Corsair has announced a new 64GB USB drive, an addition to its popular Flash Voyager line of USB Drives. Corsair’s Flash Voyager series of USB drives are known for their toughness, ruggedness and for being water and dust resistant. According to Corsair, the 64GB USB Drive is enough to store a library of DVD-length movies and tens of thousands of high-resolution images. In fact, the drive is bootable and you can store your whole operating system and your favorite applications in the drive.

“Corsair is always developing new and exciting flash products, and the 64GB USB Flash Voyager is no exception,” said John Beekley, VP of Applications at Corsair. “With more storage space than most laptops, we can offer a full suite of features - whether it be backing up data, building a portable media library, or simply transporting huge amounts of data.”

The USB drive is now available in the US for $250, the drive is preloaded with security software and drivers, a bundled lanyward, USB extension cable, and a 10-year guarantee.

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Western Digital has announced the ShareSpace, a network-attached storage (NAS) solution for SoHo.

The ShareSpace is a 2 or 4 Terabyte squat box NAS with four-bay system and a gigabit ethernet connection. The ShareSpace can also serve as an FTP server to let users access their files from remote locations. It has three USB ports (two at the back and one at the front) and comes with a built-in backup software and iTunes server for sharing content over the network. The front USB port allows users to dump other USB-based drives into the RAID array with just a touch of a button, without consuming bandwidth on the network.

The 2 or 4 TB drives are currently available and going for $699 and $999 respectively.

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Super Talent, a Flash storage and DRAM manufacturer has launched two new high quality SATA-II SSDs. Part of the MasterDrive LX series, the new 64GB and 128GB drives are  aimed at customers who want affordable SSDs and at the same time take advantage of the SSD features.

“The MasterDrive LX is our most cost-effective SSD yet. However, we’ve made no compromises in quality and reliability,” said Super Talent Director of Marketing Joe James.

Super Talent’s 64GB and 128GB MasterDrive LX drives are rated at 100MB/sec reads and only 40MB/sec writes and priced at $179 and $299 respectively.

Both drives will be available this week.

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Breaking its own record, Toshiba has unveiled its 250GB capacity 1.8-inch format hard drive. Spinning at 5,400rpm, the MKxx29GSG series drives offer the highest density of data storage. The SATA drive is also available in 120GB and 160GB storage capacities,  and offer a freefall sensor to help prevent damage to the drive platter. The drives consume 0.0016 watts-per-gigabyte making it ideal for mobile computers and devices.

Mass production of the MKxx29GSG series drives will start in November.

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Western Digital has unveiled a 500GB capacity portable drive in its My Passport Elite and My Passport Essential lines. The new drives which can be connected to your PC’s USB 2.0 port include a built-in 128-bit encryption for security and they are fully compatible with most gaming consoles like Sony’s PlayStation3 and Microsoft’s Xbox 360. Aside from the built-in software that automatically back up users data, the new drives include a capacity gauge that shows how much space is still available. The new drives also include a MioNet Key software that allows users to retrieve forgotten files while they are away from home using a MioNet-enabled Windows PCs that allow remote access and sharing.

The 500GB My Passport Elite is available at $220 and the 500GB My Passport Essential is priced at $200.

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Intel has launched two MLC-based Solid State Drives, the 1.8-inch X18-M and the 2.5-inch X25-M SSDs offering numerous advantages over hard drives. With no mechanical parts, the X18-M and X25-M SSDs run more quiet and cooler compared to a mechanical hard drive. They also remove the I/O performance bottleneck associated with traditional hard drives which results in faster overall system response, boot and resume times.

“Validated by our rigorous testing and OEM customer feedback, we believe that we have developed an SSD that delivers on the promises of SSD computing,” said Randy Wilhelm, Intel vice president and general manager of the NAND Products Group. “By combining our experience in flash memory design with our processor and computing expertise, we have added advances such as our parallel 10-channel architecture, proprietary controller, firmware and memory management algorithms that address write amplification and wear leveling issues to redefine SSD performance and reliability for computing platforms.”

These two new SSDs are available in 80GB capacity and the 160GB versions are reported to arrive this fourth quarter. The 80GB drive achieves up to 250MBps read speeds and  up to 70MBps write speeds with 85-microsecond read latency for fast performance. The 80GB now available at $595.

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