Introduction
The race on the marketing of high-end video cards has lately been well-led by NVIDIA. One of great achievements was the launch of GeForce 8800 series, the world’s first DirectX 10 compliant graphics cards, the GeForce 8800 GTX / GTS based on a new G80 GPU architecture. Time has passed and ATI hasn’t been able […]
When Toshiba officially threw in the towel in the high-definition format war, eyes turned to Microsoft to see what the software giant would do about the Xbox 360’s support of HD DVD. Some expected Microsoft to quickly change gears and back Blu-ray Disc, but no such plans are in place.
“Xbox is not currently in talks […]
The problem with Blu-ray drives is that the typical Blu-ray drive for notebooks is about 0.5 inches thick. The typical standard DVD drive for a notebook is only 0.28 inches thick. This represents almost twice the heft for the Blu-ray drive compared to the standard DVD drive.
Panasonic announced a new ultra-thin Blu-ray drive aimed at […]
Introduction
The race for large capacity for desktop hard drives has been on for long time and not so long ago, on April 25th, Hitachi announced the Deskstar 7K1000, the first drive to offer a 1 terabyte capacity running at 7200RPM. That’s a great leap but what about the laptop scenario? How is going the 2.5” […]
SAN JOSE, Calif. – Sept. 18, 2007 – Hitachi Global Storage Technologies (Hitachi GST) today announced the appointment of Steve Milligan as chief financial officer. His near-term task will be to accelerate Hitachi GST’s plans for achieving sustained profitability. Milligan was most recently senior vice president and CFO for Western Digital Corp.
“We are firmly committed […]
FRANKFURT (Reuters) - HD DVD video players have outsold rival standard Blu-ray players by a three-to-one margin in Europe’s main markets so far this year, according to a lobby group.
The European HD DVD Promotional Group claimed it had 74 percent market share in Britain, Germany, France, Italy, Spain and Switzerland for stand-alone players, citing sales […]
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 hard drives for desktops as well as up to 320GB drives for mobile computers.
Both Fuji Electric Group and Showa Denko K.K. (SDK) this week said they […]
Hitachi Global Storage Technologies (Hitachi) is today announcing volume shipment of the industry’s highest-performing and lowest power-consuming laptop hard disk drive at a quarter terabyte of capacity. The Travelstar™ 5K250 hard drive combines the fastest application performance in PCMark testing with the best power-efficiency of any 250 gigabyte1 (GB) 5400 RPM drive in its class. […]
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 […]
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 […]