Entries from Manifest Tech Blog tagged with 'Storage'
LaCie USB Keys Add Online Storage - Local vs. Cloud
The LaCie line of USB drives designed as metal keys has expanded further with the new WhizKey (triangular) and CooKey (rounded), available with up to 32 GB of storage for $99. These join the previous imaKey and itsaKey designs...
See Your Storage - Verbatim InSight Portable Hard Drive
If you're looking for a great holiday gift for students or travelers -- or actually anyone with a computer, then check out this season's crop of portable hard drives. Products like the new Verbatim InSight Portable USB Hard Drive are...
SanDisk Extreme Pro CompactFlash Cards - Shoot up to 64 GB at 90 MB/sec.
Today's high-def camcorders and higher-res digital cameras require not only greater storage, especially for shooting in less-compressed RAW formats, but also faster performance, especially for burst-mode shooting of sequential images in fractions of a second. So even consumers can see...
Verbatim TUFF-CLIP Rugged USB Drive
USB drives allow you to carry lots of data in a ridiculously small package, and at a wonderfully small price -- up to 8 GB for under $30. But the real value is in all that data -- personal or...
Mini to Micro: Kingston Memory Cards and USB Readers
Mini to micro -- It's not just skirts that shrink, it's also our now-indispensible electronic gadgets, continually being reduced in size so they can be with us wherever we go. But how small can this go? Displays and controls and...
SanDisk Video HD Memory Cards for Flash Camcorders
Looking for memory cards for your flash-based camcorder? SanDisk has a helpful answer with the SanDisk Video HD SD/SDHC memory card product line -- explicitly rated by hours of video recording time, not just gigabytes of capacity. In the...
Blu-ray Disc Publishing Costs (Finally) Reduced
Imagine you are promoting a replacement format for DVD, to support delivery of high-definition video on optical discs -- and let's call this new format Blu-ray Disc (because it uses a sexy blue laser beam). Is this format just...
SanDisk Ultra Backup USB Drive
SanDisk continues to develop interesting ideas in USB "thumb" drives, building on the U3 smart technology that lets you run a variety of Windows software applications directly from a flash drive. The idea with U3 is that you can not...
SanDisk ImageMate USB Reader/Writers - Sleek, Small, and Fast
Once you've finished shooting photos (and/or video) to your flash memory camera (or camcorder), you'd like to quickly upload them to your computer to view, edit, and share. This is where memory cards with higher maximum read/write speeds can shine...
SanDisk Extreme SDHC Card -- 32 GB Capacity, 30 MB/sec. Speed
SanDisk has just announced its latest 32 GB Extreme series SD Card, due in August with 32 GB capacity -- and running at up to 30 MB/sec. read and write data rates. Capacity is easy to get a handle...
Eye-Fi Adds Ad Hoc Networking, Uploads of RAW Photos
Someday we will be able to get rid of our collections of data cables and card readers -- when all our devices are wireless. But until then, the Eye-Fi SD cards are a step in that direction by adding Wi-Fi...
LaCie Data/Share: Dual USB Card Reader / Storage Drive
The march of progress in portable storage is creating interesting new problems -- Our growing collections of fingernail-sized memory cards with multi-gigabyte capacity challenge us to find convenient ways to access and carry all that digital data. LaCie continues to...
LaCie Design: Hubs and Flat Cables
I've used LaCie external hard drives and storage devices for many years, based on functionality, performance, and a flair for design (see previous posts). That same emphasis on design comes though in LaCie's line of interesting and fun accessories. For...
Eye-Fi Takes Photo Sharing to Video Sharing
The good news with digital cameras is that it's so easy to shoot lots of photos. The hard part is then accessing and sharing them -- hooking up the equipment and software to transfer your images to a computer, and...
Storage in the Cloud
The second theme from recent business announcements that suggest future directions for personal storage (see previous post) extends consumer storage from local disks to the network cloud. Both of the netbooks that I looked at for my recent presentation on...
Upgrade to a Solid-State Drive
As I was preparing my recent presentation on The Flash Storage Revolution (see previous post), there were a couple interesting business announcements that point the way to developing trends in personal storage -- from the very tangible and always-there flash...
Verbatim Store 'n’ Go Micro USB Drive - 8 GB in Half a SD Card
Just when you thought USB drives couldn't get any smaller, new technology comes to the rescue with the Verbatim Store 'n’ Go Micro USB Drives, which offer up to 8 GB of storage in literally half the size of...
LaCie USB Keys
USB flash drives have become ubiquitous, as you can now carry along multiple gigabytes of your digital data. But having all that data in a small package becomes a problem, as it's too easy to lose, and the pain of...
