Western Digital today announced that it is beginning to recover from the devastating floods in Thailand that left many of its factories under water. One building in the company’s Bang Pa-in facility was brought back on line and started producing hard drives again on November 30th. The Bang Pa-in building had been under six feet
Samsung announced a new high-performance mSATA SSD for Ultrabooks dubbed the PM830, sporting speeds of up to 500MB/s read. Available in capacities spanning from 64 to 256GB, the drive makes use of Samsung’s own 20nm MLC NAND. This new mSATA SSD is being targeted towards the new crop of Ultrabooks, with a focus on the
Pogoplug, a San Francisco based personal-cloud storage start-up, has started offering 5GB of free cloud storage. The service is aimed at mobile users and supports iPhone and Android, plus some desktop platforms to use with their PogoPlug hardware. The service is what you would expect of any cloud storage, allowing users to stream media or
NexGen Storage has just announced their new n5 virtual machine storage systems that use SSDs and hard drives, which applies granular quality of service (QoS) levels levels to provision performance across all tiers. They claim that these new storage systems will make storage setup easier for virtualized servers that run business- and mission-critical applications.
Virident Systems has announced the release of their FlashMAX PCIe storage-based memory card and a $21 million round of venture capital to continue growing the business. The addition of the MLC product broadens Virident’s product portfolio, which is headlined by an SLC FlashMAX. The new MLC drive offers capacities of 1TB and 1.4TB and 4K
In a recent correspondence from their president and CEO Ryan Petersen, OCZ Technology has assured key clients of their ability to meet the any spike in demand for OCZ SSDs due to the lack of supply for HDDs. In the letter Petersen said "…I am pleased to notify you of our plans to immediately expand
Barely two weeks after releasing their high-performance two-bay DS712+ NAS, Synology has announced a set of new units designed to hit a broad spectrum of price points – the DiskStations DS212+, DS212, and DS212j. They start at $200, making an affordable entry point for home and small business use.
What’s the use of assembling the definitive collection of pre-Ashton Kutcher episodes of "Two and a Half Men" if you don’t have access to them at every minute of the day? The folks at Cloud Engine, Inc. asked themselves that question, and the Pogoplug Mobile is their answer. The newest addition to the Pogoplug line
Today Fusion-io released new PCIe SSDs under the ioDrive2 family. These include a single processor ioDrive2 and dual-processor ioDrive2 Duo, which is an updated version of the 640GB ioDrive Duo we reviewed last month. The new models expand the capacity options up to 1.2TB on the ioDrive2 and 2.4TB on the ioDrive2 Duo.
ADATA has expanded their 500 Series of SSDs with the S510, which slots in as a mainstream offering alongside their enthusiast class SSD, the S511. The S510 leverages a SATA 6Gb/s interface, SandForce SF-2281 processor and 25nm asynchronous NAND to deliver speeds of 550 MB/s read, 510 MB/s write and 4K random write IOPS of
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