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HDD shipments weak in third quarter, will stagnate in fourth

HDD shipments weak in third quarter, will stagnate in fourth
  • Posted September 28, 2011, 8:30 AM by Matthew DeCarlo | Filed in Hardware, Industry News
  • Rumblings in the Far East suggest that hard drive manufacturers are experiencing a weak third quarter. According to sources cited by DigiTimes, HDD shipments are expected to grow by 3% in the third quarter, up from 165 million units in…

Seagate announces 4TB GoFlex Desk external hard drive

Seagate announces 4TB GoFlex Desk external hard drive
  • Posted September 7, 2011, 1:30 PM by Jose Vilches | Filed in Hardware
  • Seagate today announced a 4TB variant of its GoFlex Desk external hard drive, touting it as the highest capacity single-volume external storage device on the market. The company is not saying how many platters are inside the new drive but…

Hitachi GST announces 1TB per platter hard drives

Hitachi GST announces 1TB per platter hard drives
  • Posted September 6, 2011, 3:30 PM by Jose Vilches | Filed in Hardware, Industry News
  • Hitachi GST has announced their first 3.5-inch hard drive featuring 1TB of storage capacity per platter. The milestone was first announced by Seagate in May, with drives hitting the market last month. But while Hitachi may be playing catch up…

WD's Scorpio Blue 1 TB notebook hard drive gets benchmarked

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  • Posted August 3, 2011, 12:30 PM by Shawn Knight | Filed in Hardware
  • Western Digital’s new 1 TB Scorpio Blue 9.5mm, 2.5-inch mobile hard drive which launched less than two weeks ago has already been analyzed and benchmarked by the crew over at Hot Hardware. The high capacity notebook drive was pitted against…

Western Digital ships first 2.5-inch 1 TB hard drive

Western Digital ships first 2.5-inch 1 TB hard drive
  • Posted July 22, 2011, 2:30 PM by Shawn Knight | Filed in Hardware
  • Storage giant Western Digital has announced that they have started volume shipments of their WD Scorpio Blue 9.5mm, 2.5-inch mobile hard drive in a 1 TB capacity. The drive, which conforms to the industry standard 9.5mm form factor, features two…

LaCie introduces Porsche Design USB 3.0 HDDs

  • Posted June 28, 2011, 9:00 AM by Emil Protalinski | Filed in Hardware With Video
  • LaCie and Porsche Design Group have announced the LaCie Porsche Design Mobile (P'9220) and LaCie Porsche Design Desktop (P'9230) hard disk drives (HDDs) with USB 3.0 support. They are being advertised as having a sleek aluminum frame with a purist…

G-Technology launches wireless HDD for phones and tablets

G-Technology launches wireless HDD for phones and tablets
  • Posted June 22, 2011, 10:30 AM by Jose Vilches | Filed in Hardware, Mobile Computing
  • Following in on Seagate's footsteps, G-Technology, a subsidiary of Hitachi GST, has announced a personal storage device that can act as a companion to mobile devices with little storage capacity. Much like the GoFlex Satellite, the new G-Connect has a…

Samsung unveils two-platter, 1TB hard drive for notebooks

Samsung unveils two-platter, 1TB hard drive for notebooks
  • Posted June 9, 2011, 12:00 PM by Jose Vilches | Filed in Hardware, Mobile Computing
  • Flash based storage is starting to gain some ground on slim laptops like Apple's MacBook Air and Samsung's 9 Series, and we imagine it will get a significant boost if Intel's Ultrabook initiative takes off. Fortunately, those who are more…

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