HDD Stage Rack grows an eSATA port

You already loved it in its USB 2.0 incarnation. Now check the HDD Stage Rack with an additional eSATA interface. Who couldn't use an extra 315MB/s transfer rate for their 2.5-inch or 3.5-inch disks? Yours now for $57.15 before those excessive shipping costs are factored in.

8.5mm-Thick External HDD is Seriously Thin

Even though solid state flash drives are quickly coming to take over for regular HDDs, there are still innovations to be had with our trust old platter drives. Take this Tomato D-18, for example, which is an external 60GB HDD that's a mere third of an inch thick, enclosure included. Coming in a slick little case and not requiring external power, this wee HDD looks more like a PMP than an external drive. It's available now for $107.

Samsung announces world's fastest memory: GDDR5

Gadzooks gamers, Samsung just announced what they are calling the world's fastest memory: GDDR5. The new series five, double-data rate memory chip transfers data at a lickity quick 6Gbps -- about 4x faster while using 20% less power than the GDDR3 memory found in modern GPUs and the PS3. Compare that to their 4Gbps GDDR4 chips and you'll understand the fuss. The chips have already been delivered in samples to the likes of NVIDIA and ATI. Samsung expects the series five chips to capture more than 50 percent of the high-end PC graphics market by 2010.

World’s Thinnest DVD Disc

Using an innovative nanoimprint technology, Hitachi Maxell have succeeded in creating the world’s thinnest DVD media at unbelievable 0.092mm thick. This makes the new disc approximately 1/13th the thickness of existing DVD media, yet allows it to retain the full 4.7GB capacity. Just imagine your collection of 100 DVD’s can be fitted in a box not thicker than 1cm.

These things will be priced somewhere around $4 when they hit the stores.

500 GB Optical Discs, is it possible?

After we have seen Blu-ray and HD DVDs out on the market 500 GB might not seem that much. However, this number is very difficult to achieve by just adding layers and creating new formats. According to last optical disc researches there is a technology that can cram that amount of data on to a usual HD DVD or Blu-ray disc.

"Microholas" project is what they call it, after these researches we will be able to use regular HD DVDs and Blu-ray and record much more information on them. They want to make such discs not just for stacking movies and forgetting about them. It has been created for secured data storage, moreover long term data storage.

Microholographic is a longer version for "Microholas" and this is the technology they use to make those discs. This technology involves nano structures inside the disc work for us and fit as much information on one disc as possible. There supposedly will be no need for several layers as most of people thought.

Besides, problems with reading scratched discs are resolved already by TDK so we only need to know how to squeeze the amount of data needed on one single disc. The researches are not satisfied with their gadget so far. They are going to try to make capacity limit up to 1 TB.

Big hard drives will become too expensive to buy when you can use "Microholas" technology.



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