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  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 [...]

  Samsung is now shipping its 12.5mm 2.5-inch 1 terabyte internal hard drive. The Spinpoint MT2 is said to be ideal to be fitted in portable hard drives, digital TVs, set-top box etc. The Spinpoint MT2 uses 333GB per-platter tech and in addition to storing large amounts of data, the drive ensures better performance and [...]

  Seagate’s world’s first 3TB external hard drive has been announced for the Indian market. For starters, 3TB of space can hold up to 120 HD movies, 1,500 games and innumerable music and images. Seagate’s GoFlesk Desk range boasts a special feature that makes it compatible with the latest interface. It predominantly supports USB 2.0 [...]

  Seagate has finally announced its rumored 3TB hard drive. The world’s first 3TB drive has been added to its FreeAgent GoFlex Desk range that allow users to store up to 120 HD movies, 1,500 games or thousands of images and music. Although the drive supports USB 2.0, with the help of an additional adapter [...]

  Western Digital has launched a new external hard drive for Mac users that not only performs but also looks good. The My Book Studio LX HDDs come in an aluminum enclosure and integrate a FireWire 800 port for faster data transfer in addition to a USB 2.0 port. The pre-formatted HFS+ drives also boasts [...]

  SSDs are faster but way expensive. HDDs are cheaper and slower when compared to SSDs. Now, Seagate has found a middle way to combine the performance of an SSD and keep the price under affordable levels. The Momentus XT Hybrid HDDs are touted to be the world’s fastest 2.5-inch laptop drive with claims to [...]

  Seagate has confirmed the rumor related to its capacious 3TB hard drive. Seagate’s Senior Product Manager, Barbara Craig confirmed to Thinq that the 3TB enterprise-class HDD is scheduled to launch by end of this year provided the technical issue gets sorted. The issue is not from Seagate’s end but from the PC industry because [...]

  Taiwan-based A-DATA has introduced a new portable hard drive in the Indian market. The 2.5-inch SH-02 is targeted at fashionistas and is crafted with a 3-dimensional imprint patterns with special surface finishing. The patterns and the finish uses advanced IMF (In-Mold Foil) technology that allows users to feel the design with the fingertips. Additionally, [...]

  Seagate’s enterprise-level Constellation ES HDD is bound to get a new addition. According to a source of Inquirer, Seagate is prepping a 3.5-inch 3TB HDD to launch it later this year. The drive will hail from Seagate’s Constellation ES Series that currently maxes out at 2TB. The 3.5-inch HDD is expected to support 6Gbit/s [...]

  Samsung has announced SuperSpeed USB 3.0 equipped external drives in its STORY Station portfolio. The new 3.5-inch STORY Station is the fastest STORY Station from Samsung and claims to be 10 times faster than the drives with USB 2.0 interface. The drive with SuperSpeed USB 3.0 transfers content at a speed of 5Gbps, which [...]

  Just like Samsung did to its S2 Portable HDD, Seagate has also entered into a partnership with Paramount Pictures to pre-load movies on their 2.5-inch FreeAgent Go HDD. A purchase and a quick register to the redemption page, enables users to unlock Star Trek (2009) movie without any additional cost. There are other 20 [...]

  Samsung has announced a new edition of its 2.5-inch S2 Portable hard drive. The Korean giant has collaborated with KBS Media to pre-load Full House, a TV show from South Korea. In addition to the show, the drive will also feature interviews from the director and the cast. It will sell in July in [...]

  Samsung has unveiled Spinpoint MP4 hard drive targeted at high performance seeking notebook users. The 2.5-inch HDD comes in capacities of up to 640GB, runs at a speed of 7,200RPM and claims to have an improved 30 percent data processing speed. The Spinpoint MP4 supports SATA interface, 16MB buffer memory and features Dynamic Balancing, [...]

  Toshiba has expanded its 2.5-inch range of hard drives with the inclusion of MK7559GSXP 750GB and MK1059GSM 1TB HDD. The former one is a 9.5mm drive that boasts a two-platter design, achieves industry’s highest areal density at 839.1M bit/mm2 and consumes up to 14% less power as compared to its older 640GB sibling. The [...]