After completing a review, in most cases we hang onto the gear that was sent to us (some comes to us on loan). Some of these product get put through long-term testing, some we warehouse in anticipation of testing updated firmware in the future, and some we keep on hand for occasions like this. In
A guilty verdict has been reached concerning the Hitachi-LG Data Storage trial. The joint company admitted to 15 criminal counts related to price fixing on components for consumer electronics devices. The judge in charge of the case sentenced the guilty parties to a $21.1 million fine. Hitachi and LG had been under investigation over the
OCZ has announced their latest family of SSDs, the Octane. Leveraging the Indilinx Everest platform and SATA 6Gb/s interface, the OCZ Octane delivers read speeds up to 570 MB/s and writes of 400 MB/s. It’s not all about performance though, the Octane is the first 2.5" SSD to hit the 1TB capacity mark and that’s
AVADirect has announced a new 8-node server system designed for customers looking to replace their large server farms with something smaller and more cost-effective.
Datacenter architects and SAN manufacturers have fallen in love with the SSD for caching and metadata storage and OCZ is doing its best to return that affection. The San Jose-based company has announced that it’s releasing a 1.8" version of its enterprise-grade Deneva SSD line dubbed the Deneva MO-297.
IDC’s Spring 2011 Storage User Demand Study (SUDS) has been released and includes interesting insights on enterprise storage market trends and their preferred storage brands by usage scenario. The main takeaways – EMC dominates mindshare, midrange storage is the most favored and many are already using outsourced storage solutions.
Sonnet Technologies has extended its line of portable ruggedized RAID storage systems intended for the video and film industries. The Fusion F2QR builds off the older Fusion F2 unit by adding more storage space, new connectivity options and new functionality. The new model features a pair of non-removable 2.5" 1TB drives mounted side-by-side in a
In late July OCZ announced they were shipping their first Indilinx-based SSD design, code named Everest, to OEMs. LG is now offering a slim 128GB Everest SSD in their LG Xnote P220 to deliver great operational performance and "fast boot technology," which enables genuine instant on functionality for LG’s notebooks.
Western Digital has released new mobile apps for accessing personal content on the go – WD 2go and WD 2go Pro. The apps are available from both Apple’s App Store and the Android Market and interface with WD’s My Book Live external hard drive. Content on the drive may also be accessed through the browser through WD2go.com.
Seagate has announced it is shipping a new 4TB version of their GoFlex Desk series of external hard drives. The new drive gets an updated look, with a glossy black case and upright design which yields a small footprint on the desk – the rest of the GoFlex Desk line will get the design update
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