<![CDATA[News Tom's Hardware UK - Storage]]> http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/ en 10 Sat, 06 Sep 2008 19:33:03 +0200 <![CDATA[News Tom's Hardware UK - Storage]]> http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/logo_rss.png http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/ <![CDATA[PNY and Sony To Release Movies On USB Flash Drives]]> http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/Ghostbusters-PNY-Sony,news-29096.html http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/Ghostbusters-PNY-Sony,news-29096.html Thu, 04 Sep 2008 19:40:00 CEST PNY and Sony have announced they are releasing Ghostbusters the movie on USB flash drive and expect other movies to follow]]> <![CDATA[Blu-ray Drives Hit 8X Write Speeds]]> http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/Blu-ray-Fastest-Buffalo,news-29085.html http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/Blu-ray-Fastest-Buffalo,news-29085.html Wed, 03 Sep 2008 12:10:00 CEST A newly released internal Blu-ray drive by Buffalo Technology claims the position of world's fastest Blu-ray drive]]> <![CDATA[Samsung Introduces SSDs for Low-Priced PC Market ]]> http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/Samsung-SSD-MLC,news-29054.html http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/Samsung-SSD-MLC,news-29054.html Thu, 28 Aug 2008 20:40:05 CEST Samsung announced Wednesday it will begin mass producing next month inexpensive low-density high-performance SSDs. ]]> <![CDATA[3DTV Coming to Blu-ray, Philips Demonstrates]]> http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/3DTV-Philips-Bluray-blu-ray,news-29022.html http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/3DTV-Philips-Bluray-blu-ray,news-29022.html Mon, 25 Aug 2008 22:40:00 CEST While 3DTV could be the next big thing and a standard for it is being looked at using Blu-ray, Philips gets impatient and shows us how it's done]]> <![CDATA[IDF: SSD Myths and Hardcore Gamers]]> http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/idf-intel-ssd,news-29008.html http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/idf-intel-ssd,news-29008.html Fri, 22 Aug 2008 19:30:00 CEST Intel says it sheds light on all preconceived SSD myths and touts SSDs as 'the' choice for real gamers.]]> <![CDATA[IDF 2008: New SATA Standard Expands To 600 MB/s, Enables Next Phase For SSD Performance]]> http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/SATA-standard-interface,news-29005.html http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/SATA-standard-interface,news-29005.html Fri, 22 Aug 2008 10:50:00 CEST Chicago (IL) - SATA 3.0 has made its first appearance at IDF, as peripherals are slowly but surely approaching the limits of SATA or SATA-II]]> <![CDATA[IDF: Full Speed Ahead for Intel SSDs]]> http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/intel-idf-ssd,news-28988.html http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/intel-idf-ssd,news-28988.html Wed, 20 Aug 2008 18:40:00 CEST Intel says its SSD drives offer unparalleled performance, although we're still skeptical about actual real world performance.]]> <![CDATA[Intel Tests Mass Storage Waters With New SSDs]]> http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/Intel-SSD-IDFFall2008,news-28985.html http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/Intel-SSD-IDFFall2008,news-28985.html Wed, 20 Aug 2008 11:20:00 CEST San Francisco (CA) - A growing number that historically has not been associated with mass storage products such as hard drives is taking advantage of low NAND flash prices and increasing storage capacities to move into a new business segment...]]> <![CDATA[Microsoft to Add Blu-ray Disc Support into Windows]]> http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/microsoft-windows-blu-ray-vista,news-28978.html http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/microsoft-windows-blu-ray-vista,news-28978.html Wed, 20 Aug 2008 00:40:00 CEST Through the lifespan of the format, Microsoft has been a strong supporter of HD DVD. Now with the victory of Blu-ray Disc, however, the world’s largest software maker is working on incorporating new storage options in Windows. Microsoft is currently deve]]> <![CDATA[IDF 2008: NEC Promises Speed-up For Wireless USB]]> http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/nec-usb-usb,news-28974.html http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/nec-usb-usb,news-28974.html Tue, 19 Aug 2008 23:40:00 CEST <![CDATA[Intel Prepping SSDs With Up To 160 GB Capacity]]> http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/intel-ssd-storage,news-28956.html http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/intel-ssd-storage,news-28956.html Sat, 16 Aug 2008 01:10:00 CEST Santa Clara (CA) - Intel is expected to unveil new products within its solid state disk (SSD) drive family.]]> <![CDATA[Kingston Takes 10% Stake At NAND Flash Controller Designer 3S]]> http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/Kingston-NAND-Flash-3S,news-28918.html http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/Kingston-NAND-Flash-3S,news-28918.html Mon, 11 Aug 2008 16:40:00 CEST NAND flash controller design house Solid State System (3S) announced that Kingston Technology has taken a 10% stake in the company via a private placement as expected.]]> <![CDATA[Numonyx And Hynix Extend NAND Flash Cooperation]]> http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/flash-Numonyx-Hynix,news-28881.html http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/flash-Numonyx-Hynix,news-28881.html Wed, 06 Aug 2008 19:30:00 CEST More here at ]]> <![CDATA[Micron Introduces Next-generation SSD For Enterprise Servers And Notebooks]]> http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/Micron-SSD,news-28864.html http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/Micron-SSD,news-28864.html Tue, 05 Aug 2008 18:20:00 CEST Micron Technology has announced the introduction of its next-generation RealSSD solid-state drives (SSDs) for enterprise computing (P200) and notebook applications (C200).]]