LG Korea has today released the XD4, new 3.5″ external hard drives (USB2.0). Available in 500GB, 750Go or 1TB, the new thin hard drive (35mm) has a unique cooling system by LG, and a Back-up button. No information for the price.

Here is another NAS from Buffalo. But this new TS-XL/R5 is not a NAS like the others, it was designed to provide better performance than previous generations.

With a more powerful processor, Buffalo announced a transfer speed of 3 times higher than its little brother, the TS-HTGL/R5; A speed independent of the number of PCs connected to the NAS.

Available in 2 or 4TB, this TS-XL/R5 can also “Backup” your NAS in real time, and is compatible with Time Machine for Mac OS 10.5, and supports RAID 0,1,5 and 10.
Finally, you can configure the starting up and stop of the NAS at regular intervals and it has the WAKE-ON-LAN function.

Iomega has introduced two new models of external hard drives for its eGo range: the Encrypt and BlackBelt. The latter includes the Drop Guard Xtreme feature that preserves your data in case of a fall. Regarding the Encrypt, you have the 128-bit Advanced Encryption Standard to secure your data, providing a password protection with an encryption software pre-installed. The Encrypt is available fo the price of $150, while the BlackBelt costs $120 with a 250GB of storage space.

The Japanese manufacturer has presented its new SDHC memory cards, the MF-FSDH04GC6W and MF-FSDH08GC6W, respectively showing a storage space of 4 and 8GB, and having the distinction of being waterproof. We also noted that they are stamped Class 6, and they have a transfer speed of 6 MB/s. Available from mid-December if everything goes well. Now the question of prices…

If you thought the Blu-Ray of Sony was the support of the future, some manufacturers haven’t said their last word. This is the case of Pioneer, which has announced its optical disk of 16 layers with a total capacity of 400GB. This new support according to its manufacturer should be compatible with the Blu-Ray players in the market. That’s reassuring, this new technology which is still a prototype, will not be available to consumers before 2009/2010…

Princeton Japan has announced the launch of a NAS of 5TB, the DN-503AH-PDC. The NAS is compatible with RAID 0/1/5 and 6. Thanks to 5 hard drives of 1TB each, Princeton managed to assemble one of the biggest NAS to the general public. This NAS with 5TB of storage should be launched in Japan in December, but we have no information for the price.

IO Data announced in Japan a new SATAII hard drive (7200rpm) with 1.5TB of storage, the HDI-SAH7. Nothing really surprising you’ll tell me, especially a capacity of 1.5TB has become rather common these days, but what surprised the most here is its price: 30,600 Yen ($320)…
It is simply twice more expensive than the SEAGATE ST31500341AS hard drive of 1.5TB: 14,800 yen ($155).

Dunhill proposes a new USB flash drive for the festive season, which is embedded with 272 black diamonds, by Alfred Dunhill and storage space of 8GB. The Pave Black Diamond USB flash drive is available from Dunhill stores worldwide.

A few weeks ago, Samsung had shown its willingness to invest more in this market segment of ’solid state disks (SSD), or ‘flash memory’ drives.
On November 20, the Korean group announced that it has crossed the record production volume of SSD with a capacity of 256 gigabytes of storage – components including laptop computers or not…

Samsung said that the performance of these new memory ‘chips’ are twice higher than the previous models of 64 and 128 GB

The manufacturer said that it has reached a 10% reduction in the gap between rates of reading in sequential mode to 220 MB/s and writing in sequential mode of 200 MB/s. No price for the moment.

Kanguru has just presented a flash drive, the e-Flash, very original because it has a USB interface and a eSATA interface.

The advantage of a eSATA flash drive is no doubt regarding to speed. On the other hand, the big disadvantage is that it requires an external power supply (on this flash drive). The fact that both interfaces are met thus allows greater flexibility is ease of use outdoors.

According to Kanguru, eSATA mode has a rate of 75 MB/s in reading and 25 MB/s in writing, against 30 MB/s reading and 20 MB/s in writing for the USB interface. For the 32 GB flash drive, the price is $120, and the 16 GB version is available for $85. A 64 GB model will arrive next year.