LaCie has been a fixture in our lab for well over a decade. From the 8big Rack Thunderbolt 2 we covered in 2014 through the many generations of 5big, 6big, 8big, and Rugged devices that have followed, the formula has been consistent: premium Neil Poulton-designed enclosures, Seagate drives inside, Mac-centric polish, a solid warranty, and a
Seagate’s FireCuda X Vault is the gaming-flavored half of a two-drive launch that brings bus-powered USB-C to 3.5-inch external hard drives for the first time. Available in 8TB and 20TB capacities starting at $269.99, it runs on a single USB-C cable for both data and power, provided the host port can supply at least 15W.
Seagate’s new One Touch Desktop HDD sidesteps one of the staples of the desktop external drive category: the power brick. The refreshed lineup runs 8TB, 20TB, and 24TB in a 3.5-inch chassis, but instead of a DC input and wall adapter, it draws everything it needs over a single USB-C cable. Seagate bills it as
When we published our story on Oregon State University’s plankton imaging research last November, the headline was the science: AI-accelerated infrastructure aboard research vessels, processing terabytes of ocean data in near real-time before the ship ever reached port. But something else happened quietly in the weeks that followed. Word spread across campus about what a
ASUSTOR has announced the availability of the Lockerstor 24R Pro Gen2 (AS7224RDX), a higher-end rackmount NAS for enterprise and multi-user deployments, pairing a 24-bay chassis with AMD’s Ryzen 7 Pro 7745 processor. The AMD chip delivers 8 cores, 16 threads, and boost speeds up to 5.3 GHz. The system is designed for virtualization, container workloads,
TrueNAS has introduced the V160, a new addition to its enterprise appliance portfolio designed to support larger, more dynamic workloads. The platform targets organizations that balance performance requirements with cost control, especially as flash pricing volatility continues to affect infrastructure planning. The V160 is built on dual fifth-generation TrueNAS controllers powered by AMD EPYC processors,
Following its recent collaboration announcement with Google Cloud, NetApp introduced new capabilities to simplify how enterprises use existing data for AI workloads in cloud environments. The updates focus on reducing the operational complexity and cost associated with moving and managing data across hybrid and multi-cloud infrastructures. At a high level, the joint effort targets a
HighPoint Technologies has introduced a new line of PCIe Gen5 x16 NVMe Boot RAID and Switch add-in cards and adapters for server and storage deployments. The lineup is split into two product families: The Rocket 7600A Series is focused on boot-drive redundancy for Hyper-V and Proxmox systems, using NVMe RAID 1 to help keep hosts
At SUSECON in Prague, SUSE introduced SUSE AI Factory with NVIDIA, a pre-validated enterprise AI software stack that simplifies deployment and operations from local development through production. Built on SUSE AI and NVIDIA AI Enterprise, the platform is designed for organizations seeking to build, govern, and scale AI workloads across edge locations, core data centers,
IBM introduced a content-aware storage (CAS) architecture that integrates AI data processing directly into the storage layer. The approach targets retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) workflows by embedding document vectorization within the storage system, reducing the need for external preprocessing pipelines. CAS shifts a core RAG function, document embedding using large language model-based techniques, into storage infrastructure.
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