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Western Digital has unveiled two new additions to its MyPassport Essential SE line of portable USB hard drives: 750 and 1 TB editions. The 1 TB edition represents the top capacity for a portable hard drive, and Western Digital claims to be the first manufacturer to ship a 1 TB portable drive. “The enormous capacity of these new My Passport Essential SE drives makes them the perfect travel-friendly storage device to hold all the rich… Read More

Samsung has announced that its has begun commercial shipments of its MH80 line of hybrid hard disk drives, making itself one of the first companies to roll out a hybrid hard drive unit to OEM customers. Samsung's MH80 line will initially be available in 80, 120, and 160 GB capacities; the drives themselves are 2.5-inch units with either 128 or 256 MB of onboard OneNAND Flash cache and Microsoft's ReadyDrive software.… Read More

It was just after the clock struck 2007 that Time Warner let slip that it planned a hybrid disc format designed to end the so-called "format war" between Sony's Blu-ray and Toshiba's HD DVD for the high-definition DVD marketplace. Now that CES is upon us, Time Warner is touting the format very loudly—and has already lined up support from major retailers. Time Warner's "Total Hi Def"—or Total… Read More