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Some motherboards, especially small ones, cannot support RAID storage configurations on their own, so AREA PC developed an add-in-board that will do it in their stead.
The product will be available for sale in Japan soon, if it isn't already, and bears the name of RAIDJet SD-PESA3-2RL.
There are only two RAID ... |
14 February 2012
15:11 GMT |
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Toshiba gained recognition during a competition recently held in Japan, by the Agency for Natural Resources and Energy from the Energy Conservation Center, Japan (ECCJ).
The agency conducted some tests to see which solid state drives really excelled at power saving, and the results led to Toshiba's MKx001GRZB ... |
14 February 2012
11:00 GMT |
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OCZ’s popular Z-Drive line of high-performance PCI Express SSDs for enterprise applications has just received the addition of a new member with the introduction of the Z-Drive R4 CloudServ series of solid state drives.
Just as their name implies, these new PCIe SSDs were specially designed in order be used in ... |
14 February 2012
10:02 GMT |
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Western Digital will get a big load of hard drives and hard drive technologies when it finally completes the acquisition of Hitachi, but now it can add some extra data center resources to the list.
Hitachi has issued a press release in which it announces that its product portfolio, as well as overall assets collect... |
13 February 2012
15:41 GMT |
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Showing that it is at least as committed on the enterprise front as it is on the consumer market, Dell has made the official announcement of its newest technology outlet, a so-called world-class, multi-client data center.
Dell is aiming for enterprises in search of secure private and hybrid clouds, as well as any o... |
13 February 2012
11:14 GMT |
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GeIL, a company that is well known to PC enthusiasts thanks to its high-performance DDR3 memory series, has recently unveiled that later this year the company plans to enter the ever more popular SSD market.
The company plans to introduce two such product ranges later in 2012, dubbed S2 and Zenith.
GeIL’s S2... |
13 February 2012
05:29 GMT |
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The market for hard disk drives continues to be defined by overly high prices and insufficient supply, symptoms that aren't going to be healed until the later parts of this year (2012).
People have heard or read repeatedly about how the hard disk drive unit market is in dire straits and how it will continue to ... |
11 February 2012
06:10 GMT |
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It might not be on par with the performance of Class 10, but Silicon Power's new Class 6 microSDHC memory card should find quite a few customers of its own anyway.Long story short, Silicon Power has released a new, SD 2.0-compliant Class 6 microSDHC card whose capacity if of 32 GB.It is intended for all sorts of... |
11 February 2012
04:50 GMT |
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There is a new external hard drive unit in town, one that does not place as much stock on raw capacity as it does on programmability.
The Buffalo DriveStation HD-LS1.5U2J, according to Hermitage Akihabara, has a capacity of 1.5TB.
It connects to a PC via USB 2.0 and will start shipping in Japan this month (February... |
8 February 2012
09:14 GMT |
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During the last couple of years, the popularity of Single-level Cell NAND Flash has declined to the point that this sort of memory is pretty much confined to rugged small-capacity SSDs, but Hitachi GST is set to revive SLC NAND with its recently announced Ultrastar SSD400S.B enterprise solid state drives.
Initially... |
8 February 2012
08:01 GMT |
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A method has been invented that will monumentally accelerate the transfer speeds of hard drive units.A team of physicists has discovered a new way to write data on magnetic storage units.Data on HDD platters is recorded by inverting the poles of a magnet. So far, this inversion has been achieved through the applicati... |
8 February 2012
07:20 GMT |
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ATP Electronics, a company specialized in developing memory products for the embedded and industrial markets, has just announced a new series of ruggedized Single-level Cell (SLC) SSDs designed to operate in rough environments that would make most other solid state drives fail.
ATP’s new SSDs were released int... |
8 February 2012
05:42 GMT |
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CeBIT is still a bit far off, but companies that intend to attend it are already sending invitations, like the one that revealed part of what Patriot Memory would showcase.
