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
Hitachi released two new 3.5-inch models with single-platter 1TB capacities. The 7K1000.D and 5K1000.B are offered in both 250, 320, 500, 750GB and 1TB capacities with fewer moving parts thanks to a new larger capacity platter design.
Samsung has introduced two new optical drives: the USB-powered SE-506AB slim Blu-ray writer for Macs and PCs and the SE208BW DVD writer. What makes the SE208BW special though is that it is a dual-purpose optical drive and wireless access point.
At Computex in July, OCZ announced the RevoDrive Hybrid PCI Express storage solution, along with their updated family of RevoDrive 3 SSDs. The RevoDrive Hybrid is now shipping, and offers a unique combination of 1TB 2.5" hard drive coupled with a 100GB OCZ SSD on a PCIe card. The drives combined with caching software can deliver 1TB of
Crucial has just issued a new firmware update for all Crucial m4 SSDs. This new firmware, version 0009 (our original review model featured 0001) increases sequential read speeds by up to 20%, improves write latency for better handling of heavy write workloads and offers compatibility with the latest chipsets.
Texas Memory Systems introduced its first enterprise eMLC product packing 10TB of storage and Tier-0 performance with 4-8GB/s bandwidth and 320K random IOPS. All of this performance comes packed in a small 1U chassis with power requirements measuring only 250W.
Silicon Valley startup Pure Storage has taken itself out of stealth mode by introducing its first product, an all-flash memory based enterprise-level storage array. The company, founded by veterans of Veritas and Yahoo!, plans to show its flagship product it calls the FlashArray for the first time publicly next week at VMWorld in Las Vegas.
Iomega took the wraps off its latest top-of-the-line rackmount Network Storage Array today. The px12-350r is a 2U unit running under the direction of an Intel Core2 Duo processor with 4GB of memory. It ships in either an 8 or 12TB capacity, but can be expanded to a maximum of 36TB using 3TB 7200 RPM
LaCie has announced its NAS OS 2.0, an update to its existing operating system for its network-attached storage (NAS) devices. LaCie cites improved usability, performance, RAID management, and backup. It additionally offers remote file access.
Corsair has added 60GB and 90GB capacities to their family of Force GT and Force 3 SSDs. The 90GB drives are the first SandForce SF-2200 SATA 6Gb/s SSDs to ship thus far. While they may be small in capacity, these SSDs still offer tremendous speeds, with the 60GB Force GT cranking out 555 MB/s reads.
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