> <![CDATA[Hard Drive Industry Shrugs Off Economic Concerns, Post Double Digit Growth Rates]]> http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/harddrive-Q22008-Seagate,news-28781.html http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/harddrive-Q22008-Seagate,news-28781.html Wed, 23 Jul 2008 11:30:01 CEST El Segundo (CA) - Hard drive makers are quickly learning to deal with the economic downturn by lowering their cost.]]> <![CDATA[Samsung, Sun Develop 'ultra-endurance' SSD]]> http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/Samsung-Sun-SSD,news-28742.html http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/Samsung-Sun-SSD,news-28742.html Thu, 17 Jul 2008 17:50:00 CEST San Jose (CA) - Samsung and Sun Microsoystems today said that the two companies have developed a single-level-cell NAND flash memory device for use in solid state drives that offers "much higher endurance levels than any other flash memory device on the market today.]]> <![CDATA[200 GB Per Disk: Toshiba Leads 2.5" Hard Drive Storage Density]]> http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/Toshiba-harddrive,news-28736.html http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/Toshiba-harddrive,news-28736.html Thu, 17 Jul 2008 11:30:02 CEST <![CDATA[Seagate Boosts Hard Drive Storage Capacity To 1.5 TB]]> http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/Seagate-hard-drive-harddrive-terabyte,news-28703.html http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/Seagate-hard-drive-harddrive-terabyte,news-28703.html Thu, 10 Jul 2008 23:50:00 CEST Scotts Valley (CA) - Seagate reclaims storage capacity leadership in the hard drive market with a 1.5 TB drive, which represents a stunning 50% improvement over the largest drives currently available on the market.]]> <![CDATA[Hitachi Fires Up Second-generation Terabyte Hard Drives]]> http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/hitachi-hard-drive,news-28702.html http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/hitachi-hard-drive,news-28702.html Thu, 10 Jul 2008 00:40:00 CEST San Jose (CA) - Hitachi renovated its 3.]]> <![CDATA[Samsung Puts 128 SSDs Into Mass-production]]> http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/Samsung-SSD,news-28692.html http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/Samsung-SSD,news-28692.html Wed, 09 Jul 2008 14:20:00 CEST <![CDATA[Pioneer Creates 16-layer Disc With 400 GB Capacity]]> http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/Blu-ray,news-28671.html http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/Blu-ray,news-28671.html Mon, 07 Jul 2008 20:40:00 CEST A new generation of high capacity optical discs could be on the way as Pioneer claims to have developed read-only disc media with 16 layers and a total capacity of 400 GB.]]> <![CDATA[Japanese Researchers Discover Way To Squeeze 42 GB Onto A DVD]]> http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/dvd-blu-ray-bluray,news-28614.html http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/dvd-blu-ray-bluray,news-28614.html Fri, 27 Jun 2008 22:10:00 CEST A team of Japanese researchers have discovered a way to store 42 GB of data on one disc. Well, at least that’s what they claim.]]> <![CDATA[Intel Denies Rumors of SSD Market Exit]]> http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/intel-ssd-drive,news-28559.html http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/intel-ssd-drive,news-28559.html Mon, 23 Jun 2008 17:50:00 CEST Intel will stick to flash memory businesses, contrary to recent reports. We spoke to Intel contacts several days ago and they indicated that the company has no intentions of leaving the flash memory business despite reports suggesting otherwise. Intel re]]> <![CDATA[Convolve Sues Dell, Western Digital and Hitachi For HDD Patent Infringement]]> http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/Dell-HDD-Lawsuit,news-28546.html http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/Dell-HDD-Lawsuit,news-28546.html Fri, 20 Jun 2008 17:20:00 CEST The latest patent infringement lawsuit sees Dell and two of its suppliers Hitachi and Western Digital, come under fire from Convolve Incorporated.]]> <![CDATA[Samsung Said To Have Large Batch Of Defective 68nm DRAM Chips]]> http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/Samsung-DRAM,news-28524.html http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/Samsung-DRAM,news-28524.html Wed, 18 Jun 2008 19:50:02 CEST <![CDATA[NAND Flash Pricing Hits New Lows]]> http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/NAND-flash,news-28507.html http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/NAND-flash,news-28507.html Mon, 16 Jun 2008 18:30:03 CEST <![CDATA[ProMOS Sees Stabilizing DRAM Pricing]]> http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/DRAM-Promos,news-28508.html http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/DRAM-Promos,news-28508.html Mon, 16 Jun 2008 18:30:00 CEST <![CDATA[Hard Drive Withstands Fire And Water Submersion]]> http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/harddrive-iosafe-backup,news-28424.html http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/harddrive-iosafe-backup,news-28424.html Mon, 09 Jun 2008 22:20:02 CEST <![CDATA[SonyNEC Optiarc: Sub $100 Blu-ray Combo Drives for the Holidays?]]> http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/Blu-ray-BD-ROM,news-28393.html http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/Blu-ray-BD-ROM,news-28393.html Thu, 05 Jun 2008 11:30:00 CEST <![CDATA[Computex 2008: Sandisk Launches New SSDs For Low-cost PCs]]> http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/Sandisk-SSD,news-28368.html http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/Sandisk-SSD,news-28368.html Wed, 04 Jun 2008 18:10:08 CEST