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Seagate launches 1TB hard drive
News Seagate Technology is serving up its first 1TB hard drive. The company announced on Monday that it will offer a retail hard drive for $399 (£199) beginning in the third quarter of this year. The Barracuda 7200.11 will have up to 32MB of cache and a...
[June 26, 2007, 10:57]
Samsung launches two-platter 1TB disk drive
News Samsung has taken advantage of rising hard-disk memory storage densities to launch a new line of high-end products with capacities of up to 1TB. The Spinpoint F3 line, announced on Tuesday, uses technologies such as perpendicular magnetic recording...
[July 30, 2009, 16:20]
Western Digital releases 1TB laptop hard drive
News Western Digital on Monday announced two laptop drives that offer "extreme" amounts of storage: the Scorpio Blue 1TB and the Scorpio Blue 750GB. Prior to this announcement, the largest laptop hard drive available was 500GB.
[July 28, 2009, 8:53]
Buffalo TeraStation NAS (1TB) review
Reviews The silver-hued TeraStation resembles a PC subwoofer or the centre unit from a compact stereo, standing 16.8cm wide, 24cm deep and 22cm high. The front panel houses a small power switch and two USB ports on the left side and a large, circular drive...
[June 9, 2005, 9:40]
Win a Netgear 1TB ReadyNAS storage appliance review
Reviews Need a single place to keep hefty amounts of data for different devices? Then Netgear's ReadyNAS NV+, a network-attached storage appliance with a strapping 1TB (terabyte) of capacity, can sort you out.
[December 12, 2007, 12:49]
Asus shows off terabyte laptops
News Asus has been showing off what it claims are the world's first laptops with hard-drive capacities of 1TB (terabyte). The new Asus M50 and M70, both on show at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas this week, each contain two of Hitachi's 5K500...
[January 8, 2008, 17:03]
Samsung and Seagate release hard drives
News Samsung and Seagate have released a collection of hard drives that demonstrates the huge choice now available. On Tuesday, Samsung announced three hard drives: a 1.8-inch 120GB model, a 3.5-inch 1TB drive and a 2.5-inch, 120GB "hybrid" drive that...
[June 20, 2007, 16:06]
Apple Time Capsule: a first look review
Reviews Apple's Time Capsule, announced at the Macworld press conference, promises Mac and PC data backup over a wireless network. Time Capsule is essentially an Airport Extreme Base Station with a 500GB or 1TB hard drive built in.
[January 16, 2008, 10:05]
Iomega StorCenter Pro NAS 450r review
Reviews A 1U rack-mount chassis is used to house all of this with, at the front, four hot-swap bays for the storage, managed by a PCIe RAID controller. Two models are available: the 1TB review system with four 250GB Hitachi Deskstar SATA II disks (7,200rpm...
[July 22, 2008, 14:37]
Seagate announces 1.5TB in a single drive
News Seagate on Thursday unveiled 1.5TB desktop and half-terabyte notebook hard drives, claiming industry firsts for both. The Barracuda 7200 1.5TB drive is aimed at the desktop market and the half-a-terabyte jump in capacity from 1TB marks "the single...
[July 11, 2008, 13:06]
BitMicro announces 1.6TB solid-state drive
News BitMicro Networks has announced plans for a 1.6TB solid state drive the size of a standard 3.5-inch hard disk. The Altima E3S320 solid state is the first in the 3.5-inch format to advertise a capacity above 1TB.
[February 8, 2008, 11:46]
XIV and DS5000 are not the same
Talkback The video concerns IBM's XIV storage product. IBM also markets a product called DS5000, an enhancement to the previous DS4700 and DS4800 products. Their design is very different and should not be confused.
[October 20, 2008, 18:35]
Superfast Ethernet project aims for 100Gbps
News Scientists will collaborate with as-yet-unnamed hardware and software vendors to develop a prototype 100Gbps Ethernet network, which will be used to connect US Department of Energy supercomputer centres.
[August 12, 2009, 16:50]
StorPac SP40 review
Reviews The silver disk enclosure manages to avoid the boxy style that characterises many similar products. The case's rounded shoulders protrude beyond the back of the drives in order, says the manual, to protect cables and other elements of the system.
[April 14, 2005, 9:35]
Tiko Classic 340 review
Reviews The box in question is actually a 1U rack-mount SuperMicro Server equipped with a 2.8GHz Pentium 4 processor and 512MB of memory. A pair of Gigabit Ethernet ports provides the necessary network connectivity, while on the storage front you get four...
[March 14, 2005, 9:50]
Acer Altos easyStore review
Reviews A compact and smart-looking appliance, the Altos easyStore is clearly aimed at small businesses wanting to avoid the cost and complexity of a general-purpose file server. To that end, what you get is a small file server running an embedded Linux OS...
[June 25, 2007, 10:25]
Dell, EMC bolster Oracle data-warehouse package
News Dell and EMC have announced they have teamed up with Oracle to offer new hardware and software for Oracle's Optimised Warehouse Initiative, which aims to provide ready-to-go data-warehouse setups for businesses.
[September 24, 2008, 16:23]
Hitachi ships fastest 2TB disk drive
News Hitachi Global Storage Technologies on Thursday launched a 2TB hard disk drive for desktops, the industry's first to run at 7,200 rpm. The Deskstar 7K2000 competes with devices such as Seagate's 2TB Barracuda LP drive, which operates at 5,900 rpm...
[August 6, 2009, 15:45]
Solid-state drives reach one terabyte
News The storage supplier pureSilicon on Thursday announced its Nitro Series of solid-state drives, with a maximum capacity of one terabyte in a 2.5-inch format. The SSD is one of the most densely packed of its kind, with a storage density of 15.4GB per...
[January 12, 2009, 15:27]
NetGear ReadyNAS NV+ review
Reviews Buffalo has seemed to own the field for some time, with products like the four-drive Terastation; D-Link also has solid two-disk products for the low end. Netgear made a false start, signing a pact with a company called Zetera to deliver the SC101...
[June 20, 2008, 15:59]
