Western Digital has announced their next generation WD My Passport portable hard drive that’s built around a single 2.5" hard drive with capacities ranging from 500GB to 2TB. The 2TB capacity features a 15mm four platter hard drive that makes a new high-water mark for capacity in drive of that size. The enclosures have also

SanDisk announced today announced the acquisition of the flash-caching company FlashSoft. FlashSoft is currently known for their aptly named FlashSoft SE 2.0 software, released late last year, which utilizes enterprise SSDs (SATA/SAS and PCIe) for persistent read/write cache to accelerate I/O performance on host systems. Under a Windows environment, the software is claimed to offer

SanDisk has announced the SanDisk X100 SSD and SanDisk Extreme SSD for the consumer market. The X100 is available in capacities of up to 512GB and uses multi-level cell (MLC) technology, a SATA 6Gb/s high-performance interface, advanced multi-streaming features, and tiered caching technology. The Extreme SSD is targeted towards enthusiasts, delivering sequential read speeds up

Mellanox has announced a new pricing structure and expanded channel for their line of 10 Gigabit Ethernet (10GbE) solutions. Good timing, considering Crehan Research estimates market penetration of 10GbE to be about 13% today, with growth in 2012 to scale to 37% of the total annual market shipments.

Plextor launched the professional version of the PX-M3S SSD at CES 2012. The new version called the PX-M3P or M3 Pro will offer the same NAND and controller configuration as the M3S, with firmware customized for higher performance. Available in 128 and 256GB versions initially, this SSD will offer speeds topping at 540MB/s read and

OWC announced a new workgroup storage sharing technology, called Jupiter,  centered around the mini-SAS interface that many of us have come to know and use already with many RAID cards. Normally used to connect multiple storage devices to one computer OWC has flipped the equation, allowing multiple computers to connect to a single mini-SAS connected

Today OCZ announced the new Indilinx Everest 2 platform, which is the SATA 3.0-based third generation Indilinx controller offering incompressible write speeds up to 550MB/s and random I/O performance of 105,000 random read and 90,000 random write. This new platform is designed to work with 2xnm flash and with the platform becoming available in June,

Lenovo has made versions of their secure external hard drives for a while, we reviewed their eSATA version about a year ago. This time we’re looking at the USB 3.0 enabled hard drive, available in capacities of 500GB and 750GB. The new USB 3.0 drives are highlighted by the same security – a ten digital

While not yet confirmed by Apple, it appears their widely rumored acquisition of Anobit has been completed. Anobit is based in Israel and provides several storage components like mobile flash controllers, along with their own line of enterprise SSDs. Confirmation of the transaction comes via Twitter post from Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, "Welcome to Israel,