hard drive

SanDisk cuts prices with new flash drive

News SanDisk has released a new hard drive made of flash memory, and the price won't completely break the bank. The flash memory maker's new flash drive sports 32GB of memory and is delivered in a package the same size and shape as a 2.5-inch diameter...

14 March 2007, 9:03

Seagate drives grow to 750GB

News Seagate has pushed one step closer to the terabyte hard drive with a new 3.5-inch drive that holds up to 750GB. The drive features platters that store data in vertical columns, which allow more information to be stored in a given space on the hard...

26 April 2006, 9:52

Hitachi cooking up Blu-ray camcorder

News Hitachi, well known for its hard drive and DVD camcorders, is creating a video camera with a built-in Blu-ray burner. Hitachi currently has the top-selling camcorder in Japan -- a model with an 80mm DVD burner and a hard drive.

Tags: hitachi, ray, disc, burner

4 October 2006, 11:53

Seagate cranks up laptop drives to 160GB

News Seagate, the largest hard-drive manufacturer in the world, has started to ship its first drive for laptops based around perpendicular recording techniques, a shift that increases capacity by 25 per cent.

17 January 2006, 9:06

Apple launches new MacBook laptops

News Apple announced on Tuesday that it has updated its MacBook laptops with faster processors, more memory and more hard drive space. The lower-end white MacBook, with a starting price of £699, comes with an 80GB hard drive; its 2.16GHz counterpart...

16 May 2007, 10:41

Storage giants push hybrid hard drives

News Several major hard-drive vendors have announced that they will work together to promote and develop a new type of storage: hybrid hard drives. They say that the initiative is aimed at "communicating the benefits of hybrid hard drive technology to...

5 January 2007, 9:26

Photos: The Xbox 360 Elite

News Xbox black is back with the new Xbox 360 Elite, which features a bigger, 120GB hard drive and HDMI capabilities. The primary draw of the Xbox 360 Elite may be the 120GB hard drive, which is six times larger than the original hard drive for the Xbox...

29 March 2007, 11:05

Hitachi claims giant hard drives for 2011

News Hitachi Global Storage Technologies, the hard-drive arm of the Japanese conglomerate, has made what it says is the world's smallest read head for hard drives. With the new, elegantly named "current perpendicular-to-the-plane giant magnetoresistive...

Tags: tracks, inch, layer, heads

15 October 2007, 11:13

Asus boasts terabyte laptops

News Asus has been showing off what it claims are the world's first laptops with hard-drive capacities of 1TB (terabyte). Las Vegas this week, each contain two of Hitachi's 5K500 hard drives. The 2.5-inch SATA drives each boast a capacity of 500GB...

Tags: laptops, hard drives, asus, consumer

9 January 2008, 11:55

Zune fails to make it into US top ten

News Although Microsoft's Zune captured a decent slice of the US' hard drive audio player market at large retail stores, it failed to crack into the top ten list of models in overall sales, according to market researcher Current Analysis.

5 January 2007, 10:34

Perpendicular drives hit the market

News Toshiba says it has become the first manufacturer to commercially release hard drives with perpendicular recording platters, an industry-wide innovation that greatly increases the amount of data a drive can hold.

17 August 2005, 9:48

SanDisk brings flash hard drives to laptops

News SanDisk wants to replace the hard drive in laptops with flash memory, a swap that it says will make thin laptops faster and more reliable. The debate between flash makers and hard drive manufacturers will be one of the big topics at the Computer...

4 January 2007, 9:13

Fujitsu prepares 300GB laptop drive

News Fujitsu is planning to release a 300GB hard drive for laptops, which it says will set a record for SATA (serial ATA)-based 2.5-inch drives. Seagate also offers a 750GB hard drive for desktop PCs. The vendor argues that the capacity of these kind of...

14 December 2006, 9:55

Hitachi plans laptop drive revolution

News Hitachi Global Storage Technologies, the hard-drive division of the Japanese electronics giant, will sell hybrid hard drives that cut battery consumption for laptops in 2007, as well as include a function that encrypts data automatically, said...

1 November 2006, 10:26

Samsung develops flash-based disk for PCs

News The disks will also come with a hard-drive style interface, making it easier for manufacturers to use them in PCs. Flash memory maker Samsung is trying to drive a new kind of disk for PCs. The company announced Monday that it has developed a 'solid...

24 May 2005, 9:57