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Seagate Momentus XT SD24 Firmware Update

Almost a year ago we reviewed the first hybrid SSD/HDD (well, first in a long time); the Seagate Momentus XT. Since that time it has remained the one and only drive in the hybrid drive category and gained a ton of popularity in the enthusiast market. While offering a very good mixture of performance and capacity, which

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6TB Western Digital My Book Studio Edition II Released

Western Digital has announced a 6TB My Book Studio Edition II dual-drive storage system. Designed largely for Mac users who are creating, editing and storing video and photo files, the My Book Studio Edition II offers a quad interface (eSATA, FireWire 800, FireWire 400 and USB 2.0), Time Machine support and a top capacity of

Consumer

Seagate Enterprise SSDs and HDDs Updated

Seagate has announced several updates to their enterprise hard drive and SSD lines. The Pulsar.2 is an MLC NAND based SSD that offers capacities up to 800GB and the Pulsar XT.2 leverages SLC NAND to deliver Seagate’s fastest drive speeds to date. On the hard drive front, the Savvio 15K.3 gets a capacity boost to

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OCZ Technology Acquires Indilinx

Today OCZ Technology announced that they will be purchasing Indilinx, which is one of the primary manufacturers of SSD controllers and software. Currently OCZ uses Indilinx in a variety of products, including the Z-Drive and Onyx-series SSDs.

Consumer

Western Digital to Acquire Hitachi Global Storage Technologies

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

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G.Skill Phoenix II SSD Announced

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. 

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Patriot Wildfire SSDs Announced

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.

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Seagate Barracuda XT 3TB Shipping (ST33000651AS)

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