Neowin News Feed for: Hitachi

Hitachi presents a storage medium that should last forever

Paul Ferson — Sun, 30 Sep 2012 23:33:39 +0100

Hitachi's latest breakthrough seems to be glass-based storage media that should last forever. All you'll need to read it is a microscope and a computer, if you'd like more than binary codes. Read more...

Western Digital becomes world's largest hard drive maker

John Callaham — Sat, 10 Mar 2012 17:14:50 +0000

Western Digital has finally completed its acquisition of the hard drive division of Hitachi for $4.8 billion in cash and stock, making Western Digital the world's largest hard drive company. Read more...

LCD makers to pay over $553 million for price fixing

John Callaham — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 08:12:34 +0000

Samsung, Sharp, Hitachi and other makers of LCD-based devices have reached a settlement with the US government on alleged price fixing for their products, with the companies paying over $553 million. Read more...

First 4 TB hard drive on sale in Japan

John Callaham — Sat, 10 Dec 2011 11:34:56 +0000

A new report claims that Hitachi has become the first PC hard drive maker to release one with 4 TB of storage. The hard drive is now on sale in Japan for $345. Read more...

Hitachi creates 7mm thin 500gb laptop hard drive

Brian Blasius — Tue, 21 Dec 2010 01:57:48 +0000

Hitachi has developed a 500GB 7mm thin single-platter hard drive, dubbed the Travelstar Z5K500. The single platter disk drive has a density of 636GBit/inch, and uses the Advanced Form drive specification which increases the sector... Read more...

Hitachi GST announces first 7,200RPM 2TB hard drive

anthony — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 18:34:32 +0100

Its fun to think that ten years ago the biggest hard drive available was 73 gigabytes. However with the constant and near unstoppable push to solid state drives, hard disk manufacturers must continue to press... Read more...

Hitachi aiming for 5TB hard drive by 2010

Horrocks — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 16:07:03 +0100

Hitachi has announced plans to have a commercial 3.5-inch hard drive on the market that can hold 5TB. They hope for this to be available by 2010. Hard drive specialist Hitachi Global Storage... 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...

Hitachi, Canon and Matsushita reach LCD Business Agreement

Slimy — Tue, 25 Dec 2007 20:41:34 +0000

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Soon after news of Sharp and Toshiba’s LCD alliance, Hitachi, Canon and Panasonic (Matsushita) have agreed to similar LCD collaborations. The three companies plan to merge their strengths to accelerate the development of cutting-edge display... 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...

Cram 4TB on Desktop Drives by 2009, Hitachi Says

Daniel Fleshbourne — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 12:36:52 +0100

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Hitachi Global Storage Technologies plans to announce Monday it has developed technology that will quadruple the storage capacity of desktop hard drives within the next two years. The new reading-head technology will allow the company... Read more...

Infineon, Hitachi Prepare for Serial ATA Speed Boost

Daniel Fleshbourne — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 14:33:28 +0100

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Infineon Technologies AG, a leading semiconductor developer, and Hitachi Global Storage Technologies, a leading producer of hard disk drives (HDDs), on Friday unveiled their new read/write channel system-on-chip solutions for HDDs that can be combined... Read more...

Hitachi Deskstar 7K1000 (1 Terabyte) HDD review

Julio Franco — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 12:34:10 +0100

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The terabyte race for consumer desktop hard drives has been on for a long time, now the first generation of drives is here. On April 25th, Hitachi announced that it would begin shipping the Deskstar... Read more...

Hitachi Ships Large, High-Performing Notebook Hard Drive

Slimy — Fri, 11 May 2007 04:52:33 +0100

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Hitachi has started shipping the Travelstar 7K200: a 200GB 7,200 RPM notebook hard drive with optional data encryption technology. Compared to its predecessor, the drive has double the capacity and reportedly a 22% performance... Read more...

Interview with Hitachi GST's Shiv Shivaji

Julio Franco — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 20:20:12 +0100

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The Hard Drive Plays a Critical Role in Overall Gaming System Capacity and Performance. We recently had the opportunity to exchange information with Shiv Shivaji, Hitachi GST's Director for 3.5-inch (Hard Drive) Commercial and Consumer... Read more...

Hitachi Ships 1TB Hard Disk Drive

Slimy — Thu, 05 Apr 2007 22:26:16 +0100

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Hitachi Global Storage Technologies has started to ship its 1TB hard disk drives which were commercially introduced early this year. Hitachi's Deskstar 7K1000 HDS721010KLA330 model features five 200GB platters and ten heads, has a 7200RPM... Read more...

Hitachi to slash workforce

Slimy — Thu, 22 Mar 2007 13:40:04 +0000

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By the end of 2008, Hitachi Global Storage Technologies plans to lay off around 11% of its 40,000-person global workforce as part of what the company calls its long term commitment to the hard disc... Read more...

Hitachi Aims To Beat Seagate To Market With 1TB HDD

Daniel Fleshbourne — Fri, 05 Jan 2007 16:40:55 +0000

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A day after rival Seagate Technology announced plans to ship a 1-Tbyte hard drive in the first half of this year, Hitachi Global Storage Technologies said it would release its first 1-Tbyte drive within three... Read more...

Hitachi Unveils 8GB Miniature Hard Disk

stncttr908 — Mon, 05 Sep 2005 18:10:00 +0100

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Hitachi Global Storage Technologies recently introduced a miniature 8GB hard disk drive that it believes with be all the rage in light, portable storage. The new drive, known as "Mikey" or Microdrive 3K8, is... Read more...

Hitachi announces 3D hard-drive revolution

Hurmoth — Mon, 04 Apr 2005 20:28:08 +0100

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Hitachi announced today that 20GB 2.5cm hard drives will be commercially available by the end of next year. This represents a "density breakthrough" which will allow much higher capacities than today's drive technology. Current micro-drives,... Read more...