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Imation Offers Easy Way To Upgrade From HDD to SSD

Aware of the end users' progressive adoption of solid state drives over hard drives, Imation took the chance to provide its customers with a quick and easy way to switch from the old hard disk(s) to new SSDs, which are superior in every way to the outdated HDDs. Imation's 2.5” M-Class SSD Upgrade Kit...

19 November 2009
11:03 GMT

Toshiba Announces the Industry's First 1.8-Inch, 320GB Hard Drive

Toshiba's Storage Device Division (SDD) announced today the expansion of its line of 1.8-inch, traditional hard disk drives with the introduction of two new additions designed to meet the requirements of a full range of mobile computing applications. The new additions include a high-performance 5,400RPM family o...

5 November 2009
03:36 GMT

Hitachi Rolls Out Enterprise-Oriented 2.5-Inch and 3.5-Inch Hard Drives

Hitachi Global Storage Technologies, one of the world's leading vendors of high-performance hard-disk drives, has announced today the expansion of its line of Ultrastar hard drives for enterprise storage applications. The company has just introduced two new 15,000RPM Ultrastar hard drives for Tier 0/1, mission-c...

13 October 2009
05:37 GMT

LaCie Rolls Out Starck-Designed External Drives

LaCie has always been a company that gives a significant importance to the design of its products, which is why, over the years, it has rolled out several products that have been built in collaboration with a renowned designer. On that note, the company has just announced that it has been working with world-famous de...

7 October 2009
03:32 GMT

Western Digital to Relocate to Irvine, California

Western Digital, one of the world's leading vendors of hard disks, solid state drives and other storage-related products, has just announced that it has completed its plans to move its headquarters and consolidate its Southern California operations into a single facility. Currently located in Lake Forest, Calif....

1 October 2009
04:27 GMT

Toshiba Rolls Out 2.5-Inch, 7200RPM HDDs with 500GB Capacity

Toshiba Storage Device Division has just announced the expansion of its line of 2.5-inch hard disk drives with the introduction of a new series that is designed to provide notebook PC users with a high-performance, high-capacity storage solution. The Irvine, California-based company announced the introduction of the ...

17 September 2009
02:56 GMT

A-Data Also Rolls Out 640GB, Portable HDDs

This might as well have been storage day, given the high number of new product releases that have fallen in this category and have been announced today or in the recent days. On that note, it appears that A-Data has decided to lose no time in announcing its customers that it's ready to provide them with a new, u...

11 September 2009
09:30 GMT

Samsung Gives Notebook Users 640GB of Storage

Earlier this month, Samsung, one of the world's leading vendors of consumer electronics and computer products, announced the introduction of its new, ultraportable hard drives, boasting a 2.5-inch form factor and a 640GB storage capacity. On that note, the company has just announced the expansion of its Spinpoi...

9 September 2009
05:09 GMT

QNAP Silently Intros Two 1U Rack-Mountable NAS Servers

QNAP, a company that is specialized in providing a complete range of external storage solutions, has recently updated its portfolio with the introduction of the new TS-439U-RP and TS-439U-SP rack-mountable NAS servers. The new solutions are designed for the small and medium business users, featuring a 4-bay design th...

13 August 2009
08:57 GMT

QNAP Offers Support for 2.5-Inch HDDs on Turbo NAS Lineup

QNAP Systems, one of the world's leading vendors of external storage solutions, has just announced that it will be providing its customers with support for smaller, 2.5-inch hard drives, offering them a broader choice for expanding their storage solutions. This new option has been made available for the company&...

12 August 2009
09:16 GMT

Apple Working on Fix for Beeping Hard Drives

Apple is reportedly working on a fix for MacBook Pro owners whose 7,200RPM hard drives randomly click and beep as the computer accesses data on the drive. Hundreds of users on the Apple Discussions forums have complained of the issue, with some of them confirming that Apple’s tech support staff is aware of ongo...

10 August 2009
03:08 GMT

TDK Could Roll Out 2.5TB 3.5-Inch HDDs in Early 2010

While the speed at which the storage industry is moving onward isn’t as high as with other IT segments, technology is advancing, as we are seeing higher-capacity and faster storage solutions being made available for consumers. At this time, advances are made with both the traditional hard disks and with the mor...

10 August 2009
02:27 GMT

Hitachi Unleashes the World's First 2TB 7200RPM Hard Drive

Hitachi, one of the world's leading vendors of storage products, has announced today the launch of its latest Deskstar hard disk drive, coming as the world's first 2TB 7200RPM hard disk drive. Joining leading industry players like Seagate and Western Digital, Hitachi is now shipping its high-capacity HDDs, ...

