If we’ve learned anything after Western Digital and Seagate’s quarterly conference calls this week, it’s that the hard drive industry is going to be pretty "volatile," as both companies say – or layman’s terms, a cluster$%@* – over the next 6-9 months. Flooding in Thailand has caused severe issues for both companies, but WD’s heavy exposure to not only
What’s the use of assembling the definitive collection of pre-Ashton Kutcher episodes of "Two and a Half Men" if you don’t have access to them at every minute of the day? The folks at Cloud Engine, Inc. asked themselves that question, and the Pogoplug Mobile is their answer. The newest addition to the Pogoplug line
A day after Western Digital reported their quarter, Seagate (NASDAQ:STX) reported results from the quarter that ended in September. The Seagate quarter is highlighted by shipments of 50.7 million units, the near-completion of the Samsung HDD acquisition, 1TB platters finally in production and commentary on the impact of Thailand’s severe flooding.
In "The Untouchables" Sean Connery’s character explained "the Chicago way" to Kevin Costner’s character thus: "They pull a knife, you pull a gun. He sends one of yours to the hospital, you send one of his to the morgue." The stakes aren’t life-and-death in the cloud storage wars, but Box.net is sending an unmistakable message
Western Digital (NYSE:WDC) reported their quarter ending September of this calendar year last night; an excellent quarter for both the company and hard drive sales in general. Industry shipments for the quarter were a record breaking 176 million drives, topping estimates. WD’s share of that haul was 57.8 million units, up 7.4% quarter over quarter
OCZ has announced their latest family of SSDs, the Octane. Leveraging the Indilinx Everest platform and SATA 6Gb/s interface, the OCZ Octane delivers read speeds up to 570 MB/s and writes of 400 MB/s. It’s not all about performance though, the Octane is the first 2.5" SSD to hit the 1TB capacity mark and that’s
Synology announced their new high-performance twin-bay DiskStation DS712+, equipped with a 1.8Ghz processor capable of pumping out up to 180MB/s over an aggregated gigabit LAN connection. This new model will support the latest DSM 3.2 software and is aimed at SMB users who need high speeds and future scalability.
Kingston has updated their iOS application for their Wi-Drive portable WiFi storage device. Along with minor bug fixes, the app has new functionality highlighted by the ability to wirelessly transfer files from the Wi-Drive to the Wi-Drive app local area.
OCZ announced that the latest SandForce firmware numbered 3.3.2 has fixed a rare firmware bug causing blue screening on some computers. This latest firmware version has been through weeks of testing before public release, which OCZ is offering as firmware version 2.15 using their internal numbering scheme.
AVADirect has announced a new 8-node server system designed for customers looking to replace their large server farms with something smaller and more cost-effective.
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