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Peripheral and accessory maker LaCie has long believed that a hard disk only gets better if it sports a designer case—that's why the company has pulled in industrial designers like Sam Hecht, F. A. Porsche, and Ora-Ïto to spiff up its storage offerings. But the company apparently also believes a hard disk isn't any good unless you can plug it into a computer, and to that end the company has revamped the LaCie Hard… Read More

It's funny: some of LaCie's hard disk products keep getting bigger, adding more bays and more capacity, while others keep getting smaller. LaCie's latest update to its Little Disk form factor packs either a 30 or 40 GB 1.3-inch hard disk drive into a package that barely fills the palm of your hand, offering a solution for folks who need portable storage but don't have much room to carry it. The 30 and40 GB Little… Read More

Let's face it: external hard drives have been commodity items for many years now, so it's no surprise that accessory and peripheral maker LaCie is trying to differentiate its products with dramatic looks and designs. And sometimes, those designs can be pretty darn dramatic, as evidenced by its new Golden Disk. Boasting a unique liquid-inspired, shiny gold casing by famed designer Oro-Ïto, the Golden Disk offers USB 2.0… Read More

Toshiba and Memory-Tech have announced (Japanese) that they have created a three-layer optical disk which can be read both by HD DVD players and standard DVD systems. In theory, the disk could make it possible for movie studios and other content providers to create a single disk which would operate in standard DVD players as well as provide high-definition content to consumers with HD DVD players, eliminating consumer confusion over… Read More

Electronics maker Samsung

Samsung Electronics has found another use for all that flash memory it's manufacturing: packing it into hard drives. At next week's WinHEC 2006 conference, Samsung plans to demonstrate new Hybrid Hard Disk (HHD) storage devices, which combine a conventional magnetic platter storage with NAND flash memory. The basic idea is that each hard disk has a cache of 128 of 256 MB of flash memory with the idea of improving startup and… Read More

Microsoft has released a free, mandatory update to the Xbox 360 gaming console via its Xbox Live service. The software patch does not offer new features, but instead corrects a number of minor issues with the Xbox and closes a potential security opening being investigated by the so-called “modder” community as a possible way to circumvent the Xbox 360′s copy protection technology. The update now enables users to choose to… Read More

Seagate Technology has announced it has begun shipping the Momentus 5400.3 (PDF), what it claims is industry's first 2.5-inch notebook disk drive with perpendicular recording technology. Loosely described, perpendicular storage increases the data density on a disk drive by storing individual bits in layers on top of each other, rather than side-by-side. Although researchers have speculated about as many as 10 distinct layers of… Read More

At MacWorld in San Francisco this week external disk storage solutions company G-Technology unveiled three new units to the company's line of G-Drive mini mobile disk drives. These new units are available now with prices starting at $249. G-Technology's G-Drive mini mobile disk drives, of which the company added new 60, 80 and 100GB models which spin at 7200RPM and sport an 8MB cache, weigh less than nine ounces and are bus… Read More

“The drive will be initially targeted at notebooks, where the drive's low power consumption will yield the most benefit. The hybrid hard drive will mount a one-gigabit OneNAND flash chip inside a hard drive, which will serve dual duty both as a write buffer and as a solid-state boot disk for the operating system. The act of writing data to the hard disk, such as user files or cached images while web browsing, would instead be… Read More

“The drive is physically the smallest available from any disk drive maker. It went into mass production earlier this year and can store up to 2GB of data in its first-generation form. Toshiba is currently working on a new version that will include two disk platters, allowing it to store up to 4GB of data, says Midori Suzuki, a spokeswoman for Toshiba in Tokyo. Mass production of the 4GB drive is planned for mid-2005.”… Read More

“And it has also developed a Blu-ray recordable disk which uses silicon and copper alloy which is ready to be released just as soon as the Blu-Ray Disk Association comes to a conclusion on the putative standard. The Japanese newspaper said that the double layer disk contains enough storage to throw six hours of digital television on it. Unfortunately it doesn't contain an on-line intelligent editor to filter out much of the… Read More

“The 5-inch (130 mm) disk has a holographic system that writes and reads data with a blue laser. The laser beam splits into two beams, a signal beam that convey data and a reference beam. Data to be stored is encoded into data pages, which are written in multiplex in the storage media. The company carries a 400-Gbyte tape cartridge for computer backup, but a disk form should be available if users want to access the data, said… Read More

These prominent companies are jointly defining a standard interface for small form factor disk drives that addresses the requirements of the handheld and consumer electronics (CE) market segments, including low pin count, low voltage, power efficiency, cost effectiveness and integration efficiency. The announcement was made today at Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco. “No disk drive interface exists today that is tailored to the… Read More

The recorders have 160 to 400 GB hard disk drives, providing massive recording and storage, high-speed dubbing, and superb home and mobile networking capabilities. The new products, DMR-E500H, DMR-E330H, DMR-E220H, DMR-250V and DMR-E87H will be introduced in the Japanese market from September 21. The DMR-E500H high-end model in the DIGA DVD recorder range, features a built-in 400GB hard disk drive with a recording capacity of 709 hours of… Read More