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). 

Mobility and remote access are the new staples for enterprise IT organizations. Contingencies for continuity of operations in a variety of departments, a more mobile workforce, and the growing need to securely share information with other entities, all necessitate a new focus on mobile data.

This news bits roundup covers a number of product announcements: Verbatim announced its Store ‘n’ Go Clip-it USB drive; QNAP announced a new 8-drive business NAS; lastly, Verbatim also introduced its MediaShare Mini, allowing home users to connect up to four USB drives to their network.

Intel has launched a 120GB version of their venerable X25-M SSD series for $249 MSRP. The release of the 120GB model gives Intel something to sit between their 80GB and 160GB models, allowing for more gradual steps up in capacity and price for consumers. 

It looks like "everyone" is doing it now; Micro Center has announced a house-branded SSD based on the SF-1200 processor which makes it the first brick and mortar branded SSD with a SandForce processor. The bigger news though is the $99.99 introductory price point on the 64GB capacity. That makes the drive roughly 40% less

This news roundup covers several new product announcements: Lite-on has announced a new slim USB-powered DVD writer; Netgear releases four new ReadyNAS home media servers; lastly, Synology intros two new value-based NAS for business.

Toshiba Japan has announced the X-Blade Gale SSD which uses the same interface as the new MacBook Air SSD. Designed for ultra-portable notebooks and other compact computing environments, the X-Blade Gale comes in capacities of 64GB, 128GB and 256GB with speeds of up to 220MB/s read and 180MB/s write.