While the talk of breakneck SSD speeds often dominates the headlines, there’s still a robust market of buyers looking for SSDs that perform well but are a little more gentle on the budget. The OCZ Agility 3 and Solid 3 are two options designed for this market. While less expensive, OCZ didn’t skimp, both use

Icy Dock recently announced the new all-in-one MB881U3 docking station featuring connectors for IDE and SATA drives connected through a fast USB 3.0 interface. The SATA and IDE hard drive adapter supports both 2.5-inch and 3.5-inch IDE hard drives, as well as 2.5 and 3.5-inch SATA hard drives and SSDs. The transforming dock can be

Today Iomega announced their new StorCenter PX series of network storage products, including high-performance desktop and rackmount NAS units. Aimed at the small to medium sized business and enterprise markets, the models offer up to 18TB of storage at the high-end. These new servers include Iomega Personal Cloud technology as well, allowing users to share

Seagate has announced plans to update their Barracuda XT 3TB line of hard drives with three 1TB platters (625 Gigabits per square inch), replacing the current build of five 600GB platters. Seagate’s line of GoFlex Desktop external hard drives will be the first to feature the new platter configuration. GoFlex products are being refreshed soon to

Patriot has announced the new Torqx 2 series of SSDs, with capacities ranging from 32GB up to 256GB. With most SSDs currently on the market using JMicron, SandForce or other controllers, Patriot has opted for a model from Phison, which hasn’t seen much consumer SSD activity in the past year. With retail prices being listed

Today OCZ announced the new VeloDrive PCI-Express SSD, powered by four SandForce SF-1565 processors. The VeloDrive is aimed at enterprise users who demand very fast speeds and scalability, which this product delivers on in all counts. The VeloDrive supports both hardware and software RAID modes and can be deployed in most servers with its low-profile

With the advent of solid-state-disk technology, shrinking costs of high speed volatile memory, the low cost of SATA, and the reliability of SAS, optimal organization and integration of new storage technologies has become more difficult. Opportunities exist to place frequently accessed “hot” data on lower latency, faster media, while leaving rarely accessed data on higher

Plextor has announced a new Blu-ray burner with write speeds up to 12X, the highest speed available today. The PX-LB950UE has USB 3.0 and eSATA connections and includes Blu-ray playback software, including support for 3D.

Paragon Software Group has announced its new Hard Disk Manager 11 Professional software. The software provides users with tools for data safety and recovery, data migration for physical and virtual environments, partition alignment and management, wiping technologies, and partition conversion.