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Toshiba Tiered Storage Drives Now Qualified By SuperMicro

Toshiba announced today that one of its entire lines of enterprise hard disks and solid state drives have been qualified by SuperMicro. Having the SuperMicro name on these Toshiba drives ensures comparability between the devices and keeps the logos matching.

Enterprise  ◇  SSD

CommVault Launches Enterprise Consulting Services

CommVault, a developer of Singular Information Management solutions for high-performance data protection, has launched a new Enterprise Consulting Services (ECS) practice to hasten the adoption of modern data management strategies. It will allow larger enterprises to migrate from legacy backup policies to a modern data management approach in the most efficient way possible and to

Enterprise  ◇  Networking

EMC to Raise Hard Drive Prices

EMC has sent out a letter to its Velocity channel partners stating their disk drive prices will rise 5 to 15% beginning in January, 2012. These increases are due to the floods that are ravaging Thailand, which caused hard drive companies to raise their prices a few months ago. Until now, the large storage array and

Consumer  ◇  Portable Storage

Apple’s Acquisition of Anobit Confirmed by Netanyahu

While not yet confirmed by Apple, it appears their widely rumored acquisition of Anobit has been completed. Anobit is based in Israel and provides several storage components like mobile flash controllers, along with their own line of enterprise SSDs. Confirmation of the transaction comes via Twitter post from Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, "Welcome to Israel,

Enterprise

Seagate Completes Samsung Hard Drive Acquisition

Seagate Technology (NASDAQ:STX) has announced the acquisition of the Samsung hard drive business is complete. Under the deal Seagate purchased facilities, assets and brought over employees that will help Seagate continue to innovate and add production scale to their existing hard drive operations with an emphasis on the development of small form factor solutions.

Consumer  ◇  SSD

Super Talent Storage POD Mini Unveiled; a Fast, Portable USB 3.0 Solution

Super Talent Technology, a manufacturer of NAND flash-storage solutions, have announced their newest portable SSD, the Storage POD Mini. With USB 3.0 and SSD technologies, it is now possible to create a USB storage solution that is smaller, lighter, and more durable than traditional HDDs and the Storage POD Mini is no exception. The blue

Western Digital and Seagate Cut Hard Drive Warranty Lengths

In the past few days the hard drive market has seen a huge shift in warranty periods from Western Digital and Seagate. In some cases warranty lengths have been reduced from five years to just 12 months, with the biggest drop in budget or low-power drives. With many enthusiasts undoubtedly worried about this drastic restructuring

Consumer  ◇  SSD

Monster Digital Le Mans SSD Family Announced

Monster Digital has announced their first foray into the SSD space with the Le Mans SSD family. The Le Mans SSDs will feature SandForce SF-2200 processors, SATA 6 Gb/s interface and Toshiba synchronous MLC NAND to deliver read speeds of 550 MB/s and writes of 515 MB/s writes. The drives are squarely targeted at enthusiasts,

Consumer  ◇  SSD

Pogoplug Users Get 50% off New Series 4 Model

Pogoplug has announced its newest product, the Pogoplug Series 4. The new model allows users to host their own content from their home or office and to add as much storage as they need. The main difference between this and the older Pogoplug Mobile though, is the much faster connection speeds with USB 3.0 now