Crucial today announced the availability of the m4 mSATA Solid State Drive (SSD), designed to be mounted to an mSATA motherboard as primary storage for ultrathin laptops or as cache for slower hard drive storage. The m4 offers a consumer alternative to the similar Micron C400 mSATA SSD that we have reviewed previously. 

Infortrend has announced North American availability of two new product lines, the EonNAS Pro (tower) and EonNAS 1000 Series (rackmount), intended for the SMB and SOHO storage market. The EonNAS Pro and EonNAS 1000 series offer deduplication, ZFS checksum, snapshot and pool mirror features.

Highly Reliable Systems has announced they are shipping BNAS 401 Network Attached Storage (NAS) powered by Windows Storage Server. The new NAS systems are designed to allow customers to create customized Backup and Disaster Recovery (BDR) solutions by utilizing mirroring backup and their choice of backup and virtualization software.

Starboard Storage Systems today announced the introduction of the Starboard Storage AC45, intended for Small and Medium Enterprise (SMEs) IT professionals. Newly announced AC72 models feature up to 33% greater capacity and 100% more read and write SSD cache.

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.

Update 10/10/12 – We’ve added a video overview of the current configuration which includes 48 Intel SSD 520’s, Mellanox InfiniBand switching, cards and cables, LSI HBAs and compute via a pair of HP ProLiant Gen 8 servers and a custom built SuperMicro loaded up in a 15U StarTech rack.  ————————- StorageReview has started testing the

Toshiba has announced the AL13SE series of 2.5-inch 6Gb/s SAS hard disk drives for server and storage applications. The AL13SE is the first 10,000 RPM enterprise drive from Toshiba to offer 900GB capacity and is also the first of Toshiba’s 10k RPM drives to employ a dual-stage head positioning actuator.

Synology has announced the public release of DiskStation Manager (DSM) 4.1 beta with feature and tool enhancements and with improved functionality. This version of DSM features a new Video Station package that offers video cataloguing, USB tuner support for live and recorded television viewing, and support for iOS management and streaming.

Overland Storage has released a pair of new SAN offerings; the SnapSAN 3000 for midrange businesses and the SnapSAN 5000 for the enterprise. Both systems are highlighted by features like thin provisioning, volume cloning, synchronous and asynchronous remote replication, snapshots and disk spin down for reduced power consumption. The SnapSAN 5000 offers additional performance, SSD