OCZ has announced their latest family of SSDs, the Octane. Leveraging the Indilinx Everest platform and SATA 6Gb/s interface, the OCZ Octane delivers read speeds up to 570 MB/s and writes of 400 MB/s. It’s not all about performance though, the Octane is the first 2.5" SSD to hit the 1TB capacity mark and that’s

Synology announced their new high-performance twin-bay DiskStation DS712+, equipped with a 1.8Ghz processor capable of pumping out up to 180MB/s over an aggregated gigabit LAN connection. This new model will support the latest DSM 3.2 software and is aimed at SMB users who need high speeds and future scalability.

Kingston has updated their iOS application for their Wi-Drive portable WiFi storage device. Along with minor bug fixes, the app has new functionality highlighted by the ability to wirelessly transfer files from the Wi-Drive to the Wi-Drive app local area. 

OCZ announced that the latest SandForce firmware numbered 3.3.2 has fixed a rare firmware bug causing blue screening on some computers. This latest firmware version has been through weeks of testing before public release, which OCZ is offering as firmware version 2.15 using their internal numbering scheme.

AVADirect has announced a new 8-node server system designed for customers looking to replace their large server farms with something smaller and more cost-effective.

Plextor has added to their SSD lineup with the M2P SSD which features a Marvell 88SS9174 processor and SATA 6Gb/s interface. If that sounds familiar, it should, we reviewed Plextor’s PX-M2 in March – from a hardware perspective they’re about the same drive. The main difference this time around looks like a doubling of the drive

Toshiba has announced their highest capacity 15,000RPM 2.5-inch enterprise hard drive, offered in capacities up to 300GB. This new model, dubbed the MK3001GRRB/R, features an SAS interface and drive-based encryption to reduce end-of-life costs when retiring old models without having to perform lengthly rewrites to wipe old data.

Severe flooding in Thailand has put a crimp in Western Digital’s hard drive output. The flooding is wreaking havoc on the area around Bangkok, damaging infrastructure and causing problems with utilities and transportation systems in the region. 

Datacenter architects and SAN manufacturers have fallen in love with the SSD for caching and metadata storage and OCZ is doing its best to return that affection. The San Jose-based company has announced that it’s releasing a 1.8" version of its enterprise-grade Deneva SSD line dubbed the Deneva MO-297.