Kingmax 1TB SSD, yours for just 3 bank robberies

Posted Monday, October 17, 2011 at 4:53 pm by Jason Cartwright

If you are tired of making size compromises for SSD speed, that trade-off may be about to go away thanks to Kingmax. This 1TB SSD achieves ‘up to 260MB/s for reads and up to 210MB/s for writes. This is the first time a 1TB solid state drive has been made, a world first.

It’s interesting to see a new record set by an unexpected brand, you may be more familiar with Kingmax as a RAM manufacturer. Moving from RAM into the SSD market isn’t a big jump, but to achieve the massive 1TB in storage, Kingmax used a unique patented packing technology.

Amazingly those quadrillion bytes are packed into a 2.5” SATA II package.

Expect them to licence this to others SSD manufacturers and storage sizes to increase quickly. There is no word on price right now, but expect to need to rob 3 banks for this one. Pricing premiums are a normal occurrence when breakthrough technology reaches our shelves. What it should do is push down the price of smaller drives, so while you may never own this 1TB SSD, ultimately it’s a good thing for consumers.

More information @ Kingmax via TweakTown.

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Backups sorted – WD 1TB My Book

Posted Saturday, April 5, 2008 at 2:22 pm by Jason Cartwright

Over the past few months I’ve had a number of friends contact me after their hard drive died. The dead hard drives usual contain their precious photos and or videos. I asked “do you have a backup”, knowing the answer was likely to be no. It was.

That served for a huge reminder to ensure I had a solid backup solution in place. My storage continues to grow, the space required for the raw + edited files for the podcast is growing at around 5-10GB per episode.

I have a 500GB drive in my PC plus an 80GB drive in the laptop, both that need backing up, as well as planning future expansion.

I previously had a 300GB external drive that became unreliable, so I’ve been searching for a good backup solution at a reasonable cost for some time now.

My first prefernce for backup would be the HP MediaSmart Server, however we’re still waiting for an Australian release. I couldn’t wait any longer.

I opted for the Western Digital 1TB My Book. Previous models combined 2x500GB drives to achieve the 1TB size, however the new design does this with a single drive and super shiny black glossy finish. So with that, my PC and laptop backups (for now) are sorted.