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March 23, 2004

Seagate Demonstrates Serial Attached SCSI Interoperability With Its 2.5-Inch Savvio Disc Drive At SA

Seagate Technology announced the successful completion of interoperability testing for its 2.5-inch first serial attached SCSI (SAS) Savvio hard disc drive. The SAS Plugfest tests were conducted earlier this month at the University of New Hampshire interoperability lab using a range of SAS devices from multiple vendors. Seagate tested SAS interoperability with its recently unveiled Savvio disc drive - the world's first 2.5-inch enterprise drive.

March 22, 2004

Seagate Sees The Future: Storing The U.S. Library Of Congress On A 50-Cent Coin

Seagate Technology will present research findings pointing toward data storage densities of 50 terabits per square inch or more at the American Physical Society (APS) conference on March 25. At 50 terabits per square inch densities, over 3.5 million high-resolution photos, 2,800 audio CDs, 1,600 hours of television, or the entire printed collection of the U.S. Library of Congress could be stored onto recording media about the size of a single coin, such as a half dollar (30.61mm).

March 22, 2004

Adaptec Unveils Serial Attached SCSI Controller ASIC with Industry-Leading Performance and Scalabili

Adaptec, Inc. delivered to major server and workstation original equipment manufacturers a Serial Attached SCSI controller ASIC that powers unprecedented 4.8 gigabyte/second performance, seven times that of Ultra320 SCSI, for large database, video, online transaction processing (OLTP) and other data-intensive applications.

March 21, 2004

Seagate - 50 Terabits per square inch storage density

Seagate Technology will present research findings pointing toward data storage densities of 50 terabits per square inch or more at the American Physical Society (APS) conference on March 25. At 50 terabits per square inch densities, over 3.5 million high-resolution photos, 2,800 audio CDs, 1,600 hours of television, or the entire printed collection of the U.S. Library of Congress could be stored onto recording media about the size of a single coin, such as a half dollar (30.61mm).

March 18, 2004

Kingston - New DDR2 memory modules

Kingston Technology Company, Inc. announced the release of DDR2 memory modules. Shipping immediately in limited quantities, Kingstona offers 400- and 533- MHz DDR2 Registered DIMMs, Unbuffered DIMMs and SODIMMs, in capacities up to 1 GB, to support the next-generation computer platforms launching in 2004.

March 17, 2004

LiteOn - Top performance for CDRW 52x32x52x drive

If you're not in the market for a DVD burner, the Lite-On LTR-52327S's performance, documentation, tech support, and modest price make it a must-have. If you want the superfast 52X-recording and 32X-rewriting speeds of the fastest CD-RW drives on the market, our favorite is Lite-On's LTR-52327S. It matched or bettered the performance of both MSI's CR52-M and Samsung's SW-252FRNS in the majority of our tests, and we found it selling online for the lowest price of the three.

March 16, 2004

KINGSTON LAUNCHES NEW DDR2 MEMORY MODULES

Kingston Technology Company, Inc. announced the release of DDR2 memory modules. Shipping immediately in limited quantities, Kingstona offers 400- and 533- MHz DDR2 Registered DIMMs, Unbuffered DIMMs and SODIMMs, in capacities up to 1 GB, to support the next-generation computer platforms launching in 2004.

March 16, 2004

Lite-On LTR-52327S Editor's Choice

If you're not in the market for a DVD burner, the Lite-On LTR-52327S's performance, documentation, tech support, and modest price make it a must-have. If you want the superfast 52X-recording and 32X-rewriting speeds of the fastest CD-RW drives on the market, our favorite is Lite-On's LTR-52327S. It matched or bettered the performance of both MSI's CR52-M and Samsung's SW-252FRNS in the majority of our tests, and we found it selling online for the lowest price of the three.

March 15, 2004

SimpleTech Announces Industry's Highest Capacity External Hard Drive; 400GB SimpleDrive High-Speed U

SimpleTech, Inc. announced the industry's highest capacity external hard drive - a 400GB SimpleDrive Deluxe with a USB 2.0 & FireWire combination. The company also extended its SimpleDrive Deluxe product line with the addition of 120, 160, and 250GB capacities.

