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Western Digital 8TB WD Purple Pro hard drives drop to a new all-time low price

Taras Buria — Tue, 11 Jun 2024 11:50:01 +0000

Western Digital's 8TB WD Purple Pro hard drives have reached their all-time low price on Amazon, allowing you to get these surveillance-optimized HDDs for just $199 apiece and save 25%. Read more...

Seagate has just revealed the biggest PC internal hard drive ever at 30TB

John Callaham — Wed, 17 Jan 2024 15:22:01 +0000

Seagate has just announced a new Mozaic 3+ hard drive platform that will be used in the company's Exos series. It will allow those hard drives to reach a new capacity record of 30TB. Read more...

Toshiba Ships New Portable HDDs with Automated Backup

Daniel Fleshbourne — Sat, 06 Jan 2007 13:49:04 +0000

Mobile storage provider Toshiba Storage Device Division launched Jan. 4 a new line of 2.5-inch USB 2.0 portable external hard drives in 100GB, 120GB and 160GB capacities with automated backup capability. Toshiba's new HDDs feature... Read more...

New Fujitsu 2.5-inch HDDs Feature Perpendicular Recording

Daniel Fleshbourne — Thu, 31 Aug 2006 15:41:55 +0000

Fujitsu's U.S. subsidiary Aug. 30 introduced two new mobile hard disk drives with perpendicular magnetic recording—a feature that lets a disk greatly increase its capacity for data. The two new additions—the first mobile disks with... Read more...

Toshiba takes micro HDDs to 60GB

Wed, 04 Aug 2004 23:22:26 +0000

Toshiba today added 30GB and 60GB models to its 1.8in hard drive line-up, both offering what the company claims is the highest areal density of any hard drive of that format. The two models feature... Read more...

IBM sprinkles more Pixie Dust on HDDs

Daniel Fleshbourne — Wed, 06 Nov 2002 13:15:54 +0000

IBM boffins have squeezed more areal density from its latest mobile hard drive, thanks to a liberal extra coating of Pixie Dust. This is IBM's nursery school term for some home-grown data... Read more...

Fujitsu admits 4.9m (potentially) defective HDDs

Daniel Fleshbourne — Tue, 05 Nov 2002 10:39:53 +0000

COURT PAPERS CONFIRM: FUJITSU SUSPECTED 4.9 MILLION DEFECTIVE DRIVES 18 MONTHS AGO Failure rate "exceeds all reasonable industry standards". By Keith Warburton at the PC Association ... Read more...

Maxtor goes large with external HDDs

Tue, 05 Feb 2002 12:05:22 +0000

Maxtor is inching its way into Iomega territory, by tripling the disk size for its Personal Storage 3000LE USB 2.0 external hard drive line. The latest 120GB model ships in the US... Read more...