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Hardware
MSATA: It’s Like SATA But Smaller
7:00AM Mark Wilson | You’ve heard of SATA. It’s the technology used for the majority of today’s hard drives and people generally like it. But SATA wasn’t designed for tiny portables. That’s why the guys behind SATA are introducing mini-SATA or mSATA for short. More »
Hardware
Seagate Barracuda XT “World’s Fastest Hard Drive”
11:09PM Matt Buchanan | The SATA 3.0 spec—which doubles transfer speeds from 3Gbps to 6Gbps—was officially released in May, and it looks like Seagate is first out the gate with actual hardware (no surprise), the 2TB Barracuda XT. More »
Computers
Apple Releases Firmware Update To Boost New MacBook Pro SATA Interface Speed
7:57AM Adam Frucci | We reported earlier that it looks like the new MacBook Pros have had their hard drive controllers downgraded. Now, Apple has released a new firmware update to jack those speeds back up. More »
Computers
Did Apple Downgrade The New Macbook Pro’s Hard Drive Controller?
12:00AM John Herrman | Over the weekend, we got a number of reports that Apple appears to have downgraded the SATA controllers in the 13-inch and 15-inch MacBook Pros from 3.0-gigabit to 1.5-gigabit units. Going over the evidence, it looks like they were right. More »
Gadgets
SATA HDD Multimedia Dock II, Now With HDMI
2:40AM Jesus Diaz | Brando, Brando, oh purveyors off all things plastic and electronic in a myriad forms and shapes. If you didn’t like the Brando SATA drive horizontal dock with HDMI output, now you can have the vertical model. More »
Hardware
Seagate’s SATA3 Is Twice as Fast As Current Hard Drives
1:20AM Mark Wilson | Right now, you’re probably working on a SATA-based hard drive, with a transfer speed of 150MBps (SATA) or 300MBps (SATA2). Meanwhile, Seagate just demonstrated their tentative SATA3 spec, which reaches speeds of 600Mbps. More »
Peripherals
OCZ Pushing Out a Line of Crafty, Power-Grubbing eSATA Thumb Drives
11:58PM John Herrman | The external SATA standard is still a comparatively rare and inconsistent one, but OCZ has designed the Throttle, an eSATA flash drive with a clever compatibility trick up its slee—err, cap. More »
Hardware
LaCie 5Big is Slightly Less Infamous Than HAL 9000
2:30AM Jack Loftus | We doubt that the LaCie 5big Network storage array will one day spontaneously become self-aware and take over your office, but the visual nod to HAL is unmistakable nevertheless. And on purpose. Designer Neil Poulton said he created the array thanks to inspiration from the supercomputer at the heart of 2001: A Space Odyssey. However, aside from that all seeing eye thing on the front, this beast is all about affordable storage, not ending your life. More »
Hardware
SATA Rev 3 Specs Will Be Faster Than SATA 1 and 2 Combined
5:40AM Mark Wilson | New SATA specs!! The governing body of SATA (known as SATA-IO) has announced their SATA Revision 3.0 specifications, which is important because it will dictate the transfer speeds of internal hard drives (among other things). SATA Rev 3 will hit data transfers up to 6 Gbps (the original maxed at 1.5 Gbps and sequel reached 3 Gbps) and allow for better power management. Sounds good…it’s just too bad there’s not a hard drive on the market that can read or write at 6 Gbps. (Well, other than this crazy rig.) [SATA-IO via Electronista] More »
Peripherals
