Hitachi releases in Japan its new 500GB iVDRs HDD + USB Cradle

iVDR was suppose to be the answer to all our Storage needs and problems with a unique format capable to be used in everything ranging from your PC, TV, Video Recorder, Car and even Camera. But like many proprietary format, the iVDR never get the success it was looking, still, Hitachi who's behind (among others) the iVDR continues to propose iVDR capable TVs and has introduces this morning any combo with the iS500 and iS500AD that includes for the first one a 500GB iVDRs drive where the S stand for secure and the iS500AD the very same 500GB iVDRs drive sold with an I-O Data USB docking station.

Note : The iVDR is nothing but a regular 5.2" HDD packaged in a proprietary case.

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Seagate GoFlex Slim External HDD Ships Today

Seagate has officially announced that its 2.5-inch GoFlex Slim external HDD can now be ordered. With its 9mm thickness, drive is slimmer than many smartphones. It features USB 3.0 support, a 7200RPM drive, and a three-year warrant.

The GoFlex Slim is small enough to fit in a pocket and can transfer files up to 40MB/sec while using USB 3.0. It hit retail points in the United States today at just US$99.

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Intel Unveils Affordable SSDs

Solid-state drives (SSDs) have become an efficient storage device for heavy computer usage. However, its prices have been unreachable for the Average Joe.

Thankfully Intel introduces a new line of SSDs that not only have double the storage capacity of regular drives, but also affordable. The third-generation SSD 320 Series have impressive read and write speed performance at 270MB/s and 220MB/s respectively, mainly because of its 3Gbps SATA II interface.

The Intel SSD 320 Series start from 40GB at US$89 to $1,069 for 600GB.

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Intel rolls out third-generation SSD 320 Series drives

Intel's venerable X-25M series SSDs started the kick for SSD market, and now it'll be succeeded by the next generation of 'highly acclaimed' NAND from Intel, called the new SSD 320 Series. These NANDs are the new 25nm Intel NAND flash memory, and ranges from 40GB to 160GB for typical users like me and you, unless you're some high profiler from the corporate sector that needs more capacity, and then there are the 300GB and 600GB models, which might kill the wallet of typical Joes and Jane, despite Intel claiming that these new drives are about 30-percent cheaper than the previous generation. For your info, the new SSD 320 Series drives are priced from just $89 for 40GB to $1,069 for that 600GB drive. Head over to Anand's site for the early review here.

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