Western Digital announced on Monday that it was buying Hitachi Global Storage Technologies for the equivalent of $4.3 billion. The move includes a combination of $3.5 billion in cash as well as shares worth about $750 million. The deal will see the WD name remain but see Hitachi GST’s CEO Steve Milligan join WD as […]
Storage maker LaCie has released a new Mac USB 3.0 driver. As no Mac ships with a USB 3.0-ready port by default, the driver can only support accessories on a Mac Pro equipped a LaCie PCI Express adapter, or a MacBook Pro with the company’s ExpressCard/34 adapter. In either case, Mac OS X 10.5 is […]
Netgear has announced a technology partnership with StorageCraft to take backup and recovery times from hours to minutes. The complementary combination of Netgear’s ReadyNAS network storage systems and StorageCraft’s ShadowProtect software provides exceptional reliability, speed and affordability for disk-based backup and disaster recovery. Netgear ReadyNAS is a storage industry leader, with over 700PB shipped to […]
Seagate has unveiled the newest addition to its GoFlex family of hard drives-”the GoFlex Home network storage system. When this device is connected to a wireless router, an entire household can centrally store, easily access and continuously back up files wirelessly from both Windows and Mac OS X operating systems on the home network1. The […]
The SD Association announced today two new high-speed performance symbols for the fastest SDXC and SDHC devices and memory cards. SDXC or SDHC products with the UHS-I symbol offer the fastest bus-interface speeds available today, capable of supporting data transfer speeds up to 104 Megabytes per second. UHS-I quadruples the existing maximum possible speed of […]
Pro Softnet Corporation recently announced their release of IDrive for WordPress. “We are working towards enhancing this offering. It currently supports Linux/Unix with PHP 5.1 or higher, ” says Diganta D, Team Lead for IDrive Plugin for WordPress. “We have one goal -“ to provide online backup for every major device and platform. IDrive […]
SanDisk has announced that it is shipping the Xbox 360 USB Flash Drive by SanDisk for the Microsoft Xbox 360 console. The new drive makes it easier than ever for gamers to take their saved game progress, map packs, Arcade game downloads and bonus content with them to use another Xbox 360 console. Pre-configured for […]
With home networking adoption passing 50% of households in North America and 13% worldwide, the consumer network storage market is seeing continued growth. Web-enabled consumer devices, such as TVs and Blu-ray players, are further diversifying the demand and applications for consumer network storage devices, reports In-Stat. “Consumer network storage (CNS) devices increase the content that […]
LaCie in collaboration with Symwave has announced the industry’s first dual hard disk RAID storage solution based on the new SuperSpeed USB (3.0) standard. LaCie’s 2Big USB 3.0, a dual-disk RAID 0/1 storage solution, powered by Symwave’s USB 3.0 standard-compliant dual SATA and RAID bridge controller, reaches the highest throughput ever achieved in a USB […]
Hitachi Global Storage Technologies (Hitachi GST) today announced the availability of the newly designed SimpleDrive desktop external hard drive with capacities of up to two terabytes (2TB). In addition, the company announced that all of its 3.5-inch retail drives are now available in 2TB capacities, featuring the Hitachi Deskstar 7K2000, the industry’s first 2TB 7,200 […]
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