Buffalo is set to cross the USB 3.0 finish line first with their HD-HU3 hard drive. They also plan on offering NEC’s IFC-PCIE2U3 2-port PCI Expressx1 host controller with the drive so you can, you know, use it.
Madness. 16GB in this Buffalo RUF2 flash naildrive just 5mm long. Translated to the Imperial system, that’s 16GB in a on tiny-itty-bitty-thingamajig. [Geekstuff]
It won’t instantly give you Jason Chen’s tactical blogging situation room, but Buffalo’s 7-inch USB display does something nice: it swivels vertically, making it even better for a secondary IM display on your desk.
Buffalo Electronics is claiming that their WLI-UC-GN Wi-Fi dongle is the smallest Draft N 2.0 adapter in the world. Is it? Who knows. But it’s definitely tiny, and surprisingly cheap.
We’ll laugh at this equipment in a few years, but Buffalo has updated their external LinkStation Mini drive with ultra-premium storage and nearly silent operation. And for the time being, it’s pretty freakin’ uber-worthy.
As the happy owner of a cheapass Buffalo WHR-G125 router running DD-WRT, the ridiculous BS patent lawsuit that got Buffalo being banned from selling routers in the US was deeply aggravating. Great news for Buffalo and reasonable people everywhere, CSIRO’s patent claims have been ruled invalid, and Buffalo is getting a new trial, so we’ll be able to buy Buffalo’s awesome cheapo routers again. One day, anyway. [Buffalo via Slashdot - Thanks Chubbs!]
Like the Buffalo hard drive I bought in Japan to replace one that died, Buffalo’s generically named Portable HD is actually Samsung inside, but in this case, the same kind used in the MacBook Air, so it’s incredibly slim and totally pocketable, about the size of a biz card holder. The convenience makes for a low dollars to bytes ratio, though, at $US120 for 30GB and $US170 for 60GB. Still, I love the design.
Buffalo has come up with a new network accessible storage system which not only hangs onto up to 4TB of your files but is also Time Machine and iPhone compatible. OK, so this last bit is over a dedicated web access system and the phone can’t save the files, but it can view the contents of music, photo and video files. The LS-QL/R5′s 13 x 18 x 22cm box can fit in up to four 3.5-inch drives, has a RAID-5 option, Gigabit Ethernet, a DLNA server and is due in late September for US$560 for a 1TB version, around US$710 for 2TB and US$1,300 for 4TB. [PCWatch]
Asus’s EeePC 901 has already proved itself very hackable but Buffalo’s newest product won’t require much modding: 32GB or 64GB replacement SSD’s. Not much more to say, apart from the obvious: more storage, more impact resilient, longer battery life. The best bit? The 32GB SHD-EP9M32G is a mere US$156, and the 64GB SHD-EP9M64G an equally neat US$316. Available in Japan at first, mid-September.
