Western Digital, one of the world's most recognizable brands in the consumer storage market, has announced today the debut of its new WD S25-inch 2.5-inch traditional hard drive, featuring a SAS interface. Designed for the traditional enterprise market segment, the new drive is the company's first SAS-based product, offering an alternative for users looking for a high-performance storage solution. At the same time, it is aimed at mission-critical enterprise server and enterprise storage applications, such as data centers and large data arrays.“Our entry into the traditional-enterprise market continues the strategic expansion... [read more >>] Kingston, one of the world's leading vendors of Flash-based storage solutions and memory products, has announced today the expansion of its new family of SSD V series drives with the debut of the SSD 40GB accelerator drive. According to the company, this new product has been designed as a cost-effective way to accelerate the performance of a desktop computer system, by improving boot times and application load times. While it doesn't provide the highest capacity in its class, the new SSD does deliver an impressive read performance, making for an ideal choice for PC users looking to boost the performance of their PCs in an affordab... [read more >>] SanDisk, one of the world's leading vendors of flash-based storage solutions, has announced today that it has begun production shipments of its next-generation flash memory cards, developed on the company's advanced X4 flash memory technology. According to the Milpitas, California-based flash memory vendor, the new technology, which was announced early this year, can hold four bits of data in each memory cell, twice as many as the cells that are available in conventional multi-level (MLC) NAND memory chips. “The development and commercialization of X4 technology represents an important milestone for the flash storage ... [read more >>] Following a report, earlier today, the Scotts Valley, California-based Seagate has announced the official debut of its new Barracuda XT hard disk drive, claiming it to be the world's fastest, largest-capacity mainstream desktop hard drive. Boasting an impressive 2TB of storage space and the next-generation SATA 6Gb/s connectivity interface, Seagate's latest 3.5-inch hard drive is shipping today and is expected to become available for users looking to adopt new motherboards coming from two of the industry's leading motherboard makers, ASUS and Gigabyte. “Capacity and performance remain the defining attributes of h... [read more >>] Coming to provide its customers with an increased storage solution in a small and energy-efficient form factor, Toshiba has recently announced the introduction of its new line of 2.5-inch hard drives, boasting a capacity of 640GB. With the announcement, the company's Storage Device Division (SDD) has expanded its lineup with two new models, the Mkxx65GSX, designed for both desktop and notebook PCs, but also a new portable hard drive for users looking for increased storage space on an external storage solution.“From cherished family photos and home videos to entertainment collections and personal data files, consumers are creating... [read more >>] Following a series of previous reports that surfaced on the Internet last week, Intel, the world's leading vendor of computer processors, has finally come up with a firmware update for its latest line of Flash-based Solid State Drives, designed using the company's latest 34nm manufacturing technology. The firmware is now available for download, right here on Softpedia, and comes to provide users of the new drives with a solution to the reported password bug that affected their stored data. As we reported a while back, the issue has led Intel to stop the shipments of its new SSDs, claiming that these drives will restart ship... [read more >>] Late last month, there were a series of reports on the Internet stating that Toshiba was planning to launch its own Blu-ray Disc player, joining Sony and other industry players in the Blu-ray Disc Association. Following said reports, the company has officially announced today that it has applied for membership of the Blu-ray Disc Association (BDA), confirming plans to introduce new products that are designed to support the aforementioned optical format. The move is somewhat to be expected, considering the company's decision last year to end the development of the HD DVD optical disc format. According to a recent press statement,... [read more >>] Hitachi, one of the world's leading vendors of storage products, has announced today the launch of its latest Deskstar hard disk drive, coming as the world's first 2TB 7200RPM hard disk drive. Joining leading industry players like Seagate and Western Digital, Hitachi is now shipping its high-capacity HDDs, coming to provide computer users with a choice for a low-power and eco-friendly storage solution, ready to deliver a massive 2TB of storage space. According to the company, the Deskstar 7K2000 boasts a number of impressive features and is ready to provide users with a choice for a high-performance storage solution.“The new... [read more >>] Following a series of rumors and speculations over the Internet, the Santa Clara, California-based Intel has now officially announced the introduction of its new NAND Flash-based Solid State Drives, which take advantage of the company's new 34nm manufacturing process. With the announcement, the chip maker has become the first in the industry to provide computer users with a 34nm-based SSD, delivering increased performance, improved latency and a lower price tag, making it more affordable to a wider public. Despite previous rumors, the announcement didn't include details about a new product, but rather indicated that Intel was movi... [read more >>] Kingston Technology, one of the world's leading vendors of NAND Flash-based memory products, has just announced another addition to its line of DataTraveler USB flash-drives, expanding the storage capacity to a world's first 256GB. The new DataTraveler 300 comes just weeks after the company's previously announced DataTraveler 200, which was launched as the world's first 128GB USB drive. With the launch of its new DataTraveler 300, Kingston doubles the storage capacity of the world's highest-capacity USB flash drive, providing high-end users with even more storage in the same convenient form factor.“The DataTra... [read more >>] | 
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