Plextor Faces Reorganization As Parent Company Takes Over |
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As announced earlier this year, Plextor on the 30th of August officially transferred its optical drive business to Shinano Kenshi, an industrial group in Japan. Sales of Plextor-branded device... |
Seagate's Chief Exec Denies Plans to Sell Off the Company |
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Seagate Technology on Tuesday dashed its chief executive's comments made in an interview regarding the potential sale of the world's largest chipmaker to an unnamed Chinese technology company.... |
The World's No 1 Maker of Hard Drives May Be Acquired |
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The chief executive of Seagate Technology, the world's largest maker of hard disk drives (HDDs), said in an interview that a “Chinese technology company?approached the maker of hard drives wit... |
Seagate Goes Solid State Drives Market |
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Even though flash-based solid state drives (SSDs) do not offer capacities common for magnetic media-based hard disk drives (HDDs), the SSD market is growing pretty rapidly and has all chances ... |
Toshiba Puts 32GB at a Fingertip |
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Toshiba Corp., a leading maker of consumer electronics, announced on Thursday its new Secure Digital High Capacity (SDHC) memory cards that can hold up to 32GB of data and are the first of the... |
Toshiba Announces World's First 320GB Drive for Portable Applications |
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Toshiba Corp. on Tuesday announced a new lineup of hard disk drives (HDDs) for mobile or portable applications that offer either increased capacities or leading performance. One of the hard dr... |
New Details from Home Media Research |
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According to the recent research performed by Home Media Magazine, the movies on Blu-ray disks were selling twice as good in the first half of this as the movies on optical?HD DVD media, Reute... |
Fujitsu to Create Nanohole Patterned Media |
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A notebook hard disk drive with 1.2TB storage capacity may become reality in the nearest future. And the recent results of Fujitsu's research of ideally “ordered?alumina nanohole patterned med... |
WD Reduces Power Consumption by 40% on New Hard Drives |
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Western Digital on Monday revealed a new lineup of its hard disk drives (HDDs) that feature reduced power consumption, which lowers their cost of ownership and preserves energy, thus helping t... |
LG Releases New Blu-ray/HD DVD Optical Drives for PCs |
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LG Electronics, a leading maker of consumer electronics, has reportedly announced its second-generation hybrid optical disk drives for personal computers (PCs). The novelties can read all four... |
Infineon Readies Serial ATA-600 Interface |
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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 cha... |
WD to Take Over Komag |
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The world's No. 2 maker of hard disk drives (HDDs), Western Digital Corp., and Komag, Inc., a leading producer of optical media platters for hard drives, announced on Thursday that the two com... |
Japanese Platter Makers Tout 320GB Mobile Hard Drives |
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Two makers of perpendicular magnetic recording (PMR) platters for hard disk drives (HDDs) said recently they had started to produce platters with leading capacities that enable creation of 1TB... |
Seagate Announces New 1TB Hard Drives |
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Seagate Technology, the world's largest producer of hard disk drives (HDDs), on Monday unveiled several new hard drives that feature the world's highest capacity to date as well as several imp... |
IDC Expects DVD to Dominate Till 2011 |
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Leading research firm IDC expects contemporary DVD standard to remain dominant for another four years, whereas blue laser-based Blu-ray and HD DVD formats will not be that popular because of r... |