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LaCie Delivers 6TB '4big Quadra' Storage Solution

LaCie has recently announced that its Neil Poulton-designed 4big Quadra storage solution will now provide its users with an impressive up to 6TB of storage space. The company's product has been designed as a complete four-bay RAID solution for small servers, creative pro workstations or offices that require larg...

18 September 2008
04:32 GMT

Peter Gabriel's Website Goes Missing in Data Center Theft

Those of you who think that online identity theft is the worst that can happen, here's the bad news: how about thieves that steal not only your data, but the entire web server as well? This is exactly what happened to Peter Gabriel's website yesterday morning when all the browser requests for the webpage en...

6 May 2008
10:05 GMT

Academic Couple Turns to Apple for 'In-House' Research

They got 11 video cameras, 14 state-of-the-art microphones, they built a temperature-controlled data-storage room in their basement, loaded it with 5 Xserves and a 4.4TB Xserve RAID, backup tape drives as well as robotic tape changers. What is all this for, you ask? To capture "practically every waking moment of thei...

18 April 2008
07:13 GMT

Acer Altos easyStore, Now Available in 3 TB Version

Acer, world's third largest PC vendor has introduced its newest update to the easyStore collection: the Altos easyStore. The intelligent data storage device is targeted at small- and medium-businesses, but it is also suitable for home networking environments.The storage device is easy to set up and deploy, and, ...

5 March 2008
02:48 GMT

Need to Move Your Data Quickly? Switch to eSATA!

The external SATA technology, recently introduced on the market, extended the users' possibility to connect external SATA hard-disks. The USB drives no longer represent a novelty, with their cheap price and, let's face it, lower performance in the context of the current needs. We are living in the high-defi...

21 November 2007
05:19 GMT

Store Your Data Safely in a Portable RAID Array - The World's Smallest!

RAID arrays have proved their worth over time, as they allow a greater level of security for the users' data, even in the case of a system crash. However, said arrays are typically found in networked attached storage solutions (NAS) or external HDDs, which are anything but portable. And this is exactly the reaso...

14 November 2007
09:51 GMT

Pivot3 Launches a RAID-Based HD Video Storage System - Supports Up to Petabyte Sizes

Video surveillance systems have evolved quite a lot over the past few years but, since high-definition video has become pretty much the standard nowadays, the manufacturers and integrators of such systems were forced to change their offerings as well. And this is the reason why the people over at Pivot3 have come up ...

9 November 2007
10:21 GMT

How to Build Your Own SSD or RAID Array with just Four Compact Flash Memory Cards

Solid-state drives (or SSDs) are becoming increasingly popular nowadays, due to the fact that they provide relatively high storage capacities, as well as a very high degree of reliability and shock-resistance, especially for mobile or portable applications. However, said storage solutions are generally quite expensiv...

24 October 2007
14:36 GMT

A Very Fast Serial ATA Controller Launched

Highpoint announced the launch of a very fast Serial ATA and RAID controller, the Rocket RAID 2522, that is able to handle a data transferring rate of 1.2GB per second and thus it is well suited for applications where large data volumes are moved from one place to another and where low data access times are essential...

8 October 2007
04:19 GMT

The Perfect External Storage Solution, Designed by WiebeTech

External storage devices are very popular nowadays as inside a typical computer case there is room for a limited number of hard disk drives and there are some users out there that store and use huge amounts of data. While using a dedicated external storage device comes with a number of advantages, there are a few les...

4 October 2007
03:05 GMT

LaCie's 2big Line of Professional RAID Drives

While the external storage market for home of small office is in full swing, the professionals need big storage solutions too and the latest RAID-based system from LaCie is going to satisfy all needs for more capacity and scalability. Unlike the external Golden drive aimed at home users that the manufacturing company...

13 September 2007
06:13 GMT

Storage for Video Professionals

LaCie announced one of the biggest data storage solutions available for video editing professionals and digital content creation applications. The new array has a maximum storage capacity of 5TB and it features a 10-bit uncompressed HD playback support implemented at hardware level.According to the company's pre...

14 August 2007
09:57 GMT

NetCom's eSATA-Based RAID 5 System

NetCom announced the launch of a new data storage system that is designed as a low cost hardware based RAID 5 enabled solution that combines the new eSATA host interface with a hardware platform that houses four drives in a desktop like enclosure.According to NecCom's press release that was cited by the news sit...

14 August 2007
04:23 GMT

Sun's StorageTek "Cheap" Line

Sun's line of storage products that aimed at the corporate environment received a new additional family member that the manufacturing company sees as the solution to the needs of small businesses and back offices. The new virtual tape library box can be squeezed into tight spaces and does not need the room of ot...

8 August 2007
10:42 GMT

Back Up Your Data, Please

Every computer user has some files that he or she would like to keep in the event of an unfortunate hard disk drive failure. The way to do this it the data back up, invented in the long gone days when computers still used punched cards and the fast storage meant a few kilometers of magnetic tape. There are a lot of b...

28 July 2007
07:47 GMT

Alienware Has a Thing for SSDs

Solid State Drives (SSD for short) are from some people's point of view the much awaited replacement of the old hard disk drives. They offer a few significant advantages over the mechanical disk drives, mostly a higher read speed, lower power consumption and a more robust design. On the downside is the still low...

25 July 2007
07:04 GMT

The Power of eSATA and JBOD

First of all, what is an eSATA JBOD enclosure? Well, from its name, you can bet it is an enclosure using the eSATA interface and the JBOD "standard". The very fast transfer rate of the eSATA interface is mixed with the more flexible standard JBOD to create an enclosure with a maximum capacity of 3000GB and the great ...

23 July 2007
03:34 GMT

How to Create Your Very Own USB RAID

RAID is the acronym for "Redundant Arrays of Inexpensive Disks" and is considered to be a pretty important concept for a number of things. First of all it can be used to increase data security, as a form of on the fly data backup is performed. The second most widespread use of the RAID is to increase speed and data b...

16 July 2007
06:10 GMT

EMC Storage Gear to Be Upgraded

EMC is expected to announce its line of major upgrades for the Symmetrix, Clariion and Centera storage systems, on Monday in a webcast. The enhancements will include higher capacities, greater energy efficiency, additional data and access security and some other new features. A brand new high end storage system named...

14 July 2007
04:50 GMT




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