San Antonio — The Progressive Retailers Organization was at the Westin La Cantera Hill Coun
New York – Toshiba today introduced a new networked attached storage device called the Canvio NAS.
The Canvio will launch with apps for Android and Apple that will directly connect those portable devices to the NAS enabling users to have full access to all their content.
Jacky Lee, Toshiba’s product manager, digital products division, said this creates a personal cloud environment adding that unlike true cloud storage there is no monthly fee for using the Canvio NAS and consumers will have the peace of mind knowing the data is safe in their home.
Fabrik is rolling out its 250GB SimpleTech SimpleDrive, the latest offering in the company's family of external storage and backup devices that allow users to store, carry, enjoy and share digital content while on the road, or online by using www.myfabrik.com, an interactive media and content management solution.
Storage maker LaCie will show an expanded version of its Little Big Disk Quadra line at International CES, and it has added several models to its d2 Quadra series.
The company has added 400GB and 500GB versions of the Little Big Disk Quadra to its line, which previously topped out at 320GB.
Computer accessories maker Norazza will introduce the Pocket Raid portable storage device.
The Pocket Raid is a RAID storage device about the size of a point-and-shoot digital camera . It will come in a variety of capacities ranging from 120GB to 240GB of storage and weighs just less than 2 pounds. The Pocket Raid has two hard drives and connects to a computer via USB 2.0 or eSATA.
Buffalo Technology has upgraded its line of DriveStation and MiniStation external storage drives with a proprietary technology called Turbo USB that the company says increases data throughput by 30 percent.
Turbo USB is available for the first time in eight new Buffalo products shipping this week, said Brian Verenkoff, product marketing manager. The data speed increase was accomplished by upgrading the USB controller in the device, he said.
Toshiba Storage Device Division (SDD) last week expanded its nascent branded storage product line with the release of a 200GB portable external drive into retail.
The introduction comes about three weeks into Toshiba's run as a branded retail storage product line, said Maciek Brzeski, Toshiba SDD's marketing VP. The new drive joins three other models, 100GB, 120GB and 160GB, that are now available at retailers including Micro Center, Amazon, Buy.com, Ritz Camera and Toshibadirect.com.
Storage Appliance is offering three new Clickfree-branded automatic backup drives.
All three drives automatically search, organize and back up files when connected via USB to a PC.
The Clickfree HD225 features 250GB of storage space and is available at a suggested $159. It comes with a cherry red finish and can back up as many as 15 different PCs.
The introduction by SanDisk of a solid state drive (SSD) and Samsung's shipping its first hybrid hard disk drive (HDD) this month marks the latest turning point for the notebook computer storage industry.
San Disk introduced at the CeBIT technology show in Germany a 32GB SSD for the portable computer market as a replacement for a mainstream notebook's traditional hard drive. On March 7 Samsung began production shipments of the MH80 hybrid hard drive to select OEM customers.