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Yet another HDD enclosure has appeared, one that promises to house any 2.5-inc or 3.5-inch SATA hard drive, establish the connection to PCs and protect the unit during transportation. Icy Dock is the company that brought forward the new product, whose name is MB559U3S-1S. It comes with USB 3.0 + eSATA combo conne... |
26 May 2012
07:02 GMT |
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External storage cases have become quite common, but they aren't in too high a number yet, so Century Japan should find at least some buyers for the CRNS35U3MR "EX Volume".
The short version of the description is that the case is a device which can hold two 3.5-inch SATA HDDs.
The slightly longer version is th... |
25 May 2012
17:01 GMT |
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Japanese company Logitec has just launched the new LHD-EG40THEU3F external HDD unit, on its official website. This is a 7200 RMP, 4 TB HDD packed inside a USB 3.0 enclosure that also comes with eSATA connectivity. Readers should not confuse Logitec with Swiss company Logitech. The new 4 TB external HDD we’re pr... |
24 May 2012
05:19 GMT |
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For a company supposed to be in trouble with shortages, Seagate did remarkably well during the last quarter of 2011 and the first quarter of this year, 2012.
One would think that the alleged undersupply would give the HDD giant trouble meeting what orders it already has.
This does not seem to be the case, at leas... |
24 May 2012
02:30 GMT |
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Japanese technology giant Toshiba has officially declared it would start shipping hybrid drives in September 2012. Just after selling its own Thailand-based hard disk factory, the company started bragging about doubling its HDD market share. Right now, with Fujitsu’s old HDD division combined, Toshiba only ma... |
23 May 2012
10:41 GMT |
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We've been writing about hard disk drives and how the so-called crisis wasn't really that big a crisis at all, and now we are taking up the subject again, although not in the same manner.
Rather than pulling apart from the seams the whole not-crisis matter, we'll report on what analysts think the fut... |
23 May 2012
02:36 GMT |
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After spending 4.3 billion dollars for Hitachi's HDD division last March, and right after paying 700 million worth of dividends this spring and buying Toshiba's Thailand HDD plant, Western Digital's Board of Directors approved a stock repurchase of 1.9 billion dollars. It's quite strange to ... |
22 May 2012
20:01 GMT |
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Not being able to reach the desired price targets, notebook manufacturers will reportedly give up using SSDs in half of their UltraBooks. This is not really good news for either the users or for Intel, but it represents the reality that Intel’s platforms and CPUs are overpriced. Like we’ve written before... |
21 May 2012
03:42 GMT |
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Hitachi, a newly-acquired HDD division of storage giant Western Digital is presenting today the new 7mm slim HDD called CinemaStar Z5K500, on its official website. The new line of drives is obviously targeted for ultralight and ultrathin notebooks that, today, are the most marketed mobile devices by both, AMD and Int... |
16 May 2012
08:11 GMT |
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Back when we wrote the first articles regarding the fake HDD crisis and the current HDD market status, there were many readers that correctly pointed out the fact that Toshiba is still manufacturing hard disk drives. Although all the competition in the HDD domain was almost eradicated or bought off by Seagate and We... |
15 May 2012
05:58 GMT |
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As we've established in our previous article, storage density is not going to increase any faster in the following years and as such, the performance bumps will be mediocre at best. When it comes to hybrid drives, WD openly exposes Seagate’s rip-off, as the company admits the fact that a 20 to 1 ratio bet... |
14 May 2012
04:40 GMT |
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It’s clear that HDD capacity is still in high demand and the demand will only grow in the following years. That’s why profit mongering HDD company Western Digital has reportedly discussed new technologies to increase the capacities and performance of its products, yesterday at a conference in Vienna, Aust... |
10 May 2012
09:22 GMT |
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Japanese company Donya seems to know what the average laptop user needs, and today it is launching the DN-69810 SATA adapter used to mount a 2.5" drive in the optical drive bay. It comes in two versions, one normal 9.5 millimeter thick and one measuring 12.7 millimeters. We’re not usually so delighted with som... |
7 May 2012
09:30 GMT |
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American company StarTech has recently presented the SATSAS425BK 4-Drive 2.5” SATA/SAS Hot-swap Backplane on its official website. The SATSAS425BK will allow you to install four 2.5" SATA and/or SAS hard drives into a single 5.25” front bay. Editor's note:Having a strong background in server and work... |
30 April 2012
15:48 GMT |
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With each passing day, the likelihood of HDDs never becoming as affordable as they used to be becomes higher and higher, and Western Digital is not helping to prevent that.
