Fujitsu announces new enterprise hard drives

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Seagate announces new consumer hard
drives

Seagate announces new consumer hard
drives 06/14/2004 08:11 AM
Seagate Technology today announced it has expanded its line of personal computing hard drives, unveiling new internal and external hard drives with 400GB capacities, a new small footprint portable external hard drive with up to 100GB capacity, and what they say is "the world's first pocket external hard drive."...

Seagate Announces New 1-Inch 5GB Hard
Drives for Q3

Seagate Announces New 1-Inch 5GB Hard
Drives for Q3 06/09/2004 12:33 PM

Hard drive vendor Seagate has announced plans to ship a 1-inch hard drive in 2.5 and 5GB varieties in the 3rd quarter, one for embedded use (like for use in portable media players like the iPod mini or Creative MuVo) and in a CF form-factor (for cameras and what not). Currently, Hitachi Global Storage Technologies, maker of the MicroDrive (and Apple's supplier) holds the size:capacity title -- expect them to turn up the heat with a larger drive size as soon as they can.
Read [InfoWorld]

EZQuest announces new Thunder FireWire
hard drives

EZQuest announces new Thunder FireWire
hard drives 07/02/2004 04:45 AM
EZQuest has announced that it is in the process of finalizing its new line of Thunder FireWire 400 and 800 external hard drives...

Toshiba announces 60GB 1.8-inch hard
drives, spills the beans on new iPods

Toshiba announces 60GB 1.8-inch hard
drives, spills the beans on new iPods 06/03/2004 02:00 PM
Toshiba announces 60GB 1.8" hard drives and confirms Apple is buying them. What does this mean for the future of the iPod, aside from it being bigger?

IFD-iV Flash Drives Masquerade as ATA
Hard Drives

IFD-iV Flash Drives Masquerade as ATA
Hard Drives 07/15/2004 08:59 AM

For embedded computing hackers, mass storage (like hard drives) is often the most frustrating piece of the puzzle, as the fragile and power-hungry spin of the hard drive is usually the last non-solid-state part in the whole deployment. And while most engineers will just use a Compact Flash card, sometimes the only option is an ATA (hard drive) connection; that's where the IFD-iV flash memory parts from IO Data Device Corporation come in. Basically just flash memory drives, the defining feature of the IFD-iVs (besides fairly rugged operating specifications) is that they use the standard ATA connection of a hard drive, meaning they can be deployed in place of hard drives when necessary. Models up to 2GB in capacity will be available for around $2,100 -- maybe we'll just deal with the fragile hard drives instead.
Read - Flash memory ATA hard drive [TechJapan]

Update: Reader Tom Lee brings up a much cheaper option for hackers on a budget (after the jump.)

Keep Your Confidential Data Confidential
With Biometric Fingerprint Flash Drives
and Hard Disk Drives

Keep Your Confidential Data Confidential
With Biometric Fingerprint Flash Drives
and Hard Disk Drives 02/01/2005 09:13 PM
Now you can have safe, secure, portable storage of your confidential business and personal data with the biometric fingerprint ClipDrive Bio USB Flash Drive and the Outbacker USB biometric fingerprint Hard Disk Drive. The devices are non-operational until a validated fingerprint or password is received. [PRWEB Jan 21, 2005]

Fujitsu gets smaller drives into shape

Fujitsu gets smaller drives into shape 12/15/2003 03:19 PM
The company's upcoming 2.5-inch hard drives, designed for storage systems and servers, are being put to the test by Hewlett-Packard.

Fujitsu sees strong growth in drives

Fujitsu sees strong growth in drives 10/29/2003 09:20 PM

Fujitsu puts Serial ATA into notebook
drives

Fujitsu puts Serial ATA into notebook
drives 01/05/2004 09:42 AM

Fujitsu Unveils New Disk Drives, Server
Processors

Fujitsu Unveils New Disk Drives, Server
Processors 03/20/2003 01:05 PM
Fujitsu Computer has unveiled a new series of hard disk drives that it says offers the highest-ever density in the 2.5-inch HDD class. A 60 GB capacity disk could hold about 1.2 million e-mails, 60,000 digital photographs, 900 MP3 music files or 15 DVD-quality full-length motion pictures, according to Fujitsu.

Fujitsu Ramps Up 100GB Notebook Drives
(PC World)

Fujitsu Ramps Up 100GB Notebook Drives
(PC World) 06/14/2004 02:58 PM
PC World - HP, Dell notebooks use high-capacity drives; Toshiba, Seagate also hit 100GB.

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.

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.

