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Thailand flood still inflating hard drive prices after one year
- The Tech Report has taken a detailed look at hard drive prices, revisiting them more than one year after the devastating Thailand floods which stifled mechanical drive production. What their analysis uncovers is likely what storage consumers had been fearing: the vast…
Hitachi unveils quartz-based storage, data may last 100 million years
- This morning Hitachi demonstrated its ability to encode data onto what it calls "quartz glass". Data etched into the material should last 100 million years, the company claims. Diamonds may be forever, but apparently quartz isn't very far behind. …
70 Japanese businesses joining forces to create 'iOS Consortium'
- A large group of Japanese companies are reportedly set to join forces on June 21 to create what is being described as an "iOS Consortium." Hitachi and NEC are among the 70 companies that share a single goal of speeding…
Intel, Microsoft make annual World's Most Ethical companies list
- Adobe, Intel and Microsoft have all been recognized in Ethisphere Institute’s sixth annual World’s Most Ethical (WME) companies list. This year’s list includes a record 145 companies spanning over three dozen different industries with 23 businesses that have made the…
Western Digital completes Hitachi GST acquisition
- One year after announcing the deal, Western Digital has officially completed its acquisition of Viviti Technologies (formerly Hitachi GST) for $3.9 billion in cash and 25 million shares of WDC common stock valued totaling about $0.9 billion. The company plans…
Hard Drive Pricewatch: Three Months Into the Thai Floods
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The hard disk drive supply chain was hit hard late last year when a series of floods struck Thailand. The Asian country accounts for about a quarter of the world's hard drive production. All this resulted in hard drive prices shooting through the roof around the end of October as production became more expensive and limited.
With the help of price tracking site Camelegg we've checked on a number of mobile and desktop HDDs to get a better overview of how the situation has developed in the last three months.
LCD firms agree on $553 million settlement for price fixing
- Samsung Electronics and six other producers of liquid-crystal displays have agreed to pay around $553 million in compensation to settle consumer and state regulator claims they conspired to "fix" prices for LCD panels used in televisions, laptops and computer displays. …
Seagate completes acquisition of Samsung's hard drive division
- In April, Seagate agreed to purchase Samsung's hard drive division in a transaction valued at $1.4 billion. Technically speaking, the acquisition is complete and Seagate has launched a web page dedicated to the purchase for customers. Logistically speaking though, the…
Hitachi-LG execs face jail time, fines for price fixing
- Three industry executives will serve prison sentences after pleading guilty to fixing optical disk drive prices, according to the US Department of Justice. The Hitachi-LG Data Storage (HLDS) workers, Young Keun Park, Sang Hun Kim and Sik "Daniel" Hur participated…
Flooding causes spike in HDD prices, Asus might run out this month
- The catastrophic flooding in Thailand is expected to cause a drastic shortage of hard drives according to researchers at iSuppli. Some 660,000 Thailand residents are reportedly out of work after the country shuttered 14,000 factories, including facilities that produce hard…
Hitachi GST announces 1TB per platter hard drives
- 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…
Sony, Toshiba, Hitachi join forces in LCD joint venture
- Sony, Toshiba and Hitachi, three of Japan's biggest electronics makers, have announced plans to merge their small and medium-sized LCD panel operations into a single entity called Japan Display. According to the Wall Street Journal, the new venture is likely to…
Hitachi unveils MLC-based enterprise Ultrastar SSD
- Hitachi expanded its flash-based storage offerings today, introducing its new enterprise SSD. Offered alongside last year's Ultrastar SSD400S, the new Ultrastar SSD400M is equipped with more affordable MLC NAND flash chips instead of its sibling's pricier SLC parts (hence the…
Hitachi announces first USB 3.0 external drives
- Hitachi Global Storage Technologies (Hitachi GST) has announced a new line of Hitachi Touro Pro desktop and mobile external hard drives, which offer both local backup and cloud storage functionality. The Touro Pro line is an all-in-one solution to help…
Hitachi increases reliability with 3TB enterprise-class drive
- Hitachi has introduced a new member to its Ultrastar series of enterprise-class hard drives, one that the company claims will deliver greater reliability and save on energy costs at the same time. The Ultrastar 7K3000 is available in 2TB or…
Hitachi releases first one-disk 7mm 500GB HDD
- Hitachi Global Storage Technologies has announced the industry's highest capacity one-disk 7mm HDD. The new 5,400 RPM Travelstar Z5K500 drive has just 500GB of space but its slim profile makes it the best cost per gigabyte and gigabyte per cubic…
Hitachi launches its first SSDs, with help from Intel
- As expected, Hitachi Global Storage Technologies has announced its new Ultrastar brand of Solid State Drives (SSDs). The Ultrastar SSD400S family comes in 100GB, 200GB, and 400GB flavors. The latter can endure up to 35PB of random writes over the…
Hitachi quietly adds 3TB Deskstar 7K300, 5K300 hard drives
- With nary a word to the masses, Hitachi has posted product pages for its first 3TB hard drives. The Deskstar 7K3000 and 5K3000 come in 1.5TB, 2TB and 3TB flavors -- the largest of which has a five 600GB platter…
Hitachi launches fastest, most efficient enterprise HDD
- Hitachi GST is expanding its enterprise hard drive offering today with a new line of 2.5-inch units that are said to be the industry’s fastest and most efficient in their class. The Ultrastar C10K600 drives are claimed to deliver up…
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