Storage Visions is a must hit precursor to CES for those interested in a variety of storage topics including hardware, software and data management. This year’s theme is "Heavy Storage for Thin Clients." The conference runs January 8th and 9th at The Riviera in Las Vegas, registration is open now with a $50 early bird

Earlier Mac Pro desktops only had SATA 2.0 (3.0Gbps), and for those looking to use a faster SSD solution it could be a performance limiter. OWC offers a PCI-e internal upgrade card to bring SATA 3.0 to these desktops.

Lite-On has announced three new optical drives including an external Blu-ray writer, an external slim Blu-ray reader, and an internal Blu-ray reader. Each drive supports newer 3D movies, as well as 2D to 3D conversion. All three drives are available now.

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