The aging SD-card spec gets pushed higher and higher with each passing year. A couple of years ago, the big thing was SDXC and it’s promised 2TB capacities. But in 2011, we’re on to bigger and better things. Built on top of current SDHC and SDXC hardware, the new UHS-II spec aims to push transfer rates higher with additional rows of pins on the cards themselves. Speaking of transfer rates, we’re hearing a stout 312MB/s is the goal. Even if we see half...
The SSD market is quickly heating up here at CES 2011. First it was Micron with their 415/260 read/write Real SSD C400. Corsair quickly followed with their slightly faster 480/260 Performance 3 Series. And now, OCZ is offering their own next generation Vertex Pro 3 SSD which is faster still. Corsair boasts 550 MB/s reads and 525 MB/s writes thanks to its SandForce SF-2582 SATA III/6Gbps compliant controller. PC Hardware review site AnandTech ran their own tests on the...
Over the last couple of years, we’ve seen a lot of attention paid to WiFi-enabled memory cards from the likes of Eye-Fi. At this year’s CES, the company is taking the wraps off of their newest Eye-Fi X2 card upgrade which brings new functionality to new and old cards alike. With the new X2 upgrade, Eye-Fi users can now extend wireless sharing and uploading to a nearby smartphone or portable device. Combined with other Eye-Fi features such as wireless backup...
At last year’s 2010 CES, we saw some exciting potential in SDXC hardware, with promises of 2TB of storage and up to 300MB/s transfer speeds. And now as we pack our bags for CES2011, we’re finally starting to see some tangible progress, albeit small. Lexar Media is taking the wraps off of their latest additions to the SDXC line of hardware with two new cards — a 64 GB and 128 GB option. These class 10 SDXC cards are guaranteed to give users at least...
We may all drool over the latest and greatest PC hardware as it trickles onto the web, but quite honestly, it’s the same story year after year. More transistors, more cores, more efficiency combined with more processing power. The real excitement however, will come when scientists finally unlock quantum computing for the masses. The potential of such technology has far reaching and incredibly powerful potential. And thanks to the help of several intelligent...
