April 05, 2004
Emphasizing interoperability and an end-to-end product family strategy, LSI Logic Storage Standard Products division announced an expanded Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) product sampling program. The HBA SAS sampling extends the opportunity for system, server and workstation equipment manufacturers to test with the first fully functional SAS host bus adapter available in the market today. SAS technology extends SCSI interface solutions beyond Ultra320 allowing data-intensive applications and the Direct Attach Storage (DAS) markets to gain enhanced performance and scalability.
April 05, 2004
SAS and Intel Corporation announced the immediate availability of SAS®9 on Intel-based servers and clients. Intel's joint effort with SAS expands on years of collaboration between the two companies and will help users expand business intelligence throughout the enterprise by using SAS 9 running on Intel® Itanium® 2 processor-based servers and Intel® Centrino™ mobile technology-based notebooks.
March 30, 2004
In its next-generation disk-based storage technology for notebooks, Hitachi Global Storage Technologies is looking beyond capacity to advance the art of hard disk drives. With storage-capacity leadership securely under its belt, Hitachi GST is introducing the new Travelstar 4K40 - not bigger, just better.
March 23, 2004
Seagate Technology announced the successful completion of interoperability testing for its 2.5-inch first serial attached SCSI (SAS) Savvio hard disc drive. The SAS Plugfest tests were conducted earlier this month at the University of New Hampshire interoperability lab using a range of SAS devices from multiple vendors. Seagate tested SAS interoperability with its recently unveiled Savvio disc drive - the world's first 2.5-inch enterprise drive.
March 22, 2004
Seagate Technology will present research findings pointing toward data storage densities of 50 terabits per square inch or more at the American Physical Society (APS) conference on March 25. At 50 terabits per square inch densities, over 3.5 million high-resolution photos, 2,800 audio CDs, 1,600 hours of television, or the entire printed collection of the U.S. Library of Congress could be stored onto recording media about the size of a single coin, such as a half dollar (30.61mm).
March 22, 2004
Adaptec, Inc. delivered to major server and workstation original equipment manufacturers a Serial Attached SCSI controller ASIC that powers unprecedented 4.8 gigabyte/second performance, seven times that of Ultra320 SCSI, for large database, video, online transaction processing (OLTP) and other data-intensive applications.
March 16, 2004
Kingston Technology Company, Inc. announced the release of DDR2 memory modules. Shipping immediately in limited quantities, Kingstona offers 400- and 533- MHz DDR2 Registered DIMMs, Unbuffered DIMMs and SODIMMs, in capacities up to 1 GB, to support the next-generation computer platforms launching in 2004.
March 16, 2004
If you're not in the market for a DVD burner, the Lite-On LTR-52327S's performance, documentation, tech support, and modest price make it a must-have. If you want the superfast 52X-recording and 32X-rewriting speeds of the fastest CD-RW drives on the market, our favorite is Lite-On's LTR-52327S. It matched or bettered the performance of both MSI's CR52-M and Samsung's SW-252FRNS in the majority of our tests, and we found it selling online for the lowest price of the three.
March 15, 2004
SimpleTech, Inc. announced the industry's highest capacity external hard drive - a 400GB SimpleDrive Deluxe with a USB 2.0 & FireWire combination. The company also extended its SimpleDrive Deluxe product line with the addition of 120, 160, and 250GB capacities.
March 15, 2004
TEAC expand their product range with the new high-speed combo drive, the DW-552G. Above all it is the highly efficient and rapid burning performance that make this a particularly impressive drive. The DW-552G writes CD-Rs with 52x speed; rewrites are performed with 32x speed.