Plextor announced a new line of solid state drives, the M3S. The M3S weighs in at 2.5” with a bracket to adapt to 3.5”, comes with a 5 year warranty, and comes in a variety of capacities: 128GB, 256GB, and 512GB. The new line also boasts sequential read/write speeds of up to 525MB/s read and

Cray Inc. has announced the Cray Sonexion 1300 system–an integrated file system, software and storage product giving customers a complete and scalable Lustre file system solution that is easy to install and maintain. The Cray Sonexion is designed specifically for a wide range of HPC workloads, features data rates of more than a terabyte-per-second, and

Top500 has announced that Japan’s “K Computer” is still number one when it comes to the world’s supercomputers. The K is installed at the RIKEN Advanced Institute for Computational Science in Kobe, Japan, and runs at a stupefying 10.51 Petaflops/second on the Linpack test; that’s 10 quadrillion calculations per second. It stole the number one

Synology America Corp. has announced the release of two new rack-mountable NAS models, the RackStation RS212 and the scalable RS812. The RS812 is the successor to the 1U RS411; the main difference is that the new model can quickly scale out to eight drives by attaching the RX410 expansion module. This will enable businesses to

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.