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Transcend 1.5TB StoreJet 35T External HDD Debuts With One Touch Backup

James Allen Johnson — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 23:45:20 +0000

Transcend has just announced their newest external hard drive system, the Transcend 1.5TB StoreJet 35T. It’s not the flashiest hard drive, but it promises ease of use and top notch security for personal and business reasons.

The drive offers write speeds up to 42MB/s and comes equipped with a backup feature that can easily be accessed with one-touch.

The 35T also features StoreJet Elite software with 256-bit AES file and folder encryption that will protect your data from even sophisticated hacks.

No word yet on the pricing for the hard drive or even when it will be available, but Transcend tends to lock in on the cheap side so this is one I’m keeping my eyes open for.

Dane-Elec Announces So SuperSpeed Hard Drives And SSDs With USB 3.0

James Allen Johnson — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 14:23:32 +0000

Dane-Elec has just announced their newest line of So SuperSpeed hard drives. The new external offerings feature both standard hard drives and Solid State Disks (SSDs) with USB 3.0 high speed data transfer abilities.

USB 3.0 is able to reach speeds of 250MBps, nearly ten times faster than the old USB 2.0 standard.

The external drives range in size from 500GB to 2TB for the standard drives and SSDs come in 80GB and 160GB capacities.

The drives arrive on December 11th with the 500GB HDD running $180 and the SSD’s coming in at $400 and $800 respectively. [Electronista]

Apple Starts Selling 2TB Time Capsule. Price Drop For 1TB Units

James Allen Johnson — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 13:11:15 +0000

Apple just added quite a bit of extra storage to their Time Capsule hard drives. The external units now offer up to 2TB of available space for $499. As a result of the new addition the 1TB units are now selling at $299, the original price of a 500GB unit. In the meantime I’ll stick with $100 1TB drives from Western Digital. [via Apple]

Cracking the 2TB hard drive territory

Steven Hodson — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 20:56:10 +0000

Of course it was inevitable – only a matter of when not if one of the hard drive manufacturers would crack the 2Terabyte range of hard drive size – with the award going to Western Digital. The company announced the immediate availability of the 2TB Caviar Green hard drive at a price of $299.00 – I can still remember when that kind of price wouldn’t even get you close to a 500MB hard drive the size of a briefcase.

As well the drive is being labelled as part of their eco-friendly green range of hard drives and with some pre-release testing by HotHardware it performed against some of it’s competitors. Turns out this monster does well in tests against the Samsung Spinpoint F1 and Seagate’s Barracuda 7200.11

All I know is that I would love to have a couple of those sitting in my worn out system – it would give me some bragging rights for at least a couple of months.

[pic and hat tip to engadget]

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Asus Messes Up – Again

Steven Hodson — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 18:17:57 +0000

Last month Asus hit the tech headlines when it was found out that the recovery DVD that they were shipping out contained a cracking tool, some confidential Microsoft documents and Asus application source code. Well according to the folks at Geek.com it appears that Asus hasn’t learn any quality control lessons from that experience. It seems that a number of the their Eee Box models have been shipped with a virus hitching a ride on the hard drive.

The unwanted addition to the factory fresh computer is from the W32/Usbalex family which is triggered by a file called recycle.exe that sits on the D: drive. the moment you access the D: drive on an infected machine this recycle.exe is launched which then tries to infect the main C: drive. Additionally another worm called W32.Gammima.AG has been found on some machines.

The following models are believed to be the bearer of this wormy goodness

Model: EEEBOXB202-B UPC:610839761807

Model: EEEBOXB202-W UPC:610839761814

Model: EBXB202BLK/VW161DUPC: 610839530526

Model: EBXB202WHT/VW161D-W UPC: 610839531202

Model: EBXB202BLK/VK191T UPC: 610839547753

Now Asus has confirmed that some machines have been shipped that contain these additional goodies and in the press release about this incident (translated from Japanese) they have apologized for this happening. Granted apologies are good and they are doing what they can via their support site but come on guys two incidents like this is just unacceptable. I think Asus is going to have to do some serious work on their quality control but even still this isn’t going to be very helpful to their brand name.