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  Western Digital has started shipping its high-capacity 2.5-inch HDD line for notebooks in India. The 9.5mm WD Scorpio Blue HDD boasts a storage capacity of 1TB that utilizes two 500GB-platter form factor. WD says that its Scorpio Blue line of HDDs are designed to consume very less power and is coupled with WD’s WhisperDrive [...]

  When it comes to selling USB external drives, companies have few selling points to entice consumers. They can lure them on the price front, storage capacity, looks or speed. And Seagate with its GoFlex Slim is targeting users seeking great looks as well as speed. GoFlex Slim is the thinnest in Seagate’s arsenal, measuring [...]

  Seagate has announced its GoFlex Satellite HDD for Indian consumers. This new HDD comes with an integrated battery and Wi-Fi 802.11b/g/n that allows any Wi-Fi-enabled devices to take advantage of the HDD storage wirelessly. Android and iPhone users can download dedicated apps from respective stores to consume content directly from the hard drive, which [...]

  Seagate has launched a new 4TB GoFlex hard drive, which is the industry’s first external hard drive to sport such capacity. Coming in a new streamlined industrial design, the GoFlex Desk Drive can hold up to 4 terabytes of data, enough to hold over 2000 HD movies. Additionally, the new drive supports GoFlex adapter [...]

  Samsung today announced a high capacity drive for notebooks that will enable users to store data up to 1TB. The Spinpoint M8 integrates two platters or 500GB each and is achieved by using advanced format technology (AFT). Additionally, the Spinpoint M8 boasts a 7 percent increase in operational speeds as well as up to [...]

  Seagate is one of the leading hard drive manufacturers and to extend its leadership in the business they’ve managed to buy Samsung’s ailing hard drive business. However, this is not a regular buyout as it stretches on number of other fronts. Under the agreement, Samsung and Seagate will “extend and enhance” existing patent cross-license [...]

  WD has added a higher capacity model to its My Book Studio II range. Targeted at creative professionals and Mac enthusiasts, the new model now allows users to store up to 6TB of data, 33 percent more than the previous high-capacity My Book Studio II model. The My Book Studio II comes in dual-drive [...]

  Western Digital is now selling its fast 750GB 2.5-inch Scorpio Black HDD in the Indian market. The hard drive meant for notebooks and other portable storage devices supports SATA interface and promises desktop-like performance with spin speed of 7200RPM. Apart from giving additional capacity and speed, the Scorpio Black drive has a 16MB cache, [...]

  WD has brought its updated external HDD line to the Indian market. They’ve introduced the My Passport Essential, My Passport Essential SE portable hard drive and My Book Essential HDD, all equipped with the latest SuperSpeed USB 3.0. Users will be able to transfer data to USB 3.0-compatible PCs at speeds to up to [...]

  Seagate today announced the Constellation.2 hard drives meant for the enterprise-class consumers. The 2.5-inch drive goes up to 1TB in storage and is designed for server storage applications like Directed Attached Storage (DAS), Network Attached Storage (NAS) and Storage Area Network (SAN) environments. The Constellation.2 supports 6GB/s SATA or SAS interface and comes with [...]

  LG Electronics has announced a new range of external USB hard drives for the South Korean market. The 2.5-inch drive is known as XD8 Waffle due to its waffle-like pattern on the sides with high gloss colors on the front and back. Additionally, the drive boasts low power consumption, low noise design and comes [...]

  UPDATE: WD will sell the 3TB drive for Rs.10,700 in India. WD today unveiled a new HDD in its Caviar Green family that boasts the world’s largest storage capacity. The SATA HDD can store data up to 3TB of data on its 750GB-per platter areal density and is equipped with Advanced Format technology that [...]

  Toshiba has announced Wipe technology for Self-Encrypting hard drives (SED). The Wipe tech adds another layer of security to SED HDDs making the encrypted data inaccessible when the drive is powered off or is removed. Toshiba has been selling its 2.5-inch SED HDDs and with the integration of Wipe, users can rest assure about [...]

  Samsung has announced a new 3.5-inch environment friendly hard drive. The EcoGreen F4 or F4EG is the world’s highest-density drive that stores up to 2TB of data on its platter of 667GB each. Samsung says F4EG is an apt solution for storage hungry consumers that is able to store heaps of data while consuming [...]

  Seagate has launched its SSD-HDD Hybrid drives in the Indian market. The 9.5mm 2.5-inch Momentus XT offers a unique way to give consumers the speed of SSDs and affordability of HDDs by integrating 4GB of NAND flash and up to 500GB HDD capacity. By combining both SSD and HDD onto one drive and using [...]