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Idealstor combines removable storage with RAID
News The other half of the unit can hold up to four ATA drives, giving a maximum removable storage capacity of 1.6TB. This device allows backup administrators an all in one appliance where they schedule their backup jobs to run to the RAID 5 array for...
[July 7, 2005, 14:55]
Motorola and Sony play ball
News Motorola's Dragonball processors will soon support Sony's Memory Stick, potentially expanding the market for the removable storage shaped like a stick of gum. Memory Stick is similar to CompactFlash and Smart Media, two other brands of removable...
[May 24, 2001, 11:00]
Removable disks reach a 'Peerless' 20Gb
News Peerless -- Iomega's latest addition to its range of removable storage products -- allows users to carry up to 20Gb of data on one disk, and its optional FireWire interface will boast a transfer rate of up to 15Mb per second, according to the...
[March 23, 2001, 10:43]
Microsoft boosts Windows 7 security for USB drives
News In the wake of the Conficker worm spreading via removable storage devices among other methods, Microsoft said on Tuesday it is making a change to the way Windows 7 handles USB drives. Disabling AutoRun functionality can help prevent the execution...
[April 29, 2009, 9:37]
SanDisk offers secure USB storage for Macs
News In July, PGP Corporation targeted the ongoing problem of data breaches via mobile devices with PGP Endpoint, designed to allow administrators to centrally manage policies for various types of devices, including laptops, desktops and mobile devices...
[December 5, 2008, 15:10]
Constellation 3D moves toward mega-storage
News It is also working on a credit card-sized removable storage device with around 10GB capacity. Their manufacturing and distribution leadership has the potential to enable FMD technology to quickly proliferate through premium brands, and help to...
[January 20, 2001, 6:13]
Removable drives to get standard
News While this trade group will rally some manufacturers around a standard, other electronics manufactures tout a range of their own removable storage approaches. IDC analyst David Reinsel said that while removable hard drives offer advantages for...
[March 5, 2002, 9:35]
Camera makers unveil new media format
News Digital camera makers Olympus and Fuji Photo Film announced a new removable media format on Tuesday, despite analyst concerns that camera buyers already have to deal with too many storage choices. SmartMedia cards rank No.in the market for...
[July 31, 2002, 12:40]
Flash-memory devices cause security concerns
News SecureWave will next week launch an updated version of its SecureEXE software, which is designed to restrict users from copying prohibited files to and from removable storage devices. They can store anything from around 32MB to over 1GB, and are...
[August 22, 2003, 16:15]
TDK cracks 200GB Blu-ray discs
News Ikushima said that removable media would still be popular, despite the rise of Web-based storage and broadband. With a large capacity you need removable storage like a Blu-ray disc," Ikushima told ZDNet UK.
[September 1, 2006, 15:10]
Sony gets out its big Stick
News As expected, Sony announced at the US Consumer Electronics Show last week a new high-speed removable memory card format and a new feature for its already existing card format, the Memory Stick. In related news about removable flash memory cards...
[January 13, 2003, 9:40]
Does Zip have a future?
News Zip's position in the worldwide optical and removable storage market has steadily declined since its peak in 1999 according to research firm IDC. The original Zip read 100MB removable disks, compared with 120MB for SuperDisk drives, which also were...
[August 15, 2002, 10:43]
Matchbox hard drive packs in 4GB
News The removable drive, which is the size of a matchbox, carries the IBM brand but is made by Hitachi Global Storage Technologies, Hitachi spokeswoman Kim Nguyen said on Wednesday. IBM's Web site emphasises the 4GB drive's possible use with notebook...
[February 12, 2004, 7:40]
CompactFlash cards begin to fade away
News There are a number of removable flash memory card formats on the market, which vary in size and shape. Removable flash memory cards use solid-state memory, so they're less prone to skipping and can recall information faster than disk-based memory...
[April 23, 2003, 11:05]
New Memory Stick forgets older devices
News The new removable flash memory cards are also designed to allow for higher performance levels than the previous format, so devices should be better able to perform high-end functions, such as playing streaming video.
[December 12, 2002, 14:37]
Memory makers adopt xD for digital pics
News Memory developers Lexar Media and SanDisk have agreed to sell the emerging xD-Picture Card, a removable flash memory card format that's gaining traction by riding on the popularity of digital cameras.
[May 28, 2003, 13:29]
Western Digital boosted by notebook sales
News Western Digital said that sales were boosted by growing market areas such as sales of removable disk drives for consumers looking to upgrade their home systems. This growth mirrors the performance of other storage suppliers such as EMC, which...
[January 26, 2007, 15:39]
Nuggets: Zip challenger from Datek
News Issuing a rather hopeful challenge to the likes of Iomega's Zip drive, Datek has launched a new removable media hard drive for the Mac. The Orb SCSI drive uses 3-1\2 inch removable media -- spooky similarity to Zip disks -- with a hefty 2.2GB...
[December 3, 1999, 12:08]
Dell: Dump the floppy
News When connected, the Dell-branded device appears on a computer's desktop as a removable hard drive, allowing people to drag and drop files for storage or to move them to another computer. The company on Tuesday began offering the USB Memory Key, a...
[October 30, 2002, 11:56]
HP accidentally leaks next iPaq
News The family runs on a removable and rechargeable lithium-ion battery. The mobile-phone market has already started the transition to miniSD, which is currently available in storage capacities of 1GB, Kort noted.
[August 15, 2005, 9:45]
