All the stories tagged with hard disk
SanDisk Ultra Plus SSD launched
01/07/2013, [CES 2013] Solid State Drives (SSDs) are becoming more common by the day, and it doesn’t look like the trend is going to stop. At CES 2013, SanDisk has announced the launch of two more SSDs: the Ultra Plus SSD [...]
Seagate Barracuda Drives Updated, Streamlined
11/01/2011, Seagate is overhauling its legendary barracuda line of hard drives by using the same technology on every barracuda drives, notably a 7200 rpm of rotational speed, 6Gb/sec SATA and the same DicsWizard driver for 2TB drives. This effectively leads to [...]
Rumor: 5TB Seagate hard drives on their way
10/13/2011, How large is your most spacious hard drive in your desktop at the moment? 1TB? Well, it seems that the ante is about to be upped by another level as boffins continue their unrelentless march towards improving current technology by [...]
BytePac hard drive boxes are made from cardboard
10/12/2011, Using cardboard to replace metal or plastic on a computer isn’t exactly new, normally it’s budget-friendly and free most of the time but not when it comes to BytePac. This “green” cardboard housing which is used to turn your regular [...]
Toshiba MK01GRRB/R series small form factor hard drive
10/12/2011, Toshiba steps to the forefront of news-making headlines yet again by introducing the industry’s highest capacity enterprise small form factor 15k RPM hard drive – in the form of the MK01GRRB/R series. This essentially sees a doubling of capacity where [...]
Gigabyte A2 Tiny hard drive is lighter-sized
08/07/2011, When you think of portable hard disks, the word tiny probably isn’t the first thing that comes to mind. Well, that’s what we thought until Gigabyte announced its latest portable hard disk in Taiwan, the A2 Tiny. Looking like some [...]
Western Digital Scorpio Blue packs quite a punch
07/20/2011, Western Digital, one of the names that is closely associated with quality storage devices for the computer (desktop or otherwise), is back again with the new WD Scorpio Blue. This is a new 2.5″ mobile hard drive which measures a [...]
Seagate unveils world’s first 3.5″ HDD featuring 1TB of storage per disk platter
05/03/2011, With everybody on a high speed internet connection these days, people are filling up their hard drives with gigabytes of files on a daily basis and it’s no surprise if everybody craves for more space. Seagate has just introduced a [...]
Secret data stored on hard drives, made easy
04/26/2011, Computer scientists have come up with a way to develop software which will be able to stash away highly sensitive data on hard drives – all without requiring the use of any form of encryption. This is made possible by [...]
IDEAL 0101HDP puts holes in your hard disks
04/21/2011, While there are many ways to destroy hard disks, most of them involve getting messy with tools and can even be troublesome to clean up. Well the folks over at IDEAL have come up the ideal way to destroy hard [...]
Seagate GoFlex Slim Drive: the world’s slimmest, portable, external hard drive
04/05/2011, If you were looking for the slimmest external hard drive available on the market – look no further than Seagate’s latest offering. The GoFlex Slim Drive that is available today from Seagate has just earned the title of the world’s [...]
Toshiba updates STOR.E external HDD models
03/22/2011, Toshiba might have shut down the LCD assembly line in Japan due to the recent catastrophe, but that doesn’t mean the consumer electronics giant is going to just keel over and be depressed about all that’s happening in their homeland. [...]
Hitachi CinemaStar Drive Family Expands for A/V market
01/04/2011, [CES 2011] Storage is always an issue with those who are multimedia buffs, since those kind of files tend to eat up space like nobody’s business. Well, Hitachi certainly knows what they doing with their latest CinemaStar hard drives, targeting [...]