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You Can Take This Unbreakable SSD Swimming With You

Home News ECLLPSE (Image credit: Indiegogo) The ECLLPSE, touted as an unbreakable storage device, is actually a high-speed SSD the comes in the form of a conventional thumbdrive. Yanko Design claims the drive is both indestructible and waterproof (though there are obviously some caveats to those claims) and has started an Indiegogo campaign to bring… Read more

Amazon Luna cloud gaming now available on Fire TVs without an invite

Amazon’s cloud-gaming service, Luna, is now available to try for free in the US on select Fire TV devices without an invitation, the company has announced. Luna launched in early access last year, as an invitation-only service. Originally, customers also needed an invite to buy the Luna Controller, but Amazon now says it’s available to… Read more

Russia’s Elbrus Development: A Homebrew SSD Controller

Home News (Image credit: Kraftway) Russia’s MCST Elbrus microprocessors made a splash last year, but it takes a lot mot than a microprocessor to develop a completely self-sufficient computing platform. Among other things such nationally-oriented platforms need is a proprietary SSD controller, and apparently server maker Kraftway has developed one and demonstrated it at a… Read more

WD Black SN850 1 TB SSD Review – The Fastest SSD

Introduction Western Digital (or simply WD) is the world’s largest manufacturer of storage solutions, mostly known for their wide range of hard disk offerings. With their acquisition of SanDisk in 2016, WD became one of the largest manufacturers for flash storage, too. Today, we’re reviewing the WD Black SN850 SSD, which is a high-end M.2… Read more

Reports Of PC HDDs’ Death Have Been Greatly Exaggerated: 139M Shipped in 2020

Home News (Image credit: Seagate) In a world where you cannot cram a hard drive into a modern thin-and-light laptop and a cheap high-capacity 2.5-inch SSD can replace an HDD in a desktop, you would expect consumer hard disk drives to go extinct. Yet, while their unit sales are dropping, sales are still strong at… Read more

The best SSDs and hard drives 2021 Top portable external drives for your Mac or PC

(Pocket-lint) – With more and more laptops and devices being equipped with flash memory, that often means it becomes too expensive to get a good amount of storage built-in. And, with so many more of us travelling around for work, working from home or needing to use more than one machine, it’s more important than… Read more

heise + | Seven SSDs with PCIe 3.0 and 4.0 in the test

Seven SSDs with PCIe 3.0 and 4.0 in the test Flash memory SSD controller Similarities Measurement results One-to-one meetings Conclusion Test table Article in c’t 3 / 2021 read At the beginning of the PCIe 4.0 era there were SSDs with Phison controllers and Toshiba Flash: They achieved a good 5 GB / s for… Read more

dynabook integrates 11th generation Intel CPUs on Satellite Pro, Tecra and Portégé X

Intel’s new processors will be integrated on Satellite Pro L notebooks 50 – J, Tecra A 30 – J and on the entire Portégé X series range. Satellite Pro C 40 – G has been updated to integrate the 10th generation Celeron CPU by Alberto Falchi , Vittorio Manti published on 12 January 2021 ,… Read more

Analysis: Components in the iPhone 12 are significantly more expensive than in the predecessor

5G, redesigned, OLED in all devices: Apple should be up to 26 Percent more for the components of the iPhone 12 in autumn 2020. That emerges from a freshly published analysis by the market researcher Counterpoint. The “Bill of Materials” (BoM) is significantly more expensive than the iPhone 11 of the year 2019. mmWave particularly… Read more

heise + | Short tests: Smart LED light strip, NAS hard drive and USB table microphone

Short tests: Smart LED light strip, NAS hard drive and USB table microphone LED light strips Eve Light Strip Toshiba N 300 NAS hard drive with 16 TByte Mini table microphone Mikme Connect A new firmware update provides the Eve Light Strip with the HomeKit function “Adaptive Light”, with which the LED light strip should… Read more

1big Dock: A quick test of LaCie's 16 TB hard drive with Thunderbolt dock

LaCie sells an external hard drive with an integrated Thunderbolt dock under the name “1big Dock”, which supports Thunderbolt 3 (USB-C), USB 3.1 Gen 2 (Type A), DisplayPort 1.4 as well as an SD and a CF Card slot offers five additional interfaces. The 1big Dock is available in a version with magnetic hard drives… Read more

LG is investing $ 80 million in TV data analytics company Alphonso

The South Korean electronics group LG bought 80 million US dollars from the US TV data analysis company Alphonso. As LG announced on Thursday, they have acquired 50 percent of the company and are now the largest shareholder. Collect data for better services and advertising LG wants to use the AI-based analysis method from Alphonso… Read more

Kingston KC2500 1 TB M.2 NVMe SSD Review

Introduction With revenue in the multi-billion dollars, Kingston is the largest DRAM and flash memory products vendor in the world. While their strongest suit is in memory modules and USB/flash card storage, they are also a major player in the SSD market. Today, we bring you our Kingston KC2500 review. Earlier this year, we posted… Read more

GoodRAM IRDM M.2 1TB PCI Express SSD Review

Introduction to the characteristics of the GoodRAM IRDM M.2 SSD M.2 drives are already the cornerstone of any modern computer, in any format, both for laptops, where this format was undoubtedly an important improvement, to modern compact systems such as the Nuc or any desktop computer worth its salt, all motherboards on the market currently… Read more

KIOXIA expands Kitakami plant to increase production capacity

KIOXIA (formerly Toshiba Memory) announced the expansion of its Kitakami plant in Iwate Prefecture, Japan. The reason given by the manufacturer is the intention to further increase the production of its 3D flash memory BiCS FLASH. Said extension is to be built on a site adjacent to the existing plant. There are a total of… Read more