As part of today’s announcement of 1TB hard drive platters shipping in the 3TB Barracuda, Seagate also released news that they’ll cease production of their line of Green hard drives. Seagate also will be migrating the Barracuda XT line to a new Barracuda Hybrid line of hard drives, implementing the caching technology seen in their

Barely two weeks after releasing their high-performance two-bay DS712+ NAS, Synology has announced a set of new units designed to hit a broad spectrum of price points – the DiskStations DS212+, DS212, and DS212j. They start at $200, making an affordable entry point for home and small business use.

Quantum has announced two new products including the NDX-8 NAS appliance and the RDX 8000 removable disk library, both with 8TB of storage.

A-DATA Technology has announced new external USB 3.0 hard drives as well as three new USB 3.0 flash drives with up to 64GB of capacity.

OWC has announced a way for those that have upgraded their MacBook Air’s SSD to use the original drive as an external storage solution. Two new enclosures are available for the SSD from any 2010/2011 Apple MacBook Air.

At StorageReview we realize many users may not be comfortable opening up their own computer to install a new SSD or more RAM. In this upgrade guide we cover how to upgrade a conventional Lenovo ThinkPad W520 notebook computer. We take you step-by-step, from unscrewing the access panels to installing the new components.

Intel released the latest version of their Solid-State Drive Toolbox, which now offers a cleaner interface and most importantly the ability to update Intel SSD firmware through Windows. The toolbox also offers a slew of other new features in the help category to walk users through the best way to optimize their drives for longevity

Half a day after LSI announced plans to acquire SandForce for roughly $400 million, we’ve been able to make the rounds with industry contacts to more fully understand the implications of the deal. In the immediate term, there will be no changes, the deal should close in the first quarter of next year, and even

LSI Corporation (NYSE:LSI) has announced an agreement to purchase SandForce. Under the agreement LSI will pay roughly $322 million in cash and assume $48 million of unvested stock options and restricted shares held by SandForce employees. The acquisition obviously gives LSI an immediate competitive boost, especially with their WarpDrive PCIe SSDs (WarpDrive 2 Preview), which