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Foremay claims to have the first 2TB, 2.5-inch SSDs

It’s been relatively easy for awhile to get a solid-state drive with 2TB or more of storage — if you’ve been willing to buy a large PCI Express card , that is. Foremay is bringing that kind of capacity to a more portable form. It claims that both its TC166 (for end users) and SC199 (industrial) drives are the first to stuff 2TB of flash memory into a 2.5-inch SATA enclosure. The 9.5mm thickness should let them fit into many laptop hard drive bays and space-sensitive machinery without having to give up all those valuable extra bytes. Before reaching for a credit card, however, we’d warn that there aren’t many details so far — we don’t know the performance, or how much it costs to buy either model. We’ve reached out and will get back if there’s firmer details, but at least corporate customers who want speed and ample storage in one drive will be glad to hear that Foremay’s new SSDs are already in mass production. Continue reading Foremay claims to have the first 2TB, 2.5-inch SSDs Filed under: Storage Comments Source: Foremay (1) , (2)

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Drobo’s new 5N is a speedy $600 NAS for when you need files, stat

Tragically, we only learned about Drobo’s new 5N after we’d hired a warehouse the size of an aircraft hanger to store our latest, 12 million page novel. If you want to avoid our mistake, then the company’s latest NAS might end your own storage woes. The new hardware is part of the same family as the 5D and Drobo Mini , except this one ditches the Thunderbolt connection in favor of a single gigabit-ethernet port. Inside, there’s space for five 3.5-inch drives, giving you a maximum capacity of 20TB. An mSATA slot for an SSD drive will let you make use of Drobo’s “data-aware tiering” feature, which gives applications like Adobe Lightroom and iTunes faster access to your NAS-stored files. The base model will set you back $600 and will be available in “mid December,” which we impatiently hope is a euphemism for “tomorrow.” Continue reading Drobo’s new 5N is a speedy $600 NAS for when you need files, stat Filed under: Storage Comments Source: Drobo

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