March 15, 2004

TEAC Combo Drive With 52x Speed

TEAC expand their product range with the new high-speed combo drive, the DW-552G. Above all it is the highly efficient and rapid burning performance that make this a particularly impressive drive. The DW-552G writes CD-Rs with 52x speed; rewrites are performed with 32x speed.

March 15, 2004

TEAC - New hi-speed combo drive

TEAC expand their product range with the new high-speed combo drive, the DW-552G. Above all it is the highly efficient and rapid burning performance that make this a particularly impressive drive. The DW-552G writes CD-Rs with 52x speed; rewrites are performed with 32x speed.

March 12, 2004

SimpleTech - New 400Gb external HDD

SimpleTech, Inc. announced the industry's highest capacity external hard drive - a 400GB SimpleDrive Deluxe with a USB 2.0 & FireWire combination. The company also extended its SimpleDrive Deluxe product line with the addition of 120, 160, and 250GB capacities.

March 10, 2004

400GB hard drive makes Hitachi the capacity king

Hitachi Global Storage Technologies (Hitachi GST) announced the world’s highest capacity 3.5-inch ATA hard drive, the 400GB Deskstar 7K400. The new drive has been designed for audio video (AV) and ATA nearline environments, where large capacities and a lower per-gigabyte cost are key requirements. A new industry-standard AV feature set makes the drive well-suited for use in high-end digital video recorders (DVRs) that are designed to record substantial amounts of high-quality digital programming.

March 10, 2004

HGST - New 400Gb HDD

Hitachi Global Storage Technologies (Hitachi GST) announced the world’s highest capacity 3.5-inch ATA hard drive, the 400GB Deskstar 7K400. The new drive has been designed for audio video (AV) and ATA nearline environments, where large capacities and a lower per-gigabyte cost are key requirements. A new industry-standard AV feature set makes the drive well-suited for use in high-end digital video recorders (DVRs) that are designed to record substantial amounts of high-quality digital programming.

March 08, 2004

Certance Delivers CP 3100 D2D2T to Create Fast, Reliable Data Protection for Small-To-Medium Busines

Certance LLC announced the general availability of its CP 3100, a disk-to-disk-to-tape (D2D2T) family of data protection solutions. Based on Certance DPA (Data Protection Architecture), the CP 3100 was designed to provide small-to-medium sized businesses (SMBs) and departmental workgroups with a simple-to-operate, yet powerful solution that meets their data protection needs, by combining the best attributes of both disk and tape into one, easily affordable package.

March 06, 2004

Certance - Availability of CP3100

Certance LLC announced the general availability of its CP 3100, a disk-to-disk-to-tape (D2D2T) family of data protection solutions. Based on Certance DPA (Data Protection Architecture), the CP 3100 was designed to provide small-to-medium sized businesses (SMBs) and departmental workgroups with a simple-to-operate, yet powerful solution that meets their data protection needs, by combining the best attributes of both disk and tape into one, easily affordable package.

March 03, 2004

Intel - Availability of new Xeon CPUs

Intel Corporation announced the availability of an enhanced Intel® Xeon™ processor for multi-processor servers. The processor delivers up to 25 percent better performance compared to previous versions and enables customers to consolidate numerous applications onto fewer servers.

March 02, 2004

Enhanced Intel® Xeon™ Processor MP Boosts Performance By Up To 25 Percent

Intel Corporation announced the availability of an enhanced Intel® Xeon™ processor for multi-processor servers. The processor delivers up to 25 percent better performance compared to previous versions and enables customers to consolidate numerous applications onto fewer servers.

February 23, 2004

Snap Appliance Announces Storage Capacity Upgrades for Award-Winning Line of NAS Servers

Snap Appliance® announced upgraded capacity configurations for its award-winning Snap Server® 1100, 2200 and 4200 network-attached storage (NAS) products.

February 23, 2004

Snap - New upgraded versions of NAS servers

Snap Appliance® announced upgraded capacity configurations for its award-winning Snap Server® 1100, 2200 and 4200 network-attached storage (NAS) products.

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