Neowin News Feed for: Capacity

Vodafone leveraging UK phone boxes to boost 4G connectivity

Paul Hill — Thu, 03 Mar 2022 18:16:02 +0000

Vodafone has been rolling out 4G technology on phone booths around certain areas to increase the capacity and performance of its network. These will help as customers continue to consume more data. Read more...

Microsoft pauses trials for Windows 365 following an "unbelievable response"

Usama Jawad — Wed, 04 Aug 2021 05:56:02 +0000

Following an "unbelievable response", Microsoft has halted the trials for Windows 365 due to the service reaching its full capacity. Those still interested in testing it can sign up for notifications. Read more...

Microwaves could enable Western Digital to create 40TB hard drives

Muhammad Jarir Kanji — Sat, 14 Oct 2017 11:02:01 +0000

The American purveyor of storage solutions revealed it has found a way of using microwaves to further boost the storage capacity of hard drives, with volume production to commence in 2019. Read more...

First 1TB SSD drive hits market, wallets

Tzvi Friedman — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 17:50:01 +0000

As the price for SSD capacity continues to descend, SSD manufacturers are making increasingly bigger drives. PC Authority reports that the Colossus LT Series, by OCZ, is the first market-available drive to reach 1TB. Instead... Read more...

Magnetic-based HDDs still cheapest in 2020

Sat, 24 Oct 2009 23:39:05 +0000

A new study has found that if magnetic-based hard disk drives (HDDs) continue to progress at their current rate then by 2020 we'll see a 2.5" HDD with a capacity of more than 14TB at... Read more...

Seagate settles suit over disk capacity

Sat, 03 Nov 2007 16:22:15 +0000

Seagate Technology has agreed to reimburse 5% of the purchase price to people who bought Seagate hard drives in the United States between March 22, 2001, and December 31, 2005 plus pay up to $1.79... Read more...

Toshiba: 320GB Notebook Drive, Industry's Largest Capacity

Thu, 23 Aug 2007 08:31:34 +0000

Toshiba Corporation has announced two new lineups (MK-GSX and MK-GSY) of hard disk drives for mobile or portable applications that offer either increased capacities or leading performance. Both families of HDDs support an optional Free... Read more...

Fujitsu plans to boost HDD capacity by 500% in two years

Michael Stanclift — Fri, 11 May 2007 20:35:03 +0000

Fujitsu is always talking up this or that hard drive technology that's totally going to revolutionize the industry and so on, but at least this time around they've got some "solid" numbers. Based on... Read more...

Scientists double the capacity of rechargeable batteries

Tom Warren — Tue, 08 May 2007 11:09:36 +0000

New research results presented today could bring companies such as Intel much closer to that goal of offering notebooks that achieve a battery running time of 8 hours and more. Researchers of the... Read more...

Samsung Speeds Up World's Highest Capacity 2.5" Drives

Thu, 12 Apr 2007 01:36:50 +0000

Until now, 200GB 2.5" hard disk drives have only been available with a 4200rpm motor speed. Samsung Electronics has announced a new lineup of 2.5" hard disk drives that includes a model with 200GB capacity... Read more...

Super-Slim Lasers Promise to Boost Optical Disc Capacity

Fri, 30 Jun 2006 19:33:57 +0000

Researchers at Japan's Kyoto University have recently announced a breakthrough method for shaping laser beams that could result in optical disc capacities up to ten times higher than what's current available from state-of-the-art HD DVD... Read more...

Western Digital Buckles on Capacity Lawsuit

Steven Parker — Fri, 30 Jun 2006 13:02:08 +0000

Thanks kaffra for this submission in Back Page News on our forums. Western Digital has opted to settle out of court a class-action lawsuit that accused the company of misrepresenting the capacity of its hard... Read more...

Intel: No chipset shortages with better capacity allocation

Daniel Fleshbourne — Tue, 25 Apr 2006 10:41:51 +0000

Anand Chandrasekher, senior vice president of Intel, admitted that terminating the supply of entry-level chipsets led to Intel missing profit and market share goals. With capacity support from ATI Technologies, Chandrasekher said that the shortage... Read more...

Seagate doubles 15K drive capacity with perpendicular

Daniel Fleshbourne — Tue, 18 Apr 2006 18:10:33 +0000

Seagate has updated its Cheetah 15K enterprise-oriented hard disk drive line-up with a model that incorporates perpendicular recording technology and takes the 15,000rpm drive family's capacity to 300GB - more than double the current top-of-the-line... Read more...

Cornice Ups Capacity to 2GB

Darren Bolton — Wed, 07 Jan 2004 00:33:16 +0000

Cornice Inc., which has designed a stripped-down, compact 1.0-inch disk drive for consumer applications, said Monday that it will soon begin shipping a larger 2GB drive. The Cornice Storage Element eliminates many... Read more...

UltraTrak RM15000 subsystem beefs up storage capacity

Daniel Fleshbourne — Thu, 24 Apr 2003 09:17:17 +0000

Promise Technology, the originator and global leader in ATA RAID data protection and storage solutions, on April 22 introduced the UltraTrak RM15000 ATA RAID storage subsystem, a new high-capacity addition to the UltraTrak family of... Read more...