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Ecotricity announces upgrade to its Electric Highway

Paul Hill — Fri, 12 Mar 2021 15:42:01 +0000

Ecotricity has announced a partnership with GRIDSERVE. It will bring the decade-old Electric Highway in the UK up-to-date with the latest technology to provide faster charging and double capacity. Read more...

Seagate hard drives exhibit surprisingly high failures rates in reliability test, Hitachi leads the pack

Austin McIntire — Wed, 22 Jan 2014 15:31:16 +0000

The results of hard drive reliability tests conducted by online backup company Backblaze show that Seagate lags far behind competitors when it comes to the dependability of their products. Read more...

MRAM production gains momentum as Japanese and US companies team up

Shreyas Gandhe — Tue, 26 Nov 2013 10:20:38 +0000

A group of over 20 chip makers have joined forces to develop MRAM, the next breakthrough in memory chips which is set to deliver up to 10 times more speed compared to the current DRAM chips. Read more...

Hitachi presents a storage medium that should last forever

Paul Ferson — Sun, 30 Sep 2012 22:33:39 +0000

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...

TechSpot: Hitachi SimpleTough 500GB Rugged HDD Review

Julio Franco — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 09:37:01 +0000

Just recently we reviewed the A-DATA SH93 portable hard drive which featured a rugged design said to be both shock resistant and water proof -- within reason anyway. After abusing it for a few days... Read more...

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

Thu, 06 Aug 2009 17:34:32 +0000

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

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 15:07:03 +0000

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?

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

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

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

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 09:13:34 +0000

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 11:36:52 +0000

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 13:33:28 +0000

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 11:34:10 +0000

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

Fri, 11 May 2007 03:52:33 +0000

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 19:20:12 +0000

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

Thu, 05 Apr 2007 21:26:16 +0000

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

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

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

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

Mon, 05 Sep 2005 17:10:00 +0000

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

Mon, 04 Apr 2005 19:28:08 +0000

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...

Hitachi and NEC joined hands to take on Cisco

Sun, 27 Jun 2004 02:15:27 +0000

Thanks rumbleph1sh. On Friday, Hitachi announced that they will set up a joint venture with NEC to make mid-range and high-end routers and switches. Although the demand for these devices are constantly growing, competing with... Read more...

Hitachi to boost production of iPod disk drive

Daniel Fleshbourne — Mon, 17 May 2004 08:49:32 +0000

The six-week waiting list to get a popular iPod Mini digital music player from Apple Computer is likely to get shorter by the end of the year. Hitachi's hard disk drive unit said Sunday that... Read more...

Hitachi Unveils 300-Gig Hard Drive

Fri, 27 Feb 2004 01:20:32 +0000

Global Storage Technologies calls its just-announced Ultrastar 10K300 the worlds first 300-GB enterprise hard-disk drive. The 1-inch high disk drive, which spins five platters at 10,000 rpm, meets the requirements of mission-critical storage applications, such... Read more...

Hitachi intros first 250GB desktop Serial ATA drive

Daniel Fleshbourne — Wed, 25 Jun 2003 15:08:05 +0000

THE DIVISION OF HITACHI that took over IBM's hard drive division said it has released a 250GB Serial ATA unit today. The 3.5-inch Deskstar 7K250 uses 80GB+ platters combined to create 250GB, that's a quarter... Read more...

Hitachi focuses its hard drive efforts

Michael Stanclift — Mon, 06 Jan 2003 05:46:09 +0000

Hitachi is focusing its efforts and targeting emerging markets to do what IBM couldn't--make money with hard drives. Executives from a Hitachi and IBM hard drive joint venture, Hitachi Global Storage Technologies,... Read more...

IBM HDs to become Hitachi Global Storage Technologies

Sat, 04 Jan 2003 06:40:17 +0000

Thanks xStainDx for posting this in BPN IBM announced it has completed an agreement to combine its hard disk drive operations with Hitachi's, forming a new company called Hitachi Global Storage Technologies.... Read more...

Hitachi Shows Off Cool New Notebook

Mon, 22 Jul 2002 08:21:47 +0000

Hitachi has announced the commercial launch of its water-cooled notebook PC, a 1.8-GHz mobile Pentium 4-based machine which uses a patented Hitachi system to aid heat dissipation. Most notebooks are cooled by air... Read more...

Hitachi to IBM: Let's make a $2 billion deal

Steven Parker — Tue, 04 Jun 2002 07:01:53 +0000

Thanks CC.SO for this one. Hitachi has agreed to pay $2.05 billion for IBM's hard-drive operations and to move them into a company under the control of the Japanese electronics giant, the companies said on... Read more...

Hitachi Unveils Water-Cooled Notebooks

Daniel Fleshbourne — Thu, 28 Feb 2002 08:46:25 +0000

Thanks SlashDot14 for this one! Water-cooled processors, currently the domain of supercomputers, high-end servers, and garage hobbyists, may be about to enter the mainstream. Hitachi has developed a prototype notebook PC... Read more...

Hitachi Unveils Plans for PDA

Thu, 10 Jan 2002 06:09:52 +0000

Hitachi will enter the intensely competitive personal digital assistant market later this year with a product based on Microsoft's new Windows CE .Net operating system, the company announced on Tuesday. The prototype PDA was unveiled... Read more...

NEC, Hitachi mull DRAM dissolution

Fri, 28 Dec 2001 15:25:17 +0000

NEC and Hitachi are mulling over the dissolution of their memory manufacturing joint venture and fleeing the DRAM business entirely, according to investors cited by Bloomsberg. NEC and Hitachi are fifth and... Read more...

Hitachi DVD drive leaps language barrier

Tue, 06 Nov 2001 02:06:56 +0000

Hitachi announced on Monday that it has developed a drive that can read and write several formats for recordable and rewritable DVD discs, as well as for recordable and rewritable CDs. The... Read more...