Seagate will ship its external desktop hard drive with 750GB capacity which is based on 750GB Barracuda 7200.10 next month. The 750GB drive inside runs at 7,200rpm and has 16MB of cache memory. It has an average latency of 4.2ms.

Panasonic has announced the LF-MB121JD Blu-Ray drive for PC. The drive can burn BD discs at 2x speed. Other than BD discs, it also can record DVD+/-R and DVD+RW at 8x speed, DVD-RW at 6X, DVD-RAM at 5X, DVD+/-R DL at 4X speed, CD-R at 24X and CD-RW at 16X speed respectively.

With most newly introduced high end mobile phones coming with a memory card slot, the need for flash memory has driven companies to introduce cards with larger capacities.

Sandisk has released 1GB microSD card and 2GB miniSD card. The 1GB microSD, also called as TransFlash, can store …

Plextor’s PX-SP USB external hard drives are available in capacities of 80GB and 120GB. They are protected by a “silicon jacket bumper,” it allow users to carry them “anytime, anywhere.” They weigh less than 8-ounces and measure 3.3 x 0.7 x 5.5-inch.
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Buffalo shows us its cool USB flash memory keys. Buffalo’s RUF-Q16/4P are 4 small USB keys of 16MB each in the shape of a CD and stored in some kind of spindle. More imags below.

Flashbag is a USB flash drive that its size changes depending on the amount of data it holds. The size will become bigger and bigger when you store more and more data. When the device is about to blow up you will see the familiar error message on your screen: “There is not enough free space”.

TDK Corporation announced that it has begun shipping Blu-ray recordable media to retailers across the United States. The first wave of media will include 25GB BD-R (recordable) and BD-RE (rewritable) media and TDK is planning to ship dual layer media at 25GB per layer later this year .

Silicon Power officially announces the immediate availability of its 150X 2GB SD Card. The 150X 2GB SD Card can reads up to 22.5MB/S and writes up to 16 MB/S.
The 150X 2GB Secure Digital Card has enormous speed and memory to let you experience …

Infineon announces that it will quit the DRAM industry and the DRAM business of Infineon will be taken over by a new company called Qimonda. Infineon itself will concentrate on other technologies that it says is not as volatile and unpredictable as DRAM.

Through out the years, the price of RAMs often swing in both directions widely and according to many in the business, ramps in either direction are difficult to predict. The bigger a company is in the DRAM business, the greater the difficulties.

Fujitsu announces the first 200GB 2.5-inch SATA Hard Drive (MHV2200BT) for laptop computer. The hard drive is suitable for the use of gaming, video editing, audio recording and DVR functionality. The hardware accelerator that maximize Native Command Queuing (NCQ) performance, allows the hard disk drive controller to queue and reorder up to 32 instructions simultaneously.