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Western Digital releases its first 1.5TB mobile drive

HGST has announced its highest capacity 9.5mm-high mobile drive, a 1.5TB, three-platter model that is being targeted at the "prosumer" market.

Toshiba USB portable hard drive is also online file server

Toshiba is set to launch a portable USB hard drive that comes with PC or Mac software that can turn it into an Internet-accessible file server.

Cisco's new director-class storage switch boosts throughput 6X

Cisco's new director-class switch for storage, unveiled today, increases throughput six-fold and offers N+1 resilience.

WD shrinks laptop drives to just 5mm thick

Western Digital is now shipping what it said is the world's first 2.5-inch, 5mm hard drives and solid-state hybrid drives (SSHDs) for use in ultra-slim notebooks.

Next-gen USB SuperSpeed to eliminate power cords

USB SuperSpeed will move from 5Gbps bandwidth to 10Gbps in the coming year, but it's also leaping from 10 watts to 100 watts for charging, which could power monitors and even HDTVs.

IBM to invest $1B in flash memory development

After its buyout of Texas Memory Systems, IBM is now the latest on the vendor bandwagon to push flash into the data centers, saying it will invest a whopping $1 billion into flash research.

Samsung hits high gear, rolls out densest flash chip

Samsung today announced it is now mass-producing a 3-bit per cell, sub-20 nanometer class NAND flash chip that is the densest memory to date.

WD releases its first 12Gbps SAS SSDs

WD subsidiary HGST today released the its first 12Gbps SAS and Fibre Channel SSD line, which sport top speeds of 1,200MB/s.

Non-volatile DIMM cards coming soon to a server and array near you

Viking and Micron plan to begin shipping forms of non-volatile DRAM on standard DDR4 DIMMs this summer. The cards combine DRAM with a NAND flash backup that speeds recovery and can be used as a tier of storage in a server.

Project stores 3D images of world historic sites in limestone mine

The nonprofit organization CyArk creates 3D digital images of the world's historic sites, but stores them on disk drives dropped each week into a bank security box. As the data is expected to grow to two petabytes over the next five years, the group chose a new archival strategy that includes stashing tape drives in a limestone mine storage facility owned by Iron Mountain.

Windows 8: How to free up disk space on Microsoft Surface tablets

One beef against Microsoft's Surface devices is that they have less usable disk space than the advertised disk size would indicate, but there is a relatively easy way to free up as much 7GB of disk space: Create a USB recovery drive and delete the Windows 8 recovery partition from the hard drive.

Dell consolidates, plans unified software and all-flash arrays

In the midst of going private, Dell executives said today they've already consolidated their three storage product divisions into one, they are working on merging their system management interfaces, and they have a number of new products coming out over the next year.

QLogic promises speed, simplicity with first Mt. Rainier cache-on-adapter products

QLogic's technology for clustered cache storage on SAN adapters will hit the market this month in the form of adapters with integrated 200GB or 400GB flash cards.

DRAM trends herald a slowdown in PC uptake

With accelerating growth in tablets and smartphones and a maturing of OSes, PCs are seeing far less growth in DRAM use.

Sepaton releases upgrades to high-end storage appliance

Sepaton today announced its latest update to its enterprise-class data backup appliance, which almost doubles performance and increases connectivity by 2X over its predecessor.

Adaptec shows 12Gbps Serial Attached SCSI

The arrival of Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) at 12Gbps will be a boon for demanding applications such as databases, according to Adaptec by PMC, which is demonstrating the technology at Cebit.

EMC unveils all-SSD array, one app to manage all flash

EMC today announced its first purpose-built, all-SSD array along new PCIe server flash cards and a new software suite that can offer administrators a single view of all their flash assets across the data center.

Micron unveils high-endurance, data center SAS SSD

Micron released today announced a new SAS SSD that it said is aimed at tier one, mission critical applications. The SSD can withstand up to 10 full data fills per day for five years, Micron says.

Dell beefs up its deduplication appliance line

Dell unveiled upgrades to its deduplication appliance line, the DR-series, whose models can now grow to 81TB and replicate data from up to 32 remote offices to a central node.

NetApp releases all-flash array

Outlining its flash strategy for the next two years, NetApp said today that it will begin selling an enterprise-class all-flash array this year and it announced a purpose-built flash storage architecture for 2014.