Today Toshiba announced they are updating their STOR.E External drive lineup to include the newer and faster USB 3.0 interface. While not Thunderbolt, it is a step in the right direction, with more laptops offering USB 3.0 as standard, even on lower configurations. Backwards compatibility is also strong with USB 3.0, working with older interfaces,

Almost a year ago we reviewed the first hybrid SSD/HDD (well, first in a long time); the Seagate Momentus XT. Since that time it has remained the one and only drive in the hybrid drive category and gained a ton of popularity in the enthusiast market. While offering a very good mixture of performance and capacity, which

Western Digital has announced a 6TB My Book Studio Edition II dual-drive storage system. Designed largely for Mac users who are creating, editing and storing video and photo files, the My Book Studio Edition II offers a quad interface (eSATA, FireWire 800, FireWire 400 and USB 2.0), Time Machine support and a top capacity of

Seagate has announced several updates to their enterprise hard drive and SSD lines. The Pulsar.2 is an MLC NAND based SSD that offers capacities up to 800GB and the Pulsar XT.2 leverages SLC NAND to deliver Seagate’s fastest drive speeds to date. On the hard drive front, the Savvio 15K.3 gets a capacity boost to

Today OCZ Technology announced that they will be purchasing Indilinx, which is one of the primary manufacturers of SSD controllers and software. Currently OCZ uses Indilinx in a variety of products, including the Z-Drive and Onyx-series SSDs.

Addonics Technologies has announced a tool used to fully encrypt storage solutions. The CipherChain is a pass-through device between the storage device and the system.

Hitting the wire today is news that Western Digital is acquiring Hitachi Global Storage Technologies for $3.5 billion in cash and 25 million Western Digital common shares, valued at $750 million based on the closing price on March 4, 2011.  The board of directors for both companies have approved the transaction which is expected to

HighPoint Technologies has launched its Rocket and RocketRAID 600 SATA 6Gb/s series HBAs. They use PCI-express 2.0 x1 and x4 with two or four SATA ports.

G.Skill has announced an updated SSD line, the Phoenix II. The Phoenix II family will leverage the new SandForce SF-2200 processor, SATA 6Gb/s interface and 25nm NAND to deliver read and write speeds of 550/500 MB/s.