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Toshiba 2.5-Inch HDDs Dominate Benchmark Tests

The fact that Toshiba's HDDs deliver quite an impressive level of performance in a wide array of applications is not exactly a big surprise, but it seems that the Japanese company is keen on further proving its superiority via series of benchmarks.So, in order to provide some backing for their claims regarding t...

28 March 2011
09:52 GMT

Samsung Working on 4TB HDDs After Hitting 1TB per Drive Platter

Although just about everyone's talking about SSDs nowadays as far as the topic of data storage is concerned, HDD manufacturers are still actively pushing new technologies in this field as well, the later huge breakthrough coming from none other than Samsung. So, while some of its rivals (such as Western Digit...

8 March 2011
02:38 GMT

Meet ByteSpotter, the See-Through 1TB External HDD

If you've ever dreamed about owning an external HDD that will certainly stand out from the crowd, then you should know that this is exactly what the people from Convar have in store for you, with their new ByteSpotter line of external HDDs.Without a doubt, these are among the most unusual storage products we...

7 March 2011
05:47 GMT

New 500GB USB 3.0 Portable HDD Unveiled by Plextor

Plextor's been in the storage market for quite some time now, and for this reason, it should come as no surprise that they've also joined the USB 3.0 bandwagon, their latest product to incorporate this high-speed interface being the PX-PH500U3 portable HDD. Without a doubt, USB 3.0 (or SuperSpeed USB, if...

4 March 2011
02:04 GMT

3TB Seagate Barracuda XT HDDs Now Shipping

Although SSDs tend to spend a lot more time in the spotlight nowadays, the truth of the matter is that the bulk of storage in home computers is still done by HDDs, and the Seagate Barracuda XT proves this only very well, coming with a whooping 3TB of storage space.According to Seagate, their very capacious storage so...

1 March 2011
15:31 GMT

2TB External USB HDD Enabling Video Recording from HDTVs Launched by Buffalo

Since quite a few modern HDTVs also offer an USB Recording mode, the people over at Buffalo have decided to lend a helping hand to the owners of such display solutions and introduced a new series of USB HDDs designed to offer plenty of storage space for recording one's favorite shows.Unfortunately, while some su...

23 February 2011
04:07 GMT

Sanho HyperDrive iPad HDD Series Gets Updated

Although Sanho was quite in a bit of legal trouble with Apple over their HyperMac external battery line, that's not apparently stopping the company from releasing even more products targeting specifically the various products manufactured by the company from Cupertino, California, the latest to make their offici...

31 January 2011
02:07 GMT

Hitachi Ultrastar 7K3000 7,200 RPM, 3.5-inch 3TB HDDs Revealed

Hitachi's been on quite a roll lately, and now, the company's back with yet another very interesting offering in the field of storage targeting enterprise customers, namely the new Ultrastar 7K3000 drive family, that's touted as being the first 7,200 RPM enterprise-class HDD to deliver 2.0 million hour...

25 January 2011
03:45 GMT

Toshiba Launches World's First 1.8-Inch HDDs with LIF SATA Interface

The enhanced popularity mobile computing solutions have been enjoying over the past couple of years has led to some pretty impressive technological developments achieved in just about every market segment even remotely related to this brand of products, including here that of storage, where Toshiba has just provided ...

25 January 2011
01:05 GMT

New Iomega Home Media Network Hard Drive Cloud Edition Also Announced at CES 2011

After talking a bit yesterday about Iomega's Personal Cloud technology, it's now time to take a very quick look at new product released by the same company that will actually leverage the advantages provided by the aforementioned advanced storage solution, namely the Iomega Home Media Network Hard Drive Clo...

5 January 2011
05:45 GMT

New 2.5-inch, 750GB USB 3.0 HDD Launched by Silicon Power

Since USB 3.0 portable storage solutions have become so popular lately, Silicon Power decided that adding yet another offering of its type to its lineup is a very good idea and thus launched the Stream S10, a portable 2.5-inch 750GB hard drive whose exterior designed is inspired by Italian sports cars.Focusing on lig...

4 January 2011
06:14 GMT

Hitachi Rolls Out New CinemaStar HDDs for A/V Products at CES 2011

As you've been able to see for yourselves over the past couple of months, most of the new multimedia players and A/V products hitting the market come packed with HDD storage capabilities, and for this reason, Hitachi has decided to add two new drive families to its lineup of consumer electronic (CE) optimized ha...

4 January 2011
03:58 GMT

New Samsung USB 3.0 HDDs Announced at CES 2011

Samsung's slowly, but surely opening up the rather large bag of goodies it's prepared for this year's International CES in Las Vegas, this time arround announcing the launch of three new USB 3.0 HDD lines, that leverage the enhanced data transfer rates provided by the aforementioned technology.The new ...

