Seagate Technology announced its new lineup of Solid-State Drives (SSDs), as well as its new X8 Accelerator storage class memory PCIe card.
Solid-State Drives Going Great Guns
IHS announced it forecasts that PC Solid-State Drive (SSD) shipments will rise to 227 million units in 2017, up more than 600% from 2012, while shipments of hard disk drives (HDDs) will decline to 410 million units in 2017, down 14% from 2012.
Maxell Unveils Professional Plus SDHC Cards
Maxell Corporation announced its new SDHC Ultra High Speed UHS-I flash memory cards, which are available in 16GB ($37.83) and 32GB ($72.99) capacities.
JEDEC Publishes Universal Flash Storage Test Standard
JEDEC Solid State Technology Association announced that it has published a new Universal Flash Storage (UFS) test standard.
Imation Rolls Out IronKey Secure Drives
Imation announced its new encrypted IronKey D80 flash and H80 hard disk drives.
Ritek Rolls Out RIDATA SD9 Flash Drive
Ritek Corporation announced its new RIDATA SD9 USB 2.0 flash drive, which is available in 8GB, 16GB and 32GB capacities.
Apricorn Rolls Out Encrypted Biometric Access Drives
Apricorn announced its new Aegis Bio 3.0 hard disk and Solid-State drives, which feature hardware encryption as well as biometric fingerprint access.
Lexar Launches USB 3.0 Flash Drives
Lexar announced its new JumpDrive P10, S33 and S23 SuperSpeed USB 3.0 flash drives.
Kingston Ships New Generation USB 3.0 Flash Drive
Kingston Digital announced its new DataTraveler Ultimate 3.0 Generation 3 USB 3.0 flash drive.
Drobo Ships 5N Storage Array
Drobo announced that it is now shipping its new Drobo 5N networked storage array.
Lexar Launches High-Performance microSDHC UHS-I Memory Cards
Lexar announced its new high-performance microSDHC UHS-I flash memory cards, which are available in 16GB and 32GB capacities.
Kingston Digital Readies 1TB USB Flash Drive
Kingston Digital announced its new DataTraveler HyperX Predator SuperSpeed USB 3.0 flash drive, which will be available in storage capacities up to 1TB.
Imation Acquires Nexsan
Imation Corp. announced that it acquired Nexsan Corporation, a provider of disk-based storage systems, for roughly $120 million in cash and stock.
Toshiba Showcases TransferJet SDHC Memory Card
Toshiba Corporation announced that it will showcase an SDHC memory card featuring TransferJet wireless transfer technology at CES 2013.
Toshiba CompactFlash Cards Target DSLR Market
Toshiba Corporation announced that it will launch a new line of high performance CompactFlash (CF) memory cards targeted at the digital single lens reflex camera market.

