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January 29, 2012

Buffalo CloudStation: 1TB of your own Private Cloud

When we hear about NAS (Network Attached Storage), we always have that impression of having a large storage system that’s accessible within the local network. Nowadays, that also includes having a private cloud that you can access from anywhere.

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October 15, 2011

Synology 4-Bay NAS server

The local distributor of Synology sent us this NAS server a couple of months ago and we’ve been using it in our local network since then. I’ve had the 3TB HDD from Western Digital as well so I was able to use it in one of the 4 bays.

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October 14, 2011

KingMax outs 1TB SATA II 2.5″ SSD drives

Great news — the Solid State Drive (SSD) has reached the terabyte levels. KingMax has just announced the availability of their 1TB SSD in the 2.5″ form factor.

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August 11, 2011

Western Digital My Book Studio Edition II now at 6TB

Western Digital Philippines has now introduced a new high-capacity My Book Studio Edition II which packs a dual 3TB hard drive for a total of 6TB.

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June 26, 2011

Seagate FreeAgent GoFlex 500GB

Seagate sent us one of their top of the line portable hard drives — a Seagate FreeAgent Go Flex 500GB. Along with the box comes two other boxes — one for a dedicated USB 3.0 port and another box for the Firewire cable.

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June 13, 2011

750GB Western Digital Laptop HDD

Launched last April, this Western Digital Scorpio Black 750GB is the highest-capacity internal HDD we’ve seen for laptops. Measuring only 9.5mm thin, it’s a little hard to imagine one can store that much amount of files on this small device.

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May 02, 2011

Sandisk Extreme Pro UHS-I Card

SanDisk Corporation introduced the SanDisk Extreme Pro SDHC UHS-I card. The card features Ultra High Speed (UHS) technology from the newly released SD 3.0 specification and achieves up to 45MB/sec read and write performance with long-term reliability by distributing data rapidly and efficiently using SanDisk’s proprietary Power Core Controller.

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August 29, 2009

Symantec’s foray into the Storage Business

A couple weeks back, I had an interview with a Symantec executive to discuss about their storage business. When we say storage, we normally think of physical hard drives like Seagate, Western Digital or Maxtor. In Symantec’s case, their storage business is primary in the software and managed services.

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