Verbatim has announced the launch of its thinnest hard drive to date. At just 10.5mm thick, the Verbatim Store ‘n' Go Ultra Slim HDD is one of the world's slimmest portable hard drives - 20 per cent thinner than previous Store ‘n‘ Go models.

Due to the 7mm thin internal hard drive inside, the slim profile of the Verbatim Store ‘n' Go Ultra Slim Hard Drive makes it a beautiful companion to an Ultrabook computer. The Verbatim Ultra Slim Hard Drive has a 500GB capacity and provides a sleek storage extension or backup medium for a range of computing and consumer applications. It is available in black and silver.

The Store ‘n' Go Ultra Slim drive is equipped with a USB 3.0 port for super-fast data transfer - up to 10 times faster than USB 2.0. The drives are immediately ready to be used on both PC and Mac and are FAT-32 pre-formatted. They are sold preloaded with Nero BackItUp Essentials software that allows PC users full system backup and restore functions, the ability to schedule automatic backup by date/time and an encrypted backup option with password control.

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Samsung Electronics America, Inc., a market leader and award-winning innovator in consumer electronics, announced today that its 840 family of SSDs is available for purchase. The new family of drives includes the 840 Pro SSD, a high-performance drive for professionals and tech enthusiasts that want the best possible computing performance, and the 840 SSD, for mainstream users that want an affordable upgrade solution for their PC.

For a limited time, the 840 Pro SSDs will also include a code for a downloadable full version of the highly anticipated video game "Assassin's Creed® III," with purchase of the 128 GB, 256 GB or 512 GB models.

Samsung's SSD 840 Pro series drives feature a SATA 6.0 gigabit-per-second (Gb/s) interface, 400 megabits-per-second (Mbps) Toggle DDR2 flash memory, AES 256-bit encryption and new triple-core MDX controllers, which combine to deliver superior performance, high reliability and durability. The new 840 Pro drives are the perfect solution for serious gamers and IT professionals seeking the best possible computing performance, along with ultra-low power consumption.

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Today, CDRLabs brings you a review of Silicon Power's new Slim S70 solid state drive. The 7mm thick S70 is powered by LSI's SandForce SF-2281 processor and features a SATA 6GB/s interface, native TRIM support and DuraWrite technology. The drive is also equipped with synchronous NAND flash and an optimized firmware to deliver up to 557 MB/s sequential read and 507 MB/s sequential write speeds as well as a maximum of 86,000 4K random write IOPS.

ASUSTOR Inc., a leading innovator and provider of network storage solutions, has announced the launch of its all new AS 6 Series Network Attached Storage (NAS). The AS 6 Series NAS devices come in two, four, six and eight-bay models and feature System Sleep Mode (S3) along with near instantaneous wake up times. Equipped with the Intel® Atom™ 2.13 GHz dual-core processor and 1GB RAM (expandable), the 6 Series combines supercharged performance with low power consumption. Intel® technology also makes it possible for the devices to boast HDMI outputs which allows for the playing of HD video and multimedia directly to HDMI ready displays.

“In the last ten years we have seen exponential growth in the amount of digital assets worldwide. Properly securing and managing these assets has become a big issue,” said Shawn Shu, President at ASUSTOR.  “At ASUSTOR we truly understand how to secure our customers’ most valued digital assets while providing dynamic new ways for them to interact with and access these assets.”

All models in the series come preloaded with ASUSTOR Data Master (ADM), an ideal operating system for storage devices that provides users with a fresh and intuitive user interface. Additionally, the 6 Series also provides added functionality through ASUSTOR’s App Central which offers an expansive variety of Apps for users to enjoy. Featured Apps by ASUSTOR include Download Center, an easy to use download manager, and Surveillance Center which gives users the power to manage an array of IP cameras. Furthermore, there will be Apps developed by third parties and the open source communities such as Plex Media Server, a complete media solution, and Piwik, a popular and free alternative to Google Analytics.

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Synology® Inc. today introduced DiskStation DS713+, a scalable 2-bay NAS server that provides SMB users with a high-performance data management solution.

“When data grow exponentially, businesses struggle to keep up with their evolving needs in the storage race,” said Darren Lin, product manager of Synology Inc. “The DS713+ addresses the challenge by allowing users to quickly expand its capacity up to 28 TB with Synology expansion unit,” added Lin.

The DS713+ surpasses its predecessor with a substantial platform upgrade to a 2.13 GHz dual core processor. Under RAID 1 configuration in a Windows® environment with Link Aggregation enabled, it delivers average read and write speeds of 202.3MB/s and 135.84MB/s respectively. Moreover, the DS713+ is optimized for high-quality surveillance footage, and supports up to 20 channels of simultaneous high-definition IP camera recording.

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As big data, high-performance computing (HPC) and cloud-computing applications push the demand for real-time access of data into the zettabytes, Intel Corporation announced today its next-generation data center solid-state drive (SSD), the Intel Solid-State Drive DC S3700 Series, designed to remove storage bottlenecks and maximize multi-core CPU performance. The Intel SSD DC S3700 Series delivers fast, consistent performance and low latencies along with strong data protection and high endurance to help IT personnel support today's most demanding data center applications.

"Today's data explosion creates unique storage challenges for data center professionals," said Rob Crooke, Intel vice president and general manager for the Intel Non-Volatile Memory (NVM) Solutions Group. "High latencies and slow storage I/O can cripple data centers' ability to deliver exciting big data or cloud-computing applications with fast, low latency data access. Intel's next-generation Intel SSD DC S3700 Series breaks through SSD limitations for the data center on all fronts – fast, consistent performance, strong data protection and high endurance -- so IT professionals can deliver on their most demanding technology initiatives."

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Mushkin, Inc., an industry-leading designer and manufacturer of high-performance computer products, today introduced its latest line of high-performance USB 3.0 flash drives, the new Ventura Plus, available in 8GB, 16GB and 32GB storage capacities.

Ventura Plus delivers significant performance increases of up to ten times the speed of typical USB 3.0 flash drives, allowing users to share a 4GB HD movie in 15 seconds - compared to as long as 5 minutes with non-optimized USB 3.0 drives.

"Almost instant file-sharing capabilities along with the shock-resistant nature of flash drives allow me and my team to exchange and edit entire sequences of shots during filming quickly and efficiently," said Kelly Lee Myers, Digital Animation Supervisor, - Stasys - The Series "The Ventura Plus are so fast, it would have been really nice to have had them while working on the movie Iron Sky. When I need fast, safe and reliable storage, I trust Mushkin."

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