LaCie Starck Desktop and Mobile Hard Drive
LaCie,The hard drive manufacturer announced the LaCie Starck Desktop Hard Drive (available in 1TB and 2TB capacities) and the LaCie Starck Mobile Hard Drive (available in 320GB and 500GB capacities). These two products that have been designed by Phillippe Starck, French influential industrial designer who’s involved in endless consumer products design stream.
Covered by 3 mm aluminum shell, the desktop hard drives have a customizable touch-sensitive surface allowing you to launch preselected applications based on how you touch them. The touch interface is customizable, allowing users to open certain applications depending on how long they stay in touch with the contact surface.
While LaCie Starck Mobile Hard Drive covered with 2mm of aluminum casing keeps the LaCie Starck from overheating, and helps it to be very resistant, enhancing its overall dependability. Embedded USB cable allows you maximize its compact nature and portability. It’s easy to extract your cable, as well as coil it back inside of the drive.
There is still no release date stipulated. Starck Desktop Hard Drive t 1TB costs $ 130, while the 2T model is priced at $ 250. Like most larger hard drives, It needs an external power source. The Starck Mobile Hard Drive of 320GB capacity costs $ 100 while the 500GB model is priced at $ 140
SanDisk Memory Cards for PSP Go and DSI
SanDisk announced that they have launched memory cards designed specifically for handheld gaming systems like Sony’s PSP Go and the Nintendo DSi.
All SanDisk greatly increase the storage capacity of these systems, the ability for the PSP Go has been duplicated by the new Memory Stick Micro M2 16GB. There is a Memory Stick PRO Duo and a 32GB Memory Stick PRO Duo with the same capacity for the Sony PSP, while the DSi SHCD get an 8GB card.
The Memory Stick Micro M2 can now be purchased in capacities from 2 GB to 16 GB, with prices ranging from 28 to $ 142.
The Memory Stick PRO Duo provides the same capabilities, but their prices range from 28 to 230 dollars. PRO-HG cards in the same range of capacities ranging from 33 to $ 280, with shipments starting from October.
The SanDisk SDHC for Nintendo DSi is also available in 4GB and 8GB priced at 33 and 48 dollars respectively.
via: SanDisk
Samsung Spinpoint F3, a New 1TB Hard Drive
Not only processors are evolving rapidly in terms of cycles at the speed they are capable of completing. Hard disks are also growing monthly capacity. Now, Samsung starts selling a disc of 1 terabyte (TB) of space, something that years ago looked very far.
To get an idea, the F3 Spinpoint device works with two dishes (surface on which data are marked) of 500 GB each. Currently, the brand already has a solution that comes to 1 TB, but distributed into three dishes of 333 GB each. Moreover, the speed of the new record is 7,200 revolutions per minute and the manufacturer and plans to make available to suppliers of PCs, servers and storage systems.
According to Samsung, this hard drive can store more data density in each of the dishes, which improves by 30% its behavior with respect to 1 TB disks having three plates, allowing to eliminate one of them. This also streamlines access to data, since the device has only to read two surfaces instead of three.
Mark Geenen, president of analyst firm TrendFocus, has commented on this release that “The market forecasts estimate that the disks with two audiences of 500 GB and higher densities in each experience more than 15% growth annual sales over the next five years”.
