Toshiba is about to release a new series of 2.5 inch Small Form Factor drives that offer a combination of high capacity and performance. The new MBF range comes in 300, 450 and 600 GB capacities, each doing 10.025 rpms. Yes, you read that correctly; 10.025. Their press release has the text “over 10.000 rpm” in nearly every sentence; I suppose there might be a competitor with a better-specced 10.000 rpm drive…
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Overland Storage, known mostly for their tape products, is expanding into the SAN business. This seems like a logical step; they were already offering disk-based Virtual Tape Libraries, and disk-based systems are replacing tape libraries at a fast pace. Continue reading Overland adding SAN products CMS Products just announced the availability of their latest backup product: BounceBack Server. The software works just like their regular BounceBack offering; it makes a copy of your files to an external hard drive, which you can boot from in case of emergency. Continue reading CMS Products add server backups to their portfolio Crunchgear reports about a breakthrough in flash memory production; a Japanese team of scientists have developed a technology that allows a 90% reduction in SSD size, while also reducing power usage and costs. The full report can be read in The Nikkei; the chip supposedly uses radio communication instead of traditional copper interconnects between individual flash memory chips. One of the researchers, Tadahiro Kuroda, also made headlines with a storage chip last year that was meant specifically for archiving data, promising a 1000 year storage life. I haven’t seen that chip hit the market yet, and I doubt this new SSD will be seen in stores anytime soon either. But if it does it has the potential to replace hard drives as the default storage medium for many computers. Isilon Systems is adding Solid State Drives to their S- and X-series products. Unlike other manufacturers, Isilon is specifically targeting SSDs for use in metadata storage; apparently these are currently a bottleneck in some systems. Continue reading Isilon adding SSD options to scale-out NAS Micron Technology, one of the world’s leading memory manufacturers, has announced they will acquire flash maker Numonyx. The deal is an all-stock transaction, worth about $1.27 billion. The deal makes Micron the number two memory maker behind Samsung Electronics, switching places with the new number three Hynix. Interestingly, Numonyx currently has a joint venture with Hynix to produce certain types of flash memory. Micron has not provided any details on the future of this joint venture yet, but I expect it to end in the near future. The Wall Street Journal has a more detailed analysis, and thinks the deal revolves around expanding Micron’s product portfolio in the area of multi-chip packages. With the Numonyx technology, Micron should be able to expand into multi-chip packages using NOR memory. This type of memory is very popular in cellphones, but I’m sure this deal will also shake up the NAND flash memory market as well. Riverbed is turning to Solid State Drives to increase the speed of their WAN acceleration products. The two new Steelhead 7050 models can deliver up to 1 Gbps of WAN capacity for data center workloads, and 622 Mbps for remote office scenario’s; the previous-generation 6050 maxed out at 310 Mbps. Continue reading Riverbed adding solid state storage to WAN accelerators Nasuni, a cloud storage start-up founded by storage veterans Andres Rodriguez and Robert Mason early last year, has just released a beta of their first product. The Nasuni Filer is a virtual NAS appliance that can be installed in VMware, and creates a gateway between your local network and your choice of cloud-based storage.
TDK’s most recent roadmap shows some new developments. The most important thing I found in this presentation was a roadmap for the next generation of HDD read/write heads.
InPhase, one of the pioneers of holographic storage technology, appears to be shutting down. As I wrote last year, while the technology sounds promising it still has a long way to go. There is no real use case, and the price per gigabyte is still higher than for other storage media. | You can receive the latest news via: | ||||
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