Hitachi Deskstar 7K500: First 500GB Drive
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Hitachi 7K400 400GB Deskstar Hard Drive
Hitachi 7K400 400GB Deskstar Hard Drive
04/23/2004 12:15 AMReview: We check out the largest desktop hard drive on the
market today. The 400GB Deskstar is roomy, fast, and a marvel of
modern engineering. It's not a breakthrough, though--just a new spin
on existing tech.
Hitachi's New Deskstar 7K500 Reaches 500
Gigs.
Hitachi's New Deskstar 7K500 Reaches 500
Gigs.
03/30/2005 04:59 PMHitachi’s new Deskstar 7K500 drive is the first desktop hard
drive to reach 500 GB in size and one of the first to use the speedy
new SATA II interface. You’ll be able to buy it with the older
ATA interface for about $500 MSRP, or with the new SATA II interface
for about $520 MSRP. It was reported to be ready for shipment in the
2nd quarter of this year. PC World has a big article on the tech behind the
drive and the interface.
The drive uses longitudinal recording, which writes data tracks
in concentric circles using particles magnetized horizontally on the
surface of the disk. Hard-drive vendors may be able to squeeze as much
as 250GB per platter out of longitudinal recording (current drives fit
from 100GB to 133GB on each platter). Desktop drive capacity will top
out at around 1 terabyte by late 2006, before running into
technological problems in maintaining data stability. To get
beyond such limitations, drive makers are moving to perpendicular
recording, which magnetizes the particles vertically. Such drives
should appear in desktops sometime in 2007, predicts John Buttress,
research manager for hard disks at research firm IDC. And you won't
need a new motherboard or a new adapter card to use the
drives.
Hitachi plans 500GB hard disk, largest
ever
Hitachi plans 500GB hard disk, largest
ever
01/05/2005 06:58 PMHitachi Ltd. said yesterday that it is seeking to push the limits of
data storage with smaller stamp-size disks for handheld gadgets and
vastly higher-capacity drives that can store up to a half-terabyte of
data.
PC Drive Reaches 500GB
PC Drive Reaches 500GB
03/30/2005 09:51 AMHitachi's new Deskstar 7K500 drive marks several milestones in the
storage industry: It's the first desktop hard drive to reach 500GB and
one of the first to use the speedy new SATA II interface. In terms of
how it stores data, though, the Deskstar may be among the last of its
kind, as drive manufacturers begin to approach the limits of how
densely they can pack data using today's standard recording
technology.
Demand for greater capacity continues to rise due in large part to a
growing need for music and video storage on PCs and consumer
electronics devices. To meet that need, storage vendors are turning to
new recording technologies. The first of these, perpendicular
recording, will debut from Toshiba this year.
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PCWorldRead full story...HP's 500GB Personal Media Drive Concept
HP's 500GB Personal Media Drive Concept
06/09/2004 09:10 AM
BusinessWeek details HP's Personal Media Drive (PMD) concept,
essentially their rumblings about moving into the large, personal hard
drive space in which Mirra and other companies currently reside. Since
the PMD is really just a big ol' 500GB hard drive, it's admirable that
writer Alex Salkever can get as much mileage out of HP casual musings,
but chasing down a few possible future storage technology tangents is
always a good way to pad out a story. Way to milk 'em, champ.
Also, if I'm not mistaken, these pics from DigiTimes (including
this one showing what I think is the PMD along with some other concept
products) are from the same Windows Hardware Engineering conference
where HP showcased the PMD, as well as that knobby 'Troy' personal
communications console (which doesn't look half as bad integrated into
a desktop environment as it did with the laptop).
