...d drive unreadable when the encryption key is deleted. Hitachi believes that this will speed up the proces s of exchanging hard drives as the deletion of data is not neces sary anymore. However, in the ...
Tuesday, November 11, 2008 00:01
...g hard drives, which means that all information stored on the hard drive is automatically encrypted. Acces sing the data requires a password. If no password is provided the hard drive is basically lock...
Monday, November 10, 2008 00:00
...o acquire a rival or expand their product portfolio (note: market caps do not equal likely purchase prices ). You may even have a few eccentric billionaires out there who would be able to scoop up a ba...
Thursday, October 09, 2008 20:39
...ouble to 160 GB. These drives have a maximum throughput of 250 MB/second and incredible random acces s times. In one test, two SSDs in RAID 0 were compared to two Seagate Barracudas (7200rp...
Friday, August 22, 2008 16:45
...
manufacture but also feature a storage density that cannot be achieved
with traditional media and proces ses today. Madison (WI) – Researchers from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Hit...
Thursday, August 14, 2008 14:10
...the economic
downturn by lowering their cost. The increasing mass storage threat
from NAND flash devices is answered with perpendicular magnetic
recording technology, which enables the industry to ...
Wednesday, July 23, 2008 00:53
...o Seagate , the Momentus 7200.3 consumes about 2.1 watts during read/write and 2.3 watts during seek proces ses. Dell and Alienware are the first system builders to offer the new drives. A 160 GB 7200 ...
Monday, May 19, 2008 18:50
...a performance-tuned device that not only promises to offer a
substantial speed increase over its predeces sor, but is also likely to
make you think twice about that $1000+ 64 GB solid state disk driv...
Monday, April 21, 2008 10:00
... not about stifling innovation or threats to our business from solid state technology. We welcome advances in this, and other technologies, and in fact we continue to invest considerable R&D funds...
Tuesday, April 15, 2008 07:31
Western Digital (WD) said that it will cutting about 800 employees from its global workforce of 42,500. The reduction is said to be primarily a result of a restructuring following the acquisition of
Friday, March 21, 2008 10:18
... 100 MB/s, the 7000 series up to 120 MB/s. Write rates are 80 MB/s and 90 MB/s, respectively. Random acces s times are less than 0.1 seconds, Imation said. This speed comes at a price, of course. And ...
Monday, March 10, 2008 12:23
...s with an aerial storage density of 204 Gb/inch2. The device integrates a 3 Gb SATA interface and outpaces five of its seven competitors in performance, Seagate claims. Seagate also claims that the dr...
Monday, January 21, 2008 12:42
...are called Pipeline HD drives, and will be special low noise, low power models capable of storing in exces s of 20 full-length two-hour HD movies, or the equivalent amount of live TV program content re...
Monday, January 07, 2008 08:46
...hlon 64 X2, 14.1” $499.99 CompUSA Notebook Sony Dual Core proces sor $549.99 CompUSA Notebook HP Core 2 Duo multimedia PC ...
Wednesday, November 21, 2007 11:49
...u will get back if you think through naming and indexing. Thinking through not just the proces s of scanning, but the proces s of organizing what you’ve scanned is what will eventually...
Thursday, November 01, 2007 11:36
...ch better than this in mobile performance computing: The XPS M1730 is based on the Intel Core 2 Duo proces sor T7700 (2.4 GHz/800 MHz FSB, 4 MB L2 Cache). Plus, you will be getting an Intel backpack fi...
Tuesday, October 30, 2007 09:20
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Wednesday, October 24, 2007 09:10
...rter with up to 40% better idle power savings. The pricing will be comparable with non-green devices . Hitachi will remain at 7200rpm throughout all of its green products, which include 250...
Tuesday, October 23, 2007 10:25
...shipped 47 million units in Q3, which was comprised of 6% growth to 4.6 million units in Enterprise spaces , 1.8 million of those were small form factor drives. It also included 5.7 million in co...
Tuesday, October 16, 2007 17:00
... MB of NAND flash memory, which, according to the manufacturer accelerate boot and application load proces ses, cut power consumption and increase the reliability of the hard drive. Seagate stated the ...
Monday, October 08, 2007 11:23
...ecture. And yet to obtain these high performance numbers, AMD is using a publicly unavailable proces sor on an build of VMware ESX, which is also not available. These numbers are not s...
Monday, September 10, 2007 12:32
...d an ordered alumina nanohole patterns, including a flying head on a rotating disk. The fabrication proces s uses perpendicular magnetic recording at a density of 100 nm pitch nanoholes, which is suppo...
Thursday, August 09, 2007 10:58
...e second quarter of 2006. The company said that market pressure on unit volumes and average selling prices were the main reason for the decline in revenues, but Komag also noted that a high cost of th...
Monday, August 06, 2007 17:45
...om other products such as notebook hard drives, CE hard drives, enterprise hard drives and branded devices such as the MyBook series. In FQ4 2007, that desktop share was reduced to 54%, while 46% of r...
Thursday, July 26, 2007 20:49
... power hungry components in your PC. We have see several new ideas to cut power consumption of the devices with new technologies such as hybrid hard drives, but Western Digital claims that it has foun...
