operating system. The act of writing data to the hard disk, such as user files or cached images while web browsing, would instead be intercepted by the hard disk. Only when the flash memory’s “write buffer” was full would the hard disk be spun up, minimizing the time and power that would be spent keeping the drive’s rotating media spinning. “  Read more...

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