Alongside the announcement that Marvell was working with OCZ on their new Z-Drive R5, Marvell announced their new scalable 88NV9145 controller which interacts directly PCIe-interface without an additional RAID controller. The 88NV9145 is aimed at PCIe SSD solutions, spanning from two-controller entry-level models to sixteen-controller high-end enterprise models scalaing directly with other 88NV9145 controllers around

OCZ had already promised to display the Z-Drive R5 at CES in an analyst meeting in early December, today OCZ has made the Z-Drive R5 official in a joint announcement with Marvell. OCZ teamed with Marvell on the next generation PCIe SSD storage solution dubbed Kilimanjaro. The Kilimanjaro platform brings not only the performance enterprise

Crucial recently announced a new version of their popular 2.5-inch m4 SSD called the Adrenaline, with a over-provisioned capacity of 50GB and packaged with Crucial-branded caching software. Aimed as a competitor of the OCZ Synapse caching solution, this DIY package includes everything a buyer needs to install a SSD hybrid solution inside their desktop or

Lenovo announced its new portfolio of small-to-medium business (SMB) laptops built with serious business technology and personal lifestyle computing features. The new line of laptops includes the premium ThinkPad Edge S Series, the mainstream ThinkPad Edge E Series, and entry-level Lenovo B Series.

NVELO announced today that they are bringing their SSD Storage Caching software named Dataplex to the ultraportable computing (read – Ultrabook) space. Given the nature of their software, we guessed it would only be a matter of time before this caching software hit notebooks in a more progressive way after reviewing the software with a Lenovo

Monster Digital is continuing its aggressive expansion into the storage space. A few weeks ago Monster announced they’d be offering a SandForce based SSD dubbed Le Mans, this time they’ve announced an agreement with Seagate that will have Monster selling the new 750GB Momentus XT. It goes without saying that it is a surprise to everyone to

Western Digital has announced the My Book Live Duo, a 2-bay personal cloud storage device that expands on WD’s current single-bay My Book Live. The Duo combines the benefits of shared storage and remote access with double-safe backup or increased capacity of a dual-drive system using RAID. The Duo has an 800 MHz CPU and provides automatic backup for Windows

Seagate Technology has provided preliminary financial results for its fiscal second quarter ending on December 30, 2011. These numbers include Samsung hard disk drive business operating activity, which was acquired by Seagate on December 19th of last year. Seagate has shipped approximately 47 million disk drives, which consisted of approximately 700,000 Samsung disk drives, and expects

LaCie has announced an operating system update for their Network 2 products. The updates are aimed at making backing up and sharing information easier.