Encrypted hard drive products are not new but encrypted data carrying devices are yet not very common. Lately, Bull Information Systems has unveiled a portable device designed Globull to carry data, and even a self-contained work environment, while on the move. Bull’s 60GB digital vault with built-in AES encryption will be available from next month. Globull will be on display at the InfoSecurity Europe 2009 exhibition in London from April 28 to 30, 2009. Globull is about the size of a PDA and features a small touch-screen display for user authentication. It contains a 60GB hard drive protected by a built-in security chip developed by Bull, which provides 256-bit AES encryption. Read the rest of this article »

Readers remember when Samsung Electronics – one of the leaders in semiconductor technology - announced last month that it has begun mass producing 256 gigabyte (GB) solid state drives for use in notebooks and desktop PCs. With the addition of the high-speed 256GB drive, Samsung now offers the most extensive line of SSDs in the industry with 8, 16, and 32GB SSDs for low-density designs and 64, 128 and 256GB alternatives for the higher densities. Read the rest of this article »

Storage world market is growing exponentially and the growth is directly proportional to innovative, new and cheap ways to store data.

Driven by the receptive market, Toshiba has launched the world's first 2.5" 512Gb solid state drive that is designed to provide a high level of performance and endurance for use. Toshiba has also unveiled a broad family of solid state drives based on its chips, offering capacities of 64Gb, 128Gb and 256Gb in 1.8" or 2.5" enclosures or as solid state drive Flash Modules. Read the rest of this article »

Samsung Electronics announced today that it has begun mass producing 256 gigabyte (GB) solid state drives for use in notebooks and desktop PCs.

The new 256GB SSD more than doubles the performance rates of Samsung 64GB and 128GB SSDs to become the SSD with the highest overall performance in the personal computer industry, combining sequential read rates of 220MB/s (megabytes per second) with sequential write rates of 200MB/s. Read the rest of this article »