It may be a mouthful, but the OWC Mercury Auro Pro Express is the first and only legitimate SSD upgrade option available for the 2010 Apple MacBook Air line of notebooks. Part of OWC’s CES announcements, the MacBook Air upgrade leverages the SandForce SF-1200 processor to deliver up to a 22% speed improvement over the stock
3X Systems has announced version 3.0 of their 500 and Tera Series remote backup appliances. These “private cloud” storage systems are designed for data backup and disaster recovery for SMBs, especially those with regulatory compliance issues to manage against.
QNAP has added to their Turbo NAS lineup with the rack-mounted TS-419U+. The unit features four hot-swappable SATA hard drive bays in a 1U form factor, a Marvell 1.6GHz CPU and 512MB of DDRIII memory.
Hitachi-LG Data Storage showed off its second-generation Hybrid ODD, an improvement over the first-generation model released last year. The Hybrid ODD is an optical drive with a built-in solid state drive (SSD). The second-gen version features SATA 6.0Gb/s and integrates the ODD and SSD circuits into a single PCB and connects via a single SATA port.
Plextor has announced their second generation SSD at CES. The Plextor PX-M2 series of SSDs features a SATA 6Gb/s interface and uses the Marvell 9174 processor to deliver top line read speeds of 400MB/s and write speeds of 300MB/s in the highest capacity 256GB model (PX-256M2S).
Just a few months after we reviewed and enjoyed the Scorpio Black 500GB notebook hard drive, Western Digital has announced it’s shipping the 750GB model for those looking for a blend of capacity and high performance. The 2.5" drive features 7200 RPM spin speed, 16MB cache and leverages Advanced Format technology.
Patriot Memory announced its new Javelin Media Server for digital media storage. It features four 3.5-inch drive bays for up to 12TB of storage capacity and supports RAID 0, 1, 5, 10, and hot-spare.
Just when you thought SandForce had all the licensees they needed, along comes a yet unannounced deal with Kingston. We found out tonight that Kingston will be using a SandForce processor, though it’s not thought to be the SF-1200, in a line of SSDs most likely due mid-year. The Kingston HyperX SSD family as it
Eurocom has announced its Panther 2.0 notebook featuring up to 3.25TB of storage via four internal drive bays. The company offers mechanical HDDs, hybrid HDDs, and SSDs as upgrade options in this 11.66 lb machine.
OCZ announced a number of new consumer and enterprise products at CES 2011 in Las Vegas. The products announced include next-gen enterprise class SATA, SAS, Fibre Channel, and PCIe SSDs plus the Vertex 3 Pro consumer SSD with up to 550MB/s transfer rates.
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