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Western Digital Corp. today announced that it has completed its divestiture of certain 3.5-inch hard drive assets to Toshiba Corporation, as required by regulatory agencies that conditionally approved the company's completed acquisition of Viviti Technologies Ltd. (formerly Hitachi Global Storage Technologies).
The assets will enable Toshiba to manufacture and sell 3.5-inch hard drives for the desktop and consumer electronics markets and will enhance its ability to manufacture and sell 3.5-inch hard drives for near-line (business critical) applications.
As part of its deal with Toshiba, WD also completed its purchase of Toshiba Storage Device (Thailand) Company Limited (TSDT), which manufactured hard drives prior to the recent Thailand flooding. The principal assets of TSDT are its Thailand property, facilities and employees, which WD plans to integrate into its Thailand operations. The financial terms of the two agreements were not disclosed.
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ARCTIC releases its new generation MC101 Series most advanced all-in-one entertainment centers. Featured with the latest AMD Trinity APU A10-4600M / A8-4500M and 4GB pre- installed memory, it is made to take on any challenges at high and fast speed. With vivid 3D HD graphics delivering an ultimate visual experience made for gaming and movies. You can immediate enjoy and share unlimited entertainment hassle-free. No need to check your storage space, MC101 series allows storage with up to 2 TB! Store everything with over 2,000,000 photos, 625,000 songs or 2,600 movies. You can simply plug- and-play these home entertainment centers with their pre- installed Windows® 7 Home Premium*, TV tuner and with an extensive connectivity.
Each of the MC101 home entertainment centers is only 32mm thin with an elegant class-brushed silver aluminum finishing so that it can blend perfectly into your home, or it is well handy to bring it to your LAN party. With every detail meticulously designed, MC101 Series comes installed with the latest generation of dual passive-active cooling solution that operates in total silence, with a low- energy consumption motherboard and APU that shows love for our environment.
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Dane-Elec, a leading global manufacturer and distributor of memory, has added the mySSD O-Series to its new solid-state drive line. The series is designed specifically for the commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) market and engineered for the embedded computing, server, notebook, and tablet categories. The O-Series is an ideal solution for mission-critical applications such as military, public safety, utility, homeland security, and mining applications as well as mobile workers in outdoor-environment field services in which failure is not an option.
“The mySSD O-Series is designed for high-threat and unpredictable environments in which durability and reliability is absolutely essential,” remarked Eric Tafolla, OEM Sales Engineer at Dane-Elec. “Flash-based SSD drives are steadily replacing outdated and less reliable spinning disk drives; however, one product does not fit every customer’s unique requirements. That is why we offer customized solutions, where our products are built to meet specific customer needs, in addition to our standard O-Series models.”
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QNAP Systems, Inc. today announced its new additions for the high-end SMB market segment with two 16-drive 3U rackmount Turbo NAS models with up to 64TB storage capacity using 4 TB drives. The TS-EC1679U-RP and TS-1679U-RP, powered by the Intel® Xeon® processor and the Intel® Core™ i3 processor respectively, are the highest capacity and highest performing NAS products ever developed by QNAP. Both models feature optional 10GbE networking and 6Gb/sec SATA interfaces, achieving incredible 2,000 MB/sec and 200,000 IOPS throughput; delivering sustained ultra-high performance suitable for demanding data center & high-end SMB environments. The new models feature cable-less disk drive backplanes, hot-swappable power supply, and cooling fan modules for maximum reliability and uptime.
The new models can simultaneously provide storage solutions for IP-SAN (iSCSI) and NAS implementations and are VMware® Ready™, Citrix® Ready™, and Windows® Hyper-V™ compliant, making them ideal for providing network shared storage for virtual server environments. These two new models are designed with cable-less backplanes connecting drives to the controller board seamlessly, significantly reducing failure points. The hot-swappable fan module and cooling ducting/heat exchange simplify data center installations. Hardware security is enhanced with intrusion detection, which generates a log entry and alerts the administrators when the chassis is opened.
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DIGISTOR today announced the availability of their 100GB BD-R XL 4X Blu-ray recordable media for high definition recording and data and video archiving.
The latest edition to their Archive for Life™ family of products, DIGISTOR’s 100GB BD-R XL recordable discs allow you to store over 40,000 photos, 20,000 songs or author over 8 hours of HD video on a single disc. DIGISTOR’s 100GB media feature a white printable surface for use with most direct to disc inkjet printers, and is compatible with all BD-XL capable drives as well as DIGISTOR’s own REWIND™ archiving Software.
“We’re living in a time in which permanent data storage is a necessity. Personal photos, family videos or work documents can crash on a HDD, or disappear in the cloud.” Said Murray Ellis, Director of Engineering for DIGISTOR. “Our 100GB BD-R XL disc is designed with specialized hard coat technology, protecting the disc, and allowing for a true long term solution for personal file archiving.”
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Transcend Information, Inc. (Transcend), a worldwide leader in storage and multimedia products, today announced the launch of its advanced MSA720 SATA III 6Gb/s mSATA solid state drive (SSD). The new MSA720 packs all the benefits of SATA III 6Gb/s performance and SSD reliability into an ultra-small design, to offer the ideal solution for space-restricted embedded systems that use the mini-PCIe (mSATA) interface.
