Intel has announced a design flaw has been discovered in its desktop chipset, the Intel 6 Series (Cougar Point), which is utilized in PCs with Sandy Bridge processors. Intel has implemented a silicon fix for the problem which in some cases saw the SATA ports within the chipset degrade over time. The degradation impacted the performance
Toshiba today introduced new 1.8-inch hard drives using low-insertion force (LIF) SATA (Serial ATA) connectors, making the drives 10% smaller than standard microSATA 1.8-inch drives.
https://www.storagereview.com/synology_diskstation_ds411slim_reviewSynology has announced the DiskStation DS411slim, their latest NAS geared toward the home and small business markets. The compact 4-bay unit uses 2.5″ drives to give users RAID redundancy while minimizing power consumption and noise output. Synology Hybrid RAID and clean interface let users easily create volumes up to 3TB.
Hitachi has announced that the first 3TB enterprise hard drive, the Ultrastar 7K3000 is now shipping. The 3.5" 7K3000 features a 7200RPM spindle speed and SATA 6Gb/s interface – a SAS version will ship in mid-2011. While the 3TB capacity for the enterprise may appear to be the headline, there’s one other interesting spec and
Project Space Plans has launched 200 paper airplanes at the edge of space, each carrying a Samsung SD memory card. Samsung is doing this to show how tough its memory cards really are.
Paragon Software Group has announced the 2011 version of its Hard Disk Manager Suite. The software includes partitioning, backup and restore, migration, optimization and defragmentation, hard drive disposal, boot management and system recovery functionality.
It’s of little surprise to say that Western Digital is considering a hybrid hard drive. Seagate currently owns the market with their Momentus XT and Toshiba told us at CES they’re working up a hybrid right now. What’s interesting about WD though is they typically don’t announce product until it’s ready to ship and while this isn’t a
Western Digital has announced their second-generation WD S25 SAS drives and the latest WD RE SAS enterprise hard drives. The WD S25 is a 2.5" drive featuring 10,000RPM spin speed, SAS 6Gb/s interface and comes in 450GB (WD4500BKHG) and 600GB (WD6000BKHG) capacities. The WD RE SAS offers a 3.5" form factor with 7,200RPM spin speed, SAS 6Gb/s
SanDisk today announced its Extreme Pro SDHC UHS-I card based on the newly-released SD 3.0 specification. The card features a proprietary SanDisk controller and achieves up to 45MB/s read and write performance.
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
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