Category Archives: storage

Toshiba Unleashing Biggest Memory Card EVER

Posted on August 13, 2009 by Steven Leckart

64GB!!! Some hyperbolic highlights from the press release: world’s first 64GB1 SDXC Memory Card… capable of operating at the world’s fastest data transfer rate3 for reading and writing to a flash memory card… world’s first memory cards compliant with the … Continue reading →

No Way I’ll look This Cute When I Turn 35

Posted on August 11, 2009 by Steven Leckart

Retro Floppy Flash Drive

Posted on June 22, 2009 by Steven Leckart

[via Guaraná Rosa via Book of Joe] Previously: USB flash drive looks like a panda and saves them, too Steampunk Flash Drive Yes we can sell you Chinese-made flash drives with Obama holograms … Airplane-shaped flash drive – Boing Boing … Continue reading →

Pogoplug turns USB hard drives into personal miniclouds

Posted on April 6, 2009 by Joel Johnson

Engadget reviews the Pogoplug, a simple box that turns any USB hard drive into a networked device, accessible from even the wild yonder of the internet: All-in-all, we like the Pogoplug a lot, but we do have a couple of … Continue reading →

Brando Segon: USB memory stick in the shape of system RAM

Posted on January 20, 2009 by Joel Johnson

Brando brings their F-game to the “Segon Turbo Flash Drive“, a memory stick in the shape of…memory. The “DDR RAM appearance” has an “environmental green shell” — plastic, surely. Like nearly everything Brando makes, it’s so dumb that it’s kind … Continue reading →

Hand-cranked Fujitsu ME-P3M hard drive degausser

Posted on July 21, 2008 by Joel Johnson

They’re right outside the steel door, swinging, bashing, shouting. They found the line from the solar array, cut it right in two, even the second coil that was under six inches of concrete. One, maybe two minutes of light from … Continue reading →

Floating Media Drawer from West Elm

Posted on July 17, 2008 by Joel Johnson

West Elm, sort of a slightly upscale IKEA variant from the same people who own Williams-Sonoma, sells these potentially handy “Floating Drawers” in three different veneers for $130. They’re just a single drawer in a self-contained box, but they’re simple, … Continue reading →

“Oh !*#%” flash drive looks like work of world’s stupidest thief

Posted on July 17, 2008 by Rob Beschizza

It so transpires that a standard USB jack’s sheath is large enough to contain plenty of memory–allowing for this amusing thumbdrive, complete with a trailing and torn cable. Product Page [Worldwide Fred via Gearfuse]

VelociRaptor the fastest hard drive in the Western Digital line

Posted on April 21, 2008 by Joel Johnson

Western Digital is announcing a new line of high-end consumer hard drives today to supplant their “Raptor” line. The new SATA2 drives spin at 10,000 RPM and are available in sizes up to 300GB. But what I am most tickled … Continue reading →

Datto 500 NAS stores your data off-site, too

Posted on April 15, 2008 by Joel Johnson

Datto is selling this new NAS that continuously backs up your data to the company’s off-site servers. If your NAS crashes hard, they’ll overnight you a new unit with your last backup already installed. It’ll cost you, of course: $25 … Continue reading →