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1. Seagate 2TB Barracuda drive features 64MB cache

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   Sunday, 20 September 2009

   ... Seagate had increased the XT's cache from 32MB to 64MB to exploit the newly designed SATA 6G interface. "The XT's 64MB cache optimizes burst performance and reduces data throughput bottlenecks," said ...

2. Seagate upgrades network docking station for FreeAgent hard drives

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   Wednesday, 16 September 2009

   Seagate has introduced a retrofitted docking station that allows users to easily access and share digital content stored on FreeAgent Go portable hard drives. According to Seagate, the FreeAgent DockStar ...

3. TG Daily’s Dads and Grads Product Giveaway: Play along and win!

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   Friday, 19 June 2009

   ... Using the Clarisonic prior to shaving will open pores and give your man the closest shave of his life. The launch of their men’s Graphite Gray Clarisonic for Father’s Day in 2008 was so successful that ...

4. Less backup pain with Seagate’s Replica drive

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   Monday, 27 April 2009

   ... since you may carry over all that spyware and potentially viruses as well. So, you may still have to consider that thorough cleaning process of your PC from time to time.    ...

5. 6 Gbps SATA drives set for 2009 rollout

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   Monday, 09 March 2009

   ... rollout yet, but is "good enough" for a presentation, we were told. Seagate said that first 6 Gbps devices should become available commercially later this year. ...

6. Toshiba to acquire Fujitsu’s hard drive business

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   Wednesday, 25 February 2009

   ... be acquiring Fujitsu’s HDD technology and related assets to strengthen its position in the 1.8” and 2.5” devices segments as well as the SSD market. The company intends to purchase about 80% of Fujitsu’s ...

7. KMIP: Controversy brewing between security standards bodies

   (Security/Security Features)

   Tuesday, 17 February 2009

   ... which aimed to simplify the process of encrypting data and storing keys. Today, some controversy has broken out over KMIP. Chicago (IL) - Last week, TG Daily wrote an article about a new KMIP security ...

8. KMIP: New security encryption protocol created

   (Security/Security Brief)

   Friday, 13 February 2009

   ... aims to simplify the process of encrypting important data, as well as maintaining keys. Chicago (IL) - A new encryption protocol specification developed by Brocade, EMC, HP, IBM, LSI, Seagate and Thales ...

9. Seagate debuts new Enterprise hard drives

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   Monday, 02 February 2009

   ... and higher signal strength over greater distances. Also available will be 3.5-inch Constellation ES hard drives in 500GB, 1TB and 2TB storage options. These will also offer SATA and SAS interfaces. ...

10. UPDATED: Seagate 500GB Barracuda HDDs having high failure rates

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Friday, 30 January 2009

    ... number of Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 hard drive models which may result in data becoming inaccessible after a power-off/on operation. The affected products are Barracuda 7200.11, Barracuda ES.2 SATA, and ...

11. Seagate unveils highest-density hard drive

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Monday, 05 January 2009

    ... announced a new 3.5” drive that stores 500 GB on a single platter. Just in time for CES, Seagate has begun shipments of its 12th generation 3.5” Barracuda hard drive, which continues to spin ...

12. Steve Jobs' Macworld 2009 keynote uncertain

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Tuesday, 16 December 2008

    ... when the Apple CEO usually unveils refreshed products, announces new initiatives and stuns the crowd with "one more thing." However, a depressed economy has prompted a number of key exhibitors to either ...

13. Nano-magnetic sensors could pave the way for massive data storage capacity

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Tuesday, 09 December 2008

    ... research paper, potential future applications include "new generations of nanoscale conductance sensors, new advances in digital storage devices, spintronics, and selective drug delivery components." Today's ...

14. Hitachi announces 1.4 watt self-encrypting hard drive

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Monday, 10 November 2008

    ... rendering data on a hard drive unreadable when the encryption key is deleted. Hitachi believes that this will speed up the process of exchanging hard drives as the deletion of data is not necessary anymore. ...

15. Dell ships laptops with self-encrypting hard drives

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Sunday, 09 November 2008

    ...  FDE hard drives are self-encrypting hard drives, which means that all information stored on the hard drive is automatically encrypted. Accessing the data requires a password. If no password is provided ...

16. Tech mergers ahead?

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Opinion)

    Thursday, 09 October 2008

    ... position to 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 ...

