Newer Technologies has released a pair of RAID controller cards aimed at Mac Pro owners frustrated that their beloved computers can’t fully utilize the increasing numbers of 6Gb/s SATA and SAS drives. The controller cards ship in two configurations: The MAXPower RAID mini-SAS 6G-2e card has two external mini-SAS ports, while the MAXPower RAID mini-SAS

QNAP Systems has added two 12-drive models to its Turbo NAS line of SMB and datacenter storage units. Each has a maximum capacity of 36TB and can utilize both 2.5″ SSDs or 3.5″ hard drives using 6GB/s SATA.  They feature multiple Gigabit Ethernet interfaces that are upgradable to 10Gb Ethernet. Both support RAID 0, 1,

Intel just launched the enterprise-ready SSD 710 Series and already they’re about to post some impressive results. The 710 SSDs will be featured in the Appro Xtreme-X Supercomputer, named Gordon by the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at the University of California, San Diego, which will be able to turn 35 million IOPS. How many Intel

It’s not even Halloween yet, but the holiday shopping season has begun for manufacturers of computer peripherals. Western Digital is announcing today that it’s updated its Mac-centric "My Passport" line of portable hard drives. The line is divided into two models: the "My Passport Studio" and the "My Passport for Mac." 

OCZ has released its Synapse Cache Series 2.5” SSDs designed to bring SSD speed across large hard drives. The Synapse Cache SSDs use Dataplex cache software from NVELO to dynamically cache the most frequently requested files on the hard drive, delivering them much more quickly from the on-board NAND rather than the hard drive’s platters.

LaCie released its Little Big Disk Thunderbolt series to Apple retailers today, meaning that speedy Thunderbolt port on recent Macintoshes are finally starting to be used for something other than connecting monitors.  Available in 1TB and 2TB configurations, the aluminum enclosure with a glowing blue LED eye houses a pair of 2.5" drives striped as

Hitachi’s Global Storage Technologies has announced that its Ultrastar SSD400S series SSDs will begin shipping in a number of HP storage systems aimed at the enterprise and cloud datacenter. The 3.5-inch Fibre Channel SLC SSDs are rated at 390MB/s for reads and 240MB/s for writes when using a 4GB/s FC interface.

At IDF LSI was teasing their next generation WarpDrive technology in an effort to stake claim to the top spot in the increasingly competitive enterprise PCIe SSD space. The original WarpDrive SLP-300 was the first enterprise PCIe SSD to hit our test bench, but it’s since been followed by the Fusion-io ioDrive Duo and OCZ has recently announced the

Many 2011 MacBook Pro users have been struggling with using the latest high-speed SATA 6 Gb/s SSDs since the hardware update many months ago. The issues largely affected the 17″ model, but owners of the 15″ and 13″ MacBook Pros also complained of “beachballing,” poor performance and even failure to recognize SATA 6Gb/s SSDs. Apple