Read [BusinessWeek]
Read [DigiTimes]
Related
HP's Troy Concept PC: Knobs are the New
Dials [Gizmodo]
Hitachi 500 gig Drive and 10 gig micro
drive
Hitachi 500 gig Drive and 10 gig micro
drive
01/05/2005 10:32 PMSeems CES does not consider Endgadget a weblog so they have full
access to CES and have lot's of really good CES news. Check out their
review of the new Hard Drives announced by Hitachi. [Endgadget]<
/p>
Hitachi to unveil 500-gig hard drive
Hitachi to unveil 500-gig hard drive
01/05/2005 09:02 PMIBM-Hitachi Drive Fitness Test 3.60
IBM-Hitachi Drive Fitness Test 3.60
01/27/2004 05:15 PMHitachi to Release Half TB Drive Soon
Hitachi to Release Half TB Drive Soon
01/06/2005 02:51 PMHitachi claims leap in drive density
Hitachi claims leap in drive density
04/03/2005 09:37 PMCNET News.com Apr 4 2005 2:04AM GMT
Hitachi Announces 100-GB Notebook SATA
Drive
Hitachi Announces 100-GB Notebook SATA
Drive
09/14/2004 08:32 PMHitachi Global Storage Technologies announced the Travelstar 5K100, a
100-Gbyte SATA drive for the notebook PC.
Hitachi Hard Drive At Heart Of New iPod
Hitachi Hard Drive At Heart Of New iPod
01/07/2004 06:15 PMApple Computer is using a small hard drive from Hitachi in its new
iPod, as the market for mini drives heats up. By Michael Kanellos
(CNET News.com via MyAppleMenu)
Hitachi breaks hard drive record
Hitachi breaks hard drive record
04/04/2005 01:17 PMvnunet.com Apr 4 2005 5:10PM GMT
Hitachi boosts China drive manufacturing
Hitachi boosts China drive manufacturing
06/21/2004 09:15 AMCNET Asia Jun 21 2004 1:12PM GMT
Hitachi Unveils New Hard Drive Plans
Hitachi Unveils New Hard Drive Plans
03/20/2003 01:05 PMJapanese electronics manufacturer Hitachi has announced its strategy
for the hard drive business it acquired from IBM last spring. In an
effort to reap profits where IBM could not, Hitachi is significantly
revamping IBM's hard disk line, with plans calling for the
introduction of new products and four new business divisions.
Hitachi drive to connect with consumer
devices
Hitachi drive to connect with consumer
devices
09/01/2004 08:37 PMZDNet Sep 2 2004 0:30AM GMT
Hitachi to boost production of iPod
drive
Hitachi to boost production of iPod
drive
05/17/2004 12:19 AMHitachi said on Sunday that it plans to spend about US$200 million to
double the hard disk drive output of its Thailand factory, including
the 1-inch 4GB Microdrives that are used in the iPod Mini...
Hitachi announces 3D hard-drive
revolution
Hitachi announces 3D hard-drive
revolution
04/04/2005 08:26 AMZDNet UK Apr 4 2005 12:59PM GMT
Hitachi Upgrades Hard Drive Plant for
iPods
Hitachi Upgrades Hard Drive Plant for
iPods
05/17/2004 11:50 AMReuters is reporting that Hitachi is dropping $200 million to double
the output of its Thailand hard drive manufacturing plant specifically
to answer demand for drives for Apple's iPod. If all goes to plan, by
the end of the year the iPod wait (which has been a brilliant, if
accidental,...
iPod mini uses 1-inch Hitachi 4GB hard
drive
iPod mini uses 1-inch Hitachi 4GB hard
drive
01/07/2004 06:43 PMApple is using a small hard drive from Hitachi in its new iPod mini,
according to CNET News.com...
Upcoming Hitachi drive could bring 6GB
iPod mini
Upcoming Hitachi drive could bring 6GB
iPod mini
07/29/2004 01:22 PMHitachi said it plans to unveil a 6GB version of its tiny hard drive
that Apple uses in the popular iPod mini...
