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Article | 1/04/2009 Corsair releases one-touch backup USB flash drive adapter

Corsair Memory Inc. Tuesday introduced a USB flash drive adapter that it said creates a push-button file backup for computers when any flash drive is ...

Article | 31/03/2009 Western Digital pays US$65M for solid state drive maker

Western Digital Corp. Monday announced that it has completed a $65 million cash acquisition of SiliconSystems, Inc., a small, Aliso Viejo, Calif.-base...

Article | 25/03/2009 Flash memory vendors slashing production, raising prices

NAND flash memory vendors responded to the slowing economy and weak consumer confidence by phasing out production of 200mm wafer manufacturing and cut...

Article | 20/03/2009 Symantec launches cloud-based storage service for the masses

Symantec Corp. Thursday formally unveiled its cloud-based storage service, Norton Online Backup, marketing it as a consumer product for managing up to...

Article | 16/03/2009 Fusion-io unveils SSD drives with 1.5GB throughput

Fusion-io Friday announced what it is calling the fastest server-based solid state drive on the market today, with double the slot capacity if its old...

Article | 10/03/2009 Facebook temporarily loses more than 10 percent of users' photos

Popular social networking site Facebook.com admitted on a blog post Monday that over the weekend a hard drive failure led to the temporary loss of 10 ...

Article | 9/03/2009 IDC: Storage revenues drop, but capacity shipped grows

IDC's quarterly data storage sales report shows that quarterly revenue for worldwide storage systems was down 5.9% in the last quarter of 2008 compare...

Article | 2/03/2009 Samsung's 256GB SSD offers capacity, speed

But tests yield slower read speeds than Samsung claims

Article | 20/02/2009 Seagate drops SSD patent lawsuit against STEC

Seagate Technology Thursday said it has dropped its lawsuit and all claims alleging STEC misappropriated its hard disk drive (HDD) technology as it re...

Article | 12/02/2009 Symantec to deliver cloud-based backup service

Symantec will begin offering an online storage service targeted at consumers by the end of next month.

Article | 11/02/2009 SanDisk announces mass production of high-capacity flash

SanDisk Tuesday announced that it will begin mass production of the first high-performance X3 and X4 flash memory, using 32- and 43-nanometer lithogra...

Article | 11/02/2009 Survey: 40% of hard drives bought on eBay hold personal data

A New York computer forensics firm found that 40 percent of the hard disk drives it recently purchased in bulk orders from eBay contained personal, pr...

Article | 3/02/2009 Seagate releases 2TB enterprise-class drive

Seagate Technology Monday launched its first 2TB enterprise-class disk drive as part of a new family of near-line SAS and SATA drives.

Article | 29/01/2009 Coming soon: Full-disk encryption for all computer drives

The world's six largest computer drive makers Tuesday published the final specifications for a single, full-disk encryption standard that can be used ...

Article | 28/01/2009 Brocade launches smaller, modular backbone switch

Brocade Communication Systems on Tuesday announced the DCX-4S Backbone, a smaller, modular version of its multipurpose core network switching platform...