Storage

Front Runner Wolf Pack gear boxes are among the most ubiquitous products in overlanding, protecting contents from electronics to dry food. Front Runner upgrades the tried-and-true Wolf Pack with a waterproof Pro model that protects even better.

Canadian startup Rux finds a balance between the hard box and the soft packing cube to create a more purposeful all-carry option. Its Rux 70 adventure bag is designed to pack like a box, carry like a bag, and strap down like a ruggedized case.

Computing accessory maker Sabrent has launched a new external SSD rocking two 8-TB drives that can be configured as separate data vaults or combined into one capacious solution to meet the growing storage needs of professionals and creators.

WD has announced its second generation My Passport SSD line, which is aimed at content creators on the move. There's up to 2 TB of solid state storage on offer, blazing fast read and write speeds, and the drive can survive a drop of up to 6.5 feet.

Human blood can typically only be stored for six weeks. It also needs to be refrigerated, which may be challenging in poor countries or remote locations. A new study, though, could lead to a method of drying blood for long-term storage.

Researchers at the University of Southern California looking to crack the renewable energy storage problem have developed a new version of a redox flow battery from inexpensive and readily-available materials.

Sony is targeting creative pros like photographers and videographers with the introduction of two new external drives. Available as a high performance model and a standard compact flavor, the SSDs boast impressively fast read/write speeds, hardware encryption, and are impact-, water, and dust-proof.

​Smartphones are getting ever more capable, now coming with 4K screens and multiple cameras. Happily, there are still some mobile devices that allow storage expansion via a microSD slot, making the announcement of the world's fastest 1 TB UHS-1 card very welcome indeed.​

You'll soon be able to buy a smartphone with 1 TB of storage space built right in, as Samsung has announced it's working on 1 TB embedded Universal Flash Storage (eUFS) chips. We might even see it appear in the upcoming Samsung Galaxy S10, scheduled to appear on February 20.

With a focus on storing energy from intermittent renewable sources such as wind and solar, Swiss company Energy Vault has just launched an innovative new system that stores potential energy in a huge tower of concrete blocks, which can be “dropped” by a crane to harvest the kinetic energy.

​Just over a decade ago, Samsung announced the imminent arrival of the first laptops to come with 32 GB NAND flash storage. Now the first consumer-level 4-bit, 4 TB SATA solid state drives have begun mass production, signaling a possible turning point for high capacity home storage.​

Toshiba Memory America has launched a new range of NVM express solid state drives, the first to be based on the company's 96-layer 3D flash memory. The company says that it's aiming its XG6 series at client computer, high performance mobile, embedded, gaming and data center systems.