NetApp has asked one of their competitors, Coraid, to halt the sales of their EtherDrive Z-Series NAS appliances. The reason? Coraid is using the ZFS file system. Coraid has sent a letter to their customers announcing a temporary sales stop. The Z-Series NAS was announced in May, so NetApp didn’t waste any time in sending their legal threats. Continue reading Battle over ZFS heats up
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Cloud storage might be a good idea for some use cases, but that doesn’t mean any service provider is a good choice. EMC announced last week that its Atmos Online service was no longer offering any SLA’s and is no longer supported for production usage:
Continue reading EMC reminds us not to rely too much on cloud services yet Seagate is the first vendor to offer 3TB hard drives. This first drive is only available as an external USB 2.0 drive for now; for $249.99 you can buy a Seagate FreeAgent GoFlex Desk External Drive (try saying that a couple of times in a row!). The drive is currently on back order, but should be available soon. The $249.99 package includes a USB 2.0 host interface, but can be upgraded by switching the base of the unit. Other interface options available are USB 3.0 and FireWire 800.
Continue reading Seagate debuts 3TB external drive, 4TB to follow soon? When I first read this I thought it was a joke, but after reading their press release it looks like this is the real deal: Nirvanix, one of the leading providers of cloud storage services, is getting into the local storage business. Their hNode product offers companies a local storage node that starts at 200 TB of disk space, and can scale up to multiple petabytes using the same technology that powers the Nirvanix Storage Delivery Network. Continue reading Nirvanix adds local storage to their cloud product While several companies are already offering internal Solid State Drives for use in servers, OCZ has just announced a solution that targets the consumer segment. The RevoDrive uses a PCIe connection to enable higher speeds than possible with a traditional SATA interface, but OCZ manages to keep the price for the drive relatively low.
I’ve seen a couple of UB 3.0 drive docks announced over the last couple of months, but this new model from ThermalTake stood out in my mailbox. The BlacX 5G supports both 3.5 inch and 2.5 inch SATA drives; instead of traditional external drive enclosures where you have to open a case to insert the disk, this unit allows you to insert a drive without any other steps.
Continue reading Hot-swap SATA to USB 3.0 dock from ThermalTake The SD Association has announced a faster interface specification for the ever-popular SD card format. The new UHS (Ultra High Speed) bus can achieve speeds of up to 104 MB/s; that’s four times the speed of the previous maximum. Cards and readers conforming to the new spec are backwards-compatible with previous generations, and can be recognized by a new symbol that includes a “1″, which stands for “UHS Speed Class 1″. It’s been over a year since the first 40 and 100Gbps ethernet products saw the light of day; but there was no official standard yet. All that changed this week, with the official publication of the IEEE 802.3ba standard. Most vendors will be quick to update their products to conform to the official standard; there were only a couple of minor changes compared to the previous drafts. Continue reading 40 and 100 GBps ethernet now official standards Toshiba and the University of Tokio have presented an interesting technique for improving the write speed of Solid State Drives at last weeks VLSI symposium. The technique is targeted at three-dimensional NAND flash stacks; a method of stacking more NAND flash chips on top of each other to improve storage density and bring down costs.
LSI, known mostly for their I/O controller chips and storage adapters, is expanding their line of customizable storage systems. The new CTS2600 family offers their channel partners the ability to buy complete storage systems, with custom branding options for both the hardware and software.  LSI CTS2600, 24x2.5" model |
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