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VelociRaptor shrugs off its fat coat

Western Digital's VelociRaptor has sloughed off its 3.5-inch form factor to reveal the skinny but fast 10,000rpm, 2.5-inch SATA drive inside.[more...]

posted on 23 July 2008

HDD industry looking good

Research house iSuppli has revealed shipment figures showing that the hard disk drive industry is in rude health and growing.[more...]

posted on 23 July 2008

SanDisk's poor Vista performance

SanDisk's complaint that its solid state drive (SSD) products don't accelerate Vista PCs and notebooks because VIsta is not written to use SSDs could be cloaking a native SanDisk SSD performance problem.[more...]

posted on 23 July 2008

Into the blue

Sales of Blu-ray players and recorders have increased by almost 50 percent from May to June this year in Japan.[more...]

posted on 23 July 2008

‘Fast-Install’ Data Mover for Intelligent Storage Appliances

BridgeHead Software has a new product to migrate customers' data onto new storage products. It's a modification of its file archiving software and aimed at use by the channel when installing new storage appliances for customers.[more...]

posted on 23 July 2008

Texas Memory Systems announces world's fastest and biggest RAM SSD

Texas Memory Systems has introduced its RamSan-440 DRAM-based solid state drive (SSD) with half as much I/O bandwidth as its predecessor and a quadrupled capacity.[more...]

posted on 22 July 2008

Quantum adds entry-level deduping DXi7500

Quantum has introduced an entry-level DXi7500 deduplicating disk-to-disk backup storage array with a 9TB capacity rating. It has also enhanced the Vision software product which provides management and reporting functions for all Quantum disk backup and tape automation priducts.[more...]

posted on 22 July 2008