Toshiba has announced their highest capacity 15,000RPM 2.5-inch enterprise hard drive, offered in capacities up to 300GB. This new model, dubbed the MK3001GRRB/R, features an SAS interface and drive-based encryption to reduce end-of-life costs when retiring old models without having to perform lengthly rewrites to wipe old data.

Severe flooding in Thailand has put a crimp in Western Digital’s hard drive output. The flooding is wreaking havoc on the area around Bangkok, damaging infrastructure and causing problems with utilities and transportation systems in the region. 

Datacenter architects and SAN manufacturers have fallen in love with the SSD for caching and metadata storage and OCZ is doing its best to return that affection. The San Jose-based company has announced that it’s releasing a 1.8" version of its enterprise-grade Deneva SSD line dubbed the Deneva MO-297.

Patriot Memory has released a new family of SSDs, the Pyro SE. If this sounds a little familiar, Patriot released the Pyro SSD in early August. What’s different this time around you might be asking yourself? The Pyro SE gets synchronous NAND, which must mean the original Pyro has asynchronous NAND, Patriot never released that particular

Corsair in now shipping high capacity SSDs in both their Force 3 and Force GT (Force GT Review) lines, along with a new 180GB capacity in the Force 3 line. The new 180GB is designed to give those looking for a little more than 120GB a gentle step up, the 480GB capacities are the top capacity available for

Today Fusion-io released new PCIe SSDs under the ioDrive2 family. These include a single processor ioDrive2 and dual-processor ioDrive2 Duo, which is an updated version of the 640GB ioDrive Duo we reviewed last month. The new models expand the capacity options up to 1.2TB on the ioDrive2 and 2.4TB on the ioDrive2 Duo.

OCZ reported their second quarter 2012 financial results today, with not surprisingly, SSDs leading the way. The SSD business for the quarter took in a record $71.1 million, an increase of 252% compared with Q2′ 2011 SSD revenue of $20.2 million, and a 3% increase compared with Q1′ 12 SSD revenue of $69.1 million. Total revenues were a

Red Hat, a software and services company built around a free, open-source operating system, has announced its intention to purchase of Gluster, Inc., a software and services company built around a free and open-source storage system. The move will position Red Hat to offer the necessary combination of software to allow enterprise customers to build

IDC’s Spring 2011 Storage User Demand Study (SUDS) has been released and includes interesting insights on enterprise storage market trends and their preferred storage brands by usage scenario. The main takeaways – EMC dominates mindshare, midrange storage is the most favored and many are already using outsourced storage solutions.