OCZ has announced the Vertex 2 and Agility 2 SSDs. Both solid state drives are geared toward the enthusiast market. The OCZ Vertex 2 posts 285MB/s read speeds and 275MB/s writes with 4KB random writes up to 50,000 IOPS. The Agility 2 offers the same read/write speeds with 4KB random writes up to 10,000 IOPS.
Samsung today introduced the highest-capacity 7200RPM hard drive for notebooks, the Spinpoint MP4. It is available with 250GB to 640GB of capacity and will be available to OEMs this month.
OCZ Technology today introduced its fourth-generation PCI-e SSD, the Z-Drive R2. Available in capacities from 256GB – 2TB and featuring user-replaceable memory chips, it boasts read and write speeds up to 1,400MB/s.
Data Robotics has released the Drobo FS, a 5-bay NAS unit designed for home use and small businesses. The system is easy to manage and leverages BeyondRAID technology to let users easily add non-matching disks, create new volumes quickly and manage redundancy options.
While Toshiba just announced their 750GB mainstream notebook drive, Western Digital has seen fit to actually start shipping theirs. The 750GB Scorpio Blue is a standard size 2.5" notebook hard drive featuring 375GB per platter areal density and Advanced Format technology.
Toshiba has announced the Canvio Portable hard drive product line, which features computer backup software and capacities from 500GB to 1TB. The backup process runs in the background, making it easy and reliable for home users.
Adaptec today revealed benchmark results for its MaxIQ SSD Cache Performance software solution. MaxIQ uses licensed SSD control technology from Microsoft and builds upon it.
Toshiba has announced the highest capacity 9.5mm notebook drive available, the 750GB MK7559GSXP. The MK7559GSXP is a 5400RPM 2.5" SATA II hard drive that features a two-platter design and the industry’s highest areal density. Toshiba also announced the new three-platter 12.5mm MKxx59GSM series which comes in 750GB and 1TB capacities.
Synology has announced the DS410 DiskStation, a four-bay NAS for small businesses. The DS410 builds on the DS409 by adding features like encrypted file sharing, automatic backup to Amazon S3, desktop and network backup, multi-media streaming, surveillance, email and web hosting and more.
Looking for more speed out of your flash drives? Active Media has just announced their 16GB and 32GB eSATA flash drives that give your portable media a little extra kick. For the times you can’t get an eSATA connection, there’s also a Mini USB 2,0 port on the other side. Users can expect to see
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