Apparently, the company is getting ready to introduce three new product collections at the event in Hannover, Germany.
The Wildfire Pro and ... |
7 February 2012
10:02 GMT |
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Verbatim has reportedly begun sending out shipments of its latest solid state drives designed with support for the SATA III interface, otherwise known as SATA 6.0 Gbps.
The drives now selling in Europe have capacities of 120 GB and 240 GB and, to take advantage of the bandwidth provided by SATA III, rely on SandForc... |
7 February 2012
09:34 GMT |
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We said that makers of memory products were doing poorly in terms of finances and, in tune with those reports, SanDisk is revealed to have decided to reduce the prices of its NAND products.
What Digitimes says about SanDisk is not so different from what Kingston was revealed to be doing a few days ago.
Basically,... |
7 February 2012
04:28 GMT |
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Rumors regarding Intel’s plans to utilize SandForce SATA 6Gbps controllers for their high-performance solid state drives have turned out to be true, the chip maker’s 520 SSDs being the first drives to go this route.
Launched just earlier today, the 520 SSD series comprises so far five models with capacit... |
7 February 2012
02:54 GMT |
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It was just days ago that Micron's Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Steve Appleton, was reported dead after suffering a plane crash.The company has now decided who the new chief executive is going to be, namely D. Mark Durcan, who has served as Chief Operating Officer of Micron since 2007.He will also serve on Mic... |
6 February 2012
11:18 GMT |
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After losing a major patent against NVIDIA, Rambus has announced that it has acquired a privately-held memory technology company, complete with its own special portfolio.
Rambus has managed to get Unity Semiconductor to sign a deal through which the latter becomes part of the former in exchange for $35 million in c... |
6 February 2012
08:51 GMT |
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Kingston didn't officially say this yet, but rumors are roaming around that it will cut the prices of all its products made out of NAND Flash chips. That is to say, all Kingston USB flash drives, solid state drives (SSDs) and memory cards will end up cheaper by the end of the year (2012). Digitimes is the sou... |
4 February 2012
06:16 GMT |
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The hard disk drive market suffered severely from the floods that struck Thailand late last year (2011), but Western Digital, the company most seriously affected, may just recover faster than originally expected.
According to the company's most recent words on the matter, full recovery is expected to happen by... |
4 February 2012
03:45 GMT |
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Looks like Pioneer has completed a new optical disk drive unit, one that supports pretty much every disk format out there, down to the latest and most capacious Blu-ray.
For those that don't remember, the newest and baddest Blu-ray format is called BDXL and, depending on how many layers a disk has, it offers 10... |
3 February 2012
10:48 GMT |
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So far, Transcend enjoyed only limited success in the solid state drive market, but recently the company decided to try its luck yet again with a new series of SATA 6Gbps SSDs based on SandForce’s second generation controllers.
The new drives were released in the SSD720 series and, initially, the range will ... |
3 February 2012
09:32 GMT |
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Orico has just launched the XG-2501p 2.5-inch SATA HDD/SSD enclosure, the XG-3502i, essentially a slot-in docking-station for the XG-2501p, and the combo-package XG-2516s which includes both of the others.
In that order, they are reportedly priced at $5, $7.8 and $11, or 3.81 Euro, 5.95 Euro and 8.40 Euro, respecti... |
2 February 2012
11:13 GMT |
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PNY is almost ready to start shipping a new series of solid state drives, one that uses SandForce controllers and MLC (multi-level cell) NAND Flash memory.
The line is called Optima Pro and is made of two members with capacities of 120 GB and 240 GB, respectively.
The SandForce SF-2582 controller is what makes thei... |
2 February 2012
10:23 GMT |
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Desktops usually end up with unused 5.25-inch bays, since few people see the point in owning more than one optical disk drive, so Xilence decided to put that empty space to good use.