6 August 2009
03:57 GMT

Hitachi Unveils Three New Storage Solutions for Consumers

Following the acquisition of Fabrik earlier this year, Hitachi Global Storage Technologies (GST) has just announced the introduction of a couple of new products designed for the consumer market. The three new Hitachi-branded products include the company's SimpleTOUGH portable USB drive, claimed to be the industr...

13 July 2009
11:16 GMT

Seagate Unveils New Cheetah 15K.7 Hard Drives

Seagate, one of the world's leading vendors of storage solutions, has announced today the availability of its new Cheetah 15K.7 enterprise-class hard drives, designed to deliver enhanced performance to a wide range of server and storage applications. According to the Scotts Valley, California-based company, the ...

13 July 2009
10:44 GMT

Samsung Adds New 250GB 1.8-Inch HDD with Native USB

Samsung Electronics has recently announced the introduction of its new 1.8-inch hard disk drive, featuring a high capacity of 250GB and a new native USB controller, integrated on the HDD's printed circuit board (PCB). According to Samsung, this design feature will enable portable hard disk vendors to provide its...

9 July 2009
10:10 GMT

Samsung Adds New Color Options to S-Series Portable HDDs

Samsung, one of the world's leading vendors of consumer electronics and portable hard disk drives, has just announced the introduction of two new color options for its line of S-series external hard drives. The Korean company also announced a new 160GB version for its 1.8-inch S1 Mini drive, providing its custom...

15 June 2009
07:02 GMT

Free iPhone App Shows Why Hard Drives Fail – DriveSaver

The folks at DriveSavers, who deal with what the company's name implies, have come up with a truly helpful iPhone application. Not only does DriveSaver simulate real-life scenarios of hard drives failing as the user interacts with their inner-workings, but it also provides helpful advice on how to stay out of ha...

11 June 2009
10:05 GMT

New NAS from QNAP Offers Support for 2.5-Inch and 3.5-Inch Drives

QNAP has recently rolled out a couple of new products, ready to provide computer users with a network-attached storage solution that can easily adapt to their requirements. However, it seems that the company has a few more aces up its sleeve, as it has just announced the introduction of its new TS-219P Turbo NAS, whi...

27 May 2009
11:06 GMT

Western Digital Unveils 2TB HDD for AV/Surveillance Markets

Western Digital, one of the world's leading providers of storage solutions, has just announced the expansion of its WD AV-GP line of hard drives with the introduction of a new model, capable of delivering a massive 2TB of storage space, namely the industry's largest available drive to date. The WD AV-GP lin...

19 May 2009
10:17 GMT

Spent Hard Drives Containing Military Secrets Found

In a new research, carried out by computer experts from BT's Security Research Center and the University of Glamorgan, in the UK, more than 34 percent of second-hand hard disk drives (HDD) proved to still contain sensitive information, even after being disposed of. The study focused on 300 such units, which had ...

7 May 2009
09:23 GMT

Samsung Offers New 500GB 2.5-Inch Rugged HDDs

If you have been looking to upgrade your laptop's storage solution but haven't yet found a suitable replacement, maybe it's time to check out Samsung's latest offering. A world leader in consumer electronics and IT products, the company has just announced its latest 500GB, 2.5-inch hard drive, des...

21 April 2009
03:17 GMT

Toshiba Plans Self-Encrypting Drives for Early 2010

Toshiba's Storage Device Division (SDD) has recently announced that it plans to officially take the wraps off its latest self-encrypting drive technology, in a demonstration with Wave Systems' Trusted Drive Manager application at the security-focused RSA Conference 2009, starting April 21 at the Moscone Cen...

17 April 2009
05:02 GMT

Freecom's ToughDrive External HDD Can Take the Presure

Finding the perfect external storage solution can be difficult sometimes, especially if you are looking for a product that you can use in extreme conditions. However, a recently announced product designed by Freecom might just prove to be the perfect solution for your problems. The newly released ToughDrive Sport com...

19 March 2009
09:45 GMT

Buffalo Acknowledges DriveStation Issues, Releases Firmware Upgrade

Buffalo Technology, a leading vendor of computer storage products, has recently announced that it has encountered some issues related to the early firmware versions of its product, the DriveStation HD-CEU2. According to the company, the aforementioned product may show strange behavior, which includes certain hibernat...

