Everyone know what a petabyte is? No, not a petting zoo for ancient computer chips, or copies of the once influential 1980s computer mag. We’re talking about one quadrillion bytes, or 1,000 terabytes. For context, I’m the (proud) owner of a 1TB external USB hard drive, and yes, it wasn’t cheap. Last I checked, the [...]
Don’t call it Blu-ray, but Blu-ray-like will do. Sites like Blu-ray.com sure got it wrong mid-April when they reported Nintendo’s next console would include a Blu-ray optical drive, but the gist of that rumor turns out to be half-true: mass storage several times greater than DVD’s increasingly constrained gigabyte maximum, only in a proprietary format.
It looks like new Xbox 360 DVDs designed to hold an extra gigabyte of data may not work with older consoles. The issue came to light after a user with a 2009 60GB Xbox 360 Pro received an unexpected email from Microsoft warning him his system wouldn’t be capable of playing upcoming retail discs.
In news that won’t surprise anyone who’s heard of Moore’s Law, researchers concluded that solid-state Flash storage (SSD) drives will finally break into the mainstream next year.
Google Docs, the convenient tool for reading and writing documents and creating spreadsheets online, announced this week that it’s adding video sharing and playback to its ever-growing list of capabilities.
The Air Force recently issued an order prohibiting personnel from using “removable media on all systems, servers, and stand alone machines residing on SIPRNET,” according to a document obtained by Wired. The penalty for not complying with the order is a court-martial.
My TIME.com Technologizer column this week is about the new direction that Apple is taking Macs–which is about bringing some of the simplicity of the iPhone and iPad to the 27-year-old Mac platform. The first chapter in that story is last week’s introduction of all-new 11.6″ and 13.3″ MacBook Air models–and the most striking thing [...]
The newly-announced Pogoplug Pro is a $99 hardware device that’s capable of turning an external hard drive into an internet-connected drive. It features four USB ports for hooking up hard drives, thumb drives, and even printers. Once connected to your home network, files can be accessed and shared over the internet through just about any [...]
Oh Martha, that’s a lot of storage to go in one pocket. Seagate’s 1.5TB GoFlex hard drive sports a USB 3.0 connection for quick file transfers and is compatible with Seagate’s $130 TV connector dock. It can also be converted into a network- and internet-connected hard drive with the $100 GoFlex Net Media Sharing dock.
If you’ve got an iPad and Apple’s $29 Camera Connection Kit, you’re all set up for “the only hard drive in the market that can connect directly to the iPad without using a computer.”
This defeats the purpose of being able to bring your data with you. It’s a 4GB USB thumb drive that looks like a gun. A small gun, sure, but small guns have existed since the Derringer–maybe even before that.