Eye-Fi SD Card Uploads Videos from Digital Cameras
As promised at CES (see previous post), the Eye-Fi Wi-Fi SD Memory card now can upload video clips as well as photos wirelessly from your digital camera to to your computer, or to a photo sharing site like Fickr...
Victorinox Swiss Army Knife USB Drives
The Victorinox Swiss Army Knife people have had a fun time over the past few years extending from their core product of steel multi-tools into, believe or not, the digital world. The full line of Swiss Army pocket multi-tools, shown...
SanDisk slotRadio - 1000 Songs on a Card
The new SanDisk slotMusic card format delivers music "albums" on microSD cards, ready to play on billions of mobile phones with microSD slots, and also free of copy protection so they can be transferred to PCs and other devices (see...
Memory Cards Reach to the Terabytes
This holiday season saw ridiculously low pricing for memory cards and USB drives, with 16 GB SDHC cards now around $32, and even 32 GB cards coming into range. So now casual photographers can just keep on shooting, storing...
Eye-Fi To Upload Videos from Digital Cameras
The Eye-Fi Wi-Fi SD Memory card is a standard SD memory card, with some extra magic: built-in Wi-Fi networking ($129, see previous post). Insert the Wi-Fi card in a digital camera, and when you take pictures at home it...
Archiving to CD and DVD: Verbatim UltraLife Gold Archival Grade Media
We can all empathize with David Pogue's frustration in a recent blog post, after he discovered that some DVDs that he had burned less than four years ago were no longer readable, at least on some of his systems. And...
SanDisk Sansa slotMusic Player and Cards
I've discussed the new SanDisk slotMusic card format for selling music "albums" on microSD cards (see previous posts), and now I've had a chance to try it out. The slotMusic card format is designed for easy access -- it's just...
Daniel Schreiber of SanDisk on the slotMusic Format
Buying music on CDs (physical media, for heaven sakes!) is so 90's -- everybody knows that digital music is the future, right? But contrary to the hype, CDs are far from dead. Like other research companies, Forrester Research projects that...
Eye-Fi Wi-Fi SD Card: Not Just for Digital Cameras
I had fun trying out the Eye-Fi Explore Wi-Fi SD Memory card the past week ($129, see previous post). While the Eye-Fi card is currently designed to be used with digital cameras to upload photo files (i.e., JPGs), it's...
Season for Storage: Kingston 64 GB USB Drives
As USB drives grew from megabytes to a couple of gigabytes in size, they became more than a handy data transfer medium -- they became serious storage for carrying around large collections of materials and doing backups. But now that...
Season for Storage: 32GB SD Cards
'Tis the season to bulk up on storage for the holiday season -- for your digital camera, camcorder, game player, or other portable devices. After all, why worry about carrying extra cards to swap in when one fills up, when...
Eye-Fi Wireless SD Card - Now 4 GB
Someday all our devices will be wireless, and our files and media will just be there whenever we want them. Even today we can see the beginnings of connectivity for sharing photos, with camera phones that automatically upload photos to...
SanDisk slotMusic - A New Music Format
The CD is fading away as a purchased music format, and digital music is growing, but it's still clumsy to manage digital music files -- rip or purchase songs, keep them organized, and then sync or download to the desired...
Verbatim PhotoSave & Memorex SimpleSave Backup DVDs
Verbatim has joined Memorex in trying to take the pain out of doing backups -- at least to archive the piles of photo files that you've uploaded from digital cameras, downloaded from the web, and received via e-mail. It's too...
SanDisk Write-Once SD WORM Memory Cards
Memory cards have become incredibly popular as a convenient, rugged, and more affordable storage medium for a variety of uses, from mobile phones to high-definition video cameras. Compared to tape, optical disc, and even hard disk storage, solid-state memory provides...
Offload PC Security -- Yoggie Systems
The never-ending mess with Windows and viruses and spyware is an embarrassment to the IT industry -- Even as a computing professional, it's a pain to try to keep my own system safe, much less help friends and grandparents set...
Memorex SimpleSave DVD For Automatic Backup
Back up your stuff! Everybody knows you should, but it's just so clumsy to do, and who has the time, or you run out of backup discs or storage -- and that's for us tech people, who should know better!...
SanDisk microSD Storage -- Wake Up Your Phone
Got a slot? SanDisk would really like you to notice that your cell phone, your PDA, and your MP3 player (though not if it's an iPod) probably have a memory card slot that you could be taking advantage of --...
LaCie Portable Hard Drives
I love flash drives for carrying data files, saving photos, and quick backups when travelling. But for long trips, and especially when I'm shooting video, it's definitely worth bringing along a portable hard drive for the much greater storage and...
NewerTech USB Universal Drive Adapter
Got some extra disk drives? As hard disks and optical drives grow quickly in storage capacity and transfer speed, it's becoming more common to swap out drives, including 3.5" hard drives for desktops, 2.5" laptop disks, and 5.25" optical CD/DVD...
