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MSI Possibly Working on SandForce SF-2000-series SSD
The solid state market is heating up as spindle-based drives continue to sell at much higher prices than last year and NAND flash is getting cheaper. The latest entrant may be motherboard and laptop...
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Kickstarter begins for Transporter: Internet Connected Private Storage
I was recently briefed on an interesting new product called the Transporter, a file sharing device engineered by the same folks that took part in the creation of the Drobo. Connected Data has launched...
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iSuppli Estimates Hard Drive Industry Will Experience 12% Decline In 2013
Analytics firm IHS recently released its iSuppli Storage Space Market Brief. According to the report, 2013 does not look good for hard drive manufacturers who may see up to a 12% decline in revenues....
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Synology Launches DSM 4.2 NAS Management Software
Synology recently took the wraps off its latest NAS management software, called DiskStation Manager (DSM) 4.2. The new software suite is available as a free update for a number of its...
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Seagate Launches 4TB, Four-Platter Hard Drive For $200
Seagate recently took the wraps off of a new 4TB hard drive. The new drive uses the company's 1TB platters, and the ST4000DM000 uses four 1TB platters. Other characteristics include a 7,200 RPM spindle...
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Rumor: AMD Working With ASMedia on SATA Express
The new SATA Express (SATAe) and M.2 standards are hot topics in the storage world at the moment, and SATAe is one of the more interesting features of the new Intel Z97-based motherboards. Now it looks...
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Intel / Micron Announce 3D NAND Production with Industry's Highest Density:...
Intel and Micron are jointly announcing new 3D NAND technology that will radically increase solid-storage capacity going forward. The companies have indicated that moving to this technology will allow...
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Lenovo Tech World: High-Performance S2200 and S3200 Storage Arrays
Lenovo has announced two new high-performance storage products aimed at small and medium business, and the new S2200 and S3200 storage arrays are designed with speed in mind.The Storage S2200 and S3200...
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Samsung's Enterprise SSD PM1725 Hits 6 GB/s and 1 Million IOPS in Demo
The 950 Pro SSD is here, (and Allyn has the full review right here) and while it's the fastest consumer SSD out there, the latest enterprise SSD demo from Samsung is absolutely insane.Image credit: Kit...
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Sony's Optical Disc Archive Storage Reaches 3.3 TB
Sony has developed a higher-capacity version of their Optical Disc Archive (ODA), which now allows up to 3.3 TB of archival storage with the promise of 100-year retention.Sony ODS-D280U (Image credit:...
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Thecus Announces N4810 4-Bay NAS with 4K Video Output
Thecus has announced their newest NAS with the N4810, an 4-bay design based on the existing N2810PRO 2-bay model. The N4810 offers up to 40 TB of hard drive storage support, and an Intel Celeron N3160...
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Microsemi Flashtec Controllers Offer PCIe 3.0 x8 NVMe SSDs up to 20TB
Microsemi's Flashtec NVMe SSD controllers are now in production, and as Computer Base reports (Google-translated version of the page available here) these controllers use twice as many PCIe lanes than...
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FMS 2016: Facebook Talks WORM QLC NAND Flash, Benchmarks XPoint
At their FMS 2016 Keynote, Facebook gave us some details on the various storage technologies that fuel their massive operation:In the four corners above, they covered the full spectrum of storing bits....
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Now that's dense storage; single atom storage
As we are not going to see scanning tunnelling microscopes included in our home computers anytime soon this experiment is simply proof of the concept that data can be stored on a single atom. That...
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PC Perspective Spring 2017 Buyer's Guide
Spring is in the air! And while many traditionally use this season for cleaning out their homes, what could be the point of reclaiming all of that space besides filling it up again with new PC hardware...
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