storage
Hardware
Intel Promises To Stop Its Firmware Bricking SSDs
11:00AM Rosa Golijan | A few weeks ago, Intel pulled a firmware update the day after it came out because many users running 64-bit Windows 7 found that it bricked their SSDs. Whoops. The good news though is that Intel has acknowledged and replicated the bug, and is working on a fix. The bad news? There’s no timeline for when the fix will come out. [Reg Hardware]
Hardware
Samsung’s New Flash Memory Chips Will Cause Gadget Shrinkage
5:00AM Rosa Golijan | With a thickness of only 0.6mm, Samsung’s newest NAND chips are practically anorexic, but for once that’s a good thing. Thinner chips like these could bring smaller gadgets and hopefully also lead to lower SSD prices. More »
Hardware
The World’s Wittlest 320GB Hard Dwive
12:18AM Mark Wilson | Toshiba has just squeezed 320GB of storage into their 1.8-inch 5400rpm line of SATA drives. (That’s enough to double the storage of the iPod Classic.) Available this December for an undisclosed price. [Toshiba via I4U]
Peripherals
The First USB 3.0 Flash Drive Is A Wide Load
8:03AM Matt Buchanan | Super Talent’s first USB 3.0 flash drive, is huge — about the same size as Corsair’s Voyager, in 32GB, 64GB and 128GB sizes. It’ll push those gigs of Zatoichi rips at 4.8Gbps or about 10 times faster than USB 2.0. [Register]
Hardware
1:40AM Mark Wilson | In Utah, the National Security Agency is building a $US2 billion storage facility that will house and analyse all forms of electronic communication…a potential yottabyte of everyone’s (formerly) personal data. So how big is a yottabyte? CrunchGear puts it well…+ More »
The NSA To Store A YOTTABYTE Of Your Personal Data
1:40AM Mark Wilson | In Utah, the National Security Agency is building a $US2 billion storage facility that will house and analyse all forms of electronic communication…a potential yottabyte of everyone’s (formerly) personal data. So how big is a yottabyte? CrunchGear puts it well…+ More »
Peripherals
Corsair Flash Voyager 128GB USB: As Big And Fast As A Small Fish
10:55AM Brian Lam | One day, 128GB flash drives will be common. We’ll lose em and only say “oops”. Today, you can have one if you don’t mind the size and price of this $US400 Corsair. But F me, this thing isn’t fast. More »
Hardware
Iomega Ix2-200 NAS Review (It Does All This?)
11:00PM Jason Chen | Iomega’s Ix2-200 NAS shows that you don’t need to run Microsoft’s Windows Home Server to take care of everything a home, or even a small business, needs for its network storage. It’s just surprising that it’s this cheap. More »
Peripherals
1:20AM Mark Wilson | In case you’re as sick of plastic as we are, Brinell Powerstorage hard drives combine the best of Asian tech with the best of European craftsmanship. More »
Brinell Powerstorage HDD Celebrate Steel, Leather, Wood
1:20AM Mark Wilson | In case you’re as sick of plastic as we are, Brinell Powerstorage hard drives combine the best of Asian tech with the best of European craftsmanship. More »
Games
Next Xbox Live Update Breaks ‘Unauthorised’ Memory Cards
12:48AM Mark Wilson | A new Xbox update coming to some of as as soon as this week will block the use of “unauthorised” memory cards. That means you should copy any important data to your hard drive before the update hits. It also means that we’re likely to see more “authorised” third party memory units on the way. [Major Nelson via Gamers Reports via Kotaku] More »
Peripherals
