Drobo claims their B800i SAN is the easiest to use iSCSI array on the market. Getting the B800i up and running is as simple as connecting the appropriate data and power cables, sliding in your array of drives, and firing up the setup application on your host system. Total time spent finding a place to
Fusion-io has announced the 10TB ioDrive Octal which means even certain 1U servers can accommodate up to 20TB of flash storage. The ioDrive Octal features eight 1.28TB MLC memory modules into a double-wide full-length PCIe card and delivers more than 1.3 million IOPS (512 B) with 6.7 GB/s bandwidth.
Seagate recently expanded on their GoFlex Desk line of external hard drives with a newer high-capacity 4TB model. Aside from the boost in capacity, Seagate did away with the old golf ball dimple case, opting for a sleek, glossy black plastic shell instead. Like the rest of the GoFlex line, Seagate uses interchangeable bases that
Western Digital has long been in the personal cloud storage space with the WD My Book Live. It’s the cornerstone of WD’s strategy to help consumers organize their content and access it anywhere from the new WD 2go mobile apps to the WD TV Live media streamers connected to a TV. With seemingly more connected devices
Buffalo Technology has introduced two new products: the MiniStation Extreme 2.5" portable external hard drive and the DriveStation Axis Velocity 3.5" external hard drive. Both come with a two-year warranty and will be available October 2011.
This summer WD revamped their My Book Studio line of desktop external hard drives. The new My Book Studios feature an all metal aluminum enclosure and an increased capacity 3TB Caviar Green hard drive inside. The result is a drive that blends in perfectly with Apple’s aluminum-cased products and offers rapid transfers over FireWire 800.
Anobit announced its second-generation enterprise SSD’s today. The new drives use MLC instead of SLC NAND chips, but Anobit claims that with its MSP, or Memory Signal Processing, technology that they can achieve 50,000 erase/write cycles. The 2.5” 6Gb/s SATA 3 and SAS 2.0 drives have a 510MB/s read and write speed, and will be
QNAP has announced two new 2U, 8-drive rackmount Turbo NAS models supporting up to 24TB of storage. They are available with a dual-core Intel Core i3 processor or a quad-core Intel Xeon and 2GB – 4GB of ECC RAM.
Kingston has released the SSDNow KC100, a SandForce equipped SATA 6Gb/s SSD geared toward client systems in the enterprise. The KC100, which Kingston calls a "business-equipped" SSD, offers a five year warranty, which may offer more peace of mind to IT departments than the performance specs, which include read speeds up to 555 MB/s and
Hitachi released two new 3.5-inch models with single-platter 1TB capacities. The 7K1000.D and 5K1000.B are offered in both 250, 320, 500, 750GB and 1TB capacities with fewer moving parts thanks to a new larger capacity platter design.
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