Lexar Debuts New Powerful and Rugged Memory Cards and SSDs
Flash memory brand Lexar is ready to show off some new gear at the NAB 2024 showcase next week, including solid-state drives and rugged memory cards.
What Photographers Should Look for When Buying or Building a PC
As cameras have rapidly evolved over the last decade, so have the requirements to get the most out of them. Specifically, what a photographer should care about when it comes to a computer has gone from simple, to somewhat complicated and often nuanced.
OWC Envoy Pro SX is a Waterproof SSD That Transfers Up To 2847 MB/s
OWC has announced the rugged and compact bus-powered Envoy Pro SX Thunderbolt 3 SSD that is water, dust, and drop-proof, promises transfer speeds of up to 2,847 MB/s, silently cools, and is bus-powered.
Hardware Woes Compound as SSDs, HDDs Suffer From Supply Shortage
A new report indicates that both solid-state drives (SSD) and hard drives (HDD) are in short supply. Combined with the global chip shortage, the issue will only add to the woes experienced by consumers and manufacturers alike.
CalDigit Unveils Waterproof ‘Tuff nano’ SSDs with 1055MB/s Read Speeds
CalDigit has just released a rugged new portable SSD that's waterproof, shock proof, and blazing fast, with read speeds up to 1055MB/s and write up to 900MB/s. That's megaBYTES not megaBITS.
LaCie Unveils Three New Rugged SSDs, Including One with a Built-in SD Slot
LaCie's rugged portable drives are extremely popular among photographers who demand the best combination of performance and durability, and starting today, they have three compelling new solid state options to choose from.
Samsung is Making 4TB SSDs Cheaper for Everyone
Samsung has announced that it has begun mass producing the storage industry's first 4-bit 4-terabyte SSD drives. While Samsung has also unveiled a 30TB SSD and the world's largest SSD is a staggering 100TB, those are designed for enterprise uses. These latest 4TB drives are designed for ordinary consumers.
How to Safely Retrieve Files Off Failing HDD, SSD, or SD Cards Using Free Tools
All of the drives we are using to store our precious photos and videos are not 100% reliable. Everybody should know that by now (and back everything up) but even if you are doing it properly, there are times when a drive fails and you have nowhere else to get its contents except from the drive itself.
Seagate’s World’s Largest 60TB SSD Holds 400 Million Photos
Holy terabytes Batman! A 60TB drive would be massive by any standard, but the latest Seagate SAS drive is mind-blowing for one other very important reason: it's a solid state drive. In fact, it's officially the world's largest SSD.
Samsung 16TB SSD is the World’s Largest Hard Drive
At the 2015 Flash Memory Summit in California this past week, Samsung unveiled the largest capacity hard drive in the world. It's a 2.5-inch solid state drive (SSD) that can hold 16 terabytes of data (15.36TB, to be exact).
New Report Shows Solid State Drives Can Take Over 1,000 Years of Data-Writing Abuse
Media storage has come a long way since the days of the room-sized 3.75MB hard disk drives (HDDs) you had to carry around with a fork lift. Most recently, solid state drives (SSDs) have taken over, providing a much more durable means of storing your media, since there are no moving parts inside.
But just how durable are we talking here? It turns out, very. The Tech Report recently put six different drives through the wringer, and it’s been concluded that today’s SSDs will last a thousand years of use -- long enough to last until we find the technology to start literally storing data in the clouds.
Facebook Calls for the Creation of Cheap Flash Memory for Mass Photo Storage
Facebook has over 240 billion photos on its servers -- that's billion... with a "b" -- and every day about 350 million more are added. Naturally, Facebook needs to store all of those photos somewhere, and that somewhere needs to be accessible at all times because who knows when Jack will need to show Jill some pics of the hill from 3 years ago.