In late July OCZ announced they were shipping their first Indilinx-based SSD design, code named Everest, to OEMs. LG is now offering a slim 128GB Everest SSD in their LG Xnote P220 to deliver great operational performance and "fast boot technology," which enables genuine instant on functionality for LG’s notebooks.
Kingston has released the SSDNow KC100, a SandForce equipped SATA 6Gb/s SSD geared toward client systems in the enterprise. The KC100, which Kingston calls a "business-equipped" SSD, offers a five year warranty, which may offer more peace of mind to IT departments than the performance specs, which include read speeds up to 555 MB/s and
Western Digital has released new mobile apps for accessing personal content on the go – WD 2go and WD 2go Pro. The apps are available from both Apple’s App Store and the Android Market and interface with WD’s My Book Live external hard drive. Content on the drive may also be accessed through the browser through WD2go.com.
Corsair has released USB 3.0 versions of their Flash Voyager GT, Flash Voyager, and Flash Survivor USB flash drives. The updates are highlighted by the flagship Voyager GT which has a rugged all-rubber housing, comes in 32GB and 64GB capacities and offers read speeds of 135 MB/sec and writes of 83 MB/sec.
Tokyo-based parts company Ask Corporation has announced it will release a pair of mSATA SSDs made by OCZ in mid-September. Measuring a mere 30mm wide and 50mm deep, the Nocti and Strata series are both built around 20nm MLC NAND flash memory. Both series support the current mSATA maximum bandwidth of 3 GB/s.
ADATA has expanded their 500 Series of SSDs with the S510, which slots in as a mainstream offering alongside their enthusiast class SSD, the S511. The S510 leverages a SATA 6Gb/s interface, SandForce SF-2281 processor and 25nm asynchronous NAND to deliver speeds of 550 MB/s read, 510 MB/s write and 4K random write IOPS of
Synology America Corp. has announced that the beta program for its DiskStation Manager 3.2 software has ended. The program, compatible with the company’s DiskStation NAS units from the x08 series and onward, can now be downloaded as a release version. The company reports that more than 60,000 copies were downloaded during the beta program which
In their latest G-RAID storage array, G-Technology by Hitachi showcased the new 4TB Hitachi 7,200RPM hard drive in a device aimed at professional A/V editing markets. The new four-platter drive is making use of a new 1TB platter design, which increases available capacity 33% compared to current-generation 3TB hard drives.
Seagate has announced it is shipping a new 4TB version of their GoFlex Desk series of external hard drives. The new drive gets an updated look, with a glossy black case and upright design which yields a small footprint on the desk – the rest of the GoFlex Desk line will get the design update
The current Seagate SSD/hard drive hybrid, the Momentus XT, has been in the market for nearly 9 months. And while Seagate has sold over 1 million of the hybrid hard drives and released firmware updates to make it better, they haven’t released any serious modifications like higher capacity, more caching NAND or perhaps more radically, a
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