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

Thanks to Twitter, we have worked out a peaceful and easy resolution to the obtaining of the @storagereview user name that was previously registered, but not in use. We’ll be using Twitter to keep our followers appraised of storage news and reviews that can be found on the site, along with special goodies like Twitter-only

NetApp, Inc., the creators of innovative storage and data management solutions, announced that it will be partnering with Cloudera, the leader in Apache Hadoop-based software and services to “speed deployment, simplify manageability, and reduce costs of enterprise Hadoop infrastructures.” Called NetApp Open Solution for Hadoop, NetApp’s new ready-to-deploy solution will allow customers to “maximize the

OCZ has launched the RevoDrive 3 Max IOPS and RevoDrive 3 X2 Max IOPS PCIe SSDs. OCZ has released the fully tweaked version of the RevoDrive SSDs to generate maximum performance for multi-threaded applications needed by workstation users and enthusiasts who crave ultimate high-end performance. The RevoDrive 3 X2 Max IOPS SSDs deliver 4KB random

In a recent correspondence from their president and CEO Ryan Petersen, OCZ Technology has assured key clients of their ability to meet the any spike in demand for OCZ SSDs due to the lack of supply for HDDs. In the letter Petersen said "…I am pleased to notify you of our plans to immediately expand

ICY DOCK has recently announced a new external hard drive enclosure, the MB662USEB-2S-1, which boasts improved looks and functionality over it’s predecessor. This new enclosure boasts dashing good looks, an all aluminum construction, an ultra quiet fan, and an internal shock absorbing cage for the occasional user error. It is also easier to use, requiring

In a filing with the SEC yesterday, Seagate provided an update on their view of the hard drive shortage. Seagate confirmed their 180 million unconstrained demand number for hard drives in the fourth quarter of this year, and estimates the market will be able to deliver 110-120 million units of that demand. Of that Seagate