What the company did was create the Dual-Drive Dock, a sort of drive enclosure that goes in a 5.25-inch bays, but holds two HDDs or SS... |
2 February 2012
09:18 GMT |
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Chinese solid state drive maker RunCore has just announced the introduction of a new series of solid SSDs based on the SATA 6Gbps SandForce controllers, which the company claims were specially tuned for delivering optimized performance.
The new drives were released into the Pro-V MAX series and initially the range w... |
2 February 2012
03:57 GMT |
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Seagate recently published its financial results for the latest quarter and, since it was on the subject, it talked a bit about the HDD shortage and how it would go from there.
People may remember that, back in January, 2012, Hitachi said it didn't expect the supply of HDD to fully recover until late this year... |
2 February 2012
03:38 GMT |
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In a darkly amusing turn of events, Seagate was found to have actually benefited from the hard disk drive shortage and subsequent price hike.
It helped that the company didn't actually get hit directly by the Thailand floods, unlike Western Digital.
Long story short, Seagate shipped 3.1% fewer drives, but saw ... |
1 February 2012
10:45 GMT |
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Since everyday people aren't the only ones that need some means to store lots of data, LaCie decided it was time for yet another NAS storage device, one dubbed 5big Office Series.
Right to the point, this thing is a network-attached storage device with five drive bays, leading to a storage capacity maximum of ... |
1 February 2012
08:46 GMT |
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Fujitsu has not put much effort into entering the solid state drive market, but that is set to change as the company finds it cannot go against the flow of time. Fujitsu deals in a lot of things, but solid state drives weren't among them until recently, or at least they weren't an even remotely relevant p... |
1 February 2012
08:14 GMT |
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Hitachi Global Storage Technologies is still in the game, as evident from a certain new hard drive unit that has shown its face on the Japanese market.
The new Hitachi HDD, dubbed Deskstar 7K4000 HDS724040ALE640, is a rather curious piece of work, though clearly intended for enthusiasts.
Rather than relying on th... |
31 January 2012
03:27 GMT |
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Intel will soon update its Rapid Storage Technology (RST) software suite to version 11.5 which, among other features, will also bring support for the TRIM command when using two or more SSDs setup to work in a RAID array. The TRIM command was specially designed to inform solid-state drives which blocks of data are n... |
30 January 2012
19:21 GMT |
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Though CPUs are still at the 32nm node, NAND Flash memory is actually further along, something SanDisk intends to make the best of.
SanDisk is one of the better known makers of NAND Flash products, such as memory cards, flash drives and SSDs.
It so happens that the company has begun production of memory based on t... |
30 January 2012
14:41 GMT |
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Anyone wondering what OWC was up to may be interested in learning that the company has completed its latest batch of enterprise solid state drives, the Mercury Enterprise Pro 6G series.
Other World Computing may be known for its habit of launching storage solutions for Apple products, but that doesn't mean it ... |
30 January 2012
06:03 GMT |
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We've just listed the latest firmware for Iomega's StorCenter NAS units; from the small units designed to meet the usual storage needs in small applications, up to the big bucks storage solutions, they're all receiving updates. The new firmware brings nice new features like the Configuration Capture an... |
27 January 2012
09:53 GMT |
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Plextor revealed many optical drives over the years, so the PX-B950SA is just the latest in a long string of units. Designed for desktops, the PX-B950SA is an internal Blu-ray writer (5.25-inch form factor) that communicates with motherboards via the SATA interface. Single-layer BD-R disks are written at a speed of... |
26 January 2012
15:41 GMT |
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The Thunderbolt technology from Intel has Western Digital promoting it at this year's Macworld/iWorld event, taking place at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, between January 26 and January 28.
Thunderbolt can work at up to 10 Gbps on two channels at once, in both directions, which means much higher read/wri... |
26 January 2012
11:02 GMT |
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People living in metropolitan areas may be interested in the Clip Attache USB flash drives, or so PNY believes.
