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Article | 23/04/2013 Western Digital rolls out ultra-slim 5mm Ultrabook drives
The drive towards dirt-cheap Ultrabooks is getting a big boost with the release of Western Digital's new ultra-slim spinning hard drive, a barely ther...
Article | 8/04/2013 Intel doubles speed of Thunderbolt interconnect
Intel has doubled the speed of the Thunderbolt data transfer technology, which will soon shuttle data between host computers like Macs and peripherals...
Article | 21/03/2013 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 ...
Article | 12/03/2013 SXSW 2013: No new Twitter, but marketing and hardware stand out
South by Southwest Interactive is best known as the technology festival that put such social networking mainstays as Twitter and Foursquare on the map...
Article | 4/03/2013 Seagate to halt production of 7200rpm laptop hard drives
When it comes time to buy your next high-performance laptop, chances are good that it will feature a solid state drive (SSD). But what if you'd prefer...
Article | 9/01/2013 Intel mum on speed improvements for Thunderbolt
Intel said it is working to make the Thunderbolt data transfer technology faster as it wages a speed race with the USB 3.0 protocol, but the company d...
Article | 7/01/2013 SanDisk bringing faster SSDs to consumers, PC makers
SanDisk is kicking off the new year with two new solid-state disk drives (SSDs) that should bring performance boosts for PC users.
Article | 7/01/2013 SanDisk bringing faster SSDs to consumers, PC makers
SanDisk is kicking off the new year with two new solid-state disk drives (SSDs) that should bring performance boosts for PC users.
Article | 15/12/2012 Samsung buys SSD caching vendor Nvelo
Samsung Electronics has acquired Nvelo, a Silicon Valley vendor of products for caching data on flash-based SSDs (solid-state disks).
Article | 5/12/2012 EMC's Project X may have wide impact on data centers
EMC plans to sell flash storage for use across data centers and is developing software to tie all those components together.
Article | 5/11/2012 Intel improves performance, drops price on enterprise SSDs
Intel on Monday announced SSD DC S3700 solid-state drives with up to 800GB of capacity, designed to deliver improved performance and power efficiency.
Article | 29/10/2012 Intel announces faster SSD 335 with 240GB of storage
Intel on Monday announced its latest SSD 335 solid-state drive, which is being pitched as a hard-drive replacement for laptops.
Article | 20/12/2011 Seagate completes acquisition of Samsung's HDD business
Seagate Technology said Tuesday it has completed the acquisition of the hard disk drive (HDD) business of Samsung Electronics, after it recently recei...
Article | 12/12/2011 Hitach GST begins shipments of a 4TB disk drive
Hitachi Global Storage Technologies (Hitachi GST) said Monday it began shipments of its first 4TB, 3.5-inch hard drive, targeted at the PC market, thr...
Article | 2/12/2011 Western Digital warns of slow recovery in Thailand
Hard-drive maker Western Digital has resumed the partial production of hard drives in Thailand, but also warned that some of its operations were still...