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Seagate goes USB 3.0 for portable drive

Seagate has announced a portable external drive featuring USB 3.0 connectivity.

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Microsoft’s exFAT offered to storage vendors and others

Microsoft is licensing its exFAT file system for flash memory. Sony, Canon and Sanyo are among the first licensees.

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McAfee offers unlimited online storage

Security company McAfee has launched on online backup service costing US$5 a month, similar to other such services, but offering unlimited storage space. The service is available for free trial...

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Up and down year for storage software market

The worldwide storage software market again declined in year-over-year growth in the second quarter of this year with revenues of only $2.8 billion, driving growth rates down by 9.8% over...

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Storage software market decline first in five years

The global software storage market has declined for the first time in more than five years, with most companies in the market experiencing negative, or very low year-over-year growth.

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Kingston SSDNow kits simplify upgrade to SSD

Want to boost your notebook or desktop with the help of a solid-state drive? Memory specialist Kingston has launched upgrade kits for this very purpose.

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HP introduces new SMB storage

The new entry-level StorageWorks X1000 and higher-end X3000 systems unify file and application storage.

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The death of Blu-Ray? New DVD disc stores 1.6 terabytes

There has been speculation about the long term future of disc media, speculation that grew as the HD DVD and Blu-Ray optical disc formats fought out a close war for...

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WD squeezes more into ShareSpace

Home and small office users are cottoning on to the benefits of networked storage. WD has responded by bumping its ShareSpace storage units to 8T.

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Seagate offers encrypted NAS for SMBs

Extending its BlackArmor brand into the network-attached storage space, Seagate has announced the NAS 440/420 storage units, aimed at workgroups of up to 50 workstations.

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Seagate offers encrypted NAS for SMBs

Extending its BlackArmor brand into the network-attached storage space, Seagate has announced the NAS 440/420 storage units, aimed at workgroups of up to 50 workstations.

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Seagate, AMD demo 6Gbps SATA storage

Fed up with waiting for slooow disk transfers? Seagate and AMD have demonstrated Serial ATA 6Gb/s using prototype equipment at the Everything Channel Xchange Conference in New Orleans.

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Seagate, AMD demo 6Gbps SATA storage

Fed up with waiting for slooow disk transfers? Seagate and AMD have demonstrated Serial ATA 6Gb/s using prototype equipment at the Everything Channel Xchange Conference in New Orleans.

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NetApp claims ‘first-ever’ industry third-party installed storage guarantee program

NetApp (NASDAQ: NTAP), storage and data management solutions provider, says it is offering customer what it claims is the industry’s first-ever guarantee program for installed third-party storage.

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Hitachi’s cool and quiet drive targets digital video recorders

Never mind the pokey drives still found in many of the PVRs cluttering store shelves - Hitachi's latest combines 500G of storage with reduced power consumption and ultra-quiet...

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SNIA unveils green storage power measurement spec

Storage industry peak body, the Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) has unveiled its initial Green Storage Initiative (GSI) Green Storage Power Measurement Specification for public review and comment.

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New SDXC spec promises 2 terabytes on a memory card

So you thought the SDHC memory card spec that allows for capacities up to 32G was enough to meet your mobile data needs for a while yet? Wait until you...

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Self-encrypting drives loom as specifications finalised

The Trusted Computing Group (TCG) will roll out a large number of storage security standards over the next month, as the long-in-development core storage security specification version 1.0 begins to...

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F-Secure offers backup over broadband

Here's a useful service that could soon be offered by your ISP: online backup for your files over your broadband connection.

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Seagate claims fastest 500G notebook drive

It might have rivals from Samsung and Western Digital, but hard disk maker Seagate claims its 500 G Momentus 5400.6 notebook drive has the highest areal density and the fastest...

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