Available in capacities of 4 GB, 8 GB, 16 GB and 32 GB, the drives have colorful metallic cases illustrated with one of four floral designs.
Additionally, the back plate is designed like a hook, so that t... |
26 January 2012
04:58 GMT |
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Those who believe that SSD sales will be lackluster have already said their piece, so SanDisk is taking its turn at painting a brighter picture for the storage devices.
SanDisk is one of the primary suppliers of solid state drives around the world, so it makes sense that it would look at its future in the most opti... |
26 January 2012
03:53 GMT |
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It was not long ago that the shortcomings of data security in the cloud were pointed out and, since Quantum Mechanics isn't quite there yet, NIST has decided to issue some guidelines.
NIST, short for National Institute of Standards and Technology, decided it was time organizations got a clear idea of what they... |
25 January 2012
16:51 GMT |
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NAS devices continue to play an important role in home and small office networks, so I-O Data figured it was time for a new one to make its appearance.
The market for network-attached storage devices has just grown by a tiny bit, courtesy of I-O Data, whose research and development team completed the LANDisk HDL-Z2... |
25 January 2012
10:08 GMT |
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Western Digital is not nearly as convinced as NAND Flash storage makers that the ultrabook market will greatly boost SSD sales. Western Digital reportedly stated, during the most recent conference call with financial analysts, that solid state drives sales wouldn't rise nearly as fast as some believed. One w... |
25 January 2012
05:02 GMT |
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Today is shaping up to be the day when the consequences of the floods in Thailand (in the IT field) become obvious, as even Western Digital has been forced to report abysmal shipment results. Following in the footsteps of Advanced Micro Devices and NVIDIA, Western Digital has handed out some financial details of it... |
25 January 2012
03:42 GMT |
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While personal storage devices can be secured in various ways, the cloud cannot implement the same data protection features, so a team from the University of Vienna figured it was time to find a way to protect user data even when stored in the cloud. The solution they developed relies on the principles of quantum m... |
24 January 2012
14:51 GMT |
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If anyone was skeptical about the benefits of firmware updates, OCZ will probably shatter any unfortunate preconceptions with the new enhanced IOPS firmware (v1.13) for the Octane SATA 3.0 Series SSDs.Long story short, the update, after applied to all octane SATA 6.0 Gbps solid state drives, improves the IOPS perform... |
24 January 2012
10:49 GMT |
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In a move that is quite common on the worldwide IT industry, and every other industry really, Micron has announced that it is taking over ownership of Virtensys.
Micron already has an extensive collection of solid state drive storage units, but its enterprise collection could do with some enhancements.
It has bee... |
23 January 2012
04:39 GMT |
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Samsung has managed to build quite a reputation for itself in the SSD industry thanks to its high-quality drives that seemed to be far more reliable than their SandForce-based counterparts, but recently even Samsung has run into some troubles with its SSDs.These were uncovered just recently by a user of the Overclock... |
20 January 2012
15:11 GMT |
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Western Digital has started shipping the My Book Live Duo, a NAS (network-attached storage) device that is meant to act as a central hub for the home.Nicknamed a personal cloud storage unit by WD itself, My Book Live Duo can be accessed from not just PCs, but iPhones, iPads, iPod Touch and Android devices as well (sm... |
20 January 2012
13:51 GMT |
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Samsung has just announced a new hybrid memory device, one that combines the benefits of two distinct types: NAND Flash and Dynamic Random Access Memory (DRAM).
Samsung came up with a memory solution that is supposed to serve the entry-level and mainstream smartphone market segments.
Normally, DRAM and NAND Flash ... |
20 January 2012
13:21 GMT |
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After releasing the HyperX SSD and the SSDNow KC100, Kingston has now added another SandForce SF-2281 powered solid state drive to its arsenal, the V+200 which targets users in search of a more affordable high-performance SSD. Until today’s announcement of the V+200, Kingston’s V+ series SSDs were based ... |
20 January 2012
04:02 GMT |
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