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Patriot Wildfire (240GB)

Patriot Wildfire (240GB)

The 240GB Patriot WildFire offers a significant performance gain on any computer, albeit at a premium cost. Read more

28 July, 2011 by Dong Ngo

Seagate debuts 2.5-inch hard drive with 1TB storage

...Seagate has announced its latest 2.5-inch enterprise hard drives, offering 1TB of storage and speeds of... Read more

14 December, 2010 by Dong Ngo
Hitachi lifts lid on ultrathin 7200rpm drive

Hitachi lifts lid on ultrathin 7200rpm drive

...on Wednesday that it is now shipping the Travelstar Z7K500 7mm-thick, 2.5-inch hard drive. The new ultrathin Travelstar Z7K500 hard drive (left... Read more

23 February, 2012 by Dong Ngo

Hitachi GST releases small HDD for servers

Hitachi Global Storage Technologies has released a 2.5-inch drive for high-density servers that will compete with similar... Read more

14 December, 2011

Intel launches ultra-small SSD range

...solid-state drives that are one-eighth the size of its mainstream 2.5-inch X25 range. The new Intel solid-state drive (SSD) 310... Read more

30 December, 2010
Pogoplug Series 4 brings cloud into the home

Pogoplug Series 4 brings cloud into the home

...an additional vertical USB 2.0 port and a SATA port for 2.5-inch laptop hard drives, or for compatible devices like the Seagate... Read more

16 December, 2011 by Scott Stein

Dell details PowerEdge 12G servers ahead of Xeon E5

...The two-socket R720xd has the same along with up to 24 2.5-inch or 12 3.5-inch drives. A key differentiator between... Read more

28 February, 2012 by Jack Clark
HP pops open Z1 all-in-one workstation

HP pops open Z1 all-in-one workstation

...memory slots for up to 32GB of DDR3. It has space for 2.5-inch or 3.5-inch hard drives with up to 2TB... Read more

16 February, 2012 by Karen Friar

vSphere 5, VAAI and the Death of the Storage Array

...adopting Sub-Lun tiering (in which LUNs are now merely containers) and 2.5 inch SAS disks. The next key shift towards this datacenter transformation... Read more

2 September, 2011
Hitachi presents media device hard drives

Hitachi presents media device hard drives

...CinemaStar 5K2000 family, available with 2TB and 1.5TB capacities, and the 2.5-inch laptop CinemaStar C5K750 family with 750GB, 640GB and 500GB capacities... Read more

4 January, 2011 by Dong Ngo
Seagate refreshes enterprise SSDs and disks

Seagate refreshes enterprise SSDs and disks

...requiring high storage capacity and high throughput. The Pulsar.2 is a 2.5-inch multi-level cell (MLC) solid-state drive with 6Gbps SAS... Read more

15 March, 2011 by Jack Clark

EMC bumps VMAX array to 4 petabytes

...can handle up to 4 petabytes of storage split across 3,200 2.5-inch drives — almost double the capacity of its predecessor, the Symmetrix... Read more

21 May, 2012

Intel releases 330 SSD range

...Monday, is part of Intel's entry-level 300 drive family. The 2.5-inch drives come in 60GB, 120GB and 180GB capacities and connect... Read more

17 April, 2012

Huawei updates enterprise server and networking range

...socket cabinet server comes in two variants with either eight or ten 2.5-inch SAS/SATA drive bays to give it enough local storage... Read more

8 March, 2012 by Jack Clark

SanDisk upgrade drive takes SSDs to Extremes

...space, but SanDisk's Extreme SSD is packaged to replace a traditional 2.5-inch hard drive in a laptop or desktop PC with a... Read more

15 February, 2012

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