Hitachi to boost production of iPod disk
drive
Hitachi to boost production of iPod disk
drive
05/16/2004 10:51 PMZDNet May 17 2004 3:23AM GMT
Hitachi Plans To Double Drive Production
For iPods
Hitachi Plans To Double Drive Production
For iPods
05/17/2004 02:45 PMHitachi Develops Manganese-Doped Drive
Heads
Hitachi Develops Manganese-Doped Drive
Heads
04/12/2005 07:43 AM
Electronics Weekly
reports that Hitachi's UK researchers have also developed a
complimentary technology to the "Get Perpendicular" concept they're
touting for increasing storage capacity (areal density) on hard
drives. Tunneling anisotropic magentoresistance (which earns you a
triple word score) takes advantage of a side effect of manganese
doping. In less syllabic terms, it lets them shrink the drive head to
a few tens of nanometers, which will work nicely with the newly
perpendicular bits they'll be reading.
Manganese-dopin
g shrinks hard drives [ElectronicsWeekly
Get Perpendicular [Gizmodo]
And after watching:
On songs that get stuck in your head
[Gizmodo]
Hitachi Pays $2B for IBM's Hard Drive
Business
Hitachi Pays $2B for IBM's Hard Drive
Business
03/20/2003 01:05 PMHitachi and IBM have formalized a deal that calls for Hitachi to pay
$2.05 billion for
the bulk of IBM's hard disk drive business. The new company reportedly
will bring together
approximately 24,000 employees -- 18,000 from IBM and the rest from
Hitachi -- and will
consist of 11 manufacturing operations around the world.
Hitachi Will Expand Production of iPod
Disk Drive (Reuters)
Hitachi Will Expand Production of iPod
Disk Drive (Reuters)
05/16/2004 08:38 PMReuters - The six-week waiting list to get
a popular iPod Mini digital music player from Apple Computer
Inc. is likely to get shorter by the end of the year.
Hitachi getting vertical on drive space
means 100 times more storage
Hitachi getting vertical on drive space
means 100 times more storage
04/11/2005 05:50 AMI need to dig around on the Hitachi site but it seems they may be
on to something big when it comes to hard-drive storage. Like a growth
of 100 times more storage on that same sized disk.. Oh yea baby that's
what I am talking about. Check out the video. [Hitachi]
Hitachi lobs lawsuit at Chinese disk
drive maker
Hitachi lobs lawsuit at Chinese disk
drive maker
12/29/2004 04:04 PMBig dispute over little disks
7K500
7K500
01/05/2005 10:29 PMTo store your recorded HDTV, Hitachi announced the 500GB
7K500<
/a> hard disk.
Hitachi Agrees to Acquire Fujitsu
Hitachi Plasma Display Shares and Plasma
Technology Patents
Hitachi Agrees to Acquire Fujitsu
Hitachi Plasma Display Shares and Plasma
Technology Patents
03/25/2005 07:36 PMInvestors Business Daily Mar 25 2005 8:30PM GMT
Miglia intros DualDisk 320 and 500GB
Miglia intros DualDisk 320 and 500GB
09/07/2004 08:40 AMMiglia Technology has introduced its
Dual
Disk 320GB and 500GB FireWire 800-based storage systems. The
external hard drives incorporate two mechanism inside along with
hardware support for RAID level 0, or striping, a technique which
enables the two drives to read and write data simultaneously, thus
improving data transfer rates compared to a single mechanism. The
enclosure is made of aluminum. System requirements call for Mac OS X
v10.2.5 or higher for FireWire 800 speeds, Mac OS 9.1 or higher for
FireWire 400 speeds. Pricing for the DualDisk 320 and 500 is US$429
and $669 respectively.
PC drives will reach 500GB by 2007,
industry says
PC drives will reach 500GB by 2007,
industry says
02/10/2004 05:35 PMThe disk drive industry expects to deliver more than 300 million hard
drives of all kinds this year, up 16% from the 261 million drives
shipped in 2003.
Miglia intros DualDisk in 320GB, 500GB
sizes
Miglia intros DualDisk in 320GB, 500GB
sizes
09/06/2004 11:32 PMMiglia Technology today announced the DualDisk FireWire 800 storage
line...
