The storage market is seeing new technology hit the retail shelves, but for most consumers it doesn’t mean faster drives or greater reliability. SSD manufacturers are starting to release drives with 25nm NAND flash, the newest type of flash memory, which is cheaper to make but offers fewer write cycles than the current-generation 34nm NAND.
Seagate has announced their TV Remote application has been approved by Apple and is now available from the iTunes Store. The iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch application enables control of a GoFlex TV or FreeAgent Theater+ from the home WiFi network. The interface is similar to the remote that comes with the media players and because
Aimed at PC users, Paragon’s new Drive Copy 11 software is designed to perform fast and easy migrations of any software/hardware combination. It supports all versions of Windows and modern disk types including SSDs and 3TB drives.
Plextor announced their second generation series of SSDs at CES last month, and now they’ve sent word that the drives are shipping. The Plextor M2 SSDs use a SATA 6Gb/s interface and deliver top line read speeds of 480Mb/s and writes of 330MB/s, which incidentally is faster than the 400MB/s and 300MB/s quoted in the initial product
Drobo introduced new storage products designed for business use including primary and secondary storage, offsite backup, and server virtualization deployments. The products add improved ease of use, software, and support options over the company’s existing products.
Diskeeper has released its Emergency Undelete software as a standalone product for $19.95. The product can restore accidentally deleted files of any type as well as their respective folders.
HighPoint Technologies has launched their Smart Hybrid HBA’s product line, designed to merge SSDs and hard drives into a single high-speed storage solution. The PCI-E 2.0, SATA 6Gb/s HBAs are powered by the Marvell 88SE9130 controller and deliver 80% of the SSD’s performance and 100% of the hard drive’s capacity.
Asus has been making premium-ish notebooks for some time with the requisite sharp lines and classic Lamborghini script and charging bull logo. It appears they’re adding to the line of products with a series of external hard drives that share the same fun design, but lack the 3.3 second 0-60 speeds buyers might expect.
QNAP today announced a new line of affordable high-performance Turbo NAS servers. The TS-x12 lineup has one-, two-, and four-drive models with up to 8TB of storage and a 1.2GHz Marvell processor.
ActiveStorage today announced its ActiveSAN high-performance Metadata server appliance, designed for video and film professionals. The ActiveSAN is designed to fill the void created by Apple’s discontinuance of its Xserve server.
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