The 2009 Engadget Awards: Nominate the Storage Device or Technology of the Year

It's time for the 2009 Engadget Awards, and we're asking for your nominations for the Storage Device or Technology of the Year.

Nominating is easy, simply leave a comment with what you're nominating for this category. We'll round up the best selections and put them to the popular vote.

Here's five simple rules of what NOT to do:

• Don't include your reasons for nominating it.
  You can debate the product later when we put it up to vote. Just leave the name of what you want to nominate, ok?
• Don't nominate anything that wasn't sold for the first time in 2009.
  We will allow updated versions of previous devices, however.
• No concept devices or prototypes.
  It has to be a real gadget people can buy! Pre-orders don't count.
• Don't nominate anything more than once.
  It's not a popularity contest (yet), all it does is make our lives harder. Just do a quick find to see if someone's already beat you to it.
• Seriously, don't nominate anything that's already been nominated!

Thanks, and good luck to all the gadgets!

[omo Posted Jan 13th 2010 5:15PM]

the MLC NAND flash

[glenskey Posted Jan 13th 2010 5:24PM]

can i just vote for nanotubes? 'cos they're showing up everywhere these days ;)

[bo3of Posted Jan 13th 2010 5:28PM]

LightPeak? :P

[Stefan Witkamp Posted Jan 13th 2010 5:31PM]

Samsung Spinpoint F3

[archkron Posted Jan 25th 2010 4:12PM]

@Stefan Witkamp
This a million times.

[pina Posted Jan 13th 2010 5:44PM]

External USB 3.0 hard drives

[Oler Posted Jan 13th 2010 5:48PM]

USB 3.0 external RAID

[BSBarrows Posted Jan 13th 2010 5:52PM]

USB 3.0, Displayport 1.2

[jdwusami Posted Jan 13th 2010 5:59PM]

Drobo S

[PBB Posted Jan 13th 2010 11:21PM]

@jdwusami
second!

[One Love Posted Jan 13th 2010 6:06PM]

USB 3.0

[rodger0531 Posted Jan 13th 2010 6:28PM]

Razer Mamba

[hellonnnewman Posted Jan 13th 2010 6:41PM]

storage device of the year - Lindsey Lohan

[fel Posted Jan 13th 2010 8:33PM]

Intel X25-M

....G2 rev was this year.

[greatpix Posted Jan 13th 2010 10:12PM]

USB 3.0

[tatester48 Posted Jan 13th 2010 10:27PM]

Apple Time machine

[Paul C Chapel Posted Jan 14th 2010 4:09PM]

Apple Time Capsule

[tatester48 Posted Jan 14th 2010 8:31PM]

@Paul C Chapel oh haha thats what i meant

[cswright Posted Jan 13th 2010 11:51PM]

SSD tech advancements

[Cobra4455 Posted Jan 14th 2010 1:53AM]

USB 3.0

[TheCrusher Posted Jan 14th 2010 5:30AM]

Affordable SSD's?

[JPB Posted Jan 14th 2010 8:16PM]

Windows Home Server

[maythetechbewithyou Posted Jan 14th 2010 9:46PM]

USB 3.0

[tservo24 Posted Jan 14th 2010 10:34PM]

DroboPro

[Scribbles Posted Jan 15th 2010 12:13AM]

OWC Mercury On-The-Go Pro

[Nathan B Posted Jan 15th 2010 4:38AM]

Intel X-25M G2

[tycham85 Posted Jan 15th 2010 7:53AM]

the .iso mounting external hdd...cant wait to get my hands on one.

you posted it here: http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/18/umazone-uma-iso-drive-enclosure-takes-the-sting-out-of-mounting/

[fightingevil Posted Jan 15th 2010 10:58AM]

DropBox

[jobiyobi Posted Jan 15th 2010 3:48PM]

@fightingevil
I second that!

[deliberateutility Posted Jan 25th 2010 5:49PM]

@jobiyobi DROPBOX! Hands-down!

[sonyforlife Posted Jan 15th 2010 11:54AM]

western digital

[elwood Posted Jan 15th 2010 12:41PM]

Drobo S

[Tim5R Posted Jan 16th 2010 5:37PM]

WD

[GGG Posted Jan 25th 2010 4:53PM]

SD XC cards

[Johann Posted Jan 25th 2010 10:30PM]

512 SSDs

[MGDdrinker Posted Jan 29th 2010 5:15PM]

Phoenix Instant Boot BIOS
http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/24/video-phoenix-instant-boot-bios-starts-loading-windows-in-under/

[mrqs Posted Feb 5th 2010 4:04AM]

* not a nomination - vice versa *

usb 3.0 doesn't belong in this category, it's clearly not a "storage device or technology"

[ecobranon Posted Feb 18th 2010 2:11PM]

Pogoplug