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Intending to capitalize on the growing personal USB-attached storage segment of the hard disk drive (HDD) market, Hitachi Global Storage Technologies (Hitachi) today announced an expanded retail strategy with the launch of Hitachi-branded personal storage products: External USB Storage and Portable USB Storage. These products will be sold through Best Buy, the largest electronics retailer […]

Sony Corp. presented its achievements on data reading/writing on a medium equivalent to four-layer disc with the use of Micro-Reflector recording, a type of holographic recording. Thus far, the company has unveiled the results only on a single-layer medium.
In the Micro-Reflector recording, light beams are irradiated on both sides of the recording medium. Two […]

Announcements of 250 GB notebook hard drive have been making the rounds for sometime. For example, Samsung and Fujitsu recently said that they would be shipping such drives in the first half of the year, but it appears that Western Digital has become the first manufacturer to actually have a 250 GB 2.5” drive in […]

Last last year, Kingston unveiled its then-blazing fast HyperX DDR2 RAM modules, and just as you’re finally paying those couple of 2GB kits off, the same company is apparently planning to up the ante. Reportedly, Kingston is looking to reveal its DDR3 1500MHz HyperX and DDR2 800MHz low latency memory modules at Computex, which should […]

Tokyo, May 15, 2007 — Fujitsu Limited today announced the development of a new series of 2.5″ hard disk drives with a storage capacity of 250 GB(1) in a slim 9.5mm-thin profile, among the industry’s highest capacity HDDs in its class. Sales of the new MHY2 BH series will begin during the second quarter of […]

Hitachi says Dell and Alienware will be the first vendors to offer the new drive. Power users can also order a Dell XPS M2010 and Aurora Alienware m9700 laptops with dual drives for a total of 400 GB of storage - not bad for a laptop.
Using “Bulk Data Encyption4”, users can scramble drive contents […]

Hynix Semiconductor today announced it has received validation on its DDR3 memory components and modules from Intel. The newly-validated DDR3 products are 1Gb DDR3 SDRAM component manufactured on 80nm process technology, 1GB 2GB DDR3 Unbuffered-DIMMs. These devices have operating speeds of 800MHz and 1066MHz and a 1.5V power supply. These speeds are offered in latency […]

Fremont, CA (April 30, 2007) – Corsair®, a worldwide leader in high performance computer and flash memory products, today unveiled the new Flash Survivor™ family of USB drives. Designed and engineered to be the industry’s toughest USB drive, the Flash Survivor is a water-resistant, aluminum encased, shock-proof way to store user’s information and files. Offering […]

When they say “It’s on the slow boat to China,” I think they really might mean “slow boat from China.” But, no matter - today’s topic is about things getting off of those boats. Things like the world’s first One Terabyte HDD, courtesy of Hitachi.
The 1TB barrier has been broken since CES 2007, when Hitachi […]

Japanese subsidiary of Buffalo Technology Inc., a leading maker of advanced memory modules and other electronics, has announced the world’s first memory modules based on DDR3 chips. While there are several months to go till the first DDR3-supporting platforms will emerge on the market, Buffalo wants to sell them now, but at a price that […]