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.

OCZ has announced that Intel has approved their enterprise-grade Deneva 2 mSATA SSDs for use in Ultrabooks configured with Intel’s Smart Response Technology (SRT). SRT acts as a caching mechanism for an internal hard drive and SRT only works with SSDs approved by Intel. OCZ will offer both 30GB (D2CSTEMS1A10-0030) and 60GB (D2CSTEMS1A10-0060) Deneva 2

Hitachi Global Storage Technologies (Hitachi GST) announced two new hard drives for their G-Tech product line including the G-RAID, G-DRIVE, and G-DRIVE mobile. The new hard drives added to the lineup consist of the 2.5-inch 1TB Travelstar 5K1000 and the 3.5-inch 4TB Deskstar 7K4000, which are both designed exclusively for the Mac and content creation

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.