hard-drive

Samsung to sell its hard drive business due to poor sales

Published on: 2nd May, 2011

A source recently claimed that Samsung was going to sell its hard drive business and had set a price of $1.5 billion as a target. However, the Korean company would even sell it for less than $1 billion if the intended target could not be reached. As Wall Street Journal said, Seagate would be the [...]

The world’s smallest-ever USB 3.0 drives from LaCie

Published on: 13th September, 2010

LaCie has recently unveiled the new line of small form factor USB 3.0 hard drive, claimed to be the smallest ever in the world. The company’s portable Rikiki and desktop-sized Minimus drives offer a high-speed 5Gbs/s performance over USB 3.0, in a brushed aluminum casing, which takes up less space. Both of them benefit from [...]

New, stylish Iomega Skin external hard drives

Published on: 25th June, 2010

On June 21, 2010, Iomega has released its new portable drives with Skin Industries external designs. All three Skin Drives offer 500GB storage capacity and are also USB 2.0-powered. These drives benefit from Iomega Drop Guard technology, which is able to protect the drive and also the data against any damage resulted from drops onto [...]

OWC has launched the first mini 1TB portable drive with quad interface

Published on: 14th March, 2010

The recently launched OWC Mercury Elite-AL Pro mini 1TB portable drive, claimed to be the first ever 2.5-inch 1TB drive with a quad interface. The bus-powered drive has USB 2.0, FireWire 800/400 and eSATA in a brushed aluminium and fanless enclosure. Apart from the 1TB model, the drives are available with 7,200RPM 500 GB versions [...]

New line of USB portable hard drives by Verbatim, presented at CES

Published on: 15th January, 2010

Celebrating its 40th anniversary, Verbatim introduced at CES a new product line including thin USB portable hard drives. Four different USB powered devices including the CLON, InSight, MyClone and Titan XS form this line. CLON is pocket sized and weighs about 4.8oz. It is rugged and resistant to shocks, scuffs and fingerprints. The device comes [...]

New USB 3.0 hard-disk enclosures from Brando

Published on: 26th December, 2009

USB 3.0 hard-disk enclosures are now available from Brando and are compatible with any 2.5-inch SATA hard-disk. The new device uses the USB 3.0 technology and provides a speed ten times much faster than the USB 2.0, up to 5Gbps. The USB 1.1 and USB 2.0 are also supported by the new enclosures. Brando created [...]

Rikiki – The smallest hard drive from LaCie

Published on: 20th December, 2009

LaCie’s latest portable HDD, the 2.5-inch Rikiki, has been recently released, in a quiet move. Rikiki is believed to be one of the smallest drives of this type available on the market; consequently, its name means “tiny” in French. The hard drive has an aluminum case and it only has one USB 2.0 port, used [...]

New 2TB HDDs from Hitachi

Published on: 15th December, 2009

Enhance Technology’s storage systems line has recently been expanded with the optional Ultrastar 2TB 7200RPM HDDs. Internal memory has been improved, reaching 16TB for the Enhance 8-disk desktop & rackmount storage arrays and 32TB, for the flagship 16-disk UltraStor Professional Storage Systems. This offers a total of 160TB storage space, using SAS storage expansion. Users [...]

Western Digital Advanced Format provides 11 percent extra storage

Published on: 15th December, 2009

Western Digital claims it has developed a new technique that increases the usable space of a hard drive. The technique is known as Advanced Format and reduces the amount of overhead for data sectors by pooling together information. The Advanced Format creates much larger sectors, 4KB-sized, that use one set of each header, instead of [...]

Seagate’s 7mm hard drive limited to 250GB?

Published on: 14th December, 2009

Leaked details, if proven accurate, seem to indicate that the Seagate’s promised 7mm hard drive could have a relatively limited capacity. The line would be called the Momentus Thin and would have capacities up to 250GB, offering a 160GB model for those who are concerned about the price. The drives would in any case spin [...]

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