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Hitachi G-RAID With Thunderbolt Review (8TB)
Hitachi's G-Technology line of external hard drives has long been a favorite for creative professionals and others who generally need some combination of reliability, performance, capacity and redundancy. While Hitachi has several products in the G-Tech line that specialize in one or more of those qualities, their latest effort is an external storage generalist that can just about do it all. The G-RAID with Thunderbolt offers up to 4TB of capacity over two mirrored drives, or 8TB if configured for maximum throughput in RAID0 over Thunderbolt, while providing legendary reliability from Hitachi's latest Deskstar 7K4000 hard drives.
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Pure Storage FlashArray 300 Series Available Now
Pure Storage has announced general availability of its new all-flash storage series. The FlashArray 300 series is designed for high performance workloads including server virtualization, desktop virtualization (VDI), database (OLTP, real-time analytics) and cloud computing. This announcement marks the end of the Early Adopter Program, Pure Storage’s two-year effort to field-test the FlashArray 300 Series.
May 15th, 2012 by Josh Linden
Advancements in PCIe Storage including SCSI Express [STA 2012]
Interoperability has been the watchword at many 2012 SCSI Trade Association (STA) Technology Showcase demonstrations. Recent performance advances in data storage performance could splinter hardware platforms in the enterprise, and STA sponsors including HP, Fusion-io, HGST, LSI, PMC-Sierra, SanDisk, Seagate, and Western Digital were eager to distinguish themselves with solutions that take advantage of increased performance while also allowing mixed storage ecosystems with backwards-compatibility. New SCSI Express products bring together the time-tested SCSI feature set and tools with a high-throughput, low-latency PCIe 3.0 bus.
May 15th, 2012 by Josh Linden
QNAP’s 16-Drive Turbo NAS Models Target High-End SMBs
QNAP has announced two new 16-drive, 3U rackmount Turbo NAS systems featuring Intel’s Xeon and Core i3 processors, optional 10Gb/s ethernet and 6Gb/s SATA interfaces, and up to 64TB storage. The TS-EC1679U-RP and TS-1679U-RP achieve 2,000 MB/sec and 200,000 IOPS throughput in QNAP’s benchmarks, making them the highest capacity and highest performing NAS products released by QNAP to date.
May 15th, 2012 by Josh Linden
No Compromise Performance - LSI Shows Off DataBolt [STA 2012]
Industry adoption of PCIe 3.0 is driving development of a new generation of enterprise storage interfaces that can utilize the full bandwidth available from the new PCIe standard. At this year's SCSI Trade Association (STA) Technology Showcase, sponsors including LSI, HGST, Intel, JDSU, LeCroy, PCM-Sierra, SanDisk, Seagate, SerialTek, Toshiba, Western Digital, and Xyratex were eager to demonstrate a variety of systems and hardware that push the theoretical transfer limits of PCIe 3.0 and illustrate how PCIe 3.0 can be used to enhance the performance of existing 6Gb/s SAS and SATA deployments.
May 15th, 2012 by Josh Linden
Toshiba Canvio 3.0 External Hard Drives Offer 1.5TB, Better Mac-PC Interoperability
Toshiba’s Digital Products Division has just announced its Canvio 3.0 and Canvio Basics 3.0 portable hard drives will now offer consumers up to 1.5TB of storage. One of the new models also offers integrated NTFS drivers, allowing complete interoperability between Windows and OS X without the need for reformatting or compromises to maximum file size.
May 15th, 2012 by Josh Linden
HGST Announces New CinemaStar Hard Drives: Z7K500, C5K1000 & Z5K500
HGST (Hitachi) has announced a new line of CinemaStar 2.5-inch hard drives for traditional and small form factor audio/video and consumer electronics markets. This is CinemaStar’s sixth generation, offering features and integrated technology for high-definition multi-stream DVRs, tuner-based set-top boxes as well as IPTV STBs, DVR-enabled TVs, audio systems and video surveillance systems.
May 14th, 2012 by Josh Linden
Flash in Tiered Storage [STA 2012]
Since the previous STA Technology Showcase, solid state disks (SSDs) and flash memory have grown more and more common in enterprise storage. Whether as SAS/SATA drives or PCIe add-in cards, the most common use of flash has become high-performance caching and serving as fast Tier 0 storage to complement slower hard disk drives. At this year’s STA event, next-generation tiered flash solutions that demonstrated the performance benefits of combining SSD storage with HDD arrays was sponsored by PMC, HGST, HP, SanDisk, Seagate, Toshiba and WD.
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When SanDisk invested $327 million to acquire Pliant one thing was clear; SanDisk saw an opportunity to leverage their expertise in NAND and storage with Pliant's SAS controller knowledge and storage technologies to create class-leading enterprise SSDs that would excel in both performance and reliability. The current result is the SanDisk Lightning enterprise SSD family that includes both MLC and SLC SAS 6Gb SSDs.
Shrinking dimensions in the ultrathin computing market have threatened to push hard drives to the side in favor of higher performing and more battery friendly SSDs. At only 7mm high and featuring a new single-platter design, Western Digital's updated Scorpio Blue hard drive line is engineered for maximum mobile appeal for those who still need bulk storage in their ultrathin devices.
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