Test Drive | Here's help finding things
on car drive or hard drive
Test Drive | Here's help finding things
on car drive or hard drive
12/25/2003 04:27 AMPhiladelphia Inquirer Dec 25 2003 3:36AM ET
With a complete computer system,
including the hard drive, processor and
DVD drive, the iMac G5 is only about
With a complete computer system,
including the hard drive, processor and
DVD drive, the iMac G5 is only about
09/02/2004 05:47 AMXinhua News Agency Sep 2 2004 10:20AM GMT
Vosonic X'S-Drive Pro VP 300 40GB Flash
Memory Reading Hard Drive
Vosonic X'S-Drive Pro VP 300 40GB Flash
Memory Reading Hard Drive
06/30/2004 12:37 PM
The Vosonic X'S-Drive Pro VP 300 is 40GB external
hard drive that is clunky, cheap-looking, has a crappy text-only
integrated screen, plays MP3s, but not WMA, AAC, or OGG Vorbis, and
can only read from one card from its card reader at a time. So why
would any photographer want it? Because it's cheap, it does the
primary job it was designed to do (act as remote backup for memory
cards), and can accept as many additional 2.5-inch laptop hard drives
as you want to swap into it, meaning that all other things aside, you
can purchase this single $335 drive and continue to upgrade it for
only the price of additional hard drives.
Read -
Hard disk: X'S-Drive Pro VP 300 [BIOS]
MCE slot-loading drive replaces original
iMac drive
MCE slot-loading drive replaces original
iMac drive
06/14/2004 02:50 PMMCE Technologies is now offering an internal 24x slot-loading CD-R/RW
drive for replacing the tray-loading CD-ROM drive in the original iMac
(233, 266, and 333MHz, Rev...
Console Drive makes hard drive removable
or external
Console Drive makes hard drive removable
or external
06/04/2004 03:52 PMAddonics Technologies announced on Friday the release of its
Console Drive, which turns a standard 3.5-inch hard drive into
either aremovable internal hard drive cartridge or an external hard
drive thatconnects to your Mac via USB 2.0 or 1.1, FireWire, SCSI or a
PCMCIA slot,depending on the model you choose. Internally, the Console
Drive can connectto a Power Mac's Serial ATA slot. In addition, the
Console Drive acceptsAddonics' series of Pocket CD, DVD, CD-RW and
DVD+/-R/RW drives, all ofwhich are Mac compatible.
TikiMac Unveils "Big Tiki Drive", the
World's First Hi-Speed USB Flash Drive
in the Form of a Grinning, Glowing Tiki
Idol
TikiMac Unveils "Big Tiki Drive", the
World's First Hi-Speed USB Flash Drive
in the Form of a Grinning, Glowing Tiki
Idol
03/14/2005 06:10 PM
TikiMac today unveiled the Big Tiki Drive, the world's first hi-speed
USB compatible storage device in the form of a big, grinning Tiki
idol, complete with hypnotic glowing eyes and a blinking "aura", for
Macintosh and Windows PC-compatible computers and starting at $59.
[PRWEB Feb 23, 2005]
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JVC's Mystery Hard Drive Camcorders
Revealed: They're Hard Drive Camcorders
JVC's Mystery Hard Drive Camcorders
Revealed: They're Hard Drive Camcorders
09/14/2004 11:18 AM
Oops, I almost forgot about these new cameras
announced from JVC - the ones they've been hyping up to no end as
their big "mystery product." Basically, they're camcorders with hard
drives in them - a 4GB microdrive, to be exact. They look pretty cool
and everything, but they're really most interesting because they are
the first consumer camcorder with a built-in hard drive, not because
they do anything particularly unique. That being said, I fully support
this idea, and think most consumer recording technology should move to
hard drives as soon as possible (I'll be waiting until you can get
something with a bigger hard drive than 4GB for less than $1,500,
though).
