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Five years ago: Hard drive makers hatch huge new year plans
News Removable cartridge hard drive maker SyQuest will finally release the 1.3Gb SyJet drive in January. Seagate will in January add 3.2Gb and 4.3Gb 3.5-inch hard drives to its Medalist line. The products have average seek times of 12ms.
[October 14, 2001, 7:30]
Hard drive maker goes mini
News Hard drive maker Western Digital announced on Wednesday that it will be entering the mini hard drive market in the second quarter, when it begins shipping a one-inch product. Western Digital joins a growing list of companies, including Hitachi...
[January 20, 2005, 8:40]
Hard-drive makers look to the middle ground
News Hard-drive manufacturers are contemplating a new-size hard drive to counter the challenge presented by flash memory. Overall, the hard-drive market will increase 18 percent, from 380 million in 2005 to 450 million drives in 2006.
[April 4, 2006, 10:25]
Hard drive 'crash guard' pioneered
News Finally, a miniature hard drive you can drop on the pavement. Minidrive specialist Cornice will unveil a new 3GB, 2.5cm-diameter hard drive at next month's Consumer Electronics Show (CES) offers more shock resistance and uses less battery life than...
[December 15, 2004, 13:05]
Hard drive market bottoms out
News Poor results from Seagate and Quantum and the demise of vendors such as Micropolis have tarnished the hard disk drive market image but Twohig stands by the report made last June by US research company Disk/Trend that the worldwide market for hard...
[January 23, 1998, 15:27]
Active@ Kill Disk - Hard Drive Eraser
Downloads Active@ KillDisk - Hard Drive Eraser is powerful and compact software that allows you to destroy all data on hard and floppy drives completely, excluding any possibility of future recovery of deleted files and folders.
[October 7, 2009, 11:47]
Hard-drive maker notes gap in market
News The California-based hard-drive manufacturer, which offers disks for desktop PCs and servers, has begun development work on a new line of mobile drives and could enter the market quickly if it chooses to, said Steve Wilkins, director of marketing...
[June 20, 2003, 14:10]
Hard drive handles multiple memory cards
News Western Digital on Tuesday unveiled a plug-in hard drive that reads eight memory card types, in a sign that the external drive market is heating up. Hard-drive makers Maxtor and Seagate Technology have already introduced external drive products...
[January 7, 2004, 12:15]
Hard drive makers hatch huge new year plans
News Removable cartridge hard drive maker SyQuest will finally release the 1.3Gb SyJet drive in January. Seagate will in January add 3.2Gb and 4.3Gb 3.5-inch hard drives to its Medalist line. The products have average seek times of 12ms.
[October 14, 1996, 14:03]
Hard-drive industry shows continued growth
News In the first quarter of 2008, hard-disk-drive (HDD) vendors shipped 137 million drives, 21 percent more than in the same quarter the year before, according to market research company iSuppli. Despite industry leader Seagate's poor results earlier...
[July 23, 2008, 8:23]
IBM plays down hard-drive concerns
News IBM is changing the way it describes a new desktop hard-disk drive after buyers feared the company wouldn't stand by the warranties on drives that were overused. Reliability must be considered paramount.Consumers know that a fast hard-disk drive is...
[March 22, 2002, 15:14]
USB 3.0 external hard drive: Buffalo DriveStation HD-UX3
Blog Last week Freecom announced a similar-sounding external drive in the shape of the Hard Drive XS 3.0 (119 euros/£110). Freecom says the Hard Drive XS 3.0 will be available from mid-November. There's little point in buying a USB 3.0 drive like the...
[September 28, 2009, 15:59]
Hybrid hard drive alliance formed
News Several major hard drive vendors have announced that they will work together to promote and develop a new type of storage — hybrid hard drives. They say that the initiative is aimed at "communicating the benefits of hybrid hard drive technology to...
[January 4, 2007, 16:10]
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 amount of information that can be stored in a 1TB...
[June 26, 2007, 10:57]
Hitachi claims hard-drive breakthrough
News Hitachi Global Storage Technologies, the hard-drive arm of the Japanese conglomerate, has made what it says is the world's smallest read head for hard drives. With the new, elegantly named "current perpendicular-to-the-plane giant magnetoresistive...
[October 15, 2007, 8:10]
LaCie Porsche Mobile Hard Drive USB 2.0/FireWire review
Reviews The Titanium-hued LaCie Mobile Hard Drive measures 129mm long, 76mm wide, and a super-thin 17mm tall including the feet. Weighing 200g, the hard drive is a bit too easy to jostle about on the smooth surface of a desk.
[January 4, 2005, 9:15]
IBM hard drive shakes off the bad vibes
News IBM plans to unveil a new server hard drive on Tuesday that takes the shakes out of complex technology and just might help put Big Blue back on solid ground in the drive market. The company's Ultrastar 146Z10 hard drive incorporates anti-vibration...
[July 9, 2002, 13:26]
Monitor hard drive health with SMARTDefender
News IBM sold its hard drive division to Hitachi in 2003 and together they created Hitachi Global Storage Technologies, which is owned 70 percent by Hitachi and 30 percent by IBM. I ran the short test on a 100GB hard drive on a 1GHz Pentium 4 running...
[May 21, 2003, 13:37]
World's first transparent hard drive launched
Talkback I believe the article is wrong, it's not the hard drive with a view in the world in the world, but it's the only commericially available for a long time. And everyone, don't forget this hard drive is the fastest SATA drive on the market, it even...
[February 5, 2006, 18:43]
Western Digital ships high-speed 2TB hard drive
News Western Digital has begun shipping high-performance versions of the relatively low-performance 2TB hard drives it introduced in May. This is designed to significantly reduce the wear and tear of the recording head and media, as well as provide...
[September 3, 2009, 14:57]