The Tornado For Easy File Transfer
Transferring files between machines should be easy in these days of Ethernet and wireless networking -- but it's still a pain to fuss with setting permissions, and too often network sharing just doesn't work for mysterious reasons. In the old...
Imation Pivot Plus USB Drive Adds Hardware Security
In other news on USB flash drives, the Imation Clip and Pivot drives are designed for durability on the go, with tough casings and sturdy key rings to carry on backpacks, shoulder bags or belt loops. The Imation Clip is...
Lexar JumpDrive USB Flash Drives
The Lexar Media line of JumpDrive USB flash drives also includes models focused on a variety of needs, including size, security, durability, and speed. Several drives also have an external capacity meter that displays the percentage utilization of the drive...
New Kingston USB Drives -- DataTraveler 110, HyperX, and Style
Portable storage is getting much more interesting, with USB "thumb" drives now reaching 8 and 16 GB, and even to 32 GB (see the Corsair line for around $229). The Kingson Technology line of USB drives includes USB memory card...
Corsair USB Flash Drives -- Rugged and Secure
Corsair has expanded from its core focus on performance memory modules for high-end workstations and extreme gamers into products for more mainstream consumers. In particular, it offers some interesting options for rugged and secure flash USB drives, recently expanded to...
Eye-Fi - Wi-Fi SD Card for Digital Cameras
Tired of all that manual messing around whenever you want to get photos from your digital camera -- Bring the camera back to the computer, dig out the necessary cables and docking connectors, fire up the photo software to upload...
Eye-Fi - Wi-Fi SD Memory Card
In these days of wireless communications, why are we still physically connecting digital cameras to access our photos? Tired of finding and connecting the proper USB cable, or chasing down a compatible memory card reader? Your problems are solved, with...
Portable Hard Drives: WD Passport & Memorex Ultra TravelDrive
These days there's no excuse for not taking your data with you -- after all, USB thumb drives offer up to 8 GB for under $200. But the same price range also can buy you 250 GB of hard disk...
SanDisk Extreme Ducati Edition USB Flash Drive
Speed and beauty, power and performance, form and function ... are we talking about a classic car, cutting-edge motorcycle, or a USB thumb drive? The new SanDisk Extreme Ducati Edition USB Flash Drive takes design and performance to a new...
Retractable Thumb Drives: SanDisk Cruzer Contour & Memorex M-Flyer Pilot
As USB thumb drives grow in capacity -- to 4 GB under $100 and 8 GB under $200 even for higher-end drives -- they become more valuable as they hold more of our digital stuff. And yet we also want...
Kingston Mobility Kit: microSD to USB
Kingston just announced a new USB / microSD Mobility Kit, that combines its Kingston USB microSD Reader with a 1 or 2 GB microSD card, plus two adaptors, for both a miniSD and full-size SD card. It's everything you...
Kingston USB Flash Drives
Kingston continues to release USB flash drives with interesting designs, and now with up through 8 GB of storage. The Kingston DataTraveler 100 USB Flash Drive has a simple capless design with single-handed "thumb-action" slide. The retractable USB connector is...
Kingston USB Memory Card Readers
Our portable devices need more storage, so we collect a growing variety of memory cards -- SD and MMC, and reduced to mini and micro. And these removable cards provide another option for copying files between devices and a PC...
Multi-Port Flash Drives
Flash storage is just exploding -- with capacity increasing and prices falling. Flash enables tiny devices, from portable music and media players to USB "thumb" drives -- now busting into multiple gigabytes of storage at affordable prices. USB drives come...
Blue-Laser Blues: Getting HD video to disc
All we want is HD video on disc! It's bad enough to have the confusion of yet another messy format war between the Blu-ray Disc and HD DVD formats. But the industry is further dampening the promise of these formats...
Home Networked Storage: Infrant ReadyNAS NV+
Our digital lives result in an inevitable accumulation of electronic data -- more and more files and folders, and bigger and bigger files, especially audio and video clips. We'd like to keep these these collections managed and organized, but as...
NewerTech USB 2.0 Universal Drive Adapter
Hard disks have almost become the new floppies -- yet another form of swappable storage. External drives are great for auxiliary storage and backup, and even internal drives are loosening up -- you can swap them in slide-out trays, or...
Portable Pocket Drives Reach 12 GB
USB "thumb" drives with flash memory have reached 4 GB -- and for under $100. And if you need more storage, USB pocket drives based on tiny hard drives how now reached 12 GB -- a bit bigger then a...
Tiny USB Drives
It's the best of both worlds for USB storage drives -- even more capacity, and shrunk to amazingly small sizes -- both at the same time! The Sony Micro Vault Tiny is now up to 4 GB (coming this spring,...
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