Tag archive: hard disk drive

“The six new players from Samsung, also the world's biggest memory chip maker, should be available in the first half of the year. They range from a 256 megabyte flash memory type to a 30 gigabyte hard disk drive model capable of holding about 7,500 songs. Samsung and big Asian brands Sony Corp. and Creative Technology Ltd., as well as PC heavyweights Dell Inc. and Gateway Inc., have their sights set on Apple's juicy market… Read More

The new Fujitsu MHV2120AT mobile hard disk drive is instrumental in allowing manufacturers to design next generation portable computing and consumer applications. The Fujitsu MHV2120AT hard disk drive will provide industry-leading specifications, critical for today's mobile computing applications: Read / Write Power Consumption of 1.6W typ. Idle Power Consumption of 0.5W typ. Idle Acoustic Noise as low as 2.3Bels Non-Operating… Read More

The likely fate of the game console's storage medium–the subject of ongoing speculation as Microsoft closely guards details on the planned successor to the current Xbox–got a new twist this week from a patent granted to the software giant. U.S. patent 6,716,102, granted Tuesday to Microsoft, covers methods for storing data about games in progress. The patent specifically references “a gaming system (that)… Read More

It plans to offer samples next summer, and will demonstrate the miniature HDD at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas in January. Currently 1-inch diameter Microdrive HDDs are the smallest hard disk drive on the market. But the drive does not fit into a mobile phones. By offering a smaller hard drive with about coin-size disk, Toshiba aims at cultivate mobile phone applications. With TV reception expected to be the next… Read More