Industry adoption of PCIe 3.0 is driving development of a new generation of enterprise storage interfaces that can utilize the full bandwidth available from the new PCIe standard. At this year’s SCSI Trade Association (STA) Technology Showcase, sponsors including LSI, HGST, Intel, JDSU, LeCroy, PCM-Sierra, SanDisk, Seagate, SerialTek, Toshiba, Western Digital, and Xyratex were eager

Toshiba’s Digital Products Division has just announced its Canvio 3.0 and Canvio Basics 3.0 portable hard drives will now offer consumers up to 1.5TB of storage. One of the new models also offers integrated NTFS drivers, allowing complete interoperability between Windows and OS X without the need for reformatting or compromises to maximum file size.

HGST (Hitachi) has announced a new line of CinemaStar 2.5-inch hard drives for traditional and small form factor audio/video and consumer electronics markets. This is CinemaStar’s sixth generation, offering features and integrated technology for high-definition multi-stream DVRs, tuner-based set-top boxes as well as IPTV STBs, DVR-enabled TVs, audio systems and video surveillance systems.

Since the previous STA Technology Showcase, solid state disks (SSDs) and flash memory have grown more and more common in enterprise storage. Whether as SAS/SATA drives or PCIe add-in cards, the most common use of flash has become high-performance caching and serving as fast Tier 0 storage to complement slower hard disk drives. At this

The SCSI Trade Association’s (STA) Technology Showcase is an important venue for storage industry leaders and innovators to showcase their latest technologies. This week’s STA event offered a look into approaches for serial attached storage (SAS) connectivity that extend the reach of SAS links to achieve 10-meter cable lengths for passive copper, 25-meter lengths for

At this week’s SCSI Trade Association (STA) Technology Showcase, Molex, Amphenol, FCI and TE were eager to demonstrate a broad spectrum of new intermateable 12Gb/s box-to-box and inside-the-box SAS interconnects. Product demonstrations put the spotlight on MultiLink SAS, a new 12Gb/s SAS quad-port connector, and double-density Mini-SAS HD interconnectors with 8x interfaces. These configurations deliver

EMC has announced it is acquiring XtremIO, which will provide important resources for EMC as it continues to broaden its flash storage portfolio. EMC entered the flash storage market in 2008 when it became first to integrate flash drives into enterprise storage arrays; in 2011, EMC shipped over 24 PBs of flash storage. The all-cash

Benchmarks released by Mellanox, Microsoft, and Fusion-io show Mellanox’s RDMA technology for InfiniBand, paired with Fusion-io ioDrive and Windows Server 2012, increases application performance by more than 5X compared to 10GbE solutions. This announcement comes as Mellanox also expands its FDR 56Gb/s InfiniBand interconnect solutions with new 18-port, 108-port, 216-port, and 324-port non-blocking fixed and

Ciphertex has announced the debut of new CX-10K-NAS (Network Attached Storage) and CX-R12K-NAS systems at Interop. Both systems integrate hardware AES 256-bit encryption with RAID storage. The 10-bay, portable CX-10K-NAS and 12-bay rackmount CX-R12K-NAS target forensic analysis, health care, oil and gas and media entertainment applications that require interoperable and secure data storage.