5 February 2009
08:53 GMT

Hitachi GST Announces New 500GB Hard for Digital Video and Surveillance

Hitachi Global Storage Technologies has recently introduced a new hard disk drive to its lineup, in the form of the CinemaStar C5K500, a 2.5-inch hard drive that is set to provide up to 500GB of storage space. The new hard drive from Hitachi has been specifically designed to meet the requirements of digital video and...

5 February 2009
06:02 GMT

Seagate Catches Up with Western Digital, Announces 2TB Hard Drive

Seagate has just announced its latest-generation Constellation family of hard disk drives, including a 2.5-inch lineup, offering the lowest enterprise power consumption and the company's first 2TB hard drive, part of the 3.5-inch lineup. The two solutions have been designed to provide users with high capacity, i...

2 February 2009
09:41 GMT

Leaked Western Digital 2TB Hard Drive Available for Pre-Order

While Seagate, the world's largest vendor of hard disk drives, is still having issues with its Barracuda hard drives, which have been reported to break even after a patch released by the company was applied, competitor Western Digital is expected to unveil a new product that will provide its customers with a mas...

27 January 2009
03:18 GMT

Seagate Firmware Fix Turns into Fiasco

On Monday, leading hard disk drive maker Seagate announced a new hard drive firmware fix, designed to provide support to those users who had reported issues with their 1TB Barracuda 7200.11 hard drives. In an unfortunate turn of events, the released firmware has reportedly caused 500GB versions of said drives to stop...

22 January 2009
09:26 GMT

Seagate Reports Q2 2009 Preliminary Results

Seagate, the world's leading manufacturer of traditional hard disk drives, announced on Wednesday the preliminary results for the quarter ended on January 2, 2009. According to the report, the company recorded 37 million disk drive unit shipments, with a revenue of $2.3 billion and a net loss of $496 million, or...

22 January 2009
05:41 GMT

Seagate Acknowledges Barracuda HDD Issues

Back in late November last year, Seagate, the world's leading vendor of hard disk drives, released a firmware update for its Barracuda 7200.11 1.5TB hard drives, which were reported to freeze for a few seconds, or report less than full capacity to the operating system. It now appears that the company continues t...

20 January 2009
04:12 GMT

Storage Vendors Planning Low-Cost 2.5-Inch HDDs for Netbooks

As the netbook market is expected to further expand in the upcoming year, PC vendors are said to be looking to come up with ways to improve the prices on some of the components, including hard disk drives, which are currently used in most of the netbooks available on the market. As part of said plan, Seagate Tec...

16 December 2008
05:24 GMT

Just 10% of Netbooks to Feature SSDs in 2009

According to one Asian market watcher, netbooks featured with solid state drives are beginning to be considered an endangered species. It appears that, currently, most netbooks are based on a traditional hard disk drive solution, whereas at the beginning of the year, SSD-based netbooks represented the majority of shi...

12 December 2008
03:46 GMT

HP Starts Shipping 2.5-Inch 300GB SAS Drives

Hewlett-Packard, the current leading maker of personal computer systems, has recently announced that, this week, it has started shipping 300GB 2.5-inch drives to worldwide resellers. The company's new offer comes to double the capacity of its previous 2.5-inch Serial-Attached SCSI (SAS) hard drives, providing us...

10 December 2008
05:30 GMT

HDD Shipments Either Flat or Dropping in Q4

Considering the weakening global demand for PCs and other electronic products, iSuppli forecasts that hard disk drive shipments will remain flat during the fourth quarter of the year, if not dropping compared to the previous quarter. The firm has issued several scenario forecasts for global HDD shipments in 2008 and ...

3 December 2008
04:13 GMT

Western Digital Considers Entering SSD Market

Western Digital, one of the worldwide leading providers of storage solutions, is reported to announce its readiness to make the first steps into the SSD market segment. According to Richard Rutledge, Western Digital's SVP for marketing, the company is waiting for the “appropriate opportunity” to make...

24 November 2008
11:15 GMT

Enterprise HDDs Moving Towards 2.5-Inch

It seems that the mainstream size of enterprise-grade hard disk drives is on its move from the current 3.5 inches toward 2.5 inches due to the major power gains the smaller form factor HDDs offer. According to Paul Martin, Western Digital senior director for Worldwide Channel Marketing and Enterprise, a 10,000rpm 2.5...

