WD releases 400 GB enterprise HD

Author: Rodrigo Chia Date: July 26, 2005 - 7:41 AM PST Category: Storage More Info: http://www.westerndigital.com/en/products/Products.asp?DriveID=158&Lan... Western Digital has released a 400 GB Caviar RE2 RAID hard drive, aimed at enterprise applications, with a technology called Rotary Acceleration Feed Forward which optimizes performance in vibration-prone systems. The HD runs at 7,200 rpm, integrates 16 MB of cache and has average seek times of 8.7 ms (read) and 9.8 ms (write). WD offers a five-year warranty. Retail price is USD 289. Print Version | Send to Friend | Bookmark This News | Permalink | Comments (0) top

Western Digital extends HD warranty

Author: Rodrigo Chia Date: July 21, 2005 - 9:20 AM PST Category: Storage More Info: http://www.westerndigital.com Following the steps of rivals such as Maxtor and Seagate, Western Digital increased warranty periods on its enterprise drives to five years and on desktop and notebook products to three years. New terms apply to HDs bought through official channel partners since the first day of June. According to WD, the change is meant to align with warranties offered by PC makers and to meet customer expectations. Print Version | Send to Friend | Bookmark This News | Permalink | Comments (0) top

Cornice adds 4 GB Storage Element HD

Author: Rodrigo Chia Date: July 19, 2005 - 8:37 AM PST Category: Storage More Info: http://www.corniceco.com/products/4gb.html Cornice announced a new 4 GB model as part of its 1-inch Storage Element HD line. The drive, designed to be used in MP3 players, cell phones, personal video recorders and other devices, is said to sustain 1.5 meter drops onto concrete with properly designed enclosure. Average transfer time of the 4,400 rpm unit is 5.5 Mb/s. The 4 GB Storage Element will cost OEMs USD 65 in 10,000-unit quantities. Print Version | Send to Friend | Bookmark This News | Permalink | Comments (0) top

Maxtor ships HDs with SAS interface

Author: Rodrigo Chia Date: July 1, 2005 - 8:03 AM PST Category: Storage More Info: http://www.shareholder.com/maxtor/ReleaseDetail.cfm?ReleaseID=167500&r... Maxtor announced that it is shipping Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) hard drives. The technology, mainly targeted at servers and workstations, allows SAS and cheaper SATA HDs to be configured in the same enclosure. According to the company, Atlas SAS drives are currently in qualification with global OEMs and system vendors. The products are expected to go into retail before the end of the month. Print Version | Send to Friend | Bookmark This News | Permalink | Comments (0) top

Seagate adds security to HDs

Author: Rodrigo Chia Date: June 21, 2005 - 8:57 PM PST Category: Storage More Info: http://www.seagate.com Seagate will start shipping next year HDs sporting a new security to difficult data theft. The technology, called Hardware-Based Full Disc Encryption (FDE), automatically encrypts all data written to the drive. According to a company executive, FDE is based on Triple DES, a widely used industry standard. The company will initially offer the extra protection on 2.5-inch Momentus 5400 notebook units. Print Version | Send to Friend | Bookmark This News | Permalink | Comments (0) top

Maxtor adds FireWire 800 external HD

Author: Rodrigo Chia Date: June 16, 2005 - 7:56 AM PST Category: Storage More Info: http://www.maxtor.com/portal/site/Maxtor/menuitem.ba88f6d7cf6647183760... Maxtor added a new product to its OneTouch II external hard drive lineup with a FireWire 800 interface. The standard offers data transfer rate of up to 800 Mb/s. The HD, aimed at Mac users, spins at 7,200 rpm and integrates 8 MB or 16 MB buffer. It includes DriveLock security technology and EMC Dantz Retrospect Express backup software. The OneTouch II FireWire 800 is available in 200 GB (USD 259.95) and 300 GB (USD 329.95) versions. A 500 GB model will be shipping later this year. Print Version | Send to Friend | Bookmark This News | Permalink | Comments (0) top

Toshiba further reduces its 1.8-inch HDs

Author: Rodrigo Chia Date: June 10, 2005 - 8:36 PM PST Category: Storage More Info: http://sdd.toshiba.com/main.aspx?Path=81000000000700000001000065980000... Toshiba has managed to make its 1.8-inch hard drives aimed at multimedia devices such as the iPod even smaller. The new 20 GB and 30 GB models measure just 0.19 in height and weigh 1.8 ounces. The 40 GB and 60 GB are 0.31 in height and weigh 2.1 ounces. All HDs have a 2 MB buffer and spin at 4,200 rpm with 15 ms average seek time. Print Version | Send to Friend | Bookmark This News | Permalink | Comments (0) top

HD DVD-R discs expected in early 2006

Author: Rodrigo Chia Date: June 9, 2005 - 8:16 AM PST Category: Storage More Info: http://www.maxell.co.jp/e/release/20050608.html Hitachi Maxell and Mitsubishi Verbatim plan to start selling HD DVD-R discs in the first half of 2006. That is about the same time manufacturers such as Toshiba expect to launch recorders and PCs with built-in drives based on the format. Rival next-generation standard Blu-ray is already available in recorders and rewriteable discs, but not in write-once units, which currently account to almost 90% of all recordable discs sold worldwide. Following the HD DVD announcement, Sony said that Blu-ray-R discs will be abailable until December. Print Version | Send to Friend | Bookmark This News | Permalink | Comments (0) top

Seagate readies 160 GB perpendicular HD

Author: Rodrigo Chia Date: June 8, 2005 - 7:18 AM PST Category: Storage More Info: http://www.seagate.com/cda/newsinfo/newsroom/releases/article/0,1121,2... Seagate unveiled plans to release the industry’s first 2.5-inch notebook HD based on perpendicular recording technology in the fourth quarter. The Momentus 5400.3 will spin at 5,400 rpm and store up to 160 GB. Next year, the company will launch a 7,200 rpm version, dubbed the 7200.1. In related news, Seagate said it will release until December the Momentus 5400 FDE, which sports Full Disc Encryption, a technology that allows the user to encode all data written to the disc with a secutiry key. Print Version | Send to Friend | Bookmark This News | Permalink | Comments (0) top

Maxtor HDs set to reach 500 GB

Author: Rodrigo Chia Date: June 6, 2005 - 7:28 AM PST Category: Storage More Info: http://www.shareholder.com/maxtor/ReleaseDetail.cfm?ReleaseID=165162&r... Maxtor will start shipping new 3.5-inch 7,200 rpm hard drives with capacities of up to 500 GB in the third quarter. The move will span the QuickView, MaXLine, DiamondMax, Shared Storage and OneTouch product families with SATA II and ATA-133 interfaces. Earlier this year, Hitachi announced a 500 GB Deskstar HD. Print Version | Send to Friend | Bookmark This News | Permalink | Comments (0) top

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