Defragment All Hard Drives

Defragment All Hard Drives 09/20/2004 01:00 PM

Hottest Hard Drives

Hottest Hard Drives 03/20/2003 01:05 PM
In 20 years, the hard disk drive has progressed from an IBM PC luxury add-on to an indispensable part of any computer, and finally to a component so inexpensive it can be upgraded on impulse. What are today's hottest hard drives, and what is on the horizon for this vital technology?

Next-Generation Hard Drives

Next-Generation Hard Drives 11/07/2003 11:04 AM

Arg! Memory, XP, and hard drives...

Arg! Memory, XP, and hard drives... 03/06/2004 01:53 AM
Ok... Sorry for the delay in posting anything. "ultra" - my main box, has had some issues during the last...

Fujitsu begins production of 100GB hard
drive for notebooks

Fujitsu begins production of 100GB hard
drive for notebooks 06/14/2004 04:13 PM
Fujitsu has begun mass production of a 100GB hard disk drive suitable for use in notebook computers.

Fujitsu begins 100GB notebook hard drive
production.

Fujitsu begins 100GB notebook hard drive
production. 06/14/2004 10:45 PM
MacCentral: Fujitsu begins 100GB notebook hard drive production. A nice round number.

Fujitsu begins 100GB notebook hard drive
production

Fujitsu begins 100GB notebook hard drive
production 06/14/2004 11:27 AM
Fujitsu Ltd. has developed a 100GB hard-disk drive suitable for use in notebook computers and has begun mass production of the drive, it said Monday. The Tokyo company started making the drive in late March this year and its entire initial output had been snapped up by notebook makers, said Joel Hagberg, vice president of marketing at Fujitsu Computer Products of America. Now the company is beginning to accept orders from more notebook makers and so it is announcing the development of the drive, he said.

Other News: WiFi Hard Drives

Other News: WiFi Hard Drives 04/12/2004 10:04 AM
Hooking up hard drives to wireless networks may shortly become easier.

200 Gig Hard-Drives on sale at CompUSA

200 Gig Hard-Drives on sale at CompUSA 10/28/2003 11:07 PM
There are a few good things about being on travel I have a chance to spend a little extra time...

Labs look beyond today's hard drives

Labs look beyond today's hard drives 07/21/2004 09:37 AM
ZDNet Jul 21 2004 2:09PM GMT

FireWire Hard Drives and The Future of
the TBU

FireWire Hard Drives and The Future of
the TBU 06/12/2004 06:49 PM

I bought a FireWire hard drive enclosure the other day, and I'm awfully happy with it. It cost about $45 and I filled it with an old 40GB hard drive I had lying around. It works beautifully — plug it into a FireWire port and you get a G: drive.

It makes me wonder what'll happen to the venerable tape backup unit (TBU). I have a TBU on my server, but it's old, slow, cranky, and only holds 20GB. Furthermore, 20GB tapes are like, $30 while hard drives are running less than a dollar per gigabyte these days.

Right now, I can think of no reason why I would use my TBU for anything anymore. Am I missing something? I imagine that tapes are physically pretty durable, certainly more so than a hard drive, but is there anything else?

I'm using this portable hard drive for off-site backups. Once a week, I'll bring the drive in, copy the latest backups onto it, and take it home where it will sit on my bookshelf for a week until I bring it in again to refresh the backups.

FireWire hard drives, incidentally, are fast as lightning. I have a small RAID Tower which runs via FireWire. You'd never know it wasn't an internal SCSI drive. In fact, I installed a very CPU- and I/O-intensive server process on it once and it ran beautifully. Again, the simplicity is amazing — plug it in and you get an F: drive, end of story.

I'm so impressed with the utility of these things that I'd go so far as call them mandatory equipment for your PC. The enclosure will cost you $45. I found a 40GB Maxtor drive on Froogle for $32. I bought a FireWire card and cable on eBay last year for $15. That's $92 for 40GB of removable storage that you can throw in a fanny pack — tough to beat.

On my next PC, I'm going to physically separate the operating system from my data files. I'll keep all my data on an external FireWire unit, and only keep the OS and program files on the internal IDE unit. I'd love for my PC to be essentially disposable. If I have a problem, just pave and reload it knowing that all my data files are safe and secure a few feet away on the external unit. Perversely, I may mirror them on the internal drive just for redundancy.

For the record, I bought the Metal Gear Box from NewEgg. It was rock simple to get running — find a hard drive, physically screw it into the unit, plug it two cables, then plug it into the PC.

