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Western Digital today introduced its new 500 GB My Passport® Essential™ limited edition designs portable hard drives, available exclusively at Best Buy® and the WD Store. Consumers can choose from several unique designs that appeal to a wide variety of personal styles, ranging from outdoor enthusiasts to urban trendsetters.
Designed by students at California State University, Long Beach's Industrial Design program, the drives are available in the following styles: Boom Box, Black Hole, Cityscape, Fuchsia Leaf and Wave. The decorative patterns are especially geared for students who want to express their individual style while choosing a reliable, ultra-portable place to store their media and back up their valuable work.
The drives are Windows® compatible and include WD SmartWare™ software, which provides a simple, visual method for backup using a single-screen view of the drive's contents.
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Samsung Electronics today announced that it has started shipping its new Spinpoint MT2 1 terabyte (TB) 2.5” internal mobile hard disk drive. It is ideally suited for use in portable storage solutions, such as the newly released Samsung S2 Portable 1TB USB Drives. Other applications include digital TVs, home media systems and set-top boxes, where quiet and cool operations are important.
Employing industry-leading 333GB per-platter technology, the new Spinpoint MT2 drive offers up to an enormous 1TB for personal digital collections such as photos, music, video and work files. Running at 5400rpm speed, the MT2 has a 12.5mm form factor and utilizes Samsung’s proprietary SilentSeek™ and NoiseGuard™ technologies to minimize noise levels during drive operation.
“The new Spinpoint MT2 drive offers the largest capacity in what has previously been offered as an option for portable digital devices,” said I.C. Park vice president, storage marketing, Samsung Electronics. “As the total storage solution provider, Samsung is committed to offering products that features exceptional performance and value across a wide range of computing and consumer electronics markets.”
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Verbatim has taken inspiration from a long history of award winning sports cars and is launching two new portable hard disk drives featuring the famous white racing stripes which are seen in circuits all over the world. The drives store up to 500GB and are ideal for carrying with you in any pocket or handbag. The drives are available in red and black.
Measuring 78mm wide, 118mm long and 16mm deep and at just 152g, the new GT Portable Hard Drives USB 2.0 500GB fit ideally in any handbag or pocket. The handsome drives feature the famous white racing stripes in reminiscence of the legendary sport cars seen on the top level racing tracks around the world. With its FAT32 file system, the drive is compatible with both Windows and Mac operating systems.
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Both trendy and slim with practical utilities, the KE-91, the flagship external HDD KINGMAX introduced to the market this April, has proven its popularity with astonishing sales figures. With a high C/P, the KE-91 is strongly recommended by professional IT media worldwide. In responding to ever-growing market demands, KINGMAX developed the 640GB KE-91, an ultra-high capacity HDD to offer a better choice for customers demanding high storage solutions.
The first external hard drive product KINGMAX introduced to the market, the KE-91, with the elegance design, advanced encryption technology, useful backup and speed enhancement software, quickly became the center focus of international IT media and was praised with great reviews from prestigious IT experts. For example, professional Russian IT magazine rated the KE-91 as the "Best Buy" IT product. In an IT product comprehensive evaluation, professional Philippine IT magazine gave a nearly full score to the KE-91 based on its price, look, and features. The most popular IT review site in China even commended the KE-91 as the best external HDD product with the most outstanding performance ever seen in the market.
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Lian Li Industrial Co. Ltd. today launches a USB 3.0 2.5” External Hard Disk Drive (HDD) Enclosure. The conveniently thin, all-aluminum EX-10Q connects its users' external HDD to computers with a super-fast USB 3.0 cable that reaches speeds up to 5GMbps. For computers without USB 3.0 compatibility, the operating speed is 480Mbps. The bridge chip used in the EX-10Q is a VL700. No AC adapter is needed and the EX-10Q's flexible design makes it compatible with SATA I & II HDDs.
Coming in blue, red, silver, and black, the EX-10Q's dimensions stand at 75x12x130 millimeters (W.H.D). Lian Li once again proves its time-to-market ability in more than just computer cases but complete PC-related products.
