Sony Launches Vaio with 1 Terabyte Hard Drive
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two dedicated for PC applications and two for program recording. In extended-play mode, the Vaio PC can store 19
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Company will begin production on sub-1-inch hard drive later this year.
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Seagate is a launching a pair of 1TB capacity disks with advanced power-saving technology.
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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.Hitachi has managed to increase the capacity of its 2.5-inch drive by adding a third disc platter and by cramming data together more closely on those platters.The extra platter means the drive is physically larger than previous models: 12.5 millimeters thick versus 9.5mm for most current 2.5-inch drives. That means it won&#39;t fit in the drive space in many laptop computers, but Hitachi is confident that PC makers will redesign their machines to accommodate the drive because storage is a key selling point right now.&quot;The hunger from end-users for more capacity has been phenomenal,&quot; said Larry Swezey, director of marketing and strategy at Hitachi Global Storage Technologies, Hitachi&#39;s hard-disk drive subsidiary. He said the new drive is targeted at the type of consumer laptops that typically comes with a large screen and high-end audio and graphics.One PC maker has already fallen for the drive. Taiwan&#39;s&#160;Asus is due to announce Thursday its new M50 and M70 laptops&#160;that will use the drive. The latter machine will contain two of the drives to offer 1TB of storage space.With an eye on this target market Hitachi has made some modifications to the drive to improve performance, Swezey said. There are new vibration sensors that help the drive&#39;s read/write head keep on track. These are required because high-end entertainment laptops have increasingly sophisticated sound systems and larger speakers than can cause vibrations in the drive when music is being played loud. These vibrations can lead to read/write errors and a drop in performance.The 5,400-rpm drive offers a 5.5-millisecond average latency and 12-millisecond average read time. It comes with a SATA (Serial ATA) interface that supports 3Gbps&#160;data transfer although this drops to 1.5Gbps when the optical disc encryption is turned on. The drive consumers 0.95 watts at idle and 0.7 watts at low-power idle, which is only slightly more than Hitachi&#39;s previous two platter laptop drives, Swezey said.In addition to the 500GB drive, Hitachi will also offer a 400GB drive and &quot;enhanced availability&quot; versions of both drives designed for 24/7 use in products such as digital video recorders. The basic versions will be available in February and the enhanced versions about a month later. The basic 500GB model will cost about $399 and the 400GB drive will have a $349 price tag, Hitachi said.
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A terabyte in a notebook. That vision of portable storage bliss arrived with Thursday's announcement that Asus will integrate two of Hitachi's new 500-MB, 2.5-inch Travelstar hard drives into its M70 laptop.
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Sony's new Vaio LT all-in-one does the iMac one better, bundling a CableCard connection and Blu-ray support.
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Sound good on paper at least... Today in London in a somewhat understated fashion, Sony released details of its latest Vaio notebook range: the TZ series, aimed predominately at the higher end of the market.â¦
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Toshiba unveiled 60GB, 80GB and 120GB 1.8-in. external drives at the Consumer Electronics Show today.
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Sony is kicking things up a notch with its Vaio CR series of fashion-forward, customizable laptops in five colors.
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Slim Dimension desktop features an 8-in-1 memory card reader.
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Western Digtial's latest external drive tops out at one terabyte. In Gear Factor.
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Got backup? How about a new 1-terabyte drive for $70 off the usual price?
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At CEATEC, Sony unveils a home server packed with a terabyte of storage. Also: Networking via ordinary light fixtures?
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Hitachi increased the capacity of its Travelstar notebook harddrives. The consumer-targeted 5K100 and E5K100 for enterprise applications offer up to 100 GByte
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Sony Corp. (6758.T) will launch its  PlayStation 3 with an 80-gigabyte (GB) hard disk drive on June  16 in South Korea for 518,000 won ($556), offering the upgraded  version of its latest game console for the first time ever, the  Japanese electronics conglomerate said.
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(InfoWorld) - Higher capacity laptop computers andÂ music players could be on the way thanks to a new hard-disk drive from ToshibaÂ that manages a 25 percent jump in storage space over current models. The new 1.8-inch hard-disk drive can store 100GB of information whereas current models hold a maximum of 80GB. The drives are about the same size as a PC Card and are commonly used in music players, like Apple Computer's iPod, and compact laptop computers. Toshiba plans to start mass producing the drives in January next year. The company doesn't sell them direct to end-users but to other companies for integration into their products. In the past device makers have typically incorporated higher capacity drives quickly into their products. The drive will be on show at the Consumer Electronic Show, which takes place in Las Vegas from Jan. 8 to 11. Toshiba first developed a 1.8-inch drive in 2000. The device, which was at the time the highest capacity such drive available, could hold up to 2GB of data and cost around Â¥80,000 ($740 at the time). Today the drives have not only risen in capacity but also fallen in price to the point where an Apple iPod, which includes an 80GB drive and color screen, costs $349.
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80GB external hard drive is on offer at a 50% reduction.