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This series of SSDs represents Intel's answer to Samsung and OCZ (Toshiba) and their EVO 840 and Vector model. Intel claims that both drives come with significantly improved speed controller (up to 50%) and NAND bus which achieves 20% higher speed.

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Monday, 24 February 2014 10:00

Toshiba drops a few new SSDs on the market

New Toshiba SSDs belong to HG6 Series, have a SATA 6.0 Gbps interface and should appear on the market in March this year with yet unknown prices. During manufacture Toshiba decided to incorporate NAND chips that are created in the 19nm technology of 2nd generation. SSDs will be available in 2.5-inch mSATA and M.2 (single and double) packaging, and in capacities from 60 GB to 512 GB.

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Friday, 14 February 2014 20:07

Motorola's CEO moves to Dropbox

According to Wall Street Journal, Motorola Mobility CEO Dennis Woodside will leave the company before the official acquisition by Lenovo. His new job will be at the position of COO (Chief Operating Officer) in Dropbox, a popular service for storing data in the cloud.

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CES 2014, Las Vegas, Nevada -  We spent some time with our friends at Synology checking out some of their new products as well as talking about the upcoming release of Disk Station Manager 5.0 (Beta).  For those of you that might not be familiar with Synology they make a wide range of network attached storage products that fit into the small to medium sized business pricing model. What is nice about Synology is that their features and performance options can actually bridge into enterprise performance needs.

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As 2013 comes to a close we have a new contest to help you bring in 2014 with your own private cloud. Synology has given us a DS1513+ (diskless) to give to the person that can gather all of the information we will be asking for. The contest will involve a scavenger hunt on DecrytedTech, our YouTube channel and Synology’s product pages. You can also get additional chances to win by liking our Facebook page, Joining and posting in the contest thread on our Forum. With that, here are the questions and good luck!

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Backblaze company, specialized in storage solutions on the Internet , has conducted a study which concluded that hard disk drives designed for professional use are not more reliable than equivalent models designed for home users. Backblaze measured the reliability according to the number of failures per drive per year, which a disc-year represents, for example, the work of one disk for a period of one year or four disks working four years.

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Sunday, 17 November 2013 21:46

Western Digital shows off HAMR hard drives

The company Western Digital demonstrated the operation of a hard disk based on HARM (heat -assisted magnetic recording) technology at the China International Forum held in Shanghai. 

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Saturday, 09 November 2013 21:50

OCZ Launches the Vector 150 SSD

OCZ in its new 2.5 inch Solid State Drive installed 19nm NAND Flash memory chips and Indilinx Barefoot 3 IC controller. The new Vector 150 comes in capacities of 120, 240 and 480 GB, all that packed in case which is 7 mm thick, making it suitable for installation in the thinnest Ultrabooks. Vector 150 SSD has a SATA III interface and achieves speeds of 550 MB/s when reading data and a bit lower 530 MB/s when writing.

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Wednesday, 30 October 2013 21:56

Thin terabytes from Toshiba

Toshiba have announced mass production of thin 2.5 inch drives with rotating plates. The housing of drive is only seven millimeters thin.

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Thursday, 10 October 2013 22:14

Shuttle launches new Omninas NAS devices

Shuttle has presented two interesting home NAS devices from Omninas line, models KD21 and KD22. Solutions have elegant aluminum housing with space for up to two 2.5 or 3.5 inch disks and SATA interface.

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