Japan-based hard disc drive (HDD) motor supplier Nidec has announced that it has already resumed production in its Thai Ayutthaya plants. Production was halted last month when flooding struck the area, destrupting much of the world’s hard drive supply. While some hard drive manufacturers escaped direct flooding, they still relied on parts such as motors
Fusion-io (NYSE:FIO) has announced that they have filed with the Security and Exchange Commission to offer up to $100 million shares of common stock for sale. This announcement comes hot on the heels of the release of the ioDrive2 and ioDrive2 Duo, PCI-Express enterprise SSDs. Despite the current economic climate, this release comes at a
Netgear’s ReadyNAS v2 offerings will be launching this week, delivering impressive performance to the prosumer market with prices starting at $199. Improvements to the processor, interface, and software, as well as standard features like hot-swap disk drive bays and automatic capacity expansion make the new ReadyNAS v2 products strong competitors for the home and small
Kingston announced today the next generation of their SSDNow V offering for the budget-conscious consumer. The SSDNow V200 is slated to launch at a price point up to 20 percent less than last year’s predecessor, the SSDNow V100, while introducing faster speeds and a SATA 6.0Gb/s interface. The V200 will offer speeds up to 300MB/s
A guilty verdict has been reached concerning the Hitachi-LG Data Storage trial. The joint company admitted to 15 criminal counts related to price fixing on components for consumer electronics devices. The judge in charge of the case sentenced the guilty parties to a $21.1 million fine. Hitachi and LG had been under investigation over the
Patriot Memory has announced their new Mac Series XT SSDs and SODIMM lines, optimized for Mac computers. The Mac Series XT SSD includes a SandForce SF-2281 processor and SATA 6Gb/s interface to deliver 520 MB/s reads, 500 MB/s writes and 80,000 IOPS. If you’re asking why the Mac Series XT is different from Patriot’s other
Thanks to Twitter, we have worked out a peaceful and easy resolution to the obtaining of the @storagereview user name that was previously registered, but not in use. We’ll be using Twitter to keep our followers appraised of storage news and reviews that can be found on the site, along with special goodies like Twitter-only
NetApp, Inc., the creators of innovative storage and data management solutions, announced that it will be partnering with Cloudera, the leader in Apache Hadoop-based software and services to “speed deployment, simplify manageability, and reduce costs of enterprise Hadoop infrastructures.” Called NetApp Open Solution for Hadoop, NetApp’s new ready-to-deploy solution will allow customers to “maximize the
OCZ has launched the RevoDrive 3 Max IOPS and RevoDrive 3 X2 Max IOPS PCIe SSDs. OCZ has released the fully tweaked version of the RevoDrive SSDs to generate maximum performance for multi-threaded applications needed by workstation users and enthusiasts who crave ultimate high-end performance. The RevoDrive 3 X2 Max IOPS SSDs deliver 4KB random
In a recent correspondence from their president and CEO Ryan Petersen, OCZ Technology has assured key clients of their ability to meet the any spike in demand for OCZ SSDs due to the lack of supply for HDDs. In the letter Petersen said "…I am pleased to notify you of our plans to immediately expand
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