Western Digital has announced the family of S25 SAS hard drives, their third generation. The S25 hard drives feature a 2.5" form factor, with 10,000 RPM spin speed, 32MB cache and SAS 6 Gb/s interface and delivers 204 MB/s transfer rates. The S25 comes in 300GB, 450GB and 600GB capacities, along with a new 900GB

Nexsan has released the NST series unified storage systems that leverage SSDs in both file (NAS) and block-modes (iSCSI). The NST series layers solid state storage with Nexsan’s FASTier acceleration technology over top SATA or SAS interface hard drives. FASTier intelligently uses the speed benefit of the SSDs to accelerate the performance of the higher

STEC has released the MACH16, a slim form factor SATA SSD that offers enterprise grade technology for embedded applications. STEC’s MACH16 is designed to be a drop-in replacement for 2.5" hard drives and even SSDs that offers 22-pin SATA support with high data integrity, endurance and reliability thanks to STEC’s own enterprise SSD controller and

LSI has announced a new line of MegaRAID SATA+SAS controller cards designed to deliver the high I/O transaction performance needed to accelerate the most demanding database applications and datacenter workloads. The new controllers are powered by the LSI dual-core 6Gb/s SAS RAID-on-Chip (ROC), delivering data quickly and reliably to mission-critical applications by combining the industry’s

Patriot Memory has released the Supersonic Boost XT USB 3.0 drive. The semi-rugged Supersonic Boost XT features a rubberized casing for extra protection and delivers read speeds up to 90 MB/s through the USB 3.0 interface. The drives will come in 8GB, 16GB and 32GB capacities.

Sanbolic today announced the general availability of ShareCenter, a new Melio Enterprise software file-serving module that transforms siloed Windows Server environments into highly scalable NAS solutions at a fraction of the cost of its competitors. ShareCenter is designed for large enterprise virtual and cloud environments enabling customers to seamlessly consolidate file-serving workloads onto commodity hardware.

Paragon has announced the release of Hard Disk Manager 12 Suite and Professional editions. Hard Disk Manager is an all-in-one software that contains the hard disk management tools to meet the needs of PC users who are looking to keep their crucial digital-data safe and effectively maintained in physical or virtual environments. This includes full

Western Digital has partnered with KeepVault to bring offsite backup services to their WD Sentinel NAS units. While many SMBs are turning to local NAS systems for file serving, computer backup and the like, not all have built more robust backup plans. The addition of the KeepVault offsite backup service gives SMBs both peace of

NVELO has announced that Dataplex Version 1.1.2.5 is now available for download, offering a 10% speed boost from their previous version. Like most caching solutions, Dataplex software keeps the most commonly accessed hot data on the SSD and lesser accessed cold data on the hard drive; however, what makes Dataplex unique is that it works