HGST, a Western Digital company, is demonstrating its new helium-based hard disk drive (HDD) platform at the WDC Investor Day event in Irvine, California. Sealed hard drives with helium in place of air will increase the storage density and durability of 3.5-inch hard drive storage while decreasing power consumption and audible noise. HGST’s pilot lines
If we know anything about Drobo and the new B1200i, their mission statement is to keep storage simple. The 12-bay SAN has historically supported up to 48TB of storage via SATA and SAS hard drives via Drobo’s BeyondRAID automatic and instantaneous drive management system. Now the B1200i has a new trick up its sleeve, automated
Infortrend has announced North American availability of two new product lines, the EonNAS Pro (tower) and EonNAS 1000 Series (rackmount), intended for the SMB and SOHO storage market. The EonNAS Pro and EonNAS 1000 series offer deduplication, ZFS checksum, snapshot and pool mirror features.
Drobo has announced two new storage appliances that offer dual Thunderbolt and USB 3.0 connectivity. The Drobo 5D and Drobo Mini share a common hardware and firmware platform and similar feature sets, with the key difference being the 5D is intended for stationary use, utilizing 3.5” drives, while the Drobo Mini is designed for portability
Before you start to build or purchase your own RAID you need to decide on three of the following factors. how big – how much capacity you need, how strong – what fault tolerance is needed, and how fast – what performance in terms of write/read speed you want. In this guest editorial we cover
Symantec has announced updates to its NetBackup 5220 and Backup Exec 3600 appliances, which now include the latest NetBackup 7.5 and Backup Exec 2012 technology. Symantec’s updated backup appliances are aimed to reduce backup platform fragmentation, offering end-to-end integrated backup appliances for servers, storage, and software.
Marvell has announced the mass deployment of the Marvell 88SS9187 SATA controller equipped with high-performance embedded processor technology. The new controller features a 6Gb/s SATA Revision 3.1 compliant host interface, which is optimized the SSD sector and offers many unique benefits to the consumer, mobile, and enterprise markets. A large number of high-profile SSD manufacturers
OWC is teasing a new PCIe SSD solution that leverages up to four of their Mercury Aura Pro Express 6G SSDs (or possibly a variation of the Express) tied together on a PCIe board by a Marvell 88SE9445 SATA RAID controller. The SSDs themselves use SandForce SF-2200 series processors and can be added to the board one at
Western Digital has added two more content providers to their line of media streamers; Vimeo and PlayJam. The update is available via firmware update on the WD TV Live and WD TV Live Hub products and takes just a few minutes to update.
OCZ has launched the RevoDrive 3 Max IOPS and RevoDrive 3 X2 Max IOPS PCIe SSDs. OCZ has released the fully tweaked version of the RevoDrive SSDs to generate maximum performance for multi-threaded applications needed by workstation users and enthusiasts who crave ultimate high-end performance. The RevoDrive 3 X2 Max IOPS SSDs deliver 4KB random
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