According to the latest report, shipments of solid-state drives have increased during the second quarter.

CK Chang, Executive Manager of Apacer, recently interviewed by our Digitimes, has discussed the SSD and memory market, and according to him, by mid-2015 we could see some rather interesting shift in SSD prices.

LiteOn is a rather big OEM that usually makes products for the other companies. They made SSDs for Plextor and have now decided to unveil its own line of solid-state drives that will be available to consumer market and launched under the Zeta name.

SecureDrives' new SSDs will allow users to destroy their data via SMS. Something that we have only seen in spy movies is now available for consumers.

Synology unveiled a new NAS for the DiskStation lineup. This particular model is designed for the user on a budget, and it's called DiskStation DS115j.

While its SME Xvalue SSD has been quite popular with the entry-level market, Kingmax has now announced yet another solid state drive, the SMG Titan.

Blu-ray, DVD and CDs have been around for quite some time, but when it comes to durability and storage capacity, the HDDs are still a preferable format. Sony and Panasonic are trying tofix this with a new optical disc format which will be able to safely preserve data, the Archival Disc.

Blackblaze is actually known for their online backup service, but since the company needs thousands of hardware to do their daily business, they decided to investigate reliability of 1.5 TB, 3 TB and 4 TB hard drives from Hitachi, Western Digital and Seagate.

Akasa has launched the new DuoDock X Wi-Fi docking station for 3.5-inch and 2.5-inch HDDs. Aimed to get the content from your HDD to any other device via Wi-Fi connection, the new Akasa DuoDock X WiFi can be used to stream music, movies or get any other data to your favorite mobile device with WiFi.

Buffalo Technology has announced the availability of the TeraStation 3000 series of high performance NAS and iSCSI unified storage. Aimed at small offices and professional users that require cost-effective network storage that is easily shared and safeguarded with the reliability of RAID data protection, the new TeraStation 3000 series provides dual gigabit Ethernet ports, RAID support, four USB ports (two USB 3.0) as well as bunch of other features.

With the EJ340, HighPoint Technologies shows the industries first 6Gbps SATA expander module, which is being shipped in a separate case. Using a SATA Expanders allows one to upgrade a setup with additional SATA ports in a cost efficent way.

TRENDnet has announce the availability of the new 2-bay NAS media server enclosure, the TN-200. Based on a 2-bay design solution the new TN-200 offers up to 8TB of total storage and has all the features that you would expect from a mid-range NAS device.

Biwin has introduced a new business-grade SSD aimed to be used in the digital signage market, the half slim H6201. Based on SATA II Half-slim form factor the new H6201 will be available in capacities ranging from 4GB to 128GB.

Patriot has added yet another member to its wide offer of USB 3.0 flash drives, the SuperSonic RAGE USB 3.0 that will be bundled with the HAWKEN game title.

Chinese memory maker, Kingfast has announce an interesting C-Drive SSD with 1TB of capacity based on a unique RAID 0 configuration with two subunits each using now quite famous Sandforce SF-2281 controller.

Synology has announced the release and availability of its latest affordable and energy-efficient dual-bay NAS aimed at home users, the DiskStation DS213j.

Silicon Power has announced a new addition to its Velox series of solid-state driver, the Velox V50. Based on yet to be revealed SATA 6Gbps controller, the new Velox V50 will provide up to 530MB/s read and up to 200MB/s write speeds.

Previously available in up to 420GB of capacity, Fusion-io has now announced a new ioFX workstation acceleration platform with up to 1.6TB of capacity.

Eine weitere Neuheit von der CeBIT 2013 ist die DriveStation Mini Thunderbolt SSD Edition von Buffalo. Dabei handelt es sich um zwei 2.5-Zoll-SSDs, die in einem externen Gehäuse, das von einem Lüfter gekühlt wird Platz finden und per Thunderbolt angeschlossen werden.

Schaut man sich die Zahlen an, wie sich der Markt für SSDs in den vergangenen Jahren entwickelte, dann kann man ein rasantes Wachstum beobachte. Schenkt man den Aussagen eines Analysten von IHS iSuppli Glauben, dann soll sich die Zahl der weltweit ausgelieferten SSDs im Laufe dieses Jahres mehr als Verdoppeln.