Buffalo also jumping on the USB 3.0 bandwagon

Buffalo technology is just days behind Freecom in announcing its first USB 3.0 external hard drive. Their first entry in this new market is the DriveStation HD-HXU3; a 3.5 inch drive available in 1, 1.5 and 2TB models.

Buffalo DriveStation HD-HXU3

Buffalo Tech also debuts USB-powered SSD drive

Hot on the heals of OWC, Buffalo Technology is now offering a USB-powered Solid State Drive as well. The SHD-PE drive comes in three colors (red, white and black) and three sizes (32, 64 and 128 GB). The 32 and 64 GB versions will be available in Japan by the end of this month; the [...]

Buffalo Technology press release

Buffalo Technology just posted a press release that I felt I had to share. It contains some interesting notions about storage systems. In case you never heard of Buffalo: they are “a global leader in the design, development and manufacturing of wired and wireless networking, network and direct attached storage solutions”.

For a global leader in storage solutions, I’m a bit surprised to hear that a disk failure is an “unlikely event”. If disk failure is so unlikely, why are we all spending so much money on RAID controllers, and inventing new technologies like RAID-6 and RAID-TP to protect against multiple drive [...]