Tag archive: HDD

Portable hard drives are a great way to carry around vast amounts of media and data—but they're annoying because they can only be connected to one device at a time and require at least one cable (and maybe another for a power adapter). Storage vendor Seagate wants to ease that pain with its new GoFlex Satellite, a battery-powered 500 GB hard drive that connects to devices using built-in 802b/g/n Wi-Fi—and the GoFlex Satellite… Read More

ioSafe might not be the largest or best-known makers of ruggedized storage devices on the planet, but the company has made an impression at this year's CES short by abusing its Rugged Portable hard drive in creative ways—including submerging the device in water and blasting it with a shotgun…then proving the data is intact. For folks who live a dangerous lifestyle—or perhaps just have rambunctious children or… Read More

In the wake of Apple announcing it's offering free swaps for some defective Time Capsule backup systems, storage vendor Toshiba has launched its own backup solution specifically for Macintosh users: all new Mac versions of its Canvio line of USB 2.0 external hard drives. The drives are available in 500 GB to 1 TB capacity, power off the USB bus so there's no awkward power brick to carry around, and come with Mac-specific backup and… Read More

Storage developer Seagate has unveiled its latest FreeAgent GoFlex external desktop hard drive—and the company has capacity limits by making it the world's first desktop hard drive to pack in up to 3 TB of storage. The drive offers a standard USB 2.0 interface—folks can, of course, adapt that to eSATA or FireWire 800—but the big feature may be its Seagate's asking price: $249.99. “Consumer capacity demands… Read More

A lot of the buzz in the storage business lately might be around solid-state drives, but the traditional hard drive certainly isn't giving up without a fight. Hitachi Global Storage Technologies has just announced its new TravelStar Z7K320 hard drive, the first in the company's new series of single-platter, 2.5-inch hard drives. The Z7K320 packs up to 320 GB of storage into a form factor measuring just 7mm high, enabling their use… Read More

If you're one of the few (but growing!) number of people with USB 3.0 interfaces on your computer, Samsung has a peppy new external storage option for you: it's just revved its Story external hard drives to offer a USB 3.0 port, which in theory gives it up to 10 times the transfer capability of its USB 2.0 predecessor. The improved speed makes it quicker to transfer large heaps of data like video and movie files, and the drive is… Read More

The hard disk drive (HDD) is tough at the moment. Even the biggest players like Seagate and Western Digital are cutting costs and shedding staff. Now the number six seller, Fujitsu, has agreed to sell its loss-making HDD business to rival (and number five seller) Toshiba, according to The Register. But what exactly will Toshiba be buying? Evidently the read/write head manufacturing isn’t part of the deal, and Fujitsu has said its… Read More

Toshiba was tooting their horn yesterday as they announced that, according to recent data from research firm IDC, they had topped all hard disk drive manufacturers in consumer electronics HDD shipments for the third quarter of 2005. The data from IDC reveals that Toshiba had a global market share of 27.5 percent for all HDDs shipped into consumer electronics and 43.9 percent share when excluding the 3.5" drive category. Toshiba's… Read More

Arguably one of the better players on the market, the new Philips GoGear HDD1630 and HDD6330 hope to carve out a niche of their own – that is if Philips can get the software right this time. The HDD1630 features 6 GB of storage for up to 3,000 songs, 1,600 pictures; while the HDD6330 features storage capacity of 30 GB to hold up to 15,000 songs or 8,400 pictures. Both players feature backlit sensory touchpads and Philips'… Read More

“The new products will come in two types: the DESR-7700 with a 250GB HDD and the DESR-5700 with a 160GB HDD. Both models use the same hardware used in the conventional PSX. The price will be open, but the company expects it to be around Â¥80,000 and around Â¥60,000, respectively. The HDD DVD recorders dub an MPEG-2 video data file recorded on the HDD onto MemoryStick after converting it to an MEPG-4 file. There are two types of… Read More

“The reason equipment with a 1-inch HDD is becoming so common suddenly is the sharp drop in price per unit storage capacity. A 4-Gbyte drive currently runs at between US$100 and US$120 from Hitachi Global Storage Technologies, Inc (HGST) of the US, or for about US$90 from GS Magicstor Inc of China. This works out at between 2.5 and 3.3 per Mbyte. A slightly smaller drive, the 0.85-inch HDD, has appeared recently, with Toshiba… Read More

These drives also feature improved shock tolerance, power consumption and vibration control for better performance in mobile consumer electronics devices. To achieve this industry-leading capacity, Toshiba has set a new benchmark for areal density in the 1.8-inch HDD category at 93.5 gigabits per square inch. This has allowed Toshiba to pack 30GB of data onto a single 1.8-inch platter, an increase of 50 percent over current models, delivering… Read More

“The approval opens the way for future DVD-Audio content to be transferred to compressed-music portables and to home HDD music jukeboxes, said David Frerichs, GM for the U.S. arm of CodingTechnologies, based here. Coding Technologies, a Forum member, expects September adoption by the Forum of a digital-rights management technology to protect a DVD-Audio disc's compressed-music zone. The DRM technology will be DVD-Audio's… Read More

Other Taiwanese makers, including BenQ, Mustek Systems, MET Technology and Tatung will introduce their products between August and October. Taiwanese makers began offering DVD recorders in the third quarter of 2003 but OEM quotations for entry-level DVD recorders have dropped to US$250. Quotations for 40GB HDD+DVD recorders begin at US$350, with the HDD costing US$70-80. Currently Pioneer, Panasonic and JVC dominate the global… Read More

According to the report, “Consumers' purchase process for digital home appliances: the second survey,” 28.3% of the respondents who “wished to buy a DVD recorder with a HDD within a year” answered that they placed the highest priority on “HDD capacity” in deciding which model to buy. In the first survey conducted in July-August 2003, the largest percentage of people answered that “price”… Read More