Samsung has released a 3.5-inch STORY Station external HDD that aims to handle user’s data needs in a secure and eco-friendly way. The drive which comes in a brushed aluminum casing integrates three key features – Auto Backup, Secret Zone and SafetyKey. The Auto Backup backs up data at prescheduled intervals while SafetyKey allows […]
Samsung announces rugged 2.5-inch Spinpoint M7 HDDs
Samsung has unveiled Spinpoint M7 hard drives that come with a shock operation tolerance of 400G/2ms. Apart from withstanding shocks of greater magnitude, the drives are 18 percent faster than conventional 2.5-inch HDDs. It runs at 5400RPM and features 3.0Gbps SATA interface, 8MB cache, SilentSeek and NoiseGuard technologies and comes in capacities ranging from […]
Wii hacked to integrate a 120GB HDD
Wii has not been a complete multimedia package like other consoles and thus, Nintendo never felt the need to give a mega storage space with it. But that has not led few people, at least this guy to accept this fact and ventured on his own to give Wii, the missing HDD. Of course, […]
Seagate SV35.5 HDDs
Seagate has introduced SV35.5 HDDs that are meant for rigorous use, making it an apt choice for video surveillance systems. The 7200RPM drives come in storage capacities of up to 1TB and are able to sustain 140MB/s sequential data rates, assuring the steadfastness and the performance of digital video surveillance systems. Other things that […]
Western Digital now offers My Book HDDs up to 2TB
Western Digital has expanded its My Book line of external HDDs and is now available up to capacities of 2TB. 2TB is heaps of data equivalent to 241 hours of full HD videos or around 500,000 songs. The My Book line comes with support of both Mac and PC and is priced from $330 […]
Seagate announces 2TB Constellation HDDs
Seagate has also joined the league of 2TB drive producers with the announcement of Constellation ES drives. The 2TB 3.5-inch Constellation ES HDD boasts speed, storage and enterprise level security. Seagate is touting that this drive is the only one to run at 7200-rpm carrying such huge storage capacity. There’s also an optional self-encrypting […]
Fujitsu to exit HDD Head Business
Fujitsu has announced that they will shut down its HDD head manufacturing business on March 31, 2009. The exact reason is unknown but Fujitsu states it as a part of their broader strategic plan of the HDD business. The HDD business as a whole is uncertain at the moment but Fujitsu has promised to […]
Fujitsu reveals 15,000 RPM 2.5-inch HDD
Fujitsu Japan today announced a new line of 2.5-inch drives. The new MBD2 RC and MBE2 RC series boast a speed of 10,025 and 15,000 RPM and Fujitsu claims that these drives are 60% faster than the current set of 2.5-inch drives. The drives use perpendicular magnetic recording, support 6GB/s SAS (Serial-attached SCSI) that […]
TDK creates 1.8-inch 260GB HDD, boasts highest recording density
At CEATEC, TDK revealed a new drive which makes Toshiba’s 1.8-inch drive a thing of the past. Because of the TMR head it uses, the TDK drives are able to store a whopping 260GB of data with a surface record density of 803 gigabits per square inch. That’s more than 400 gigabits per square […]
Toshiba makes 1.8-inch 250GB SATA Drive
Toshiba already has the credit of making the world’s first 1.8-inch 240GB PATA Drive and here is another feat which is also the world’s first. Toshiba has created its third generation 1.8-inch SATA drive (MKxx29GSG) boasting storage space up to 250GB. A user will now be able to experience fast transfer speeds given the […]