4 January 2011
00:46 GMT

Single-Platter 500GB HDDs for Notebooks to Become Mainstream in 2011

Without a doubt, storage solutions have evolved quite a lot over the past couple of years, the appearance of SSDs really changing the game in this field, at least to some extent, since HDDs are still out there in large numbers, and the same will happen throughout 2011, when 500GB HDDs are quite likely to become stand...

28 December 2010
09:46 GMT

G-Technology G-DRIVE slim Pushed to 500GB by new 7mm Z5K500 Hitachi HDD

As some of you will certainly remember, G-Technology released a while ago an ultra-portable storage solution designed specifically to match the design of Apple Mac systems, the G-DRIVE Slim, which was based on Hitachi's ultra-slim HDDs, and now, given the fact that Hitachi has just started shipping the world...

16 December 2010
15:01 GMT

World's First 7mm 500GB HDD Shipping from Hitachi

Traditionally, HDDs are considered the bulkier storage solution, at least when compared to SSDs, but that's not really the case with Hitachi's new Travelstar Z5K500 drive, that, at 7mm thickness, is just about the slimmest 500GB HDD out there.With its slim profile and high capacities, the Hitachi Travelstar...

16 December 2010
04:24 GMT

Toshiba Also Outing Two Enterprise-Grade HDDs

Beside the new line of SSDs for the enterprise segment that reach storage capacities of up to 400GB we've talked about earlier today, the storage solutions' manufacturers has also outed a couple of more “classical” storage products, namely two HDDs that target pretty much the exact segment.So, w...

14 December 2010
10:43 GMT

New LaCie Tank Protects External HDDs, Other Portable Gadgets

While LaCie is best-known for manufacturing all sorts of interesting data storage solutions, including a couple of ultra-rugged ones, it would seem that the company is considering a more serious branch-out into the world of accessories as well, since they've just recently released the Tank, a protective carrying...

8 December 2010
01:41 GMT

Add a 3TB Internal HDD to Your 27-Inch 2010 iMac

While the 2010 27-inch Apple iMac systems are some pretty cool computing systems, their storage capabilities aren't exactly superb, and that's exactly the issue OWC wants to tackle with their latest offering, namely a 3TB drive option.As Electronista reports, OWC's offering is a part of OWC's turn...

7 December 2010
14:11 GMT

LED Capacity Meter Indicates Free Storage Space On New Bufallo External HDD

Buffalo is one of the world's best-know storage solutions manufacturer, the company rolling out, over time, a very large number of products of this type, most of which deliver some pretty interesting and unique features, this being also the case with one of their latest offerings, namely the DriveStation Axis LE...

16 November 2010
08:31 GMT

Toshiba Goes Extreme 24/7 with New 2.5-inch HDDs

Toshiba's become quite well-known in the field of storage solutions for pushing to the market some very innovative 2.5-inch HDDs (hard-disk drives), and now, they're back with yet another very interesting offering in this segment, namely two new 2.5-inch HDD models designed for rugged 24-hour continuous ope...

16 November 2010
01:16 GMT

Erase Every Byte of Information on Your HDDs Even Without a Computer

It's quite a commonly-known fact that the information stored onto any HDD is not completely lost, even if said device is software-formatted and it might be retrieved after the users dispose of the respective storage solution. However, in order to avoid this undesired situation, the people over at WiebeTech have ...

13 November 2007
11:06 GMT

And the Oscar Goes To......Hitachi's New CinemaStar HDDs

Digital video recorders and set-top boxes with recording capabilities are becoming increasingly important nowadays, as they allow users to enjoy their favorite shows even when they don't have the necessary time to watch them exactly when they're aired. And this is the reason why the people over at Hitachi c...

7 November 2007
07:21 GMT

Western Digital Joins the 2 TB Club with Its New My Book Models

It would seem the manufacturers of external storage devices have gone a little crazy lately, as they keep launching new models with increasingly higher storage capacities. And the target, at least for the time being, seems to be the 2 TB value, as any company that considers itself an important player on the storage m...

27 July 2007
05:36 GMT

Kanguru's Eco Drive Boasts to Be the World's Most Eco-Friendly Portable HDD

Everyone's concerned about the environment nowadays and this applies especially for the various manufacturers of electronic equipments, whose products require electrical power both during normal operation as well as during the manufacturing process, thus indirectly affecting the surrounding environment. This is ...

20 July 2007
11:31 GMT

TrekStor Hits 1TB of External Storage with The DataStation duo w.u

As the amounts of data we work with on a daily basis have seriously increased over the past few years, the same phenomenon has applied to the market demand for external storage solutions with very high capacities. And one of the latest companies to join the 1 TB club is TrekStor, which has finally released its DataSt...

17 July 2007
05:56 GMT


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