Today’s hard drives are formatted using a 512 byte sector, however in the near future most hard drives will be switching to a more modern 4kb sector (that is eight times as large, for those bad at math). While the 4kb sector will allow manufacturers to produce larger and more reliable hard drives, it is
Dell has released a new backup solution for SMBs that is powered by Symantec Backup Exec 2010 which supports data backup and recovery with available deduplication technology. The single server design and included software makes it easy for businesses to back up their data. With a projected install start to finish time of 18 minutes, it’s
Kanguru has announced their latest USB drive, the Defender Elite. The drive is highlighted by security. a FIPS 140-2 rating and 256-bit AES hardware encryption, but it can also be managed remotely, a unique combination.
OCZ has launched a new line of SSDs, the OCZ Onyx. The 2.5" SATA II SSDs are designed to be affordable, while still offering a performance upgrade over traditional HDDs. The first SSD in the family is the Onyx 32GB, which has an MSRP of under $100.
Anyone with an ultra-portable notebook, netbook or other tiny computer is largely left behind in the storage arena as not many companies make the 1.8" drives these devices take. Active Media however has an entire suite of 1.8" SSDs and has launched a new pair of 1.8" PATA ZIF SSDs. The drives comes in 32GB
QNAP has just launched their latest 1U rack-mounted NAS servers. Powered by Intel Atom D510 dual-core processors, the TS-459U-RP and -SP support up to 8TB of drive space, iSCSI, various RAID levels, and are VMware Ready Certified.
Intel today announced its storage-optimized Atom processor-based platform for home and small office storage markets. The platform includes the single-core Atom D410 and dual-core Atom D510 processors and Intel 82801IR I/O controller.
Corsair appears to be SSD happy of late, launching the new Force Series today, just weeks after launching the Reactor value-line and Nova mainstream-line SSDs. The new Force SSDs leverage a SandForce SF-1200 controller and feature 280MB/s read and 260MB/s write times placing these SSDs squarely in the performance category.
LSI has announced three new software performance enhancers for its 6Gb/s SAS/SATA MegaRAID controller cards: FastPath for SSD I/O acceleration, CacheCade to enable SSD caches, and Recovery which uses snapshots to prevent data loss.
Super Talent today introduced its latest flash drive, the Encrypted USB 3.0 SuperCrypt Drive. It supports AES hardware encryption, and is available with up to 256GB of capacity.
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