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Seagate announced in April 2014 the latest product to join their portable storage lineup, the Backup Plus Slim. The new drive features a svelte and compact design, USB 3.0 interface, comes in capacities ranging from 500MB to ...
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Tomorrow, the full force of Singapore’s Personal Data Protection Act (PDPA) comes into effect. It’s purpose is to protect individuals from unscrupulous use of personal data by organisations. We are more concerned than ...
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Singapore-based Strontium last month launched their new flagship line of Nitro Plus UHS-I Speed Class 3 (U3) SD and microSD cards. Boasting read speeds up to 80MB/s and write speeds up to 60MB/s, these cards will keep up with ...
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I was originally just planning to get an SD card reader with OTG cable, to enable me to easily transfer photos into and out of my Nexus 7 tablet. Then at a computer store, I saw the Sony Microvault USB Flash Drive for ...
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Western Digital announced the world’s first Thunderbolt portable RAID storage drive a few weeks ago. It’s the My Passport Pro. I couldn’t wait to mention it too, so I wrote an early post even before I begun ...
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Western Digital has unveiled the world’s first Thunderbolt portable hard disk, the My Passport Pro. I’ve got one unit for this review, and even although I’ve hardly got started, I can’t wait to share some ...
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While most companies have transitioned from conventional spinning hard disk drives to solid state storage using some form of hybrid storage solution, Western Digital has taken quite a different approach with their Black2. It is a ...
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SSDs are getting pretty mainstream these days. Several years ago, I’ve posted about how SSDs are the best upgrade you can do for your notebook. Today, new Apple notebooks no longer come with conventional hard disk drives. ...
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We accumulate lots of digital assets these days. Photos, music and movies, particularly, require massive storage. Storage is cheap, so keeping up with our storage needs is not unaffordable. The difficult bit, however, is scaling ...
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We run some storage pods that are built based on BackBlaze design. Our latest build is a chassis containing 45 pieces of 3TB drives, giving us a total raw disk capacity of 135TB. It’s a nice system that provides plenty of ...
