Seagate has unveiled the Seagate Seven, a new high-design, ultra-slim 7-mm external drive, which is now one of the smallest 500GB portable solutions on the market. The Seven is equipped with a Micro USB 3.0 port (compatible with USB 2.0), which is also used to power the device, and works with both Windows and Mac platforms.

Seagate Technology will be unveiling a rebranding of the company at the 2015 International Consumer Electronics Show (CES), which focuses on the company’s attention on rapidly expanding solutions portfolio to help consumers, businesses and partners create, preserve and share their most important data.

WD has announced that it will demonstrate the “world’s fastest” 4TB hybrid drive at the SATA-IO booth (#205) during Storage Visions 2015 on January 4 to 5. WD’s prototype drive features the SATA Express PCI-e interface, a 4TB 3.5-inch hybrid hard drive form factor, and up to 128 GB SSD, and is designed with a

In the ongoing legal battle between Diablo technologies and Netlist, Netlist won a victory today as the United States Patent and Trademark Office denied 4 out of 5 petitions for Inter Parts Reviews (IPR) of Netlist patents. SanDisk, who is partnered with Diablo Technologies to produce the ULLtraDIMM, which is the center of the IPR petitions,

One of the frequent routines we go through in the NAS Test Lab (1GbE) is preparing a variety of consumer SOHO and small enterprise NAS platforms for benchmarking. While this is sometimes brought up in individual reviews, the testing process behind the scenes allows us to put each system's best foot forward with an infrastructure

There are many factors that differentiate client SSDs from enterprise SSDs. One of those attributes is the amount of over-provisioning (OP) an SSD has. Over-provisioning on a flash device is the amount of space reserved for controller background activity; less OP means greater capacity with slower write performance, while more OP means less capacity and better sustained

​CalDigit has announced the Thunderbolt Station 2, their successor to the original Thunderbolt Station, which now features dual Thunderbolt 2 ports, dual eSATA 6G ports, HDMI, three USB 3.0 ports, Gigabit Ethernet, and Audio in/out. The Thunderbolt Station 2 also has the unique ability to be in either a horizontal or vertical position, which is

Maxta has announced solutions that enable hyper-convergence for OpenStack, allowing service providers and enterprise customers to build private and public clouds based on OpenStack orchestration software and their choice of x86 server platforms, eliminating the need for complex and expensive storage arrays. Maxta also announced the expansion of its relationship with Mirantis and that it

Toshiba has announced the addition of 6TB SATA and SAS models to its MG04 series of 3.5-inch form factor enterprise capacity class of HDDs, which are specifically designed for midline and nearline business critical workloads. The new SAS interface models offer 12Gbit/s SAS transfer rate as well as enhanced power management features for easy integration