HighPoint Technologies has announced the availability of its new RocketRAID 2720SGL, which it claims is the lowest-priced SAS 6Gb/s HBA available today. Priced at $137, it has 8 ports and a PCI-e 2.0 interface. It supports many storage configurations including RAID 0, 1, 5, 10, and 50. The ports are fully compatible with the latest

Corsair announced it has started shipping the USB 3.0 version of its Flash Voyager series flash drives. Corsair says its USB 3.0 drives have up to four times the read speed of their USB 2.0 drives, allowing for much shorter transfer times. The USB 3.0 drives are backwards-compatible with USB 2.0, meaning legacy users are

Intel has announced they will be extending the warranty on their Intel SSD 320 from three to five years. This marks the first time a consumer SSD has been given a warranty length that matches that of hard drives in the consumer space. Until now, the only drives with lengthy warranties under their belt have

SanDisk has announced an agreement to purchase enterprise SSD developer Pliant Technology for approximately $327 million in cash. The deal is expected to close by the end of SanDisk’s second fiscal quarter, the first part of July. 

Kingston has launched its DataTraveler Ultimate 3.0 Generation 2 flash drive featuring a native USB 3.0 controller. The company claims up to 100MB/s read and 70MB/s write.

Western Digital has added 2.5TB (WD25EURS) and 3TB (WD30EURS) capacities to the AV-GP line of drives aimed at the DVR and surveillance markets. To put the storage space into context, the new models support 300 and 360 hours of HD video recording capacity. These drives, based closely on the Caviar Green models, offer high uptime

Today Seagate launched their new GoFlex Satellite Mobile Wireless Storage device, which is capable of wirelessly streaming content to mobile devices connected through Wi-Fi. With an internal battery, the 500GB drive can steam content to three devices for up to 5 hours on a single charge, meaning the entire family can enjoy separate movies on

In the next two weeks Corsair will have a new flagship SSD based on the SATA 6Gb/s interface and a SandForce SF-2281 processor. The Force Series 3 boasts read speeds of 550 MB/s and writes of 520 MB/s, along with 85,000 IOPS, which is well above the IOPS quoted for the OWC Pro 6G, OCZ

OCZ has announced the Talos series of enterprise-class SSDs. Talos drives feature a 6Gb/s SAS interface, MLC NAND and OCZ’s Virtualized Controller Architecture. The Talos SSD comes in a 3.5″ form factor, with capacities ranging from 200GB to 960GB.