Patriot has announced their new line of performance SSDs, the Wildfire. The Patriot Wildfire SSD family will be based around the SandForce SF-2281 processor, the same processor that the recently reviewed OCZ Vertex 3 uses, to deliver sequential read and write speeds of up to 500MB/s.
The Seagate Barracuda XT 3TB hard drive has started shipping. Seagate is going without an included HBA as some have done, instead solving the legacy drive over 2.2TB issues with software. An updated version of Seagate DiscWizard gets the job done, making it easy to use the entire 3TB capacity, even within Windows XP and
Icy Dock has introduced its MB974SP-B 4-in-3 SATA Backplane, allowing users to install four 3.5" hard drives into a computer case’s 3 available 5.25" device bays.
Following Apple’s product announcements, LaCie is introducing its Little Big Disk featuring Thunderbolt technology. The company says this is a first of a wave of new Thunderbolt products.
Intel’s Thunderbolt technology hits the market today, nestled inside Apple’s refreshed line of MacBook Pro notebooks. The new machines now have a Thunderbolt port on the side, denoted with a lighting bolt logo. What consumers want to know though is “What exactly is Thunderbolt and why should I care?” Simply put, Thunderbolt is a new high-speed
Apple has posted a preview of some of the hottest features of their new operating system due out this summer, dubbed Mac OS X Lion. As part of the release there are several new storage-realted features that help users not only protect their files, but share them with others very easily as well. Our favorite
SandForce has brought their second generation SSD processors to the consumer space with the SF-2200 and SF-2100. The new processors leverage much of the technology from the enterprise controllers announced last year. The SF-2200 includes support for the SATA 6Gb/s interface and is the first controller to enable 500 MB/s+ read and write speeds for consumer SSDs.
Other World Computing (OWC) has announced a new hardware RAID storage drive with 12TB of storage in a desktop-sized enclosure. It features four 3TB drives in four hot-swappable bays.
Apple is expected to introduce a new version of its MacBook Pro notebook computer in the next two weeks. The most exciting news is the possibility of it having a separate internal 8-16GB SSD dedicated solely to the operating system.
Lenovo has announced the latest new batch of ThinkPad notebooks; the T420s, T420, T520, L420, L520 and W520. Lenovo is touting several new and enhanced features like better video and voice calling, smart PC features for power and performance management, all-day battery life, enterprise management and an intuitive, easy-to-use computing experience. But we’re most excited
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