Both models (the GZ-MC100 and the GZ-MC200) can record up to 9Mbps
in MPEG2, though, which is DVD quality.
Read -
Press Release (Japanese) [VictorJP via SorobanGeeks]<
/p>
David "SD8957" Chait has a less cynical take on the new
camcorders, along with more stats and pictures.
Read - JVC
Intros Everio Digital Camera with 4GB Microdrive [Chait]
Linux Laptop w/ 3.5' Disk, USB, and No
Hard Drive?
Linux Laptop w/ 3.5' Disk, USB, and No
Hard Drive?
07/06/2004 08:17 PM
Slashdot Jul 6 2004 11:30PM GMT
Linux Laptop w/ 3.5" Disk, USB, and No
Hard Drive?
Linux Laptop w/ 3.5" Disk, USB, and No
Hard Drive?
07/06/2004 06:50 PM
Toshiba unveils sub 1-inch hard disk
drive
Toshiba unveils sub 1-inch hard disk
drive
01/08/2004 07:56 PM
Toshiba Corp. has unveiled a prototype hard-disk drive smaller than
any currently on the market.
TDK, Fujitsu to ally on hard disk drive
heads
TDK, Fujitsu to ally on hard disk drive
heads
07/29/2004 05:11 PM
To push advances in the development of hard disk drives, TDK Corp. and
Fujitsu Ltd. have agreed to work together on the design, development
and production of disk drive heads.
Toshiba unveils tiny hard-disk drive
Toshiba unveils tiny hard-disk drive
12/16/2003 08:54 PM
CNET Asia Dec 16 2003 8:13PM ET
Fujitsu Q2 hard-disk drive shipments up
sharply
Fujitsu Q2 hard-disk drive shipments up
sharply
08/03/2004 09:03 AM
Fujitsu Ltd.'s shipments of hard-disk drives increased significantly
during the second quarter of this year, the company said Tuesday.
Toshiba announces 60GB, 1.8-inch
hard-disk drive
Toshiba announces 60GB, 1.8-inch
hard-disk drive
08/04/2004 10:03 AM
Toshiba Corp. will begin
mass-producing a 60GB, 1.8-inch hard-disk drive before the end of the
year, it said Wednesday. Such drives are commonly used in digital
music players and sub-notebook computers. The new drive offers a
50-percent improvement in storage space over Toshiba's current highest
capacity 1.8-inch hard-disk drive yet manages this without being
physically larger. The major factor that contributed to this increase
was an advancement made in a thin-film technology used for both the
head and platter, said Midori Suzuki, a spokeswoman for Toshiba in
Tokyo.
Samsung shows cell phone with hard-disk
drive
Samsung shows cell phone with hard-disk
drive
09/07/2004 08:31 AM
BUSAN, SOUTH KOREA -- Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. plans to begin
selling later this month a cellular telephone that includes a
hard-disk drive. The handset was unveiled as the International
Telecommunication Union (ITU) Telecom Asia 2004 event began here on
Monday and is the first cell phone of its kind in the world, according
to the company.
Twenty One Hard Disk Drive with 160GB
Storage Capacity
Twenty One Hard Disk Drive with 160GB
Storage Capacity
07/21/2004 03:58 AM
Toshiba announces 100GB hard disk drive
for notebooks
Toshiba announces 100GB hard disk drive
for notebooks
04/22/2004 06:45 PM
Hitachi Deskstar 7K500: First 500GB Drive
Hitachi's Deskstar 7K500 offers two flaps of firsts, being
not only the first to hit half a terabyte in a single drive, but one
of the very first to use the SATA II interface—that means more
data at faster speeds. If you don't have an SATA II interface in your
PC, though, Hitachi will be offering a $500 version with an 8MB buffer
and a parallel ATA interface (the long, flat, ribbon cable kind). If
you want the SATA II offering, it's just 20 bucks more—plus you
get a bigger 16MB cache.