Neowin News Feed for: Hard

Western Digital announces 9.5 mm 1 TB Scorpio Blue hard drive

Denis Wong — Wed, 20 Jul 2011 22:53:30 +0100

Western Digital has announced earlier today that it has commenced shipments of its updated Scorpio Blue hard drives, their mainstream 2.5" notebook hard drives. The new drive, WD10JPVT, will replace the current 1 TB Scorpio... Read more...

Apple supplies non-replaceable hard drives in 2011 iMacs

Denis Wong — Thu, 12 May 2011 20:50:34 +0100

What seems to be a trivial task on almost any modern computer, desktop or laptop, all-in-one or standard towers, becomes more than a void warranty on the latest line of Apple's iMacs. Apple can be... Read more...

TechSpot: A-DATA SH93 Rugged Portable Hard Drive Review

Julio Franco — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 10:31:26 +0000

While commonly overlooked, regular backups is one of the most sensible tasks one should perform when it comes to personal computing. Without the help of a secondary storage device or some sort of remote backup... Read more...

Western Digital launches world's first 2TB Hard Drive

Chakkaradeep Chandran — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 10:55:50 +0000

Western Digital haven't officially launched their brand-new WD20EADS 2TB Western Digital Caviar Green HDD, however it is already available for purchase at Australia's Mwave online store. Priced at AU$377.80 (US$250) Western Digital will be the... Read more...

Seagate Barracuda hard drives plagued by failures

Chakkaradeep Chandran — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 07:49:53 +0000

Numerous complaints are being reported from customers who own the 1.5TB Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 hard drive at the Seagate's online support forum. The hard drive seems to just freeze during data transfers. Kabatek, Brown and... Read more...

TDK tunnels through hard drive areal density record

Daniel Fleshbourne — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 10:38:48 +0100

TDK researchers have achieved an areal density record of 803Gbit/sq in potentially extending the life of current read/write head technology. The higher the areal density the more data can be packed onto a disk drive.... Read more...

Windows 7 to add native support for Virtual Hard Disks

Sam — Sun, 25 May 2008 17:06:23 +0100

Out of what little we know of the next version of Windows, this feature might just be the most interesting yet. A team at Microsoft is hiring developers to work on adding native support in... Read more...

Hitachi to form hard drive company with Toshiba, Fujitsu?

zhiVago — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 16:36:52 +0000

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Japanese conglomerate, Hitachi, may be in talks with Toshiba and Fujitsu on forming a new company dedicated to hard drives and storage systems. The new company would combine the limping hard drive divisions of Hitachi... Read more...

Mobile Hard Drives Hit 500GB

Daniel Fleshbourne — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 10:01:08 +0000

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Notebook PC disk storage leaps into the stratosphere today, hitting the half-terabyte mark with Hitachi Global Storage Technologies' announcement of a 500GB 2.5-inch mobile hard drive. Due out in February 2008, the $400 Travelstar 5K500... Read more...

Iomega Acquires Chinese Hard Drive Manufacturer

Daniel Fleshbourne — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 12:39:09 +0000

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External disk storage maker Iomega on Dec. 12 announced that it will acquire ExcelStor Great Wall Technology, an $800 million hard drive manufacturer based in Shenzhen, China, through exchange of stock. No cash will change... Read more...

Vivid takes hard line with PornoTube

Slimy — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 20:38:09 +0000

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Commercial pornography producer Vivid is taking the web site PornoTube and its parent company to court for copyright infringement. PornoTube is based on user submitted videos in the same way as YouTube, although the site... Read more...

Apple Looking Into MacBook Hard Drive Issues

Daniel Fleshbourne — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 10:38:05 +0000

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Although it doesn't appear to be a widespread problem, Apple said it has "received a few reports that some MacBook consumer notebooks may have hard drive issues, and we're looking into it." Apple didn't say... Read more...

NY Times: Gaming magazines having a hard time lately

Todd Tanner — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 09:32:32 +0000

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Noel Goodman subscribes to three video game magazines, but he wants information faster than the magazines can reach his mailbox. "I can find out on the Internet information that won't be in magazines for another... Read more...

Hard Drives: Under the Hood

chuggyhandbags — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 17:32:34 +0000

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On November 8th, Western Digital held an editor's day event that included surprisingly in-depth details about the inner workings of hard drives. In his article, "Hard Drives: Under the Hood," Loyd Case over at ExtremeTech... Read more...

Terabyte Hard Drives Show Stellar Performance

chuggyhandbags — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 19:05:17 +0000

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It's the era of the terabyte. That era really launched back in May when Hitachi delivered its 7K1000 terabyte hard drive. However, the 7K1000 was a five platter, ten head device, while Western Digital and... Read more...

Nintendo: No Hard Disk Drive for Wii

Slimy — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 18:27:19 +0000

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Nintendo has announced that it has no plans to offer a Wii hard disk drive as the company believes that it is simply not needed by customers. The console currently has compatibility with old games... Read more...

Western Digital Touts 3TB Hard Drives in 2010

Slimy — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 19:16:48 +0100

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Western Digital has achieved record areal density in its Magnetic Head Operation labs in Fremont, California, using its perpendicular magnetic recording/tunneling magneto-resistive head technology, allowing the leading maker of hard disk drives to product 3TB... Read more...

Hitachi releasing Power Saving Green Hard Drives

Steven Parker — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 10:13:34 +0100

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Hitachi has announced it will be releasing green hard drives this quarter with up to 40% better idle power savings. The pricing will be comparable with non-green devices. Hitachi will remain at 7200rpm throughout all... Read more...

Tested: New Hybrid Hard Drives From Samsung and Seagate

Daniel Fleshbourne — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 14:23:42 +0100

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When they were introduced a couple of years ago, hybrid hard drives seemed enticing. Pairing a standard hard drive with a flash component sounded like a good way to deliver on the theoretical performance boosts... Read more...

Iomega breathes new life into Mac hard drive business

Slimy — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 04:09:51 +0100

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At the Apple Expo 2007 conference in Paris this week, Iomega Corporation unveiled two new external dual-drive products. The duo 500GB UltraMax Pro Desktop hard disk drives are fully removable, which enables hot-swap functionality, and... Read more...