The growing popularity of SSDs has not only affected the business realm, but also with gaming enthusiasts. More and more gaming consumers are pushing manufacturers to use SSDs instead of hard disk drives in their new machines; Razer, one of the global leaders in gaming peripherals for desktops, is a prime example of receiving–and capitulating

LSI has announced the TrueStore RC5100 read channel IC for hard drives, the industry’s first to be based on 28nm silicon. The RC5100 enables increased drive capacity, higher yield and lower power consumption. LSI is currently demonstrating the read channel to OEMs.

Micron reported their quarter ending December 1 last night, with somewhat mixed results. While earnings per share fell below analyst estimates, the two themes throughout the earnings call were around the growth of their NAND output and sales and the sub-par DRAM sales, largely as a result of the sagging PC business, which is weighed

ExaGrid Systems, a leader in cost-effective, scalable disk-based backup solutions with data deduplication, have announced that it has been awarded the Ready for IBM Tivoli support (TSM) certification. ExaGrid achieved this distinction by having IBM Tivoli testing teams validate that their EX Series appliances are seamlessly integrated and fully compatible with the Tivoli storage management

Maker of the WD TV media player family, Western Digital, has added a ton of new sports and entertainment services to their product. Now included with the previously offered channels are streaming movie service VUDU, XOS College Sports, Comedy Time, Watch Mojo and others.

STEC, Inc. has announced its enterprise-class ZeusIOPS SSDs are now qualified across Fujitsu’s ETERNUS DX storage system portfolio, including the next-generation ETERNUS DX8700 S2 Enterprise Storage System. ETERNUS DX8700 S2 supports multiple open system environments and virtualized infrastructures with the integration of STEC’s ZeusIOPS SSDs, and delivers the high-end storage reliability, performance, flexibility, and cost-efficiency

A day after Seagate sealed the deal with Samsung, we’ve learned Western Digital has hit a snag with their acquisition of Hitachi. On November 23rd Western Digital announced the European Commission had approved the deal, but with conditions. Western Digital had anticipated certain actions would be required to close the transaction but still felt the deal would

Synology announced today that their XS Series NAS Servers are now VMware Ready with complete support for vSphere 5.0. This new certification level offers increased flexibility, greater performance, and enhanced storage and management efficiency inside the VMware platform. One of the main features of this new version is the Storage Distribute Resource Scheduler which improves

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.