Monday, July 23, 2007 14:55
...11th generation barracuda drive, officially called 7200.11, increases the maximum capacity of its predeces sor from 750 GB to 1 TB. In terms of storage density, Seagate lands in the middle of the pack,...
Monday, June 25, 2007 08:28
...maller. The Cheetah NS drives will be available in the third quarter in SCSI and Fibre Channel interfaces . No pricing has been announced....
Wednesday, June 20, 2007 07:09
Following Hitachi GST, Samsung is the second company to offer a 3.5” hard drive with a capacity of 1 TB. However, Samsung offers 67% more storage density per disk. New York (NY) – Follow
Tuesday, June 19, 2007 12:31
...eds (5400 rpm instead of 7200 rpm), but typically consume only around 2 watts during read and write proces ses. Competing 3.5” technologies, including the 1 TB drive from Hitachi GST, store 200 ...
Thursday, June 07, 2007 10:35
...7200 rpm – which results in a slightly reduced power consumption (1.8 watts during read/write proces ses.) In comparison with its direct predeces sor, the 5K160 (160 GB), the new drive offers a 5...
Tuesday, June 05, 2007 14:14
...waiting for the drive rotation to catch up, WD said. According to the manufacturer, the technology reduces the power consumption of the drive by about 60%. Other features of the 750 GB drive (formatt...
Monday, June 04, 2007 10:54
...and Microsoft serving as “core contributors”, aims to create operating system drivers to acces s NAND flash memory in hard drives, motherboards, solid state disks and external devices . The ...
Wednesday, May 30, 2007 18:00
...50. The 2.5" SSD joins a 32 GB 1.8" version that was announced during this year's CES tradeshow. According to the manufacturer, the 2.5" SSD integrates a SATA interface that ...
Tuesday, March 13, 2007 09:03
...esire of consumers to store and backup large-sized video and audio files downloaded from Internet services ,” iSuppli said. The Seagate /Maxtor was not the only challenge that emerged for the har...
Wednesday, March 07, 2007 12:16
...their relatively high power consumption of 5.5 watts during spin-up and 2.3 watts during read/write proces ses somewhat acceptable – typical 5400 rpm SATA 1.5 drives consume about 15-20% less pow...
Monday, March 05, 2007 22:38
...im Hyun-tak describe what they call the first semiconductor that has broken the 10 nm barrier. The devices are less than one-sixth the size of semiconductors in mass-produced micro-proces sors today (6...
Wednesday, February 21, 2007 12:30
...ectrum of new features; all of these serving the purpose of making Windows Vista the smoothest, most acces sible, user-friendly and most communicative Windows ever. For users looking for more performan...
Thursday, February 08, 2007 00:00
...ng technology" that will offer a compact alternative to expand the storage capacity of mobile devices that support Bluetooth or Wi-Fi connectivity. The Dave drive, scheduled to debut with a 10 ...
Tuesday, January 30, 2007 23:13
Seagate claims to have developed the world's fastest hard drive: The new Savvio 15K expands the existing 2.5" SAS enterprise hard drive series with two 15,000 rpm models. According to Seagat
Tuesday, January 16, 2007 18:17
...th the private key. The public key on the computer end unscrambles the data. "This is a very simple proces s that doesn't require user interaction," said Dr. Thibadeau. Without the proper encryption ke...
Sunday, January 07, 2007 19:55
One of the first major events at CES 2007 was the Storage Visions 2007 Conference, which focused not only on hard drive technologies, but featured an interesting exhibit as well: Join us to see Hitac
Sunday, January 07, 2007 02:20
..., which yesterday confirmed that it will also deliver a 1 TB drive within the next three months. Pre CES 2007 coverage - - Las Vegas (NV) - Hitachi this morning was first out of the gate to announce...
Friday, January 05, 2007 16:11
Pre CES 2007 coverage - If the pre-show announcements are an indication of the wave of new products that will be announced at CES 2007, then we have one busy week ahead of us. Join us for an overvie
Friday, January 05, 2007 05:00
Pre CES 2007 coverage - Four of the world's five largest hard drive manufacturers have come together to form the hybrid storage alliance - an effort to create more visibility for mass storage device
Thursday, January 04, 2007 18:42
If you considered the impact of perpendicular magnetic recording (PMR) on hard drives, as rather negligible so Fujitsu's announcement this morning may change your opinion: The company said it will be
Monday, December 11, 2006 17:20
...e about tradition and excitement than it is about spectacular deals. Still, a handful of attractive prices ends up in stores across the country, and for some, it's worth waiting in line for several ho...
Wednesday, November 22, 2006 20:29
...w, you are probably right. Much of the same gear, along with updated models, will also be displayed at CES . We will bring comprehensive coverage of that show next January. ...
Monday, November 20, 2006 15:46
...80" series is available in SATA and PATA versions with capacities of 80 GB, 120 GB and 160 GB. The devices include free-fall sensors that are located on the hard drive, which promise a faster response...
Tuesday, November 14, 2006 17:17
Your dual-core notebook may soon be obsolete because one company is working on a quad-core laptop that could last 24 hours on a single charge. L International has announced that it is building
Saturday, October 21, 2006 01:23
...drives will be based on Seagate 's core hard drive technology, of course, there will be feature differences as well. Most importantly, the capacities of the Seagate Barracuda drives currently top out a...
Monday, October 02, 2006 15:42
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