Sony has finally jumped into the external hard drive world to expand their home entertainment storage options with the HD-PG5 series 500GB external hard drive. The drive is USB 3.0 compatible and comes loaded with data transfer software. The great thing about this new hard drive from Sony is the ability to direct connect to BRAVIA to record HD programming and direct copy from Handycam camcorders. The HD-PG5 series will also work on your Playstation 3 or PC and is BUS powered so no AC adapter is needed. Sony also includes a security suite and backup manager.
The HD-PG5 series is available available in the UK, Germany and France. There is no word yet on US availability, but I imagine it won’t take too long. Hit the jump for more in the press release. [click to continue…]
Kingston has launched the second generation of the DataTraveler Ultimate 3.0, Kingston’s fastest USB Flash drive, which uses a native USB 3.0 controller for better performance and power management.
The new DTU30G2 has a read speed up to 100MB/s, and a write speed up to 70 MB/s; up from the first generations 80MB/s write and 60 MB/s read specs. When plugged into a USB 2.0 port, Kingston claims the drive has read and write speeds of around 30MB/s. The DTU30G2 is available in 16GB, 32GB and 64GB capacities. The DataTraveler Ultimate is backwards compatible with USB 2.0, so if you’ve got a lot of data that you need to transfer quickly such as HD video or high resolution photos a 3.o flash drive may be just the ticket. [click to continue…]
by Eric on April 27, 2010
LaCie has dropped the latest in its line of Rugged external hard drives. The new Rugged drive comes with a USB 3.0 connector that allows transfer speeds up to 110 MB/s. The Rugged drives are rated to be drop-resistant up to 2.2 meters and are packed with a software bundle for formatting and backup.
More details and pics below. [click to continue…]
by Eric on December 22, 2009
LaCie has announced a USB 3.0 external hard drive that offers 2 drive and RAID configuration options. The new USB 3.0 drive will be available in capacities up to 4TB. The USB 3.0 standard will permit speeds up to 275MB/s burst read transfer speed.
More details in the full press release below. [click to continue…]
