Integral Memory says the UltimaPro SDHC card is the fastest yet from the company-- reaching transfer speeds of up to 45MB/s and continuous write speeds of over 10MB/s.

Such speeds makes them ideal for photographers and camera enthusiasts in order to capture high resolution images and HD video recording.

The cards feature a SDHC Class 10 chipset together with a Ultra High Speed 1 (UHS-I/UHS-1) controller, and are available in sizes of 8, 16 and 32GB.

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The Seagate Green and XT HDD brands are no more-- Seagate feeds them all to a single brand, the Barracuda, in a bid to slim down a bloated inventory channel.

The announcement comes with the first HDD in the new series, combining features from both Green and XT drives and simply named Barracuda.

It carries 1TB platters (the highest density Seagate offers) and runs at 7200RPM with 64MB chache,using the new 4K standard. Environmentally-conscious customers should be pleased to know it matches Green Continue reading...

Salt might cause havoc to your blood pressure, but it could also be key to boosting hard drive capacities by 6 times, according to the Institute of Materials Research and Engineering (IMRE) at Singapore's Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR).

The discovery (a collaboration with the National University of singapore and the Data Storage Institute) involves "a process that can increase the data recording density of hard disks to 3.3 Terabits per square inch, six times the recording Continue reading...

Global PC storage device shipments total 248.8M units in Q2 2011 with a Y-o-Y increase of 5.6% (from 235.5M units in Q2 2010), according to IHS iSuppli.

Contrary to analyst expectations, the earthquake disaster in Japan last March stimulated the storage market-- with OEMs accelerating orders and increasing inventory to ensure adequate supply.

The analyst divides the PC storage market in 3 segments-- HDDs (hard drives), ODDs (optical disc drives) and SSDs (solid state drives).

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SanDisk launches the Memory Vault-- a ruggedised flash drive making part of the company's new long-term photo and video storage series.

It uses "Chronoclock" technology, a proprietary memory management solution incorporating "the key elements of advanced solid-state storage".

SanDisk says the Memory Vault preserves data for up to 100 years, after carrying out accelerated temperature cycling tests.

With a low-profile metallic body, the Memory Vault will be available in 8GB and 16GB models.

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SanDisk announces SATA DEVLSLP-- an new SATA-IO standard proposal lowering current SATA SSD power consumptions.

Joining SanDisk are a number of industry leaders, including Intel, Samsung and Microsoft.

Some current best-in-class SSDs already have low power consumptions of around 50mW-- with SATA DEVSLP, SSDs should remain in a simlar low power state "the majority of the time".

SanDisk has even lower targets for the standard-- as low as 5mW.

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Verbatim will debut its next generation SATA SSD range at IFA 2011, offering an alternative to standard HDDs with high data transfer rates and energy efficiency.

The SSDs offer data read speeds of up to 250 MB/sec and write speeds of up to 180 MB/sec, with 64GB, 128GG and 256GB capacities.

Verbatim's SSD kits include cloning software and an enclosure allowing users to turn their previous HDD into an external drive once removed from their machine.

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Samsung announces an update on its 470 SSD series, the 830 SSD series-- now carrying a high performance SATA 3.0 interface.

The SATA 3.0 interface handles data speeds of up to 6GB/sec.

The 830 series comes in 64, 128, 256 and 512GB capacities, with an attractive brushed metal finish unusual for a device that won't be seen once it finds its way inside your customers' machines.

Samsung says the SSDs are ideal for upgrades-- the package includes Norton Ghost software (which supposedly reduces upgrade Continue reading...