1TB USB 3.0 Flash Drive

Kingston Digital, Inc., announced the DataTraveler® HyperX® Predator 3.0 USB Flash drive.
DataTraveler HyperX Predator 3.0 is the world's largest-capacity USB 3.0 Flash drive as it will be available in a 1TB capacity later in Q1.

DT HyperX Predator 3.0 is the fastest USB 3.0 Flash drive in the Kingston® family, with speeds of up to 240MB/s read and 160MB/s write. It has also achieved SuperSpeed USB 3.0 certification.

Kingston currently has a 512GB capacity available for shipping.

via Kingston

NASA Power Downs Last Mainframe

This month marks the end of an era in NASA computing. Marshall Space Flight Center powered down NASA’s last mainframe, the IBM Z9 Mainframe.

Seagate Buys Samsung Hard Drive Division

Just another reason we do not buy any Seagate drives. Not only do they have the highest failure rate in real world usage, they now have aligned with Samsung; Jack of All - Master of None.

Seagate has announced that it has finalized its deal to purchase Samsung’s hard drive division. The move will cost Seagate $1.4 billion in cash and stock options, in addition to the 9.6% of company ownership that is being transferred over to Samsung.

via Seagate