17. Toshiba rolls out iPod/Zune hard drive

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Tuesday, 09 September 2008

    ... expensive as Toshiba’s 240 GB drive. Samsung has been mum on actual prices of the drive, but our industry sources indicate that the 256 GB SSD will cost less than $1000.       However, ...

18. Load faster, kill faster, win more – Intel touts SSDs for extreme gaming

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    Friday, 22 August 2008

    ... SSDs within 30 days and in Q4 the capacity will double to 160 GB.  These drives have a maximum throughput of 250 MB/second and incredible random access times.  In one test, two SSDs in RAID 0 ...

19. Self-assembling polymer arrays the secret of next-generation hard drives?

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Thursday, 14 August 2008

    ... not only easier to manufacture but also feature a storage density that cannot be achieved with traditional media and processes today.  Madison (WI) – Researchers from the University of Wisconsin-Madison ...

20. Hard drive industry shrugs off economic concerns, posts double digit growth rates

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Tuesday, 22 July 2008

      Hard drive makers are quickly learning to deal with the economic downturn by lowering their cost. The increasing mass storage threat from NAND flash devices is answered with perpendicular magnetic recording ...

21. 200 GB per disk: Toshiba leads 2.5” hard drive storage density

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Wednesday, 16 July 2008

    ... mainstream storage technology of choice for several years. Perpendicular magnetic recording appears to have enough room to fend off the advances of flash memory and SSD devices with more storage capacity ...

22. Toshiba preps 1.8” 160 GB hard drives for PCs

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Tuesday, 10 June 2008

    ... and one or the other compact PC. You won’t be seeing these drives in Intel-based MID devices as the Atom processor and its SCH chipset only support a PATA interface and not SATA. Toshiba said that the ...

23. Hitachi aims low-power hard drives at consumer electronics

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Tuesday, 27 May 2008

    ... as “green” hard drives, but as hard drives for consumer electronics devices. San Jose (CA) – We have been hearing a lot lately about low-power hard drives and Hitachi GST is only the latest company to ...

24. Seagate rolls out speedy 320 GB notebook hard drive

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Monday, 19 May 2008

    ... GB 5400 rpm model. According to Seagate, the Momentus 7200.3 consumes about 2.1 watts during read/write and 2.3 watts during seek processes. Dell and Alienware are the first system builders to offer ...

25. WD challenges SSDs with world’s fastest hard drive

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Monday, 21 April 2008

      Western Digital (WD) today introduced its new Velociraptor hard drive, a performance-tuned device that not only promises to offer a substantial speed increase over its predecessor, but is also ...

26. Seagate sues flash drive maker STEC

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Tuesday, 15 April 2008

    ... actually supports flash technology and wants to see it flourish and said, “This is not about stifling innovation or threats to our business from solid state technology. We welcome advances in this, and ...

27. Western Digital reduces workforce by 800

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Brief)

    Friday, 21 March 2008

    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 disk ...

28. Imation gets into the solid state game

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Monday, 10 March 2008

    ... of 100 MB/s, the 7000 series up to 120 MB/s. Write rates are 80 MB/s and 90 MB/s, respectively. Random access times are less than 0.1 seconds, Imation said. This speed comes at a price, of course. And ...

29. 250 GB in notebooks going mainstream

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Monday, 21 January 2008

    ... 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 drive offers ...

30. Seagate working on one terabyte DVR drive

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Brief)

    Monday, 07 January 2008

    ... will be special low noise, low power models capable of storing in excess of 20 full-length two-hour HD movies, or the equivalent amount of live TV program content recorded directly from a HD decoder.  ...

31. Update: The Black Friday Shopping List

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Wednesday, 21 November 2007

    ...  CompUSA Notebook HP AMD Athlon 64 X2, 14.1” $499.99 CompUSA Notebook Sony Dual Core processor $549.99 CompUSA Notebook ...

32. The California fires: Why backup and recovery should be your top priority now

    (Software/Software Opinion)

    Thursday, 01 November 2007

    ... $200.   While scanning your pictures and documents can take time it is time you will get back if you think through naming and indexing.   Thinking through not just the process of scanning, ...

33. Sign up for our brand new newsletter - and a chance to win a Dell gaming notebook!

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Tuesday, 30 October 2007

    ... performance computing: The XPS M1730 is based on the Intel Core 2 Duo processor T7700 (2.4 GHz/800 MHz FSB, 4 MB L2 Cache). Plus, you will be getting an Intel backpack filled with goodies including $200 ...