I'm not thrilled with look of the thing — it's all brushed aluminum and black metal grating. (Kind of makes me feel like a 40-year-old man driving around in a lowered Civic with a big wing on the back.) Additionally, when you put it down, there's no padding or rubber stops, so it kind of clanks against the desk, which makes me a little nervous.

Anyway, the theory is valid. External hard drives: good. FireWire: great. Go get one.

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New Hard Drives to Expand DVR Capacity

New Hard Drives to Expand DVR Capacity 04/28/2004 09:30 PM
San Jose Mercury News Apr 29 2004 1:42AM GMT

Hard Drives the unsung Hero

Hard Drives the unsung Hero 05/27/2004 12:28 PM

I had to smile today. Sitting on my shelf of memorabilia is a 65 meg RLL Hard-drive that I payed $465.00 for back in the mid 80's. I was the top dog on the block and all of my buddies and I marveled at how we would every fill it up. Little did I know that in 1993 I would layout $1056.00 for a 1.6 Gig drive.
I have been kicking myself in the butt every since. But luckily the days of over-priced hard-drives are long gone. The history of the Hard-Drive is an amazing one. [CNet]

FBI Picks Up Some Novelty Hard Drives

FBI Picks Up Some Novelty Hard Drives 07/23/2004 03:08 PM
With all of the security problems in Los Alamos these days, apparently secrecy is no joking matter. The Black Hole Surplus Store and Museum apparently had some hard drives behind the counter with "secret" labels on them. They're not for sale, but are really just there to generate conversation with tourists. The FBI apparently wasn't particularly thrilled with this explanation and have confiscated the hard drive which the owner of the surplus store insists was a joke. Who knows what goes through some people's minds, but does it really seem likely that someone walking out of Los Alamos with classified info is going to hand it over to the local surplus store?

Grim times for hard drives

Grim times for hard drives 05/28/2004 06:14 AM
ZDNet UK May 28 2004 9:49AM GMT

Not-So-Clean Hard Drives For Sale

Not-So-Clean Hard Drives For Sale 06/08/2004 11:40 PM
Slashdot Jun 9 2004 4:16AM GMT

Tiny Hard Drives Need New Plug

Tiny Hard Drives Need New Plug 09/09/2004 04:59 PM
Portable consumer electronics and handhelds need a smaller more efficient interface for hard drives, so Intel and others are working to define a new spec, CE-ATA.

Toshiba's new tiny hard drives

Toshiba's new tiny hard drives 12/15/2003 11:35 AM
Toshiba's new hard drives are the size of a nickel and can store over a gigabyte of data.

The 0.85 inch diameter disk is believed to be the world's smallest hard disk drive that can store about 2 or 3 gigabytes worth of information, company spokeswoman Midori Suzuki said Monday.

Link (via Werblog)

External FireWire Hard Drives

External FireWire Hard Drives 10/29/2003 01:13 AM
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New Hard Drives to Expand DVR Capacity
(AP)

New Hard Drives to Expand DVR Capacity
(AP) 04/28/2004 08:10 PM
AP - The power of the U.S. cable and satellite TV industries rests on the 85 million households they count as subscribers. But the influence of Hollywood, which controls the entertainment flow, is even more formidable.

New Technology for More Spacious Hard
Drives

New Technology for More Spacious Hard
Drives 03/20/2003 01:05 PM
An old adage in the computer industry holds that you can never be too rich or have too much space on your hard drive. That may be difficult to believe now, considering that the hard drives in many personal computers sold today can now store the digital equivalent of several complete sets of encyclopedias. And leave plenty of room to spare.

A new handshake for mini hard drives?

A new handshake for mini hard drives? 09/09/2004 06:09 PM
Intel, Hitachi, Toshiba and others propose CE-ATA, a new interface for miniature hard drives used in consumer electronics.

Green Tea Good for Hard Drives

Green Tea Good for Hard Drives 04/29/2004 05:00 AM
The same tannins in green tea that cause stains to form on your mugs and teapots could save the hard-drive manufacturing industry some serious dough, says a team of researchers. By Amit Asaravala.

Hitachi to bring 1TB hard drives soon

Hitachi to bring 1TB hard drives soon 04/05/2005 04:32 AM

Tiny hard drives get bigger capacities
at CES

Tiny hard drives get bigger capacities
at CES 01/05/2005 02:09 PM
Seagate and Hitachi are boosting storage capacities on their miniature drives and improving efficiency, which will translate into improved portable media players.

New Lubricant Leads To Faster Hard
Drives

New Lubricant Leads To Faster Hard
Drives 08/29/2004 05:39 PM

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