Over the summer, Toshiba released three new Canvio Desk external desktop hard drives that are available in capacities of 1TB, 2TB, and 3TB. Today, we have the opportunity to get our hands on and review the  3TB Canvio Desk Desktop external hard drive. The drive  is USB 3.0 compatible, which Toshiba was kind enough to

Western Digital has taken a “more is better” approach with its latest iteration of the WD My Book Essential HDD. The top model features a single 4TB drive and a USB3.0 interface to help speed up the process of filling it up. Like its predecessors in the Essentials line, the My Book is marketed primarily

Intel has launched the new DC S3700 series of MLC flash SATA SSDs that the company says achieve 2x read and 15x write performance improvements overIntel’s SSD 710 drives. The new SSDs will be offered at 100, 200, 400, and 800GB capacities, in 2.5-inch and limited 1.8-inch form factors. SSD DC S3700 drives use Intel 25nm NAND HET

Unitrends today announced the launch of Recovery-943, a 4U tiered backup appliance which supports a maximum backup size of 50TB and a total of 97TB of unformatted usable physical storage capacity. Operating system, metadata, and backup sets are stored on different drive types: SSD for the operating system and HDDs for metadata and the backup

Western Digital has started shipping a high-performance external hard drive solution: the My Book VelociRaptor Duo. As the name indicates, the biggest difference in this Duo version is that it uses a pair of Western Digital’s 1TB 10,000 RPM VelociRaptor hard drives in the My Book enclosure. Incorporating these high performance drives allows for throughput of almost

The CalDigit T1 is an aluminum drive enclosure that comes complete with either a hard drive or SSD inside. The drives are mounted to 3.5″ drive sleds that make it easy to swap out drives at will. The Thunderbolt interface actually makes an external SSD viable from a performance standpoint, CalDigit included both a 3TB

Toshiba has announced the AL13SE series of 2.5-inch 6Gb/s SAS hard disk drives for server and storage applications. The AL13SE is the first 10,000 RPM enterprise drive from Toshiba to offer 900GB capacity and is also the first of Toshiba’s 10k RPM drives to employ a dual-stage head positioning actuator.

Quest Software has announced NetVault Extended Architecture (XA), a new platform that unifies Quest’s data protection technologies in order to align backup and recovery to client SLAs. While legacy data protection software often focuses on servers and other infrastructure, the new NetVault solution is aimed at management and protection in mixed physical, virtual, and cloud

Updated StoreOnce Catalyst software for HP StoreOnce Backup will allow application servers at remote sites to send deduplicated backups directly to a centralized StoreOnce Backup system. StoreOnce Catalysts also maintains local copies for recovery without additional hardware. According to HP, updates to StoreOnce have allowed backup performance up to 100 terabytes (TB) per hour and