http://www.macnn.com/ MacNN is the leading source for news about Apple and the Mac industry. It offers news, reviews, discussion, tips, troubleshooting, links, and reviews every day. The best place for Mac News. Period. en-us http://images.macnn.com/images/macnn-logo-bw.gif http://www.macnn.com/ http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/10/02/a.data.drive.withstands.drops.water.submersion/ <img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/0909/adatash93intro.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />A-DATA recently showed the first waterproof and shock resistant portable hard drive, its SH93. It can withstand being submerged in up to 3.3 feet of water for 30 minutes and carries the US military's MIL-810F standards for drop resistance and resistance. The 2.5-inch drive comes in yellow or red and in 250GB, 320GB, 500GB and 640GB capacities.... http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/10/02/a.data.drive.withstands.drops.water.submersion/ Fri, 02 Oct 2009 18:35:00 GMT http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/07/28/a.data.outs.4gb.dram/ <img align='left' src='http://images.macnn.com/esta/content/0907/adataDRAM4GB.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />Taiwan-based A-DATA announced on Tuesday it will soon release single 4GB DDR3 DRAM modules as part of its performance memory offerings. The high-capacity sticks will be available in the U-DIMM configuration for desktop applications, SO-DIMM for notebooks and unbuffered ECC-DIMM/ECC Registered DIMM for workstations and servers. Other than the higher capacity, A-DATA touts less energy use than when ... http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/07/28/a.data.outs.4gb.dram/ Tue, 28 Jul 2009 20:25:00 GMT http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/03/10/a.data.300.plus.ssd/ <img align='left' src='http://images.macnn.com/esta/content/0903/a-data300plus.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />A-DATA has rolled out a high-speed solid-state drive line intended as a drop-in update for notebooks. The 300 Plus series takes advantage of a new memory controller to maintain constant 250MB per second read speeds as well as 160MB per second while writing data. It also has an uncommonly large 64MB cache to keep the system fed with information even in characteristically slower sequential reads.... http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/03/10/a.data.300.plus.ssd/ Tue, 10 Mar 2009 18:20:00 GMT http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/03/05/adata.512gb.ssd.at.cebit/ <img align='left' src='http://images.macnn.com/esta/content/0903/adatassd.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />At the ongoing CeBIT show in Germany, Taiwan's A-Data showed off a 2.5-inch, 512GB solid state drive (SSD), the XPG. A-Data says the 512GB XPG is capable of reading data at 230MBps while write speeds are as high as 160MBps, though these have to be verified in real-world testing. The drive features a standard SATA II interface.... http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/03/05/adata.512gb.ssd.at.cebit/ Thu, 05 Mar 2009 21:40:00 GMT http://www.macnn.com/articles/08/06/25/a.data.compactflash.card/ <img align='left' src='http://images.macnn.com/macnn/news/0806/adata.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />A-DATA technologies has introduced the 'Turbo Series CF 350X', touted as the world's fastest CompactFlash card. Aimed at professional photographers and digital imaging professionals, the card offers peak 52MB/sec read and 47MB/sec write speeds, and comes in both 8GB and 16GB sizes. The card's speedy transfer rates are made possibly by utilizing the dual-channel UDMA 0-5 and MDMA 0-4 modes of high ... http://www.macnn.com/articles/08/06/25/a.data.compactflash.card/ Wed, 25 Jun 2008 12:15:00 GMT http://www.macnn.com/articles/07/12/27/a.data.joins.64gb.ssd.fray/ <img align='left' src='http://images.macnn.com/esta/content/0712/adata64gbssd.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' />The Taiwan-based A-Data is the latest company to release a 64GB solid-state flash drive (SSD). In particular the company has actually released four drives with the capacity, in 1.8- or 2.5-inch sizes, and with a choice of SATA or PATA (parallel ATA) interfaces. Each is said to have special anti-shock protection, and use multi-level cell technology technology to fit its storage. Like all SSD dri... http://www.macnn.com/articles/07/12/27/a.data.joins.64gb.ssd.fray/ Thu, 27 Dec 2007 21:45:00 GMT