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G-Technology Ships 8 TB Thunderbolt RAID Drive

By Douglas Perry published 18 April 12

G-Technology announced an external Thunderbolt drive the company claims is capable of reaching sustained throughput of 280 MB/s.

Sony Replacing Tape With Optical Disc Archive System

By Kevin Parrish published 17 April 12

Sony is pushing the industry into ditching the old-school tape storage system with its new Optical Disc Archive Drive.

CloudFTP Turns USB Drives Into Wireless Cloud Storage

By Douglas Perry published 11 April 12

CloudFTP has made it from Kickstarter into a real-world product.

HDD Industry Set for Return to Growth This Year

By Douglas Perry published 3 April 12

Market researchers believe that the HDD industry will be able to recover this year and grow unit shipments again.

Samsung Spins Off Display Unit; Spends $7B on Chip Plant

By Douglas Perry published 3 April 12

Samsung said that it is building a new factory to manufacture NAND flash chips to meet the growing demand that is especially created by mobile computing devices.

WD Ships "World's First" Portable 2TB HDD

By Kevin Parrish published 20 March 12

Now you can cram 2 TB into your pants and honestly brag about it.

Seagate Reaches Terabit Areal Density Milestone

By Kevin Parrish published 20 March 12

This new areal density milestone could pave the way to 3.5-inch drives with 60 TB capacities.

WD Dishes Out Pricey My Book Thunderbolt Drive

By Kevin Parrish published 16 March 12

WD is shipping the My Book Thunderbolt Duo external storage system, but it doesn't come cheap.

Marvell Unveils New SSD 6Gb/s SATA Controller

By Douglas Perry published 15 March 12

Marvell announced mass market availability of its new 88SS9187 SATA controller that will find its way into SSDs for ultrabooks.

Promise Debuts 4X Thunderbolt RAID Box

By Douglas Perry published 11 March 12

Promise Technology announced a smaller version of its Pegasus RAID storage box that integrates 2.5-inch hard drives as well as Thunderbolt connectivity.

Western Digital Sells HDD Manufacturing to Toshiba

By Douglas Perry published 2 March 12

Western Digital (WD) and Toshiba announced that the two companies have reached an agreement under which WD will sell certain 3.5-inch manufacturing and distribution assets.

Hard Drive Prices to Remain Inflated Throughout 2012

By Douglas Perry published 12 February 12

Laser Heat Used to Make HDD Write Transfers Faster

By Kevin Parrish published 9 February 12

Researchers have discovered that recording data on a HDD platter using a quick laser burst is much faster than the traditional use of a magnetic field.

Seagate Quietly Intros GoFlex Thunderbolt Adapter

By Kevin Parrish published 2 February 12

This adapter provides a Thunderbolt connection to Seagate's portable GoFlex external drives.

Seagate Believes HDD Supply Disruption to Continue in 2012

By Douglas Perry published 2 February 12

Seagate estimates 2012 HDD shortage at 150 million units

Cleversafe Announces 10 Exabyte Storage System Configuration

By Douglas Perry published 28 January 12

Cleversafe, a cloud storage software vendor which offers its customers "limitless storage space", says that it has designed a dispersed storage system that exceeds a storage capability of 10 Exabytes (EB), or 1,000 Petabytes (PB).