New Gadgets for 2010

Approximately one year ago, the first SSD drives were introduced: They constitute a new storage system that leaves some magnetic and mechanical parts behind in order to adopt an innovative, faster, silent and efficient way of storing information; however, this technology is still an expensive option with (relatively) low storage capacities and, for that reason, it has not been adopted massively in the market yet. Anyway, this is a great technology with many advantages. For example, the installation of the external SSD drives is a really easy process and they can be connected to any PC or laptop in seconds.

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Apricorn has launched its Aegis Padlock Secure hard drive, which is a really secure portable storage system. The unit comes with a keypad that is used to enter personal PIN numbers and, in this way, protect the content stored in the device from potential intruders or unauthorized accesses.

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Seagate is releasing products again. After the launch of the new FreeAgent Go (a portable hard drive), the company just introduced  three new BlackArmor lines: NAS 2200 Storage Server, WS 110 External Drive Workstation and PS 110 Portable Drive.

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An official press statement emitted by the company claims the new Hitachi drive is optimized for the power and performance requirements of rack-mounted servers and networked storage arrays.

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Finally the date arrived. Computer storage company Western Digital ended up launching its new Caviar Green hard drives that have a storage capacity of up to 2TB. According to the company, those hard drives are the world’s highest-capacity hard drives at this time.

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