In fact, Western Digital is a major contributing factor to the impression that HDD makers are only using the so-called HDD crisis as an excuse ... |
28 April 2012
03:56 GMT |
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During its quarterly fiscal results conference on Thursday, Western Digital reportedly admitted that it managed to significantly restore production capacities after the October 2011 flooding in Thailand. "I am pleased to announce today that the recovery activities related to both WD operations and those of our suppl... |
27 April 2012
12:43 GMT |
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Hard drive manufacturers Seagate Technology and Western Digital have reported great financial results after such a prolonged hard disk drive “crisis.” There was always talk about the fact that hard disk drives are so cheap, that the profitability of the manufacturers is getting low enough to limit t... |
26 April 2012
18:41 GMT |
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Owners of DVRs or smart TVs might want to buy an external HDD, so Freecom, part of the Mitsubishi Chemical Holdings Group, decided to make a very special one.
Thus it was that the Hard Drive Sq came to be, a 3.5-inch external unit with a square shape.
It comes in capacities of 1 TB, 2 TB and 3 TB and uses the USB 3... |
25 April 2012
10:16 GMT |
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There are many portable storage devices nowadays, but there are some situations where it is just too dangerous to have a “normal” one around.
And by dangerous, we mean hazardous for the item itself, not the owner's health, although the environments that threaten regular flash drives, HDDs or SSDs u... |
24 April 2012
09:11 GMT |
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Makers of hard disk drives have been revealing one advancement after another, but they might not be able to keep it up for long. Seagate thinks so at least.
In the past few years, as has become fairly customary on the IT industry as a whole, new breakthroughs have been reached in HDD research and development.
One... |
20 April 2012
11:01 GMT |
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Hard drives specifically made for DVRs, and products with similar purpose, aren't all that common, but they aren't unheard of either.
In fact, I-O Data recently introduced this very sort of storage device, called AVHD-PxU.
With a capacity of 500 GB or 1 TB, it is meant to serve DVRs and smart TVs.
Aft... |
18 April 2012
15:51 GMT |
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They are at it again: makers of hard disk drive units are busy saying how NAND Flash memory couldn't possibly replace magnetic drives. Ever. To Seagatet's credit, CEO Steven Luczo does, at the very least, admit that NAND can be a good complimentary technology (we think he meant complementary, but just in ... |
18 April 2012
03:40 GMT |
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HDDs are the name of Western Digital's game, and there never passes too much time without some new storage device making its way out of its labs.
What we mean to say is that a new hard drive unit has appeared, called WD VelociRaptor and featuring a capacity of 1 TB.
Long story short, it is a magnetic platter-... |
17 April 2012
12:11 GMT |
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Once in a while, a new product type shows up, which somehow gets enough backing that the industry segment it is part of has to change to some extent as well.
Intel could be said to be running an advertising campaign for ultrabooks all on its own, even though there are plenty of PC makers who sell such things.
