Leave No Trace: How to Completely Erase Your Hard Drives, SSDs and Thumb Drives
March 10, 2010 by admin · Leave a Comment
Why Wipe Data Securely? Whether you are preparing to reuse a hard disk for another operating system, clear off your junk shelves by passing along outdated drives to a friend or relative, donate an old PC to a charity or school, discard a too-small USB drive or flash memory card, or repurpose an SSD, you don’t want to leave any information on the storage device. With stories abounding of identity theft aided by information lifted from discarded storage devices, you want devices you no longer plan to use to have no usable information when they head out the door. Why Erasing Files Is Not Enough Sure, you could erase the contents of the drive, but keep this in mind: the act of erasing a file does not remove it from a storage device. When you erase/delete a file from your computer, it’s not really gone until the areas of the disk it used are overwritten by new information.
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Leave No Trace: How to Completely Erase Your Hard Drives, SSDs and Thumb Drives
Delkin PMA 2010 – New Fat Gecko Gator Mount, Jellyfish, and New Rugged CF Memory Card
March 5, 2010 by admin · Leave a Comment
Delkin showed us their new products at their PMA booth this year, two of which won a coveted DIMA award.
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Delkin PMA 2010 – New Fat Gecko Gator Mount, Jellyfish, and New Rugged CF Memory Card
SanDisk Promos G3 SSD, Super Fast, Hefty Price Tag
February 23, 2010 by admin · Leave a Comment
Another solid state drive (SSD) hits the streets today. This one, the G3 , is from SanDisk, which claims the G3 offers “a compelling alternative to a 7,2000RPM hard disk drive.” The G3 comes in capacities of 60GB and 120GB. SanDisk claims the drives will open files up to twice as fast as a 7,200RPM HDD, allowing for faster boot times and snappier system performance. The drives will allow read speeds up to 220MB/s, and write speeds up to 120MB/s.
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SanDisk Promos G3 SSD, Super Fast, Hefty Price Tag
SanDisk Promos G3 SSD, Super Fast, Hefty Price Tag
February 23, 2010 by admin · Leave a Comment
Another solid state drive (SSD) hits the streets today.
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SanDisk Promos G3 SSD, Super Fast, Hefty Price Tag
iPhone, competitors to strain NAND flash supply
February 18, 2010 by admin · Leave a Comment
Popularity of the iPhone and other portable devices will spur heavy demand for NAND flash memory this year, boosting revenue for manufacturers, according to a new report.
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Super Talent Unveils ‘TeraDrive’ SSD Series for Enterprise Market
January 25, 2010 by admin · Leave a Comment
Super Talent has the high-end enterprise and database server markets squarely in its sights with the unveiling of the company’s new TeraDrive SSD series. “Super Talent has a solid track record of developing leading edge SSDs. Their new TeraDrive series, incorporating SandForce technology, is an impressive advance in enterprise storage,” said Thad Omura, VP Marketing at SandForce, Inc. The TeraDrive series is being offered in capacities from 50GB to 200GB and boast support for SATA 3Gbps. Speed shouldn’t be an issue, not on paper, anyway. According to Super Talent, its TeraDrive series come capable of of up to 250MB/s read and write speeds “that will not degrade over time,” as well as up to 30,000 IOPS
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Sony Finally Caves; Launches Line of SD Cards
January 6, 2010 by admin · Leave a Comment
You can only swim against the tide for so long. Sony, after 11 long years swimming against the tide, has announced that its giving in, and it too will produce a line of SD cards . Sony says “the new cards will complement” their existing Memory Stick line of memory cards, but it concedes the Memory Stick’s unpopularity by saying it needs to “satisfy the needs of a broader range of users.” (Such as everybody else in the known universe.) Sony’s SD/SDHC cards will be Class 4, and range in capacity from 2 GB to 32 GB. A line of microSD/microSDHC cards will also be available, with capacities from 2 GB to 8 GB. Retail prices will range from $14.99 for the 2 GB SD card to $159.99 for the 32 GB SDHC card.
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Researchers Show Off Bendable Flash Memory
December 16, 2009 by admin · Leave a Comment
“ Bend me, shape me ” its not–more like flex me, but not too far. A research group from the University of Tokyo, lead by Professor Takeo Someya and Research Associate Tsuyoshi Sekitani of the Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Systems, Graduate School of Engineering, is showing off a flash memory module that can be flexed into an arc with a 6mm radius before suffering mechanical damage. The module consists of 26 x 26 2T memory cells in an array structure placed on a polyethylene naphthalate (PEN) substrate. This “organic flash memory” is non-volatile (if a single day’s memory retention can be considered non-volatile), and has an erasing voltage of 6V and a reading voltage of 1V. Researchers say the memory can be used for large-area sensors, electronic paper, or any device that requires its memory retention time extended. Also, because the sheet is pressure sensitive, it can easily be converted into an “intelligent pressure sensor”
Samsung Introduces 0.6mm-Thick Flash Chips for Mobile Devices
November 6, 2009 by admin · Leave a Comment
Samsung has announced a new breakthrough that could lead to mobile devices with greater storage space than before.
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Micron Manufacturing Two New High-Performance NAND Flash Devices
October 19, 2009 by admin · Leave a Comment
Micron Technology has announced two new enterprise NAND flash memory chips : a 16Gb single-level cell (SLC) NAND and a 32Gb multi-level (MLC) cell NAND, both produced on a 34nm die. NAND chips are commonplace in flash memory cards and electronic devices with built-in flash memory. Micron reports that the two new chips can achieve up to 30,000 write cycles, a six-fold increase over present technology. Furthermore, the chips will support the Open NAND Flash Interface (ONFI) 2.1 synchronous interface, which can deliver a 4x to 5x improvement in data transfer rates over legacy NAND interfaces. Improved throughput specifications and smaller size hold promise for expanding flash memory options for consumers
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