Kingston announced today the next generation of their SSDNow V offering for the budget-conscious consumer. The SSDNow V200 is slated to launch at a price point up to 20 percent less than last year’s predecessor, the SSDNow V100, while introducing faster speeds and a SATA 6.0Gb/s interface. The V200 will offer speeds up to 300MB/s

ICY DOCK has recently announced a new external hard drive enclosure, the MB662USEB-2S-1, which boasts improved looks and functionality over it’s predecessor. This new enclosure boasts dashing good looks, an all aluminum construction, an ultra quiet fan, and an internal shock absorbing cage for the occasional user error. It is also easier to use, requiring

Half a day after LSI announced plans to acquire SandForce for roughly $400 million, we’ve been able to make the rounds with industry contacts to more fully understand the implications of the deal. In the immediate term, there will be no changes, the deal should close in the first quarter of next year, and even

Storage Visions is a must hit precursor to CES for those interested in a variety of storage topics including hardware, software and data management. This year’s theme is "Heavy Storage for Thin Clients." The conference runs January 8th and 9th at The Riviera in Las Vegas, registration is open now with a $50 early bird

Lite-On has announced three new optical drives including an external Blu-ray writer, an external slim Blu-ray reader, and an internal Blu-ray reader. Each drive supports newer 3D movies, as well as 2D to 3D conversion. All three drives are available now.

In "The Untouchables" Sean Connery’s character explained "the Chicago way" to Kevin Costner’s character thus: "They pull a knife, you pull a gun. He sends one of yours to the hospital, you send one of his to the morgue." The stakes aren’t life-and-death in the cloud storage wars, but Box.net is sending an unmistakable message

OCZ announced that the latest SandForce firmware numbered 3.3.2 has fixed a rare firmware bug causing blue screening on some computers. This latest firmware version has been through weeks of testing before public release, which OCZ is offering as firmware version 2.15 using their internal numbering scheme.

Patriot Memory has released a new family of SSDs, the Pyro SE. If this sounds a little familiar, Patriot released the Pyro SSD in early August. What’s different this time around you might be asking yourself? The Pyro SE gets synchronous NAND, which must mean the original Pyro has asynchronous NAND, Patriot never released that particular

QNAP Systems has announced the latest models of its Turbo NAS line aimed at the corporate workgroup, SOHO and home user markets. The three models each use 2.0 GHz processors, come with 512MB of DDR3 memory and use the 3.5 version of the QNAP firmware. The tower form-factor units differ in the number of supported