Western Digital Takes Over ST Microelectronics?Hard Drive Controller IP, Team |
In an effort to create a fully integrated hard disk drive (HDD) manufacturer, Western Digital Corp. acquired ST Microelectronics’ hard drive controller (HDC) development team along with ... |
WD Launches Enterprise Version of VelociRaptor |
Western Digital, a leading maker of hard disk drives (HDDs) on Wednesday unveiled a version of its WD VelociRaptor hard drive designed for enterprise and business customers. The novelty should... |
SanDisk: Vista Is Not Optimized for Flash Memory Solid State Disk |
While solid state drives (SSDs) promise massive performance increases along with boosted reliability compared to hard disk drives (HDDs), not a lot of customers adopt them now since actual ben... |
JEDEC Announces Dedicated Subcommittee to Set Standards for SSDs |
Following announcement of the intention to standardize solid state drives (SSDs) last August and a subsequent survey of storage industry companies, a subcommittee scope was defined to develop ... |
Seagate Increases Hard Drive Capacity to 1500GB |
Seagate Technoogy, the world's largest producer of hard disk drives (HDDs), on Friday unveiled the world's first hard disk drive with 1.5TB capacity. The new product features four platters wit... |
Samsung Initiates Mass Production of Relatively Affordable 128GB SSDs |
Samsung Electronics, the world’s largest producer of memory, has begun mass producing 1.8” and 2.5” multi-level cell (MLC)-based solid state drives (SSD) with a 128GB storage... |
Pioneer Creates 400GB Blu-Ray Disc |
Pioneer Corp. said on Monday that it had succeeded in developing a 16-layer read-only optical disc with a capacity of 400GB for the first time in the world. According to Pioneer, the discs man... |
Dell, Hitachi, WD Accused of Infringing Vibration Control Technology Patents |
Convolve, an engineering company that specializes in generating optimized trajectories to improve the performance of motion control systems, has filed lawsuits against Dell, Hitachi Global Sto... |
Analysts Expect Seagate to Acquire Flash Memory Maker |
Seagate Technology has publicly revealed that it would enter the market of flash-based solid-state drives in 2009, but target only enterprise customers initially. Despite of relatively low vol... |
SpinPoint M6 500GB to Sell at the Price of 1TB Desktop Drives |
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. announced today the mass production of the world's highest capacity hard drive for laptops - the new Spinpoint M6. It features a stunning 500GB priced at $299 MSR... |
WD Unwraps New 1TB Caviar Hard Drives |
Western Digital, the world’s second largest maker of hard disk drives (HDDs), has unveiled a new series of hard drives that feature large cache, advanced controller, advanced mechanical ... |
Seagate Announces Third Generation Savvio Hard Drives for Enterprises |
Seagate Technology on Monday unveiled its third generation Savvio hard disk drives designed for enterprises and also the world’s first small form-factor HDDs with Serial Attached SCSI 75... |
SanDisk Jumps on Ultra Low Cost Personal Computers Bandwagon with pSSD Lineup |
SanDisk Corp., a leading maker of flash-based products, unveiled at Computex Taipei 2008 its family of low-cost solid-state drives for Parallel ATA interface (pSSDs). The new drives are specif... |
Hard Disk Drive Market Unaffected by Slowing Economy ?IDC |
In spite of economy slowdown, the market of hard disk drives (HDDs) will continue to grow in the coming years thanks to growing need for larger capacities, claim recent researches from IDC mar... |
Seagate Promises 2TB Drives and Solid State Drives in 2009 |
Seagate Technology, the world’s top supplier of hard disk drives (HDDs), has promised to release a 2TB (2000GB) hard drive sometime in 2009. In addition, next year the company will relea... |