Kingston launched its DataTraveler Ultimate 3.0 flash drive which has read speeds up to 80MB/s; LSI announced it is now shipping its 6Gb/s SAS RAID-on-Chip device with a dual-core PowerPC processor and specialized hardware acceleration engines; finally, Seagate announced its Momentus Self-Encrypting Drive has been FIPS 140-2 certified.
Kingston Launches USB 3.0 Flash Drive
Kingston has announced it is shipping its first USB 3.0 flash drive, the DataTraveler Ultimate 3.0. The company says the drive has a read speed up to 80MB/s and write speeds up to 60MB/s.
The drive is backwards-compatible with USB 2.0; Kingston includes a Y-cable with the device to ensure compatibility.
The DataTraveler Ultimate 3.0 will be available in 16GB/32GB/64GB capacities for $89/$138/$270 respectively and comes with a five-year warranty.
LSI Now Shipping 6Gb/s RAID-on-Chip
LSI announced at the Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco that it is now shipping a new 6Gb/s SAS RAID-on-Chip (ROC) IC, the LSISAS2208. It is designed to optimize the use of SSDs in server environments. It is also designed for easy migration to future servers using the PCI-e 3.0 standard.
The LSISAS2208 has eight ports and delivers up to 400,000 random IOPS in RAID 5, 6, and 10 configurations, more than double that of the previous-gen product.
Other specifications of the LSISAS2208 include a dual-core 800MHz PowerPC processor integrated with LSI MegaRAID technology. It also has 72-bit DDR3-1333 SDRAM and specialized hardware accleration engines with multiple 500MHz, 128-bit point-to-point internal data paths.
Seagate Momentus Self-Encrypting Drive Now Government Certified
Seagate has announced that its Momentus Self-Encrypting Drive, the world’s first notebook drive with built-in encryption, has been FIPS 140-2 certified by the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST).
The Seagate Momentus Self-Encrypting Drive is the first hard drive with native encryption to earn the FIPS certification.
