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Toshiba 1.8-inch Hard Drive Reaches 240GB Mark
News Toshiba announced on Tuesday two 1.8-inch hard drives, including the single-platter 120GB (MKxx31GAL series) and the world's first dual-platter 240GB (MK2431GAH) internal hard drives. The single-platter version also includes an 80GB offering.
[September 10, 2008, 10:50]
Drive Density Breakthrough From Toshiba
News Two configurations of the drive exist: a 40GB with one platter and a two-platter 80GB drive. The MK4007GAL 4.6cm drive packs 40GB on a single platter, which is the most for a 4.6cm diameter hard drive platter to date.
[August 17, 2005, 15:55]
Seagate Goes Mobile With New Hard Drives
News The Momentus drives, which are shipping in volume now, will each use a single platter, rotating at 5,400 revolutions per minute. Sticking to a single platter adds to reliability, Seagate said. Although other notebook drives run at this speed, most...
[June 16, 2003, 8:16]
'Drivezilla' Has Monster 200GB Storage
News Drivezilla can stuff 66.7GB of data on each platter. A platter, which resembles a record or CD, is used to store data in a hard drive. Most other hard drive makers, such as Seagate, have surpassed the previous mark of 40GB per platter and have...
[July 30, 2002, 9:56]
Toshiba Bulks Up With 60GB Notebook Drive
News Toshiba on Tuesday announced what it says is the first notebook hard drive to put 60GB of storage onto a two-platter hard drive. The move could pave the way for mainstream notebooks to use more storage than is currently cost-effective.
[April 10, 2002, 11:40]
Perpendicular Recording Promises Roomier IPods
News The MK8007GAH is an 80GB two-platter hard drive whose 1.8inch diameter is small enough to fit into a portable device such as a digital music player. Toshiba will also sell a single-platter 40GB drive called the MK4007GAL.
[December 14, 2004, 15:30]
A Year Ago: WD Debuts 3-inch Hard Drive
News Drives are expected to be available in single-platter 1Gb capacity by the end of the year and in 1.4Gb form early in 1997, followed by two-platter 1.6Gb and 2.16Gb versions by the summer. The WD Portfolio connects to an EIDE bus and offers up to 70...
[December 4, 1997, 9:26]
Western Digital Debuts 3-inch Hard Drive
News Drives are expected to be available in single-platter 1Gb capacity by the end of the year and in 1.4Gb form early in 1997, followed by two-platter 1.6Gb and 2.16Gb versions by the summer. The WD Portfolio connects to an EIDE bus and offers up to 70...
[December 4, 1996, 12:22]
Comdex: SyQuest SparQ Stalks Zip Drive
News Inside, however, the SparQ is completely different, being based on single-platter, dual-head Winchester drive technology. That explains the two ways it scores over Zip: capacity and performance. SparQ is at the centre of that and we think 100Mb was...
[November 20, 1997, 9:33]
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]
Intel Demonstrates Power-saving Tech
News Two years ago, when Intel launched the first Pentium M processors and the Centrino chip combo platter, only 10 percent of notebooks came with built-in wireless, Eden noted. Intel will show off its upcoming Yonah processor in two weeks and showcase...
[March 18, 2005, 8:20]
Toshiba Touts Data Density Record With New Drive
News Hitachi Global Storage Technologies plans to release drives with 230 gigabits per platter, but those likely won't come out until 2007. Because of the high density, the 200GB drive needs only two platters.
[June 5, 2006, 9:25]
Fujitsu Announces 80GB Notebook Storage
News Fujitsu created the 80GB device by increasing the drive's areal density, or the amount of data that a hard-drive platter -- a small, thin disk -- can store per square inch. Hard drives hold data on one or more platters, and the data is written by a...
[March 10, 2003, 15:39]
A Half-century Of Hard Drives review
Reviews Each platter surface has a read-write head attached to an arm or armature. Although the electronics within hard disks have changed beyond recognition (the RAMAC used valves, while the integrated circuit wasn't to be invented for another two years...
[September 13, 2006, 15:10]
Industry Divided Over Future Of Hard Drives
News The devices store data in bits, which are microscopic spots on a hard drive platter. To increase the areal density, which is the amount of data a single platter inside a hard drive can hold, engineers have shrunk the size of bits and grains over...
[August 29, 2006, 13:25]
Hard-drive Makers Look To The Middle Ground
News You'd have more space on the platter, but it all depends on what the customer base says," said Rob Plait, the director of global consumer electronics marketing at Seagate Technology. The CinemaStar drives, which sport a 8.9cm diameter platter...
[April 4, 2006, 10:25]
Western Digital Offers New Caviar Platter
News The three-platter 3.5-inch WD Caviar 4Gb drive will be followed by one and two platter models later, starting with a 1.2Gb single-platter model. The drive has an average seek time of 12ms and can transfer data at up to 16.6Mb/sec.
[December 11, 1996, 13:34]
'Biggest Ever' 1.8-in Drive Launched By Toshiba
News Toshiba has also launched a single-platter version, called the MK3006GAL. It consists of two 30GB platters, each with a capacity of 93.5 gigabits per square inch. Toshiba claimed a breakthrough in hard drive technology on Wednesday with the launch...
[August 4, 2004, 15:50]
Visions Of China
Blog IDF Beijing: what silicon prawns are going to be sizzling on the platter of publicity(*)? Nehalem - more cores with up to two threads per core, integrated memory controller and graphics, and "the biggest platform change since the early nineties...
[April 12, 2007, 18:31]
Seagate Brings Perpendicular Storage To The Enterprise
News The Cheetah 15K.5 will be available in three model: a 300GB capacity model with four platters; a 147GB capacity model with two platters and a 73GB capacity model with a single platter. Seagate has announced its first 3.5in disk drives using the...
[April 18, 2006, 13:45]
