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SSDs vs. Mechanical Disks -- Which is Better?

SSDs may be expensive, but they're well worth their high price tag when you consider their advantages. Here are 10 Reasons why SSDs are better than mechanical disks.

Nexsan Debuts Mid-range Disk Arrays

E-Series is targeted at secondary storage applications such as disk-based backup and archiving.

LSI adds 6Gbps SAS/SATA cards

LSI is shipping to the channel its second-generation 6Gbps SAS/SATA MegaRAID controllers.

Xiotech Adds SSDs to ISE Arrays

Users can scale performance to almost 900,000 IOPS per rack

Symantec Ships Scale-out NAS, Dedupe Appliances

Symantec moves deeper into the hardware market with the NetBackup 5200 data deduplication and FileStore N8300 scale-out NAS appliances.

EMC Intros 41 Products, Unifies Clariion and Celerra

EMC announced 41 new products, and claimed records in storage performance in a wide variety of categories.

Intel delivers 40GB/80GB SSDs

Intel's 310 Series solid state disk (SSD) drives have almost as much performance as the company’s 2.5-inch X25-M SSDs, but in one-eighth the size.

Samsung Develops MLC-Based SSDs for Enterprise Systems

The company expands its line-up to include high-density SSDs using MLC NAND flash memory.

IBM OEMs STEC's MLC SSDs

IBM to integrate multi-level cell SSDs into the DS8800, DS8700, Storwize V7000 arrays.

PMC Launches 6Gbps SAS Controllers

PMC-Sierra claims up to 2GBps sustained data transfer rate.

Users Take Advantage of Unified Storage

Case studies illustrate the benefits of unified storage.

Compellent Extends Storage Center SAN Architecture

New software features and hardware upgrades create a grid of Compellent SAN arrays managed as a single system.

LSI Delivers Solid State Accelerator Card

LSI’s new WarpDrive SPL-300 plugs into a standard PCIe slot.

Hitachi GST Ships Solid State Disk Drives

Hitachi Global Storage Technologies’ solid-state disk (SSD) drives are available with SAS or Fibre Channel interfaces.

Data Robotics Scores SMB Storage Deal with HP

Data Robotics' Drobo storage systems are now available through HP’s Small Business Direct online store for SMBs.

BridgeSTOR Launches Application-Optimized Storage Appliances

The BridgeSTOR AOS appliances feature data deduplication, compression, thin provisioning, and encryption technologies.

EMC Snaps Up Isilon for $2.25 Billion

The Isilon scale-out NAS platform will augment and accelerate EMC’s unified storage portfolio.

Oracle Ops Center Manages Storage Hardware

Oracle Enterprise Manager 11g Ops Center manages servers and storage across physical, virtualized and cloud-based data center environments.

Dot Hill Moves Into Unified Virtual Storage

The new AssuredUVS (Unified Virtual Storage) appliance virtualizes heterogeneous disk arrays and supports SAN and NAS I/O.

NetApp Revamps Storage Hardware, Software Products

Dubbed the “biggest launch in company history,” NetApp has rearmed with new technologies to take on EMC and HP.

Panasas Pushes Scale-Out Storage Performance Envelope

The PAS12 pushes aggregate performance of the Panasas scale-out platform to 150Gbps.

Promise Ships RAID Arrays Based on Jasper Forest

Intel’s latest processors are powering a new set of RAID systems from Promise Technology.

Netgear Adds Replication, Cloud Options to New ReadyNAS Family

The new ReadyNAS Pro family for SMBs supports virtual machines, replication for disaster recovery and touts 100GB of free cloud storage.

Avere Systems Speeds Up Tiered NAS Appliances

Version 1.4 of the Avere OS supports up to 24 mass storage systems, bi-modal CIFS ACL and parallel file access.

Capacity-Optimized Nearline SAS Drives Challenge SATA

Already well established in high-performance drive markets, SAS is now penetrating secondary storage tiers with capacity-optimized drives and challenging SATA’s dominance in the data center.

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