OWC has offered the OWC Mercury Elite Pro Qx2 for a while now, but over time they’ve managed to update the unit with compelling features and now, with support for up the 16TB of storage via four Hitachi Deskstar 5K4000 hard drives. The four-bay OWC Mercury Elite Pro Qx2 is highlighted by its all metal body, quad

In an era of increasing computing mobility thanks to tablets and smartphones, there’s a price premium for storage. Many storage companies are trying to find creative ways around this, creating a new category of wirelessly accessible storage. Samsung’s take on this space is around providing modern access to legacy content – old movies, family photos

HighPoint has released their latest SSD caching effort, the RocketCache 3240X8. The RocketCache is a PCIe hardware and software combination that is designed to leverage anywhere from one to three low capacity SSDs as a high speed cache in front of hard drive based bulk storage array. While there are plenty of client caching solutions

When we first reviewed the OCZ Z-Drive R4 last year, the PCIe SSD amazed us with it’s class leading performance numbers, as well as its ridiculous IOPS/$ performance. It was so fast in fact, that it made us re-develop our testing platform to better accommodate the burgeoning PCIe SSD space, dedicating a testing platform specifically

The Pogoplug Series 4 is the latest effort to bring the personal cloud to the masses in a simple, cost effect manner. Series 4 takes over the flagship position for Pogoplug, adding several features to the entry-level Pogoplug Mobile. Like the Mobile, Series 4 offers users remote access to their data stored on an SD

The Micron RealSSD P400e is designed for the entry-level enterprise SSD space, an increasingly popular segment that is largely read centric, making it the perfect playground for low cost MLC SSDs. The P400e features Micron’s home grown 25nm MLC NAND, SATA 6 Gb/s interface and Marvell controller. Micron uses the popular 2.5" form factor, but

The Hitachi Deskstar 5K4000 represents the first major leap in hard drive capacity we’ve seen in over a year. The 5K4000 provides 4TB of bulk storage coupled with Hitachi’s CoolSpin technology to deliver quiet and power-friendly operation. Along with big capacity, the 5K4000 gets an updated SATA 6Gb/s interface, 32MB cache buffer and delivers media

Icy Dock is well known for their extensive line of drive adapters that solve dozens of issues around fitting x number of drives into y drive bay slots. The net result of each is that users maximize the number of drives their PC can hold. Icy Dock’s latest iteration on this concept is the EZ-Fit

We all know SSDs are fast, but we also know they’re fast for a finite period of time. SSDs wear out as they’re written to, some faster than others depending on NAND, how much or what type of data is written to the SSD and so on. The fear of SSD death, or poor performance