Hitting the wire today is news that Western Digital is acquiring Hitachi Global Storage Technologies for $3.5 billion in cash and 25 million Western Digital common shares, valued at $750 million based on the closing price on March 4, 2011.  The board of directors for both companies have approved the transaction which is expected to

HighPoint Technologies has launched its Rocket and RocketRAID 600 SATA 6Gb/s series HBAs. They use PCI-express 2.0 x1 and x4 with two or four SATA ports.

G.Skill has announced an updated SSD line, the Phoenix II. The Phoenix II family will leverage the new SandForce SF-2200 processor, SATA 6Gb/s interface and 25nm NAND to deliver read and write speeds of 550/500 MB/s. 

Patriot has announced their new line of performance SSDs, the Wildfire. The Patriot Wildfire SSD family will be based around the SandForce SF-2281 processor, the same processor that the recently reviewed OCZ Vertex 3 uses, to deliver sequential read and write speeds of up to 500MB/s.

The Seagate Barracuda XT 3TB hard drive has started shipping. Seagate is going without an included HBA as some have done, instead solving the legacy drive over 2.2TB issues with software. An updated version of Seagate DiscWizard gets the job done, making it easy to use the entire 3TB capacity, even within Windows XP and

Icy Dock has introduced its MB974SP-B 4-in-3 SATA Backplane, allowing users to install four 3.5" hard drives into a computer case’s 3 available 5.25" device bays.

Following Apple’s product announcements, LaCie is introducing its Little Big Disk featuring Thunderbolt technology. The company says this is a first of a wave of new Thunderbolt products.

Intel’s Thunderbolt technology hits the market today, nestled inside Apple’s refreshed line of MacBook Pro notebooks. The new machines now have a Thunderbolt port on the side, denoted with a lighting bolt logo. What consumers want to know though is “What exactly is Thunderbolt and why should I care?” Simply put, Thunderbolt  is a new high-speed

Apple has posted a preview of some of the hottest features of their new operating system due out this summer, dubbed Mac OS X Lion. As part of the release there are several new storage-realted features that help users not only protect their files, but share them with others very easily as well. Our favorite