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13 April 2012
04:18 GMT |
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Japanese company Century Tech started shipping its new CRAS2U3CP SATA HDD/SSD cloning dock in stores around the Land of the Rising Sun.The dock allows the user to clone a SATA HDD/SSD, without using a computer or a laptop. This method is much faster, simpler and even cheaper and eco-friendly, as you don’t need ... |
12 April 2012
06:05 GMT |
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Western Digital is the greatest supplier of hard disk drives and, sure enough, it is doing all it takes to stay in that position, down to essentially shrinking HDDs like they have never been shrunk before. What WD came up with is an Ultrabook alternative to solid state drives (SSDs), not a perfect one but, then aga... |
12 April 2012
03:09 GMT |
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Among the large masses of people around the world, a relatively small percentage actually know enough about the subtle and not so subtle differences between desktop and laptop PC components.
Starting 2013, this might change for one particular type of computer components: hard disk drive units (HDDs).
Currently, HD... |
11 April 2012
08:22 GMT |
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The number of changes available in the latest build for CrystalDiskInfo is far from being overwhelming. But besides adding support for new hardware components, version 4.5 also improves overall performance of the application.The new revision of the software can retrieve information about Micron RealSSD P300 and ... |
9 April 2012
07:39 GMT |
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HGST, Western Digital's latest acquisition (and previously named Hitachi Global Storage Technologies) has launched an enterprise hard disk drive that claims to be the first to reach a total capacity of 4 TB.
The new drive is called Ultrastar 7K4000 and, as the name implies, boasts a platter speed of 7,200 RPM ... |
3 April 2012
04:19 GMT |
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Even though one would expect the HDD market to have more problems this year, what with the higher prices and all, IDC believes that the opposite will occur. Not that makers of such storage devices haven't had to go through trying times of course, but the analyst firm still thinks the overall shipment levels fo... |
3 April 2012
03:15 GMT |
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Hard disk drives continue to be too expensive compared to last year, but there is some hope that things will improve, even if only slightly, by the end of this month (April, 2012).
Currently, 500 GB hard drive units sell for roughly $75 on average, or 56.23 Euro according to exchange rates.
In other words, their ... |
2 April 2012
04:23 GMT |
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Seagate may no longer be the greatest supplier of HDDs in the world, but it still develops and launches newer and more advanced technologies, like heat-assisted magnetic recording (HAMR). HAMR has to be the greatest milestone Seagate has reached in recent years, since it might actually do away with all the rumors a... |
20 March 2012
03:52 GMT |
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A certain collection of Seagate external hard disk drive units will get an update to the firmware soon, according to Gear Diary. The Seagate GoFlex Satellite line of HDDs will be updated on March 19 with a Satellite firmware refresh. When that day comes, two very important things will happen to the external hard ... |
19 March 2012
11:06 GMT |
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Japanese company Logitec has prepared some 3.5-inch hard drive boxes that, contrary to what some may expect, don't do anything besides holding drives inside.
Made of ABS, they can hold one storage unit each and grant it physical, dust and static protection. All of them have a top hinged cap that locks into pla... |
15 March 2012
17:31 GMT |
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External storage devices are all well and good, but for those who have regular SATA drives lying about, Japanese company Marshal has created a pair of enclosures and a docking station. The three devices that Marshal has created are called MAL-3235SBK, MAL-3335SBKU and MAL-3635SBK. The first two are external drive ... |
15 March 2012
16:51 GMT |
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Not one to flinch from losing its position as leading HDD provider, Seagate is almost ready to start selling a new hard disk drive, one that will stand out from the fold through being smaller than most, as odd as it may sound.
The consumer IT industry is strange in the way that the smaller a gadget is, the more not... |
12 March 2012
08:54 GMT |
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After many months of wrangling with the various authorities that need to approve business deals, Western Digital has finally finished the process of acquiring Hitachi GST.
That means that WD is now officially the largest supplier of hard disk drive units in the world, even if it had to give up some manufacturing fa... |
9 March 2012
05:11 GMT |
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Western Digital has officially announced the S25 series of hard disk drive units, where the Serial Attached SCSI interface meets the 10,000 rotations per minute (RPM) spindle speed.
