Following hot on the heels of Intel and Micron with their new 20nm NAND, SanDisk has announced they will start production of 19nm MLC NAND in the 2nd half of this year in a partnership with Toshiba. The new chip is a 64Gb, 2-bits-per-cell (X2) design targeted at smaller embedded designs and removable storage.
Hitachi GST is expanding its line of external storage devices with its Touro Pro series desktop and mobile external hard drives. 3GB of cloud storage is included for free. Other highlights include 7200RPM drives and USB 3.0 connections.
Seagate and Samsung are calling it a "Broad Strategic Alignment" but it more common terms, Samsung has more or less sold off their hard drive storage division to Seagate. The deal was rumored over the weekend by the Wall Street Journal, now it’s official. As part of the deal Samsung will combine its hard drive
San Digital has introduced its latest storage solution in the form of an 8-bay hardware RAID-embedded tower utilizing the latest 6Gbps SAS/SATA interface. The MR8X6 is a direct attached storage solution. It has a built-in expansion port and online RAID extension for further storage needs. Up to an additional 7 MR8X6s can be connected. The
Just when you thought things were starting to calm down with the news surrounding 25nm NAND, Intel and Micron have now just announced new, and even smaller, 20nm NAND. Claiming 30 to 40 percent reduction in size over 25nm flash, the new 20nm process will allow for far greater capacities, lowered costs, as well as
G-Technology by Hitachi has introduced several new audio/video storage products for 2011, including a portable rugged drive and a high-capacity 3TB drive.
Addonics has announced its new CF/CFast Drive, which is a 5.25" bay device that supports up to six CompactFlash (CF) cards. The six cards can be independent drives or act together in a RAID array. Each slot has its own SATA connector.
Right before the start of SNW Spring, Marvell announced the launch of the DragonFly storage accelerator. Marvell promised a demo on the show floor and didn’t disappoint as they provided an overview of the DargonFly’s hardware and its effect within a storage infrastructure. While we still don’t know what it costs, we do know that
Unreleased products are always fun to see at trade shows, especially when they are just placed out in the open with little more than a model name. At SNW Spring 2011, Micron quietly showed off an upcoming PCI-Express-based SSD named the P320h. Little is known about this card other than its sticker-listed capacity and that
D-Link has announced two new consumer Network Attached Storage (NAS) devices, the DNS-320 and DNS-325. Both feature two bays for 3.5-inch hard drives for a total of up to 4TB of storage.
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