2TB Sony Memory Stick Pro
Wouldn’t it be nice…a 2 Terabyte Sony Memory Stick? It just might replace my trusted 8GB flash drive I use obsessively. Bummer it’s not a real product [yet].
Samson Q3 Is Portable Video Recorder With 32Gigs
Samson just released a great looking product, the Q3. It’s a hand held video recorder and what is particularly nice about this unit, is the huge microphone perched at the top. Now it’s easier than ever to capture that perfect moment – in both video and audio.
Remove USB Partition Is Possible With a’liddle Help
Yesterday GetUSB.info reported about a USB duplication service company that can remove partitions on a USB drive. USBCopier can remove Read Only USB partition and remove CDROM USB partition through some sort of software they have. They company can also remove those partitions for large numbers of drives. I guess that makes sense if you are in the business of flash duplication.
Western Digital Buys Silicon Systems for $65Mil
The acquisition makes WD a player in the red-hot SSD industry, and helps fill a major void in WD’s portfolio. In a statement, WD president and CEO John Coyne said the acquisition will be “modestly accretive to revenue and margins†and will help the company address a $400 million SSD market, which encompasses consumer netbooks, clients and enterprises.This rounds out Western Digitals portfolio to include solid state storage, WD branded products, client storage, consumer storage and enterprise storage units. Source: Ziff Davis. Continue Reading
Review: 16GB USB Flash Drives
Review of 16GB Flash Drives
GetUSB.info posted a review article about 16GB USB flash drives. The benchmarking and testing was done by Test Freaks. Test Freaks is a website based specifically on review and testing of everyday technology so users can make an informed decision about their technology purchases. The review of 16GB flash drives is very in-depth and detailed so depending on what you look for in a flash drive, this review will have it summed up nicely for you. The 16GB USB review includes the following drives:- Adata Sport Series RB19 16gb
- Corsair Flash Voyager
- HP USB Flash Drive v125W
- Imation Swivel Flash Drive
- Kingston Data Traveler100
- Kingston DataTraveler HyperX
- Memorex Traveldrive
- OCZ Diesel
- OCZ Throttle
- Patriot Exporter XT
- PNY Attache
- PQI Traveling Disk 1221
- Ridata EZdrive Lightning Series
- Sandisk Cruzer Micro
- Super Talent Pico-C
- Transcend JetFlash Elite Enabled
- Verbatim Store ‘n’ Go
…diskbench is nice in that it tells us the actual times and transfer rates to complete the tasks of Copy To or Write To the USB drives, Read From and Copy From as well. I run these three tests on my USB drives because they are the most common things people are going to be doing with their USB drives. First up is testing with the 350MB .AVI Video file, lower scores are better as they are shown in seconds. The first test is for Copy To or Write To the USB drives.For the full 16GB USB Drive review please visit Test Freaks webpage. Thanks Anton. Continue Reading
FAT32 Gets Steroids Boost – No Limitations
Flash Memory manufacturers will rejoice with this news. No longer will their flash memory be limited with the FAT32 file system, but rather an unlimited size of storage space. Up to this point FAT file systems had a limitation of 4GB for a single file size and up to 32GBs for an entire volume. But no more. Microsoft has released a new exFAT file system. This means our SD, CF, USB will become supersized and no longer need to worry about dynamic file structures of NTFS. With USB memory getting bigger each year, this is great news for mobile storage.
Compact Flash at 300X Speed from RiDATA
RiDATA introduces the ultra fast speed Compact Flash memory card at 300X normal data transfer speeds. The Supreme Compact Flash card is a 16GB haven for data storage. President Harvey Liu claims the CF card was designed for photographers needing high performance flash memory for those ultra large digital files the pros are taking, but he might be missing one critical target market – embedded designs.
Lost Sony Memory Stick Hold Bomb Details
A Swedish soldier has been convicted of negligence and fined 21,000 kronor – about $250 US Dollars – for leaving a USB memory stick with military secrets in a public computer. The Stockholm court says the memory stick contained classified information about improvised explosive devices in Afghanistan. The Sony Memory Stick was found by an university student in Stockholm and luckily for us, handed over to authorities. Are you kidding me? Only $250 dollar fine for misplacing such valuable information. The only conclusion I can draw is the bomb schematics probably didn’t really work. After all, when was the last time we heard of a Swedish bomb going off? The Swedish soldier admits accidentally leaving the memory stick in the computer, but claims he wasn’t aware the information was classified.
Hack: Use SD Card With Disposable Digital Camera
With the economy being a bit tight and many folks finding themselves either out of work or some extra time on their hands, it might be worth interest to check out this SD card hack to run a disposable camera off the tracks…and turn it into a re-usable digital camera. The meat of the tutorial is to replace some of the disposable camera’s guts with more permanent memory for re-usable applications. Granted it’s not the best digital camera in town, but if you’ve got the time, need to save some cash this might be a great, fun project. It’s also an ideal digital camera to send to school with the kids. Here’s the full video tutorial.Digital Camera Hack! Secret The Stores Don’t Want You To Know! – video powered by Metacafe Have fun! Continue Reading
Samsung Considers Bid For SanDisk
Samsung is looking to strengthen their digital memory storage line with a possible purchase of SanDisk. SanDisk is currently the #1 supplier of solid state flash memory, world wide [such as Secure Digital, miniSD, microSD and many more]. Samsung is the top producer of flash memory chips.
Avi Cohen of Avian Securities said it was an “unlikely prospect” due to SanDisk being unwilling to sell at the bottom of the cycle, and Samsung becoming a direct competitor to many of its customers and regulatory concerns. “Regulators in the US, Korea and Europe among others will likely have issue with one player controlling north of 50 per cent of NAND [Flash memory] supply,” he said.Another option is Samsung reducing it’s royalty license to SanDisk to gain synergy with the top seller, reduce SanDisk’s bottom line and secure channel distribution of flash memory.
However if a deal goes ahead, it could block efforts by Samsung rivals Toshiba and Hynix Semiconductor to topple Samsung’s market leadership. Toshiba runs joint production lines with SanDisk and Hynix is also conducting joint re-search with the US group. Samsung controls 42.3 per cent of the NAND flash memory market, trailed by Toshiba with 27.5 per cent and Hynix with 13.4 per cent, says market researcher iSuppli.Source:Â Financial Times. Continue Reading