Iomega announced that they completed a new line of external drives, all geared specifically to Mac users. The models include the eGo Mac Edition Portable Hard Drive, the Helium Portable Hard Drive, both of which appeal to the traveling professional, and the Mac Companion Hard Drive, which boasts some awesome new features.
Synology America Corp. has announced the release of two new rack-mountable NAS models, the RackStation RS212 and the scalable RS812. The RS812 is the successor to the 1U RS411; the main difference is that the new model can quickly scale out to eight drives by attaching the RX410 expansion module. This will enable businesses to
Virident Systems has announced the release of their FlashMAX PCIe storage-based memory card and a $21 million round of venture capital to continue growing the business. The addition of the MLC product broadens Virident’s product portfolio, which is headlined by an SLC FlashMAX. The new MLC drive offers capacities of 1TB and 1.4TB and 4K
Corsair has launched their fourth line of SATA 6Gb/s SSDs, the Performance Pro Series. The Corsair Performance Pro SSDs are designed around a Marvell 9174 processor and deliver up to 515 MB/s read speeds and 440 MB/s writes. Corsair will offer the drives in 128GB and 256GB capacities.
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
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