OCZ Technology has added to their intellectual property portfolio with a recently issued patent in the US for an improved connector for SSDs and other SATA-based storage devices. Patent #8,083,536 covers a new mechanical fitting, joining both SATA power and data connections, and attaches them directly to the drive body itself. This allows for a

Apple enabled TRIM support in OS X Lion 10.7 but there’s a catch; Apple only allows TRIM to work when using an Apple sanctioned SSD. If you switch to a non-Apple SSD or upgrade your hard drive to an SSD, TRIM support does not get enabled by default. In fact, Lion offers no simple switch

RunCore has announced that it will be attending Consumer Electronics Show (CES) 2012 on January 10th to the 13th in Las Vegas, Nevada. RunCore has focused on SSD solutions for this year’s CES, which will be displayed at their booth (37015). Some of the products it will be showcasing include Xapear, Falcon series, and the

The growing popularity of SSDs has not only affected the business realm, but also with gaming enthusiasts. More and more gaming consumers are pushing manufacturers to use SSDs instead of hard disk drives in their new machines; Razer, one of the global leaders in gaming peripherals for desktops, is a prime example of receiving–and capitulating

LSI has announced the TrueStore RC5100 read channel IC for hard drives, the industry’s first to be based on 28nm silicon. The RC5100 enables increased drive capacity, higher yield and lower power consumption. LSI is currently demonstrating the read channel to OEMs.

Micron reported their quarter ending December 1 last night, with somewhat mixed results. While earnings per share fell below analyst estimates, the two themes throughout the earnings call were around the growth of their NAND output and sales and the sub-par DRAM sales, largely as a result of the sagging PC business, which is weighed

ExaGrid Systems, a leader in cost-effective, scalable disk-based backup solutions with data deduplication, have announced that it has been awarded the Ready for IBM Tivoli support (TSM) certification. ExaGrid achieved this distinction by having IBM Tivoli testing teams validate that their EX Series appliances are seamlessly integrated and fully compatible with the Tivoli storage management

Maker of the WD TV media player family, Western Digital, has added a ton of new sports and entertainment services to their product. Now included with the previously offered channels are streaming movie service VUDU, XOS College Sports, Comedy Time, Watch Mojo and others.

STEC, Inc. has announced its enterprise-class ZeusIOPS SSDs are now qualified across Fujitsu’s ETERNUS DX storage system portfolio, including the next-generation ETERNUS DX8700 S2 Enterprise Storage System. ETERNUS DX8700 S2 supports multiple open system environments and virtualized infrastructures with the integration of STEC’s ZeusIOPS SSDs, and delivers the high-end storage reliability, performance, flexibility, and cost-efficiency