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Seagate presente il primo hard disk portatile compatibile con gli iDevice
24 Mag
Qualche giorno fa a Milano Seagate ha presentato il nuovo hard disk portatile GoFlex Satellite. La caratteristica principale dell’hard disk, compatibile con Windows e Mac, è che ha, oltre al sistema di dock con diverse porte wired, la modalità Wireless 802.11b/g/n per poter essere utilizzato dai dispositivi iOS, tramite l’applicazione GoFlex Media. Il drive con Wi-Fi distribuisce autonomamente un segnale wireless, al quale l’iPad, l’iPhone, l’iPod touch si può collegare perché sia visto dal dispositivo iOS. In futuro anche Android.
GoFlex Satellite usa un hard disk @ 5.400 rpm per diminuire il consumo energetico, infatti la batteria incorporata assicura 5 ore di impiego in modalità wireless o 25 ore in stand by. In USA il modello GoFlex Satellite costerà 200$ il prezzo in Italia lo sapremo a metà agosto ed è molto probabile che sia di 200€. Compreso nel prezzo sarà disponibile un piccolo trasformatore con presa italiana ed uno per l’accendisigari dell’auto.
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LaCie speeds up Philippe Starck, mobile hard disk with USB 3.0
10 Nov
We’ve always been fans of LaCie’s Starck Mobile Drives, designed by the inimitable Phillip Starck, and now they’re getting a little speed boost, courtesy of USB 3.0. The 500GB drive is still housed in the same "liquid metal trapped in a box" enclosure as the previous editions, and it comes bundled with 10GB of online storage at Wuala Online for $109 in the US and £89 in the UK. Looks like it’s out of stock just at the moment, but we’d imagine it’ll arrive soon. Shot of the back and PR after the break.
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Western Digital ships 3TB Caviar Green 3.5-inch hard drive for $239, 2.5TB for $189
19 Ott
You know that 3TB hard drive that Western Digital slapped into its range of My Book external units earlier this month? Looks like it’s finally ready to free itself from those shackles. WD has today announced that it’s shipping the component 3TB Caviar Green drive (WD30EZRSDTL) by its lonesome, perfect for those looking to beef up their NAS drives or just add a capacious archive drive to their SSD-equipped desktop rig. The 3TB monster is hitting just under two years after the 2TB Caviar Green went official, with this guy boasting 750 GB-per-platter areal density and Advanced Format technology. The outfit’s also shipping a 2.5TB version (WD25EZRSDTL) for those who aren’t quite able to swallow the full three, and both of ‘em are bundled with an Advanced Host Controller Interface (AHCI)-compliant Host Bus Adapter (HBA), which will enable the operating system to use a known driver with correct support for large capacity drives. Both units should be available to purchase from respected retailers as we speak, with the 3TB demanding $239 and the 2.5TB unit going for $189. Remember when the world’s first 1TB drive in this form factor debuted for $400? Yeah… not too shabby!
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Seagate updates portable hard drive storage to 1.5TB
21 Set
Seagate has upped the portable drive ante again with their new 1.5TB FreeAgent GoFlex. The new drive comes with their GoFlex interface connected through a USB 3.0 (which is also 2.0 compatible). Though that won’t be of much use to Mac users at the moment (maybe in October?), the size will turn some heads. It is 50% bigger than any other portable hard drive.
If you are like us, you are wondering if you can pull this thing out of its case and plop it in your MacBook Pro. The good news is that Seagate’s Go Flex interface is just a snap on for a SATA connection and will work with any standard SATA drive. It also means that you can pull these drives out of their case and use them as internal drives. But this one looks pretty thick.
I’ve contacted Seagate who’ve given me the dimensions of the external enclosure which are:
4.71in L x 3.51in W x 0.87in D (120mm x 89mm x 22mm), Weight: 0.62lb (0.28kg)
That doesn’t bode well for its abilities to go internal because the maximum thickness of a MacBook Pro internal drive is 12.5mm.
Still. Nice to have a 1.5TB portable, USB 3.0-capable drive. List price however is a hefty $249.
Press release follows:
SEAGATE INTRODUCES INDUSTRY’S FIRST 1.5TB PORTABLE EXTERNAL DRIVE
New FreeAgent® GoFlex™ Ultra-Portable External Drive Packs a Punch with Pre-loaded Paramount Pictures Films, Unprecedented Amount of Storage and BlazinglyFast USB 3.0 Connection
SCOTTS VALLEY, Calif. – September 21, 2010 – Designed to address the explosive worldwide demand for digital storage, Seagate (NASDAQ: STX) today launched the world’s first 1.5 terabyte (TB) 2.5-inch portable external drive. Available immediately, the new 1.5TB FreeAgent® GoFlex™ ultra-portable drive delivers an all-in-one, technically advanced solution to help jump-start, build, store and enjoy libraries of digital content in one’s preferred medium-whether on a Mac or PC, or a television, at home or on the go. With 1.5TB of capacity people can now store and carry up to 60 HD movies, 750 video games, thousands of photos or tens of thousands hours of digital music.
“Today’s announcement is a ‘triple-crown’ of consumer technology-packaging record breaking capacity, blazingly fast USB 3.0 connectivity and the bonus of major motion picture entertainment-making the 1.5TB GoFlex™ ultra-portable drive an unprecedented and innovative solution,” said Darcy Clarkson, vice president of Global Retail Sales and Marketing for Seagate. “Bringing this solution to market on the heels of our 3TB GoFlex™ Desk drive and the Momentus® XT solid state hybrid drive is proof of Seagate’s continuing technology leadership and tradition of setting storage industry milestones.”
