Asus has been making premium-ish notebooks for some time with the requisite sharp lines and classic Lamborghini script and charging bull logo. It appears they’re adding to the line of products with a series of external hard drives that share the same fun design, but lack the 3.3 second 0-60 speeds buyers might expect.
QNAP today announced a new line of affordable high-performance Turbo NAS servers. The TS-x12 lineup has one-, two-, and four-drive models with up to 8TB of storage and a 1.2GHz Marvell processor.
ActiveStorage today announced its ActiveSAN high-performance Metadata server appliance, designed for video and film professionals. The ActiveSAN is designed to fill the void created by Apple’s discontinuance of its Xserve server.
HyperShop has announced the HyperDrive iPad hard drive in capacities up to 1TB. The HyperDrive connects via the USB port provided by the Apple iPad Camera Connection Kit and shows up as a storage volume. How it manages this exactly is patent pending and users will have to wait 4 to 6 weeks for shipping, but
Intel has announced a design flaw has been discovered in its desktop chipset, the Intel 6 Series (Cougar Point), which is utilized in PCs with Sandy Bridge processors. Intel has implemented a silicon fix for the problem which in some cases saw the SATA ports within the chipset degrade over time. The degradation impacted the performance
Toshiba today introduced new 1.8-inch hard drives using low-insertion force (LIF) SATA (Serial ATA) connectors, making the drives 10% smaller than standard microSATA 1.8-inch drives.
https://www.storagereview.com/synology_diskstation_ds411slim_reviewSynology has announced the DiskStation DS411slim, their latest NAS geared toward the home and small business markets. The compact 4-bay unit uses 2.5″ drives to give users RAID redundancy while minimizing power consumption and noise output. Synology Hybrid RAID and clean interface let users easily create volumes up to 3TB.
Hitachi has announced that the first 3TB enterprise hard drive, the Ultrastar 7K3000 is now shipping. The 3.5" 7K3000 features a 7200RPM spindle speed and SATA 6Gb/s interface – a SAS version will ship in mid-2011. While the 3TB capacity for the enterprise may appear to be the headline, there’s one other interesting spec and
Project Space Plans has launched 200 paper airplanes at the edge of space, each carrying a Samsung SD memory card. Samsung is doing this to show how tough its memory cards really are.
Paragon Software Group has announced the 2011 version of its Hard Disk Manager Suite. The software includes partitioning, backup and restore, migration, optimization and defragmentation, hard drive disposal, boot management and system recovery functionality.
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