Faster Serial ATA coming this year
The SATA 6Gbps standard is coming in the second quarter, says Conrad Maxwell, SATA-IO marketing chair.
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USB 3.0 promises faster speeds, backward compatibility
Nearly a decade after USB 2.0 was first introduced, this practically ubiquitous technology is poised for its first major upgrade in years. Symwave, a semiconductor startup, and hard-drive maker Seagate are showing the first working demonstration of SuperSpeed--otherwise known as USB 3.0-- at CES 2009. The company's demo setup includes an adaptation of an external Seagate FreeAgent hard drive equipped with the new interface, and shows the high read/write throughput and streaming video performance potential of USB 3.0.
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Samsung packs camcorder with SSD for fast start
Solid-state disks, hard-disk drive replacements filled with flash memory chips, have become popular in the laptop computing space and now they're expanding to other markets. At this week's International Consumer Electronics Show, Samsung Electronics will unveil an SSD-based camcorder, it said Tuesday.
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Seagate squeezes data closer in new 1TB drive
Seagate has begun volume shipments of a new desktop hard-disk drive that offers 1TB of storage space across two disks.
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Researchers create graphite memory only 10 atoms thick
Researchers at Rice University have demonstrated a new data storage medium made out of a layer of graphite only 10 atoms thick.
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Data boom requires storage overhaul, industry experts say
Exploding amounts of digital information and an ongoing transition to a so-called "information economy" will necessitate a new, more holistic approach to storage, speakers at the Storage Networking World conference said this week.
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IBM storage blitz lacking in new products
IBM this week announced it has spent US$2 billion boosting its storage offerings through acquisitions, research and development over the past three years.
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Disk storage drove ahead in Q2
The disk storage industry defied economic gloom in the second quarter with strong increases in both capacity sold and revenue, according to two research companies.
