Western Digital announced the WD Sentinel DX4000 last month in an effort to bring easy to configure NAS storage to SMBs with fewer than 25 employees. At the core of the Sentinel is Microsoft’s Storage Server 2008 R2 Essentials, an Intel 1.8 GHz Atom dual-core processor and two or four WD RE4-GP hard drives. Western

The SSD 710 is Intel’s first enterprise-class SSD in quite some time – it’s been three years since they introduced their last one, the X-25E. Packed with more cost effective eMLC instead of SLC NAND, the SSD 710 gives enterprise buyers a mix of endurance and increased capacity at a more aggressive price point than

LSI’s line of MegaRAID RAID cards have tremendous market share for good reason, they’re looked at by many as the de facto standard thanks to solid hardware and a fantastic software stack. Of course LSI’s MegaRAID cards are capable of more than just tying together drives, their CacheCade Pro 2.0 add-on leverages the speed benefit

We all know the benefits of RAID when it comes to data redundancy, but there are times when mobile users may not have access to a home or office NAS and most notebooks don’t have multi-bay RAID options. In that case, a portable RAID would be ideal and thanks to Newer Tech, there’s an option.

The ThinkPad X220 is one of Lenovo’s best selling laptops, and for good reason. The ThinkPad X220 features power and portability in the same package, a bevvy of appealing upgrade options, and a surprisingly low price of under $1,000 for many configurations. The X220 replaced the ThinkPad X201 earlier in the year and added several

Western Digital, a mainstay of the consumer hard drive market, is announcing today its first product aimed at businesses with fewer than 25 employees. The WD Sentinel DX4000 is a NAS device built around a 1.8GHz Atom processor and using Microsoft Storage Server 2008 R2 Essentials as its operating system. The company announced that it

The WiebeTech RTX 220-QR is a DAS unit not quite like anything else we’ve had in for review before. The 2-bay unit does all the normal stuff, RAID 0/1 for performance or redundancy; it has eSATA, FireWire 800, USB 2.0 for connectivity and oh yeah, built in shock absorption and a built-in recessed handle in

The OCZ Z-Drive R4 was announced in early August as an update to OCZ's line of enterprise PCIe SSDs. The Z-Drive R4 works the same way as prior Z-Drives – there are up to eight SandForce SF-2282 powered SSDs with SLC or MLC NAND on a PCI Express board that are connected via hardware and software to

At IDF last week Intel launched their new enterprise line of SSDs, the 710 Series. The SSD 710 is Intel’s first enterprise SSD in quite a while, the previous generation X25-E has been in the market for nearly three years. Over that span of time, a lot has changed in the enterprise space and those