34. TG Daily #1 Newsletter Giveaway Official Rules

    (Company/Company)

    Wednesday, 24 October 2007

    TG DAILY #1 NEWSLETTER GIVEAWAY OFFICIAL RULES 1. NO PURCHASE NECESSARY TO ENTER OR WIN. 2. GRAND PRIZE DESCRIPTION: Tigervision, Inc's ("TGV") TG Daily #1 Newsletter Giveaway ("Giveaway") ...

35. Green hard drives with 40+% better power savings in Q4

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Tuesday, 23 October 2007

    ... it will be releasing green hard drives this quarter with up to 40% better idle power savings.  The pricing will be comparable with non-green devices.  Hitachi will remain at 7200rpm throughout ...

36. UPDATE: Seagate reports Q3 2007 revenue and products shipped both up

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Brief)

    Tuesday, 16 October 2007

    ... 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 consumer products, 35% higher than last year.  Mobile saw the biggest ...

37. Seagate puts 2.5” hybrid HDD into mass-production

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Monday, 08 October 2007

    ... three drives come with 256 MB of NAND flash memory, which, according to the manufacturer accelerate boot and application load processes, cut power consumption and increase the reliability of the hard drive. ...

38. UPDATE: AMD's website paints Barcelona performance pictures not seen in the real world

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Monday, 10 September 2007

    ... and it shows just how advanced Barcelona is over their previous architecture.  And yet to obtain these high performance numbers, AMD is using a publicly unavailable processor on an build of VMware ...

39. Fujitsu marching towards terabyte hard drives for notebooks

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Thursday, 09 August 2007

    ... of 1 Tb per square inch. According to a press release, Fujitsu claims to be first to have created an ordered alumina nanohole patterns, including a flying head on a rotating disk. The fabrication process ...

40. Western Digital's disk maker reports a loss for Q2

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Monday, 06 August 2007

    ... selling prices were the main reason for the decline in revenues, but Komag also noted that a high cost of the initial ramp of perpendicular magnetic recording (PMR) products had a negative impact on the ...

41. Western Digital annual hard drive shipments approach 100 million units

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Brief)

    Thursday, 26 July 2007

    ... 34% from 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% ...

42. Western Digital announces Green terabyte hard drives

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Monday, 23 July 2007

    Hard drives are among the most 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 ...

43. Seagate announces 1 TB hard drives

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Monday, 25 June 2007

    ... as well. The 11th generation barracuda drive, officially called 7200.11, increases the maximum capacity of its predecessor from 750 GB to 1 TB. In terms of storage density, Seagate lands in the middle ...

44. Seagate introduces power-saving Cheetah NS enterprise drives

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Wednesday, 20 June 2007

    ... more generations of 3.5-inch drives before everything goes 2.5-inch and smaller. The Cheetah NS drives will be available in the third quarter in SCSI and Fibre Channel interfaces.  No pricing has ...

45. Samsung announces 1 TB hard drive

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Tuesday, 19 June 2007

    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) – Following ...

46. Seagate claims highest density 3.5” hard drive

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Thursday, 07 June 2007

    ... instead of 7200 rpm), but typically consume only around 2 watts during read and write processes. Competing 3.5” technologies, including the 1 TB drive from Hitachi GST, store 200 GB per platter ...

47. Hitachi launches 250 GB 2.5” hard drive

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Tuesday, 05 June 2007

    ... GB version’s platters spin with 5400 rpm instead of 7200 rpm – which results in a slightly reduced power consumption (1.8 watts during read/write processes.) In comparison with its direct ...

48. WD ships 750 GB desktop hard drive

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Monday, 04 June 2007

    ... manufacturer, the technology reduces the power consumption of the drive by about 60%. Other features of the 750 GB drive (formatted capacity: 750,156 MB) include native command queuing as well as a technology ...

49. Dell, Intel and Microsoft to promote flash memory for PC platforms

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Wednesday, 30 May 2007

    ... interface for PC-based NAND flash memory. The new initiative, which is chaired by Intel with Dell and Microsoft serving as “core contributors”, aims to create operating system drivers to access ...

50. Sandisk announces $350 flash hard drive

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Tuesday, 13 March 2007

    ... solid state disk (SSD) in a traditional 2.5" form factor and 32 GB capacity for $350.   The 2.5" SSD joins a 32 GB 1.8" version that was announced during this year's CES tradeshow. ...