Supporting the next-generation SATA III 6Gb/s standard and built around a powerful SandForce SF2281 controller, the MSA720 delivers blazing fast sequential transfer speeds up to 560MB/s read and 530MB/s write, and impressive 4K random file writes up to 91,000 IOPS. This outstanding performance is particularly beneficial in dual-drive hybrid systems, where a large capacity hard drive is used for storing data, while the MSA720 acts as a cache drive to accelerate operating system boot-up time and commonly-used application launch speed.
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Transcend Information, Inc. (Transcend), a worldwide leader in storage and multimedia products, will be displaying its comprehensive industrial solutions at the 15th Embedded Systems Expo (ESEC) 2012. The trade show will take place at Tokyo International Exhibition Center (Tokyo Big Sight), Japan, May 9-11, 2012. Transcend’s booth will be located at West 8-74.
Participating at ESEC again this year, Transcend is proud to display a more advanced industrial grade product portfolio, including the latest SATA III 6Gb/s SSD and SLC SSD, mSATA and half-slim SSDs, eMMCs, flash modules, flash cards, and memory modules. Engineered for long life and maximum durability, Transcend's industrial products undergo extensive testing and offer extended temperature solutions to ensure peak operation under harsh environmental conditions and are perfect for truly demanding applications.
In addition to displaying a comprehensive industrial-grade product lineup, Transcend will also set up a professional on-site sudden power-off test to highlight the ultimate stability and guaranteed reliable data transfer of Transcend SSDs.
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Team Group Inc., which is working very hard in the industrial and embedded storage devices, is making its entrance for the second time in ESEC, the largest embedded system exhibition in Japan, with boiling popularity from last year. In addition to the full series of industrial NAND flash and industrial control memory modules, Team Group will present industrial embedded NAND flash SSDs. Team Group SSD series consists of 2.5” SATA and 1.8”PATA interfaces, and offers multiple choices of volume and customization service. The products feature high performance in vibration and impact resistance, ensuring smooth operations even in a harsh environment at a temperature of -40 ºC to 85 ºC. Team Group is hoping to grab the global storage market with these supreme products with good quality and high performance.
The industrial embedded NAND flash SSD features chips provided by original manufacturers, SATA/PATA/mSATA/ZIF storage interfaces, vibration and impact resistance, high performance and stability. Multiple choices of volumes and customization service are available. Also more featuring as wear-leveling and ECC 16bits/528bytes error detection, support for S.M.A.R.T to restore product service life and ensure data safety, and the leading bad block management technology provide straight line R/W speed with no drop below 20% even long time usage. The proprietary data safety core technologies allow support for power failure date protection, secure erase and self destrory, data backup and restoration. The industrial level wide temperature performance at -40 ºC to 85 ºC enables high-speed transmission even at an extremely harsh environment. With all these excellent features, the products provide a good selection of embedded computer platform and storage integration solution for clients in military service, telecommunications, transportation, automation and medical practice!
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TDK Corporation has developed the mSATA type SSD (Solid- State Drive) SMG3B series with support for 3 Gbps serial ATA. The products will be available from July 2012.
The SMG3B series drives with mSATA interface measure only about 30 mm x 50 mm and offer storage capacities up to 64 GB. High-speed mSATA implementation achieves actual read access speed of 170 MB per second. The mSATA standard, established by the Serial ATA International Organization (SATA IO), was initially adopted mainly for digital consumer products such as tablet computers and netbooks. Because of its space-saving advantages, the standard is now gaining increased acceptance also for social infrastructure equipment and smart grid applications. Products designed for such uses must fulfill high requirements not only with regard to data reliability but also in terms of endurance, data security, reliability monitoring, and similar aspects.
The SMG3B series uses the TDK original SSD controller GBDriver RS3 , featuring powerful error correction expandable to 44-bit ECC. Data reliability has been significantly enhanced thanks to a sophisticated power interruption data preservation algorithm and the auto refresh function. Another special feature is the data randomizer that varies data patterns during writing to reduce the risk of bit errors.
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Kingston Digital, Inc., the Flash memory affiliate of Kingston Technology Company, Inc., the independent world leader in memory products, today announced a hardware update enabling browser support for Wi-Drive. The update allows multiplatform wireless streaming of data from any Wi-Fi enabled mobile device via a Web browser. The feature will be included in future shipments and all current owners of Wi-Drive can update their own device. This expansion of device support allows a mixture of users’ preferred mobile devices to simultaneously access and share content on the Wi-Drive. With integrated Wi-Fi and four hours of battery life, Kingston® Wi-Drive offers great pocket-sized portable storage (up to 64GB) and easy file sharing for any Wi-Fi device including Apple iPad®, iPhone®, iPod touch®, Android devices, Kindle Fire and more.
In addition to access via browser, Kingston also offers optimized apps for the Wi-Drive providing additional features for users. Wi-Drive App for Android OS devices is now available. Due to the variety of Android-based devices, Wi-Drive offers the most versatile experience for users so they can choose between the Web browser and App to access and share their media. In some cases, a third-party player is recommended for video playback within the Wi-Drive app for Android.
