Storage World

Storage By The Mega Bite

Perfect for dipping and data transfers, SolideAlliance’s USB storage devices come in Salmon Roe, Tuna, and Sea Urchin models. Want some soy sauce with that megabyte? Japanese manufacturer SolideAlliance released USB storage devices in sushi- shaped plastic models this fall. Sold in the West by Dynamism.com, the 8GB sushi drives ($25) sport handmade Tuna, Sea Urchin, or Salmon Roe casings, while the flavors are Tuna Maki and Cucumber Maki. Why sushi drives? We cannot honestly say, alt...

64GB USB Flash Voyager

Recently, I maxed out the small and old 30GB hard drive on my laptop. I needed more storage, but it also had to be portable. Corsair recently launched the perfect solution to my storage dilemma: a 64GB flash drive. The 64GB USB Flash Voyager has enough capacity for a library of full-length movies and tens of thousands of high-resolution digital images. The drive’s rubbery shell is cool, too. In fact, it makes the drive water resistant and rugged, so you can rest easy, knowing your data is...

Flash Memory Forms

Over the years Flash memory chips have appeared in more than 20 memory card formats. Only a few remain, like USB stick, Compact Flash, Secure Digital and Sony Memory Stick are the survivors, along with the proprietary formats of major game console vendors, and mobile phone SIM cards. Smart Media Now almost defunct, Smart Media was the first card memory released with NAND Flash. It often had only a single flash chip mounted in a very thin, flat card and no built-in controller. T...

Flash Memory Forms 2

Secure Digital (SD) Secure Digital or SD cards and the associated formats miniSD, microSD, SDHC (SD High Capacity) miniSDHC and microSDHC, are perhaps today's rising stars of Flash. SD memory is physically small and light, so it is eminently suitable for use in hand-held digital devices such as pocket cameras, mobile phone. The name Secure Digital is used because the original formats, which is SD and SDHC that are fitted with a tiny mechanical write-protect slide switch. High Capaci...

Fake Flash

Flash memory is an obvious target for counterfeiters because it is small and easy to ship, it sells in high volume with a reasonable margin and it's relatively easy to copy the labeling and case designs. Copies are only made of the high-value brand names and they are often so good that it is hard to tell the genuine article when they are compared side by side. However, although the fakes may work they are usually nowhere near as reliable as the genuine article. A simple way to fake Flash i...

Corsair Flash Padlock 2GB

How many times have you lent a USB flash drive to a friend or business colleague and wondered to yourself: “Wow, I hope there’s nothing on there that I don’t want seen.” Now, this probably wasn’t because you necessarily had anything incriminating on there, but more likely it was just the feeling that you were giving someone else access to, in the immortal words of George Carlin, “your stuff.” Let’s face it people, sometimes you simply have to lock up your stuff. Corsair has an answer to this ...

SanDisk Revs Ducati’s Engine

If you’ve ever throttled up a Ducati, you know it’s not just another motorcycle; it’s heaven on wheels. SanDisk apparently feels the same. The company has partnered with the high-end bike maker to create a line of Ducati-branded memory cards, including a limited edition 8GB Ducati Edition CompactFlash card ($314.99). SanDisk says the line is “the elite, fastest, most high-performance products in the SanDisk portfolio of products.” In addition to the 45MBps read/write 8GB CF card, San-Disk is...

Corsair Flash Voyager 8GB

I doubt there are many of you out there who would deny the convenience of a USB flash drive. I can’t count the number of writable CDs and DVDs I’ve saved by jockeying large files around from PC to PC on a flash drive. But I’m sure virtually all of you will agree that, despite their convenience, USB flash drives could never be too fast or too spacious. With that in mind, I present Corsair’s latest Flash Voyager. The new Flash Voyager 8GB shares the same durable, rubberized outer shell and blue...

USB Drive Reads Flash Cards

LaCie’s Universal Media Drive reads wide variety of solid-state storage media LaCie has launched a new USB media reader that allows users to read and write to most formats of Flash storage from any PC or Macintosh system with a USB port. The drive could help users to move files more easily and quickly between handheld PCs and desktop or notebook PCs. LaCie’s Universal Media Drive, available now, supports CompactFlash, Smartmedia, Secure Digital, MultiMedia Card and Sony’s Memory Stick Fla...