Fujitsu plans higher capacity 2.5-inch drives
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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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Miniature hard drive will feature a Compact Flash card form factor.
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Hitachi Global Storage Technologies plans to at least double the capacity of its 1-inch Microdrive hard disk drive this year.
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Hard drives store 30GB and more in 1.3-inch packages.
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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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(InfoWorld) - Following a similar move by Hewlett-Packard, Fujitsu Siemens Computers plans to announce a packaged storage area network (SAN) product on Thursday aimed at small and medium-size businesses. The bundle will comprise Fujitsu Siemens' FibreCAT SX RAID storage devices, switches from Brocade Communications Systems,. and host bus adapters from Emulex. It will be priced under â¬8,000 ($10,566), Fujitsu Siemens said. Business-class data protection has traditionally been expensive and difficult to deploy, so many smaller businesses have shied away from SANs. The bundled product, which customers can order under a single part number, aims to cut down on the complexity of choosing components to put together a SAN. It also aims to simplify installation and operation, Fujitsu Siemens said. Businesses that buy the package will be able to expand their SAN as their needs change, according to the company. The demand for greater security and compliance are driving growth in the market for SANs, Fujitsu Siemens said. In October,Â HP introduced SAN productsÂ also aimed at smaller businesses. It includes a blade storage device, a starter kit for simplifying the set-up and operation of SANs, and a virtual tape technology for data backup and recovery. HP's starter kit also included components from Emulex and Brocade. Â
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Tiny hard drive will feature improved impact protection.
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Hitachi Global Storage Technologies Inc. (HGST) announced the availability of 2.5-inch hard drives with capacities up to 100GB for notebook computers by the end of 2004, the company said on Tuesday.
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Seagate Technology has started shipping a 400GB hard disk drive for PCs that offers performance closer to that of a 10,000-rpm drive than that of a 7,200 rpm.
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Hitachi's got a notebook drive that can pack a terabyte, and Asus is going to put one in.
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Blog: Seagate announces two drives with 1 terabyte of capacity, while Iomega expands its portable hard drive line.
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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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WiebeTech ToughTech external mini drives are now available in 200GB and 250GB capacities.
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64GB NAND flash memory drives will be an option in a forthcoming Compaq series.
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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.
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Fujitsu Computer Systems Corporation today announced that the ETERNUS(R)4000 Model 500 storage system achieved the top position with the Storage Performance Council (SPC) in two benchmarks for mid-range disk array performance.
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One of the new drives is just 3 inches in diameter, features a retractable USB cable for easy carrying and can store 5GB of data.