G.Skill universal has a spanking new Phoenix SATA II 2.5-inch SSD for the mass market, where you can choose from some rather strange denominations when it comes to total amount of storage space – we’re talking about 50GB, 100GB or 200GB capacities, where they will all feature the SandForce SF-1200 controller which is capable of hitting 280MB/s read and 270MB/s write speeds. Each purchase will be accompanied by a 2-year warranty, although we do not have any data on pricing and availability. Just in case you were wondering whether hard drives will get obsolete, companies are looking at 900GB models in the near future, so for those who don’t mind some noise coming out of their computers when info is being accessed, soon after you can always give the SSD camp a miss. [Press Release]

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Compellent’s hardware road map has some interesting things in store for the future – we’re talking about 2.5″ hard drives which will not only be faster, but boasts larger capacities as well. It seems that a 900GB 2.5″ hard drive spinning at 10,000rpm is ready to knock on our doors in the relatively near future, while a 15K rpm 2.5″ drive with 300GB capacity is additionally on the way – should that happen, it could very well be the fastest small scheme factor disk drive available at the market. Could that prolong the shelf life of hard drives by some date?

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The Media Pro HD, a full HD networked hard drive media player might be just the tonic for your living room, where it hooks up in a jiffy to any HDTV or A/V receiver to get you started nearly immediately. With a hot-swappable hard drive tray, you can easily swap amidst your collection of hard drives to play the intended movie, image or music files. Apart from that, you can plus hook up to your home network sans wires, but whether you still prefer an old school wired connection, there is always the option to do so via Ethernet. When not at home, why not program the Media Pro HD to download selected BitTorrent files, or stream music/videos when you’re working? A effective Sigma Designs SMP8635 CPU and Silicon Image SiI9134 HDMI 1.3 transmitter runs at the heart of the Media Pro HD, where the only beef we have against that $215 device would be its choice of design.

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HP’s Envy line of notebooks is rather popular, and it seems that we were right when we predicted that 14-inch and 17-inch models would be appearing. HP has announced two new Envy notebooks in said sizes and despite what you may think of optical drives in that day and age, both feature slot-loading drives.

The Envy 17 obviously has a rather large display, which is powered by the Mobility Radeon HD 5000 series chip that supports Eyefinity, allowing it to drive multiple external displays on its own. It plus offers upgraded Beats audio processing along with a subwoofer, two hard drives to offer you up to 2TB of internal space, Intel Core i7 processor and USB 3.0 ports. Expect that to hit the market come on May 19th from $1,400 onwards.

The smaller Envy 14 offers a rather different 14.5-inch display which claims to be about 75 percent brighter than other 14-inch displays. From the looks of it, that model will be going squarely against Apple’s latest MacBook Pros and will be powered by Intel’s Core i5 and i7 processors with the option for 3G. that model will be shipping from June 27th for $1,000.

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Think your input is very urgent but can’t afford to do offsite backups? Well, ioSafe’s Squadron line of catastrophe proof hard drives aim to help you keep your hard drive safe from some of the dangers out there. First off it’s fireproof up to 1400° F for up to 15 minutes and sports a heat shield that can deflect by 98% of the radiant heat from a fire. It can plus survive being submerged under 5 feet of water for up to 24 hours. The good thing about that model is that instead of being incredibly bulky as most rugged drives are, the Squadron drive can actually be installed in a standard drive bay on your desktop PC. It’s slightly pricey at $310 for 320GB, but considering all the additional safety features you get, it’s worth the price, right? The ioSafe Squadron starts to ship on May 17th.

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Super Talent has recently announced its latest value-for-money solid state drive (SSD) known as the Super Talent VSSD, where proud new owners of that device will be able to experience a shorter operating system bootup duration, speedier faster application loading and less capability consumption. The VSSD will play nice with a 3Gbps SATA-II bandwidth, and is capable of touching sequential read speeds up to 150 MB/sec and sequential write speeds up to 100 MB/sec. You will be able to choose from various capacities to suit your budget, where the 8GB model is going for $65 thereabouts while folks who opt for the 64GB model will have to fork out around $175 for one. While SSDs are faster than hard drives and could prove to be more stable since there are no moving parts, it is still pricier although that is now not too much a “con” as it used to be.

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USB 3.0 connections don’t have to be limited to hard drives and flash drives, and BlackMagic has introduced its Intensity Shuttle, which uses a USB 3.0 connection and allows you to capture 10-bit HD videos from HDMI 1.3 sources, along with S-Video, and composite. To prepare things better, the $199 Intensity Shuttle draws its potential from the USB 3.0 connection itself, making life a little bit easier for you.

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Can’t get suitable of speed? Western Digital’s VelociRaptor hard drive is most likely the reply to your pleas for speed, and WD has just unveiled its VelociRaptor hard drives in 450GB and 600GB capacities for both Macs and PCs, which is a nice upgrade from the previous 300GB VelociRaptor drive. that drive runs at 10,000RPM via a SATA 6Gb/s connection. While there wasn’t any pricing mentioned in the press release, you can be certain that that drive, which is designed to mission-critical enterprise-class standards, will cost you a pretty penny.

Press release.

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Seagate and Paramount are partnering to offer FreeAgent Go hard drives pre-loaded with 21 movies, one of which can be unlocked for free, via a coupon cipher. whether other movies are of interest to you, you can head to seagate.paramountshop.com (IE 7+ and Windows Media Player 10 required) to purchase them, knowing that you won’t have to wait for the download. Talk about instant gratification! The movie are encoded in DVD resolution and occupy about 3GB each, as Paramount and Seagate still wanted to leave some room for your own details. The bundle will be announced in a few hours – that’s when we’ll have the complete list of movies available.

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The RED Station is a special modular storage reader that will cater for its range of high end cameras, where you get a core base station which will supply decent juice for other stacked readers that will handle multiple card formats. For example, the CF reader will handle the most common removable storage media on RED’s cameras, while the MAG 2.5 loads in notebook-sized hard drives and SSDs. Either way, you will benefit from a couple of FireWire 800 ports and one eSATA and a mini USB port. The whole thingamajic ought to ship come April 14th, with the base station retailing for $250 while additional reader modules cost the same.

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