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Intel Confirms RAID0 TRIM Support on 7-Series Chipsets

 Intel 7-series chipsets with Rapid Storage Technology (RST) 11.2 drivers will support TRIM for RAID 0 in Microsoft Windows 7, functionality we first reported when a reference to RAID 0 TRIM appeared in the RST 11.5 alpha release notes. A spokesperson for Intel has also confirmed an update to the RST driverset that is in

Enterprise  ◇  SSD

LSI Nytro WarpDrive WLP4-200 Enterprise PCIe Review

The LSI Nytro WarpDrive WLP4-200 represents LSI’s second-generation effort in the enterprise PCIe application acceleration space. LSI builds on an extensive history of enterprise storage products with the newly rebranded line of acceleration products dubbed LSI Nytro. The Nytro family includes the PCIe WarpDrive of course, but also encompasses LSI’s Nytro XD caching and Nytro

Enterprise  ◇  Software  ◇  SSD

AC&NC JetStor 764F RAID Arrays Support up to 256TB in 4U

AC&NC has announced a new JetStor 764F solution for high capacity, high demand enterprise applications. The JetStor 764F features four 8Gb/s fiber channel interfaces and four 6Gb/s SAS channel expanders. If used with 4TB drives, a single 4U 764F array supports up to 256TB of storage.

Enterprise  ◇  SSD

Securing Data on a Moving Target: Self-Encrypting Drives Deliver Top Security, Performance and Manageability

Today’s increasingly mobile work force has moved more and more end-users, devices, computing applications and highly sensitive data beyond the safety of the enterprise firewall. As the number of laptops multiplies across the enterprise, the prospect of a security breach through a lost or stolen device shifts from a speculative risk to a virtual inevitability.

Consumer  ◇  Portable Storage  ◇  SSD

Dell Ventures Announces Dell Fluid Data Storage Investment Fund

At Fortune Brainstorm Tech, Michael Dell announced the Dell Fluid Data Storage Fund, a new $60 million early stage investment fund. This fund is part of Dell Ventures and offers a strategic complement to Dell’s existing M&A, R&D, and partnership channels for the development and monetization of new storage intellectual property.

Enterprise  ◇  SSD

Fusion-io ioDrive Duo Enterprise PCIe Review

As part of StorageReview’s continued advancements in both testing protocol and enterprise lab development, we’re taking a renewed look at first generation flash drives that we have previously reviewed. These re-reviews of early PCIe flash storage devices gave us the opportunity to refine and re-calibrate our enterprise review process before rolling out new reviews of

Enterprise  ◇  SSD

Enhance Technology Announces EnhanceRAID E500FR 5-Drive SMB Storage

Enhance Technology has announced the release of its new EnhanceRAID E500FR 5-drive desktop storage solution with hardware RAID controller. The E500FR offers a variety of operational modes and capacity options designed to serve SMB applications including data backup, DVR, server/database storage, and digital media production.

Consumer  ◇  SSD

DataCore Launches SANsymphony-V 9.0 With Storage Virtualization Features

DataCore has announced that SANsymphony-V 9.0, its hardware-independent storage hypervisor solution, offers new cloud storage infrastructure functionality. The new version of SANsymphony targets organizations planning private cloud deployments, data centers implementing cloud-like services, and cloud service providers (CSPs) developing public, private and hybrid cloud offerings.

Enterprise  ◇  SSD

HP’s Expanded X5000 Storage Portfolio Targets Unstructured SMB Data

The HP X5000 Storage portfolio now offers increased capacity and small form factor (SFF) drive support to help small and medium-sized businesses manage the growth of unstructured data. X5000 Storage is a highly available clustered file storage platform designed in collaboration with Microsoft to integrate the X5000 hardware platform with Microsoft’s SMB ecology so that

Enterprise  ◇  SSD

LSI SandForce AES Encryption Strength Flaw Revealed

Intel sent a moderate chill through the SSD world this afternoon by announcing that their Intel SSD 520 is getting a spec change from AES 256-bit encryption to AES 128-bit encryption. As it turns out, the problem affects all SandForce SF-2000 series controllers (SF-2200 consumer and SF-2500 enterprise controllers) and spec change announcements from all