Like Corsair, Kingston Technology enters in the field of solid-state drives (SSD). Apparently, Kingston will not the only one because it will co-brand their products with Intel (which plans to release the 320GB SSD this fall). Kingston offers two ranges of SSD – the SSDNow E and SSDNow M series. The first will be for enterprise servers, while the second will be for professional laptops. The price is not known yet. Nice to see more and more manufacturers of memory module interest in SSD – hope that the competition will also reduce prices.

LaCie has released its first NAS 1U rack containing a storage space of 6TB, for small business. In addition, it has the honor of being the first NAS in the professional market compatible with Apple Time Machine, and will be accompanied by Genie and Intego Backup Manager Pro so that users can schedule the backup files and recover computer. Of course, you have the choice between the storage spaces ranging from 2TB to 4TB and 6to, and prices start from $759.99 with a 3-year warranty. You can also opt for silicone support and hooks to secure it.

The Buffalo LinkTheater is one of those DivX Box doped with EPO (erythropoietin). With its NAS (DLNA) “function”, you can, among other, share your videos, your music files and photos in your network.
But this new series, our Buffalo LT-H91LAN also permits you to connect your LinkTheater to Internet and access to VOD service of NHK TV or Tsutaya (Tsutaya is the Japanese version of Blockbuster US).

Finally, the LinkTheater is compatible with MPEG-1/2, WM9, H.264/MPEG-4 AVC, XviD.

Buffalo has released the new RUF2-KL USB flash drive which has 16GB of storage space and a thickness of only 8mm. Pity that the choice of colors is quite limited: black or white, because something so small would certainly have made a super-tech fashion accessory. This USB flash drive weighs 10g and has a price around $70.

Toshiba is the first to release 2.5-inch SSD drives of 512GB through its 43 nanometers assembly process and particularly the cell multi-level storage which doubles the current record of 256Go which was reached in early this year. You will not only have more storage space, but the starting up is also faster, capable to reach a speed (theoretical) of 240MB/s in reading and a speed of 200MB/s in writing. Its lifetime is about one millon of hours (114 years). Other specifications include AES encryption to secure your data. It will certainly cost a fortune.

Here’s another external hard drive designed by Yano, the MetalWear EX 1.5TB. We are talking about an external hard drive with an aluminum case and 1.5TB of storage space (7200rpm).
Sold in Japan under the code name MTH1500EX, our external hard drive is equipped with Firewire ports 400 and 800, and eSATA ports and USB 2.0. This device is the perfect little bug for PC and Mac users (Yes, Linux users are welcome of course!).
Sold in Japan for more than 50,000 yen ($550), this MetalWear EX 1.5 TB will be available from December 24 in Japan. Just in time for a last minute Christmas gift.

Professional photographers and videographers will be happy to learn that OCZ has announced the imminent release of its Gold Series SDHC memory cards that offer a 150X Class 6 write speed (6Mbps). You can choose between the storage space of 4GB, 8GB and 16GB, and these memory cards will be good in Reflex digital cameras and HD video camcorders, where the rate of data transfer is important. The price and availability of SDHC memory cards of OCZ are not known.

Seagate Technology, Western Digital and Hitachi Global Storage Technologies will develop affordable 2.5-inch hard drives for netbooks and PCs of the next year, and the price would be 40-50% cheaper than existing 2.5-inch entry models. It’s great news, although you can expect a decrease in performance with regard to new models, but anyway the netbooks are not designed to be super-powerful, but for occasional use. You can expect to see the first affordable hard drives for netbooks on the market at the second half of next year, global recession or not.

Believe it or not, there still exist companies in this world which believe that through these difficult times, people have money to throw out the window? Buffalo’s latest LinkStation Mini NAS with a price of $1,150 (106 000 Yen) is the perfect example!
For such a price, the Japanese manufacturer has decided to replace the two SATA hard drives of 2.5-inch by 2 SSD drives of 120 GB, which produces, depending on your RAID configuration, up to 240GB of storage space.

And you will certainly say that this is a lot of money for so little storage space, and you’re quite right! But while your classic NAS has a noise level of 19dB, our new SSD MiniStation is simply silent with only 2.3db …
Is this enough to justify such a price?

Watch the Via Artigo A2000 storage server – it has a tiny size, less than 12cm wide in fact, a height of 11.4cm and a depth of 25cm. In this small wonder, you will find:

• VIA 1.5GHz processor
• Up to 2GB of RAM
• 2 bays powered by SATA
• Gigabit Ethernet
• Three USB 2.0 ports
• Hardware HD video encoding
• Wi-Fi connectivity (optional)

You want a storage server like that? Obviously, it doesn’t have the most powerful processor in the market, but this will do without bulk.