Fujitsu claims first 300GB SATA 2.5-inch drive
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(InfoWorld) - Fujitsu has developed a hard-disk drive suitable for use in laptop PCs and video recorders with a capacity of 300GB, the largest in its class, the company said Tuesday. The drive is a 2.5-inch type with a serial ATA interface and offers a 50 percent jump in capacity over Fujitsu's current most capacious hard-disk drive of this type, it said in a statement. Higher capacity drives are available but they are typically larger and have slower interfaces. In the case of laptop PCs the slower interface means they aren't as fast at handling the digital video files that are now common these days while for video recorders the larger size drives lead to bulkier products. Fujitsu said the new drive will be available from late February. The company hopes to sell 1.5 million of the drives during fiscal 2007, which is the period from April to March 2008.
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Western Digtial's latest external drive tops out at one terabyte. In Gear Factor.
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The 7,200-RPM drives are available in 200-GB, 250-GB, 300-GB and 400-GB capacity points, with either a native Serial ATA or parallel ATA interface.
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Qosimo Q30, the first notebook with an HD DVD-R drive, begins selling in Japan over the weekend.
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(InfoWorld) - Fujitsu will soon bring the benefits of perpendicular recording technology to its family of 2.5-inch hard-disk drives. The company is planning to launch two new drives worldwide in October, an 80GB and 160GB model, aimed at consumer laptop computers that also boast a high resistance to shocks, the Tokyo company said Wednesday. The latter is the highest capacity 5,400 rpm yet announced by a drive manufacturer, according to Fujitsu. Perpendicular recording is a relatively new magnetic recording method that is being increasingly employed on many hard-disk drives. The method, like the previous longitudinal recording, relies on magnetically charged particles for data storage. However in the new method the north and south poles of the magnetic particles are arranged perpendicular to the disc rather than running parallel to the disc. The result is that each particle occupies a smaller area of the disk's surface and so more particles can be crammed onto it. At the same time the company will also begin selling versions of the drives aimed at consumer electronics products such as digital video recorders. Key features of these drives are low noise levels and low power consumption.
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Fujitsu on Tuesday announced its latest lineup of Serial ATA hard drives for notebook computers, which feature perpendicular recording technology. Although the additions come in capacities far below Fujitsu's 300GB monster -- 80GB, 120GB and 160GB -- spindle speed has been bumped to 7200 RPM.
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Hard-disk drive maker Seagate Technology has started shipping a drive targeted at personal computers that offers 400GB of storage space, it said Tuesday.
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InfoWorld - Infortrend?? quietly marked a storage milestone last week, shipping the EonStor B12, the first enterprise-class array based on 2.5-inch drives. Combining power and reliability in a small size, the B12 could become the measuring stick for all storage arrays in its class, surpassing those that mount 3.5-inch drives in both efficiency and performance/space ratio.
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The Barracuda 7200.11 will sell for $399. Rival Hitachi released its version of the drive for the same price in April.
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Fujitsu has developed a hard-disk drive suitable for use in laptop PCs and video recorders with a capacity of 300GBs, the largest in its class, it said today.
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New Hitachi drive represents a giant leap forward in  notebook storage.
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Hewlett-Packard says it is putting 300GB hard drives into storage devices and servers, with more products in October.
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New drive crams enormous storage capacity into standard 3.5-inch format, but it's not ready for delivery just yet.
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Hitachi's U.S. storage unit unveiled disk drives with capacities of 400GB and 500GB.
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Seagate announced today the availability of a 400 gigabyte (GB) Barracuda 7200.8 model for high-end PC&#39;s and entry-level servers.
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SATABeast XI will allow up to 42TB drives in a 4U rack enclosure, the company said. The device will ship in mid-March through Nexsan resellers and will cost about $1,200 per terabyte, said Bob Woolery, senior vice-president of Nexsan.