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Thunderbolt and Lightning very very frightening....

lindsay.edwards@u-digital.com — Fri, 25 Feb 2011 01:00:00 +0100

Galileo Galileo....

Ahem.. So Apple and Intel have announced the new standard in I/O connectivity "Thunderbolt". As understated as always Apple have coupled the release of the I/O connectivity with the release of their new Mac Book Pro and I imagine that it won't be too long before the new standard is found on the Mac Pro (but not the Xserve, obviously).

Thunderbolt is based on PCIe technology; this basically means that you connect, more or less, straight onto the PCIe bus itself. This, a [...]

8Gbs Fibre Channel Now Standard

lindsay.edwards@u-digital.com — Fri, 28 Jan 2011 01:00:00 +0100

Greetings RAID lovers!

Well it's been a couple of weeks or so since my last blog and I have news of the imminent release this week of the new generation of HyperStar RAID systems.

The HyperStar has now gone 8Gbs!

Some might say "Big deal 8Gbs has been around for months" that is true; we have had the capability to go 8Gbs for months also but saw little point in introducing a new model to our customers back then. Why? because we believe that introducing 8Gbs 8 months ago would have been p [...]

Back by popular demand...

lindsay.edwards@u-digital.com — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 01:00:00 +0100

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Due to unprecedented pressure by the higher echelons of the Data Storage Community the UD Blog is risen.

It's not that there hasn't been much going on of late, much to the contrary, things have been quite lively to say the least.� During the early months of this year it seems that, for UD at least, spring has definitely sprung. There has been a huge increase in interest in UD and Hive products over the last few weeks and I feel it's only proper that I reciprocate with the odd ti [...]

iSCSI for Apple, anyone?

hans.enoksen@u-digital.com — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 01:00:00 +0100

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iSCSI for Apple, anyone?

Well, it seems like it's been a long, long time�since we first came across a new storage connectivity protocol �called iSCSI. As many of you already know iSCSI works by encapsulating SCSI commands and transmitting them over any existing IP network, whatever�its size.

iSCSI was going to make SANs fall�within the reach of anyone with some iS [...]

Welcome to the UD blog

Thu, 18 Jan 2007 00:00:00 +0100

You catch us gearing up for the launch of our mini-RAID – the first to be specially designed for home and small business users. RAID technology provides the ultimate safety net for people who rely on their digital files, but until now it has been predominantly aimed at the enterprise market.

Not anymore! The UD mini-RAID will cost a fraction of the [...]