There have been rumors about a mythical Google G Drive service making the rounds for years — and by all accounts the company was working on a service that would let users upload files to the cloud so they could be accessed on any computer. But as Steven Levy outlines in his book on Google, In The Plex, the project was…

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One  of the key features that sets the Barnes & Noble NOOK Tablet apart from the Amazon Kindle Fire is the fact that the latest NOOK has 16GB of storage compared with the Kindle Fire’s 8GB. But it turns out Barnes & Noble has plans for that extra space — and only wants you to fill it up with items…

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Sure, solid state disks are all the rage these days. They’re often faster than hard disk drives and because they have no moving parts they’re more durable. But they’re also much more expensive, which is why you don’t see an awful lot of terabyte or larger SSDs. Meanwhile it looks like there’s still room for innovation and growth (or rather,…

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Ubuntu One provides cloud storage and synchronization to users and is tightly integrated with the popular Ubuntu Linux operating system. It allows users to store profile information and files online, and access them across different computers, operating systems, and mobile devices.  Though it’s still fairly nascent, the service has enjoyed a good deal of success among the Ubuntu Faithful. Canonical…

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The Acer Iconia Tab A500 is a 10 inch Android tablet that comes with 16GB or 32GB of storage. But it looks like a new 64GB model is in the works. Wireless Goodness spotted an FCC listing for an upcoming version of the tablet with an AT&T 3G modem and a 64GB solid state disk. The new model actually gets…

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Sure, Google is adding support for USB peripherals to Android 3.1, which means that you may eventually be able to carry around your complete movie collection on a USB hard drive and plug it in when you need it. But what about the iPad? There’s no USB host support on that tablet. Seagate recently introduced the GoFlex Satellite portable hard…

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SanDisk is launching several new flash storage modules for notebooks and mobile devices. First up is the company’s new U100 SSD with read speeds up to 450MB/sec and write speeds up to 340MB/sec. The U100 is a SATA III card designed for thin notebooks and mobile devices. It will come in a number of different form factors including 2.5 inch…

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At $400, the Asus Eee Pad Transformer is the cheapest tablet on the market with Google Android 3.0 Honeycomb. But the $400 model also has just 16GB of storage space. Now it looks like Asus is starting to bring a 32GB model to market. A number of online retailers are showing listings for the tablet, and a few even seem…

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Is that 8GB microSD card you bought for your phone starting to look a little puny now that Google has started letting developers upload apps up to 4GB in size to the Android Market? Not to worry. 64GB microSDXC cards are on the way. KINGMAX has introduced the first 64GB card. It’s a class 6 microSD card which means that…

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Seagate, a company best known for making hard drives, has announced that it has something to announce. Yeah, I know, it’s hard to contain your excitement, but this could actually be pretty cool. According to The Register, Seagate will introduce a “perfect companion” for the Apple iPad and other tablets this month. The company isn’t saying what type of product…

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Seagate has introduced a new line of 2.5 inch portable hard drives which are just 9mm thick — or about as thick as a pencil (or an iPad 2). The Seagate GoFlex Slim is the thinnest portable hard drive of its type offered by Seagate, and it also weighs less than 0.4 pounds. The new GoFlex hard drive is available…

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The number of top tier hard drive and solid state disk makers shrinks by one today, with the announcement that Western Digital is acquiring Hitachi Global Storage Technologies. The deal is worth about $4.3 billion, and it gives Hitachi Storage’s parent company (Hitachi Ltd) a share in Western Digital and two seats on the company’s boards. What does this mean…

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