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

SSD prices continue to fall as Other World Computing releases a 30GB SSD for $67.99. The OWC Mercury EXTREME Pro 3G is a SATA built around a SandForce SF-2100 controller and promises sustained data rates of 263MB/s read and 258MB/s write. Aimed at budget shoppers who might not need the latest SATA 6Gb/s performance, the

The OCZ Z-Drive R4 was announced in early August as an update to OCZ's line of enterprise PCIe SSDs. The Z-Drive R4 works the same way as prior Z-Drives – there are up to eight SandForce SF-2282 powered SSDs with SLC or MLC NAND on a PCI Express board that are connected via hardware and software to

At IDF last week Intel launched their new enterprise line of SSDs, the 710 Series. The SSD 710 is Intel’s first enterprise SSD in quite a while, the previous generation X25-E has been in the market for nearly three years. Over that span of time, a lot has changed in the enterprise space and those