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Seagate Debuts 300GB, 2.5-inch Drive
News Seagate on Monday debuted the Savvio 10K.3 drive, the first from the company to offer 300GB capacity in a 2.5-inch form factor, with full enterprise features, including the ability to attach to an array via the latest SAS interface.
[June 4, 2008, 13:23]
Innovative Power Solutions - HiVERT In Hitachi Hard Disk Drives
White Papers Since the introduction of its first 2.5-inch hard disk drive in 1991, Hitachi has continued to lead the market in solutions for mobile and portable hard disk drives that provide performance, low power consumption as well as durability features...
[October 27, 2006, 0:00]
Fujitsu Joins The Perpendicular Storage Revolution
News Fujitsu announced on Wednesday that it will ship its first hard drive to use perpendicular recording in October — a 160GB 2.5-inch drive for laptops. Seagate launched its perpendicular laptop drives in January, including a 2.5-inch 160GB product...
[August 30, 2006, 14:25]
Seagate Pushes Faster Class Of Small Drives
News Seagate announced a new, faster class of 2.5-inch hard drives on Tuesday, an important part of the effort to get the smaller devices to replace the 3.5-inch drives that currently prevail in much of the server market.
[January 17, 2007, 8:35]
Infortrend Launches Small RAID Drives
News The RAID storage supplier Infortrend claims to have launched the world's first disk drive in the small 2.5-inch format to come with the controller in the unit. A spokesman for Infortrend told ZDNet.co.uk: "There are other drives out there in this...
[October 31, 2007, 14:26]
Samsung Launches 256GB Peak In SSD
News The 2.5-inch, 256GB, multi-level cell (MLC) solid-state drive (SSD) is only 9.5mm thick, measuring 100.3mm long and 69.85mm wide. Samsung said it expected to begin mass-producing the 2.5-inch, 256GB SSD by year end, with customer samples available...
[May 27, 2008, 16:16]
Fujitsu Prepares 300GB Notebook Drive
News Fujitsu is planning to release a 300GB hard drive for notebooks, which it says will set a record for SATA (serial ATA)-based 2.5-inch drives. The vendor argues that the capacity of these kind of drives is now so high that they can replace the need...
[December 13, 2006, 13:45]
Toshiba Touts Data Density Record With New Drive
News The current record for areal density for a commercially released drive is 133 gigabits per square inch, according to Toshiba. The Japanese electronics giant is coming out with a 2.5-inch drive for notebooks later this year with platters (the silver...
[June 5, 2006, 9:25]
Samsung And Seagate Release Hard Drives
News 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 includes flash memory as well as the traditional spinning platters.
[June 20, 2007, 16:06]
Seagate Sends Perpendicular Drive To Market
News The Momentus 5400.3 is a 2.5-inch diameter hard drive, shown off last year, designed for notebooks with a 160GB capacity. The company will also bring perpendicular recording to its 3.5-inch drives, used in PCs and digital video recorders, as well...
[January 17, 2006, 7:50]
SanDisk's New Flash Drive Reveals Price Drop
News The flash memory maker's new flash drive sports 32GB of memory and is delivered in a package the same size and shape as a 2.5-inch diameter hard drive. Earlier this year, SanDisk released a 32GB drive in a 1.8-inch diameter package.
[March 14, 2007, 7:55]
Mobile HDDs
White Papers This paper introduces Fujitsu's MHV series of mobile HDDs, which are the latest 2.5-inch models. The MHV series feature an areal density of 99.1 Gbit/in2, which is the world's highest for a 2.5-inch drive.
[June 7, 2006, 0:00]
Palm's Foleo Gets Cool Reception
News To think that anyone would carry something with a 10-inch display at 2.5 pounds as an adjunct to a phone just doesn't make any sense to me. Foleo is a 2.5-pound laptop PC with a 10-inch display that runs Linux.
[May 31, 2007, 10:16]
Seagate Sets Out To Shrink Storage
News The devices -- which the firm has dubbed "2.5-inch enterprise drives" -- will become available next year. When measured in IOPS (input/outputs per second) -- a method of gauging how much data flows in and out of a drive -- a larger number of...
[May 21, 2003, 8:43]
Hitachi Slides Faster Drive Into Notebooks
News The drives will run at 7,200 revolutions per minute, faster than competing 2.5-inch notebook drives on the market, which generally run at 5,400 rpm, the company said. Later in the year, it will be incorporated into a 4GB 1-inch microdrive.
[May 14, 2003, 14:44]
Hitachi Plans Power-saving Hybrid Laptops
News In the first half, the company will release a 2.5-inch-diameter 200GB drive that spins at 7,200 revolutions per minute, and follow it up in the second half with a 2.5-inch-diameter notebook drive that will spin at 5,400 rpm and hold about 250GB.
[November 1, 2006, 8:55]
Seagate Reveals Hard Drive Roadmap
News A new line of drives made for handheld devices, the ST18 series, includes a 1.8-inch perpendicular hard drive (a drive that stacks bits vertically for more capacity) that holds 60GB on a single platter.
[June 8, 2006, 9:25]
Fujitsu Promises 170GB Notebook Hard Drives
News When the new hardware is combined with the platter, or media, advancements that Fujitsu announced last August, hard drive density is expected to reach 300 gigabits per square inch, according to the company.
[May 13, 2002, 9:02]
Flat-panel IMac Gets Super-sized
News The difference between a 15-inch and 17-inch display probably isn't enough to change the dynamic of what's going on. The upgrade to a 17-inch liquid crystal display (LCD) comes as sales have all but stalled on existing 15-inch flat-panel iMacs.
[July 10, 2002, 7:30]
Intel Launches Atom Power, Devices Due In June
News The heavily-trailed solid state drives were officially detailed for the first time, coming in 1.8-inch and 2.5-inch form factors, 32 to 160GB capacities and with 1,500G shock protection. Intel has launched its Atom range of processors at the Intel...
[April 2, 2008, 10:41]
