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SanDisk sets us straight on SDHC, SSD and Vaulter

Posted By: Nic Fillingham | Feb 18th @ 6:20 PM
We dropped by the SanDisk booth at CES this year for an update on all things storage including SSDs (Solid State Drives) and the newly announced Vaulter.

Lance from SanDisk gave as a quick overview of all the different types of storage formats currently in use today and helped clarify the difference between SD and SDHC.

We also had a look at SanDisk's new technology Vaulter and how it will be implemented into laptops and other  devices in the very near future.
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Analyze Your Disks

Posted By: Sarah Perez | Jan 8th @ 1:10 PM
Wondering how you could have possibly filled up that 200 GB drive already? You may want to check out Xinorbis, a hard drive analyzer application. Xinorbis analyzes the files on your drive and sorts them into categories like music, movies, programs, graphics, and system files. It makes it easy to see the contents, structure, and file distribution across a hard drive, a single directory, or a mapped network drive. You can configure Xinorbis to show files by quantity or by file size. If you have a large drive, scanning can take a while, but the latest release on December 8th, has improved the scan speed. Scan results can be displayed as either a simple text file, a bar graph, a pie chart, or you can even export the data to HTML, ASCII, or XML. With shell support, you can scan a directory right through explorer, a handy feature to narrow your search and save time. Although some may prefer the more visual results displayed in the WinDirStat program, a few features, like the ability to sort and categorize files, gives Xinorbis an edge when it comes to detailed data produced. 
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Hitachi promises laptop disk encryption in 2007

Posted By: JD Lewin | Nov 1st, 2006 @ 2:43 PM
Thanks to the magic of Get Perpendicular, Hitachi hopes to ship 750GB laptop HDDs next year (2.5 inch for those keeping score at home). If that weren't enough to get our blood pumping a bit quicker, these drives will also come in hybrid flavors, which will allow for better performance and lower power consumption. Great right?

Well that's not all folks. These same hybrid disks will feature AES-based encryption. Using a key generated from your password, both the data on flash memory and the disk platters will be wrapped in a blanket of mathematics so complex...well let's just say Setec Astronomy ;)

(via Engadget)
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Star Wars series Mimoco flash drives begin with Vader

Posted By: JD Lewin | Oct 18th, 2006 @ 11:48 AM

Contrary to the promise of our friends from Stanford, the network doesn’t always give us what we need. Almost daily we find a need for some quick handheld digital storage, and naturally rather than the generic branded swag, we want have something cute/geeky. Mimoco has a great track record for providing such adorable flash drives, but now they’ve really upped the ante.

Starting with everyone’s favorite Dark Lord of the Sith, Mimoco presents their Star Wars series flash drives. As with their previous offerings, Vader is available in 1GB ($US80), 2GB ($US120), and 4GB ($US170) capacities. Even better is this Jedi of file sharing is the first of four in the series. Go and preorder Anakin now, and he’ll help you usher in 2007 in style.

(via Gizmodo)
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