Seagate introduced the industry’s first 2.5-inch Enterprise-class hard drive with a 1TB capacity, the Constellation.2. The drive will be offered with 6Gb/s SATA or 6Gb/s SAS connections and as a Self-Encrypting Drive (SED).

This news bits roundup covers several new stories: OWC has announced its Mercury Rack Pro rackmount servers are available with up to 12TB of storage; Patriot announced its Supersonic USB 3.0 flash drive with up to 100MB/s read; lastly, the U.S. Military has released an order that bans removable media.

Western Digital has announced the addition of SATA 6Gb/s interface support to their Caviar Blue line of 3.5" hard drives. The new Caviar Blue drives come in capacities from 250GB to 1TB.

Hot on the heels of Kingston’s 96GB SSD announcement, Corsair has broadened their SSD line with 90GB (CSSD-F90GB2-BRKT) and 180GB (CSSD-F180GBP2-BRKT) capacities. The new F90 and F180 add more steps in the Force family that ranges from 40GB to 250GB capacities. The 90GB model is especially interesting as it fills the large capacity and pricing gap between the

This news bits includes a number of new network-attached storage (NAS) products; Plextor announced a four-bay 8TB model; QNAP introduced two new desktop-style NAS servers and additionally three new rack-mounted NAS servers; lastly, Western Digital added a number of software features to its WD TV Live family of products.

This news roundup covers a number of new product announcements: QNAP has announced a new TS-x19P+ series of home NAS servers; NewerTech introduced a USB 3.0 Universal Drive Adapter for IDE/SATA drives; lastly, Super Talent announced it is now shipping its 480GB UltraDrive MX SSD.

Today’s news roundup covers a number of exciting product announcements: Toshiba has announced two new 2.5-inch HDDs for 24/7 rugged operating environments; LSI introduced its WarpDrive PCI-e SSD for enterprise servers; finally, OCZ has introduced updated versions of its Vertex and Colossus SSDs with Indilinx controllers.

Hitachi’s latest desktop hard drive, the 3TB Deskstar 7K3000, has made a silent appearance on the company’s website. The drive has five platters (600GB each) and boasts a 7200RPM spindle speed, 6Gbp/s SATA interface, and a 64MB cache.

Hitachi has announced the Ultrastar SSD400S family of enterprise-class SSDs. The drives come in 100GB, 200GB and 400GB capacities, featuring both 2.5" 6Gb/s SAS (15mm) and 3.5" 4Gb/s Fibre Channel interfaces and 34nm SLC NAND from Intel (IMFT).