24 November 2008
06:06 GMT

Exclusive: Seagate on the Future of HDDs and SDDs

The storage market is going through major changes these days, with SSDs gaining more and more ground and registering a good market penetration, while HDDs struggle to maintain their position. Undoubtedly, the battle between the two technologies will be a tough and long one, and perhaps they will come to a consensus a...

18 November 2008
02:02 GMT

Fujitsu to Release New Enterprise HDDs

Today, Fujitsu has announced the development of two new series of enterprise hard disk drives, coming to deliver a total storage capacity of 300GB in a 2.5-inch form factor. Designed to meet the requirements of computer professionals, Fujitsu's new hard disk drives have been set to combine a fast 15000 RPM disk ...

17 November 2008
09:59 GMT

Fujitsu Unveils World's First 2.5-Inch 500GB HDD with 256-Bit Encryption

Fujitsu Computer Products has just announced the introduction of its 2.5-inch MJA2 BH and MJA2 CH series 5400 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s mobile hard disk drives. The new HDDs, which can provide a maximum storage capacity of 500GB, are designed to fit not only portable computer systems, but also desktops. In addition, the high-...

11 November 2008
03:20 GMT

Seagate CEO Confirms Company Working on SSD Technology

Seagate has already come forth with its intentions of entering the SSD market with upcoming products that are to become available sometime in 2009. However, recent details indicate that the company is currently working on such products, and that it is investing as much as $100 million in their development, according ...

5 November 2008
09:43 GMT

Western Digital to Buy Fujitsu's HDD Business Unit

Western Digital, one of the leading makers of hard disk drives, is reported to be in talks with competitor Fujitsu for the acquisition of the latter's unprofitable hard drive business, according to a source inside the company. This transaction could allow Western Digital to claim the leading position in the hard...

2 October 2008
04:54 GMT

Western Digital Ships Second-Generation Green HDDs

After yesterday's release of WD ShareSpace, Western Digital's first product ever to address the small-office network storage market, the company has introduced today its second-generation Caviar Green desktop hard drives. The new HDDs feature the proprietary GreenPower technology, which is meant to signific...

1 October 2008
10:06 GMT

TDK Claims World's Highest Surface Recording Density of HDD

TDK Corp has recently announced that it has achieved the world's highest surface recording density of HDD, 803Gbit/inch2 with a track recording density of 1.771kBPI and a track density of 454kTPI. The announcement comes after Toshiba introduced last week its first 250GB 1.8-inch HDDs, designed to meet the specif...

1 October 2008
03:56 GMT

Seagate 500GB 2.5-Inch HDDs Featured in New Acer Notebooks

Seagate, one of the leading manufacturers of computer storage products, has announced that Acer, top provider of notebook computers, is now offering new portable systems equipped with its own 500GB 2.5-inch Momentus 5400.6 hard drives. The 500GB 2.5-inch HDDs were introduced back in July, along with the industry...

29 September 2008
10:34 GMT

1.8-Inch 250GB SATA HDD Has Arrived

Always the active pioneer in its field, Toshiba has just announced that it's expanding its small form factor hard disk drives with three new high-capacity, high-performance SATA HDDs, including the industry's first 250GB 1.8-inch HDD. You got it right, your future laptop could be featured with one of these...

25 September 2008
04:58 GMT

Iomega Releases Ultra-Thin Portable Hard Drive for MacBook Air

Iomega is a company specializing in data protection and security solutions. The company announced its new Iomega eGo Helium portable hard drive today. The USB 2.0 320GB hard drive is aimed at owners of an Apple MacBook Air and is said to be the perfect match for the style and incremental storage needs of Apple's...

17 September 2008
15:51 GMT

Western Digital Now Ships 500GB Notebook Hard Drives

Western Digital, one of the leading manufacturers of storage devices, has announced today that it has started shipping its WD Scorpio Blue 2.5-inch hard drives designed for notebooks. This means that notebook users will be able to benefit from a maximum storage capacity of 500GB. The latest hard drives from Western D...

12 September 2008
09:41 GMT

Pure Defragmentation

Defragmentation – all Windows systems need it; otherwise, all the disorderly files can cause severe performance slowdowns. It may sound like a chore for many users, but in fact the entire process can be handled automatically through the "set-it-and-forget-it" function included in a great deal of defraggers on t...

11 September 2008
15:31 GMT

Solid State Drives Are Superior, Intel Says

It seems that the days of hard disk drives are becoming shorter. The last year brought a lot of news on solid state drives as the future devices to be used for storage. At Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco, the chip manufacturer announced that the era of spinning magnetic platter is coming to an end. The storage...

8 September 2008
05:36 GMT


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