Shipping now in the United States and rolling out globally later this year, all 1.5TB GoFlex ultra-portable drives will ship with a USB 3.0 interface cable, accelerating the transfer speed of a drive up to 10x when connected to a USB 3.0 port, when compared to a USB 2.0 port. For example, a drive using a USB 3.0 connection can transfer a 25GB HD movie in under five minutes versus the 14 minutes it would take using a traditional USB 2.0 drive . In
addition, all GoFlex ultra portable drives will now also ship with the new superspeed USB 3.0 cable, which will still continue to work with existing USB 2.0 ports.
“Consumers continue to push the growth of digital music, photos, and video content, and increasingly want access to this content from a variety of CE devices, including a PC,” says John Rydning, IDC’s research director for hard disk drives. “Higher capacity disk drives in combination with higher bandwidth interfaces like USB 3.0 will help to make a greater number of large multimedia files more accessible from multiple devices in the home.”
A key addition to the GoFlex™ family, the new 1.5TB GoFlex ultra-portable drive delivers ultimate flexibility in how people collect, protect, share and enjoy their digital libraries, all in a convenient compact package. In addition to coming bundled with USB 3.0 connectivity, the drive can be used with an array of add-on cables and accessories such as the GoFlex™ Net media sharing device and the GoFlex™ TV HD media player, that provide the flexibility to enjoy your content on a TV, a network, using a mobile device, or via the Internet.
Continuing the special offer with Paramount Digital Entertainment, a division of Paramount Pictures Corporation (PPC), specially-marked packages of the new 1.5TB and the 1TB GoFlex ultra-portable drives will contain Paramount Pictures’ popular film, Star Trek (2009), which can be activated free of charge. Each drive will also contain an assortment of 20 Paramount Pictures movies that can be easily and securely unlocked by purchasing a license key online. The films will be licensed for multiple devices to allow for portability and enjoyment on a Windows® OS desktop computer, laptop computer, or widescreen television, by connecting the drive to one of the two available USB ports on a GoFlex TV HD media player . Paramount content will also be added to additional capacities of the GoFlex Pro ultra-portable drive in October.
All 1.5TB GoFlex ultra-portable drives are compatible with both the Windows® operating system and Mac® OS X computers. Each drive includes an NTFS driver for Mac, which allows the hard drive to store and access files from both Windows and Mac OS X computers without reformatting. The NTFS driver is simply installed once on the Mac® OS X computer, allowing it to read and write files on a Windows formatted drive.
The 1.5TB GoFlex ultra-portable drive with USB 3.0 adapter is available in black and can be purchased on Seagate.com and through select retailers for $249.99.
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Nei nuovi iMac 27″ si può installare un hard disk SSD
2 Ago
In seguito all’arrivo dei nuovi iMac, che hanno subito un aggiornamento sostanziale per quanto riguarda la CPU, in molti hanno notato una piccola feature che potrebbe essere potenzialmente molto interessante.
Infatti, acquistando un iMac 27″, sarà possibile, in fase di configurazione, aggiungere anche un secondo hard disk SSD (Solid State Drive), ovvero un hard disk a stato solido. Sarà possibile dunque avere a disposizione un secondo hard disk, nel caso quello principale non fosse a stato solido, da sfruttare per le potenzialità degli SSD.
Le configurazioni possibili sono dunque le seguenti:
- 1 TB Serial ATA;
- 2 TB Serial ATA;
- 256 GB SSD;
- 1 TB Serial ATA + 256 GB SSD;
- 2 TB Serial ATA + 256 GB SSD.
Dal momento che, come sempre in questi casi, i prezzi che Apple impone per queste aggiunte sono molto elevati (per l’ultima configurazione sono richiesti ben 810,00 € aggiuntivi) molti utenti si sono chiesti se sarebbe stato possibile aggiungere gli SSD in seguito, magari dopo un calo di prezzi o acquistando prodotti di terze parti.
Il sito Web Other World Computing ha deciso di soddisfare gli utenti e di smontare il proprio nuovo acquisto per studiare la fattibilità dell’aggiunta.
Dopo aver smontato lo schermo dell’iMac, con non poca difficoltà, e aver avuto accesso alle viscere del computer, i blogger hanno avuto modo di constatare che sarà possibile collegare qualsiasi hard disk SSD da 2,5″indipendentemente dal produttore. La brutta notizia risiede però nel fatto che, nel modello in questione, non era presente alcun supporto né l’apposito cavo di connessione per il secondo hard disk.
Ciò significa che sarà necessario acquistare un iMac 27″ con SSD per poi eventualmente potenziarlo con un SSD di nostra proprietà facendo però perdere gran parte dei vantaggi del caso. Tuttavia i ragazzi di OWC si sono prodigati per trovare anche un metodo artigianale per risolvere il problema.
Questo procedimento porta probabilmente alla perdita della garanzia e implica una buona manualità e cautela. Sarà necessario infatti rimuovere parzialmente la scheda madre e collegare ad essa un cavo ad Y ad un capo con un connettore SATA maschio mentre agli altri due capi due connettori di SATA femmine.
In questo modo, inserendo il SATA maschio nella scheda logica avrete la possibilità di collegare le due SATA femmine ai rispettivi hard disk, dopodiché dovrete fare in modo di fissare adeguatamente il disco SSD che, ripetiamo, nonostante disponga dello spazio necessario manca del braccetto di supporto.
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