Synology has announced that the public beta for DSM 4.2 is now ready. DSM 4.2 is the latest advancement in Synology’s NAS operating system, bringing improvements for both home and business users at no additional cost. Synology’s Quick Connect–a relay service that helps users set up Cloud Station syncing–includes more apps than ever. It has

STEC, provider of SSD technologies and products, has announced the small-form-factor s230 Series of Slim SATA solid-state drives designed for embedded systems. The s230 is a low-power, small-footprint Slim SATA drive in an industry standard JEDEC MO-297 format, which takes up less than half of the space of standard 2.5-inch drives. The s230 is available

HGST has announced that it is now shipping the first 2.5-inch, 9.5mm Travelstar 7,200 RPM hard drives available in 1TB capacities. The new drive is available from HGST as retail kit as well as in the Touro Mobile Pro USB 3.0 external drive. The new Travelstar drive is also be incorporated in G-Technology’s new G-DRIVE

LaCie has announced the 5big NAS Pro, a high-performance 5-bay small business NAS powered by a dual-core 2.13GHz Intel 64-bit Atom processor and 4GB RAM. The 5big NAS Pro features dual LAN connections with link aggregation for network transfer speeds up to 200MB/s, and is available diskless, or in 10TB and 20TB capacities.

Seagate Technology has announced its next-gen, networked home storage solution, Seagate Central shared storage. It is first storage device that features a Smart TV app to access files on its screen and provides automatic backup for the entire household, access to users’ multimedia files from networked devices in addition to remote access from outside a

Lenovo and EMC Corporation have announced they have completed the formation of LenovoEMC Ltd, which was previously announced in August 2012, in addition to a wider strategic partnership in industry standard servers and networked storage solutions. The deal will bring co-branded NAS solutions to distributed enterprise, remote branches, and small and medium businesses all the

Icy Dock has released the FlexCage MB973SP-1B, a 3-in-2 trayless SATA Backplane Cage for 3.5" SATA hard drives. The MB973SP-1B is designed specifically for use in server environments and allows up to 3 x 3.5" SATA hard drives while only consuming two 5.25" device bays.

Toshiba has announced four new 7,200RPM MG Series HDDs in capacities up to 4TB. The new line of 3.5-inch drives includes self-encrypting models with both SATA and SAS interfaces. The MG Series doubles the maximum capacity of Toshiba’s previous business-critical hard drive family, and also offers an 18 percent increase in sustained transfer rates according

Imation Corp. has announced that it is shipping the next generation in the Ultrium format of Linear Tape-Open (LTO) technology-certified LTO 6 Ultrium tape cartridges. LTO 6 is an important part of Imation’s tiered storage solutions that enable organizations (small businesses to large enterprise data centers) to address the increasing amounts of data that require