Toshiba has announced their MKx001GRZB enterprise SSD (eSSD) has won a Grand Prize for Excellence in Energy Efficiency and Conservation from the Energy Conservation Center in Japan. The testing took into account not just straight power consumption, but the popular performance per watt, generally measured as IOPS/watt when computing TCO in the enterprise.
A collaboration of storage industry leaders from Compellent, HP, LeftHand Networks, LSI and Sun have announced the Starboard Storage Systems, an innovator in Application-Crafted Storage systems for mixed workloads for small and medium enterprises (SMEs). Starboard Storage Systems is led by CEO Victor Walker, from Sun, CMO Karl Chen, from LeftHand Networks, VP or product
Amazon has a gold box offer today on the OCZ Agility 3 SSD. The deal is for the 90GB capacity – $99.99 with no rebates which is $40 less than current street price. The Agility 3 uses a SandForce SF-2281 processor and asynchronous NAND to crank out advertised speeds up to 525MB/s read and 500MB/s writes. In
Transcend Information has announced the launch of its new, next generation SSD720 SATA III 6GB/s SSD. The SSD720 delivers significantly improved performance over standard rotating hard drives and its focus on productivity-enhancement is the ideal solution for demanding system applications, such as specialized multimedia computing and serious gaming.
Western Digital is showing off their new line of external hard drives with Intel’s Thunderbolt interface. When four 6TB enclosures are daisy-chained together, WD showed throughput of 1,000 MB/s. The My Book Thunderbolt Duo has not formally been announced by WD yet, but the drives were shown off at CES and Macworld. Up to six
When we think about performance storage in the consumer space, most of us skip quickly to the enthusiast-grade SSDs, and for most usage scenarios, that makes sense. But there are cases when even the fastest SSDs don’t provide enough throughput – enter RAM disks. Storage devices built around volatile RAM have been in use for
OWC has announced that it has expanded its OWC Mercury Elite Pro Mini line of portable drives to include eSATA 6G and bus-powered USB 3.0. The new Elite Pro mini is available in 13 different hard drive or OWC Mercury SSD-equipped capacity configurations up to 1.5TB, and features a compact build (5.5" x 3.8" x 1.1"),
Patriot has announced the Gauntlet, an entry into the wireless storage solutions category which is currently populated with a device from both Seagate and Kingston. Patriot’s take is a little different however, while it supports up to five wireless users, and has apps for Apple and Android devices, and can offer passthrough Internet access, Patriot
Micron has announced a new slim version of the Crucial m4 SSD designed for use in the latest generation of ultraportable notebooks. The 7mm drive height is simply a new body for the 9.5mm m4 and delivers the same level of reliability and performance. The 7mm Crucial m4 is available in 64GB, 128GB, 256GB, and
Alongside the announcement that Marvell was working with OCZ on their new Z-Drive R5, Marvell announced their new scalable 88NV9145 controller which interacts directly PCIe-interface without an additional RAID controller. The 88NV9145 is aimed at PCIe SSD solutions, spanning from two-controller entry-level models to sixteen-controller high-end enterprise models scalaing directly with other 88NV9145 controllers around
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