From the interface alone, it is easy to gleam that this series is intended for business and enterprise applications rather than consum... |
8 March 2012
03:08 GMT |
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Even with the HDD market in supposedly dangerous waters, analysts foresee only great things for the few companies still serving in this field.
One would think that with the HDD market still struggling, the prospects of Seagate, Western Digital and Toshiba would be a bit bleaker, at least in the short term.
The tru... |
6 March 2012
10:07 GMT |
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Piriform has just released a new revision for their system information tool, Speccy. The latest build does not feature too many changes, but adds support for Windows 8 Consumer Preview and some improvements.Rearchitecting data loading order is on the list of the changes available in Speccy 1.16 and so are fixes for m... |
2 March 2012
11:12 GMT |
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ADATA has officially launched the DashDrive Durable HD710 family of portable and rugged hard disk drives. Thanks to their unique housing, they are both shockproof and waterproof, even compliant with the IPX7 specification, which means they can survive for 30 minute when submerged underwater at depths of 1 meter or ... |
29 February 2012
09:57 GMT |
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The hard disk drive market has some life in it still, as LSI is all too eager to prove through its LSI TrueStore system-on-chip devices (SoCs). Lsi's TrueStore SoCs are the industry's first HDD SoCs to be constructed using the 28nm manufacturing process technology. According to the company, they not onl... |
29 February 2012
09:39 GMT |
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Two of the world's remaining three hard drive makers have announced an agreement for the acquisition and/or transfer of some of their manufacturing assets. Western Digital, once it finishes all the procedures involved in the Hitachi acquisition, will be the undisputed king of HDDs. It basically already is, rea... |
29 February 2012
03:54 GMT |
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Some people want to have loads of storage handy, from which to stream to their TVs, but they might not feel like getting specially-designed external HDDs or media players.
Enter the Orico 7662SUSJ and 7662SUSJ3, a pair of dual-HDD drive enclosures that can directly connect to a Mass Storage-compatible TV or HTPC.
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24 February 2012
11:05 GMT |
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The latest word from the hard drive market has come in, but it is not exactly encouraging, even though the consequences of the Thai floods have lessened. It looks like hard disk drives are going to jump in price yet again, by about 30% to 40%, even though they already sell for about twice the money they demanded la... |
24 February 2012
02:50 GMT |
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Thermaltake has chosen this as the time of introduction for the Max Series of personal computer accessories, composed of two products called Thermaltake Max 5G and Thermaltake Max Duo.
The former is an external hard disk drive enclosure that fits into a desktop case's 5.25-inch drive bay, the type usually rese... |
22 February 2012
13:31 GMT |
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There aren't many 2.5-inch hard drives, compared to 3.5-inch ones and SSDs, but Hitachi has just unveiled a new one, the Travelstar Z7K500.
If one were to learn only of the storage capacity and speed of this newcomer, they would not be overly impressed.
After all, there are many 500 GB hard disk drive units w... |
22 February 2012
05:23 GMT |
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The market of hard disk drive and solid state drive docking stations is one of those minor segments that will be with us for a very long time.
Century Co. has made its contribution to this field, revealing the CROS2EU3CP, a 2-bay model that does not stand out much in terms of looks.
Still, it does have the ability ... |
21 February 2012
10:34 GMT |
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We have seen the 1.5TB Buffalo DriveStation HDD, the one that specializes in TV recording, so now we are looking at the other hard disks that Buffalo has prepared.
Once again, some new additions have been made to the MiniStation series of portable storage devices.
The newcomers bear the name of HD-PZU3 and are tw... |
18 February 2012
05:41 GMT |
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Anyone who wished there was a new external HDD to feast their eyes on will be glad to learn that there are two of them coming out of I-O Data's labs.The company has built the HDPC-UT series, which is made up of two members, for now, both of which are meant to connect to PCs, or whatever else, via USB 3.0.They me... |
16 February 2012
04:55 GMT |
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