drives
Corsair squeezes out more speed from Voyager GTR USB 2.0 thumb drives
It’s not surprising to see very little fanfare accompanying announcements of new thumb drives, but the Corsair Voyager GTR thumb drive that utilizes a quad-channel architecture certainly deserves a little more attention. What is a quad-channel architecture, you ask? Basically, the technology allows you to get higher data transfer speed out of your sluggish USB more »
$200 Eee PC by next year?
Looking to get an Eee PC for less than an iPod? Sounds like a good idea, doesn’t it? Well, in its quarterly investors earnings call, Asustek announced a great number of things, including the fact that the baseline Eee PCs will be lowered to $200 by the end of 2009. It seems 1.7 million Eee PCs were shipped last quarter, and Asus is expecting 1.8 million to be shipped this coming quarter. There is some bad news for some, though.
Along with the price announcement, Asus announced that the 7″ and 8.9″ models will soon be phased out in favor of the 10-inch models. That’s somewhat sad to me at least. The 8.9″ is the perfect size I think, especially if the screens on the 8.9″ and 10″ are the same resolution.
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Iomega unveils the 1TB Super eGo external hard drive
Iomega’s eGo external drive line has now hit 1 Terabyte of storage. Entitled the “Super” eGo drive, the portable storage device contains one single 1 terabyte drive. The drive’s physical size is also increased, as it is a 3.5 inch drive, as opposed to the normal 2.5 inch size portable hard drives have. As a more »
Sony makes the Microvault USM-L flash drive available in various candy colors
Sony has made available a slew of tiny USB flash drives in its Microvault product line, branding these babies as the USM-L. The drives measure in at 0.69 x 0.33 x 2.44-inches and weighing only around 0.32-ounces, who would think that the USM-L flash drives can store as much as 16GB of data? Well, that’s how flash drives are nowadays, the smaller they get, the larger their storage capacities are, and this is particularly true with the Sony USM-L flash drives.
As if the USM-L flash drives were not small enough, Sony even made use of the Click mechanism which makes it shorter when it is connected to your machines. This also enables Sony to do away with the common USB flash drive design that comes with a cap that you have to pull out to reveal the flash drive’s USB connector. With the USM-L, all you have to do is to slide out the flash drive’s body to reveal the USB connector.
