Toshiba Corporation confirmed its leadership in the fast growing market for 2.5-inch hard-disk drives (HDD) with the announcement of the MK1031GAS, the highest capacity drive yet achieved in this increasingly important form factor.

Intel Corporation announced a new family of processors based on Intel XScale® technology that can handle multiple forms of wireless broadband access with enough computing power to provide cell phones with full motion video conferencing capabilities and PDAs with DVD-quality video playback.

Kingston® Technology Company, Inc. announced the immediate availability of a 1 GB CompactFlash. Elite Pro. card featuring the latest in high-density flash components. Kingston’s newest 1 GB CompactFlash Elite Pro provides a low, price per megabyte solution of reliable, high-speed media.

Once again, ASBIS invites its business partners to attend Intel Channel Conference which will be held at Hyatt Hotel, Nairobi, Kenya on the 22nd April, 2004.

Seagate Technology revealed its latest industry-first demonstration showing interoperability between multiple Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) and Serial ATA (SATA) disc drives all running within the same storage array. With the ability to freely mix SAS and SATA drives in a shared SAS-based system, IT Managers will be able to use high-performance SAS drives for high-transaction and mission-critical data environments while simultaneously taking advantage of lower-cost-per-gigabyte SATA drives for the storage of non mission-critical reference data.

If you are in the market for a DVD burner, the Lite-On SOHW-812S DVD±R/RW is a great choice that will only get better when the faster –RW media shows up.

LiteOn IT Corp. releases its latest ATAPI / E-IDE 8x DVD Dual Drive with all of the fastest DVD recordable media support: SOHW-832S. This DVD Dual Drive is able to write DVD+R & DVD-R media at 8x maximum, rewrite DVD+RW & DVD-RW media at 4x, and read DVD-ROM media at 12x maximum. It takes around 10 minutes to backup 4.7 GB data on a certified DVD+R / DVD-R media at 8x.

Emphasizing interoperability and an end-to-end product family strategy, LSI Logic Storage Standard Products division announced an expanded Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) product sampling program. The HBA SAS sampling extends the opportunity for system, server and workstation equipment manufacturers to test with the first fully functional SAS host bus adapter available in the market today. SAS technology extends SCSI interface solutions beyond Ultra320 allowing data-intensive applications and the Direct Attach Storage (DAS) markets to gain enhanced performance and scalability.