Verbatim buys into portable HDs
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Media maker finally notices nobody uses floppies anymore Media manufacturer Verbatim has bought SmartDisk, a US-based vendor of portable and external disk drives and flash readers. The deal was agreed last month and finalised yesterday.â¦
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Western Digtial's latest external drive tops out at one terabyte. In Gear Factor.
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InfoWorld - Hitachi has developed a 500GB hard-disk drive for laptop computers, due to be announced Thursday. The Travelstar 5K500, which is the highest capacity drive yet developed for portable PCs, is due to begin shipping in February and should go some way towards quenching user thirst for storage space.
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Hitachi Data Systems on Tuesday announced a new enterprise storage lineup with new features such as a virtualization that allows customers to manage up to 32 Petabytes (PB) of internal and external storage.
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Company agrees to buy Archivas, an existing partner, whose software allows for immediate access to protected, archived data.
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Exabyte has announced the release of the Magnum 1X7 LTO Autoloader, a 2U, rack-mountable, automated backup and restore system for less that $5,000.
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TEAC&#39;s Data Storage Product Division is shipping a new family of external hard disk drives. The new products include 2.5-inch and 3.5-inch devices ranging from 40 GB to 250 GB in capacity.
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Western Digital has boosted the capacity of its My Book line of external drives.
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Of all the comments on the hard drive, and there have been hundreds, this one explains it best. I'm sorry to hear about your experience at the Apple Store. I was a "genius" for a year and can assure you that the policy regarding HDs was frustrating to us as well. In warranty it wasn't so hard to justify, but out of warranty customers often had a problem with it. My recommendation to them (and to you) is the same. AASPs often do not have the same contractual obligations with HD manufacturers that Apple does, so they may very well let you keep it. If you still wanted to have it done through an Apple store, take a magnet to it before you hand it over. The techs have better things to do than trawl through your personal data (there are exceptions, of course), but if it sets your mind at ease- go for it. Honestly, I would do this in your position because I have read of people getting reman drives with other people's data still on them. But that would have nothing to do with Apple and everything to do with the companies contracted to remanufacture the HDs.Not much more to say after that. I will probably write a summary tomorrow.
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Storage systems vendor Hitachi Data SystemsÂ (HDS) will acquire storage management company Archivas, it plans to announce Tuesday.
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TEAC, a manufacturer of optical disk drives, USB floppy drives and duplicators, announced that it would be launching its new line of external portable hard disk drives.
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Storage vendors StorageTek and Adaptec this week will boost their offerings with products that further decentralize data and storage for branch and remote offices.
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Storage hardware vendor Iomega has signed a deal to buy sister hardware vendors indirectly owned by the Chinese government in an effort to expand the company&#39;s product line.Iomega will purchase ExcelStor Great Wall Technology, a Cayman Islands company, and Shenzhen ExcelStor Technology, a Chinese company, in a stock deal expected to close in mid-2008, said Thomas Kampfer, Iomega president and chief operating officer. The deal would nearly quadruple the size of Iomega with its revenue going from $300 million a year to about $1.1 billion a year, and the number of employees growing from less than 300 to about 3,000, Kampfer said.ExcelStor has built Iomega&#39;s Rev removable hard drive products since 2004, and more recently, it has built Iomega-branded USB hard drives, Kampfer said. The acquisition will help Iomega branch out into new products, he said, although the company isn&#39;t yet announcing what new products it&#39;s looking at.&quot;For quite some time ... we&#39;ve felt that we have a really great brand,&quot; Kampfer said. &quot;We&#39;ve been searching for ways to expand our product line and gain access to more products, to move ourselves beyond external storage. We haven&#39;t had the resources -- we haven&#39;t had the development resources, we haven&#39;t had the marketing resources. We just aren&#39;t big enough.&quot;In the deal, Iomega will issue about 84 million shares of its stock, worth about $139 million, in exchange for all outstanding ExcelStor shares. The deal would be one of the first times a U.S. company has acquired a company owned by the Chinese government, according to Iomega.The boards of directors at both Iomega and ExcelStor have approved the deal. The purchase must be approved by the Chinese government and shareholders.ExcelStor, which produces more than 20 million devices a year, designs and manufactures digital storage hardware, including hard drives and security storage products. The company sells its products under its own brand and also to original equipment manufacturers.In 2006, ExcelStor had revenue of $707.1 million, according to Iomega.ExcelStor is a subsidiary of Great Wall Technology Co. (GWT), a publicly traded company that manufactures computers and creates software and related products. GWT is an indirect subsidiary of China Electronics Corp., which is owned by the Chinese government.After the deal is completed, GWT and its affiliates will own about 43 percent of Iomega&#39;s stock, making GWT its largest shareholder. China Electronics indirectly owns 62 percent of GWT.Jonathan Huberman will continue as CEO of Iomega, and Kampfer will remain as president and COO, the company said. Eddie Lui, currently CEO of ExcelStor, will become executive chairman of Iomega.&#160;
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Clever 'perpendicular recording system' boosts storage capacity
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Hitachi Data Systems, Sun Microsystems, and Hewlett-Packard this week are trying to leapfrog EMC for enterprise-class storage leadership using pretty much the same product -- HDS&#39;s new TagmaStore Universal Storage Platform.
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The Disk Mini is available in capacities from 80- to 250GB and connects via USB.
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joestar writes &quot;Mandrakesoft &amp; LaCie have just launched &quot;GlobeTrotter&quot;, a ultra-compact 40 GB bootable USB hard-drive pre-loaded with Mandrakelinux 10.