Drobo today announced shipping the Drobo Mini and Drobo 5D. The Drobo Mini and 5D products are the industry’s first storage arrays to include high-speed Thunderbolt connectivity, USB 3.0, automated tiering that supports solid state drives (SSDs), enhanced reliability features and storage-array portability. The new products are designed to use SSDs with hard disk drives in a fashion […]
Drive vendor Iomega has unveiled the worldwide availability of the latest additions to its lineup of network storage solutions. The first is the new StorCenter px2-300d Network Storage, a high-performance, Intel Atom-powered, double-drive desktop NAS enclosure with up to 6TB of storage. Also announced was the StorCenter ix4-300d Network Storage, the next generation of Iomega¹s […]
Drobo has refreshed its 12-bay storage drive aimed at businesses by incorporating SSDs into the system. The B1200i now uses a small number of SSDs alongside normal hard disks and Drobo’s automatic data-tiering software, boosting performance by up to a claimed 300 percent compared to its previous incarnation. The unit is aimed as primary storage […]
Drive maker LaCie has added a “diskless” model to its five-drive RAID server, the Neil Poulton-designed 5big Network 2 enclosure. Now starting at $350, users can scale or configure their storage as desired, using RAID 0, 1, 5, 5+spare and 6 (hot-swappable). With burst speeds up to 70MB per second thanks to dual LAN ports, […]
Hitachi has introduced a slew of new hard drive solutions for Macs ahead of CES 2012. Among the options for Mac users include new internal hard drives as well as desktop and mobile hard drive solutions. The new drives range variously in capacity from 750GB through to 8TB. The new Hitachi internal drives for Macs […]
Windows and Mac users who would like RAID functionality in a small, portable (and, under Firewire, bus-powered) package are the target of Sonnet’s latest unit, the Fusion F2QR two-drive hardware RAID storage system. The tiny enclosure — about the size of two stacked CD cases — uses two 2.5-inch 1TB hard drives to offer up […]
LaCie finally delivered its long-promised first Thunderbolt device in the Little Big Disk. The drive is hand-portable but has enough headroom in the 10Gbps connection to supply a Mac with speed well beyond what FireWire can do. With a 240GB SSD RAID striped option, it can peak up to 634MB per second in read speeds […]
G-Technology has unveiled its latest storage system, the G-RAID. The aluminum-clad device offers 8TB of storage space, spread across two 4TB disks running at 7,200rpm. The company geared the system for Mac OS X, taking advantage of the 10Gbps Thunderbolt connections on the latest Macs, though a simple reformat extends support to Windows machines. The […]
Other World Computing is offering a 1U rack-mountable storage solution for OS X (10.2 or later) and Windows (XP or higher) that has four bays or data channels offering up to 12 terabytes (TB) of capacity funnelled through one port and one cable connection using a mini-SAS (Serial Attached SCSI) cable that can achieve up […]
LaCie has quietly pushed back the arrival date of its anticipated Thunderbolt-enabled Little Big Disk to late fall/early winter of this year with no explanation. It had originally been planned for this summer. Originally announced in late February shortly after the announcement of Thunderbolt and Apple support, the drive was demoed in April at the […]
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