Samsung Begins Hybrid HDD Shipments
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Samsung has begun shipments of the first hybrid flash memory hard drive to its OEM partners. Retail shipments are expected to begin soon, however the company has not specified a date.
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roundup Plus: Think local, act Google...SanDisk to supply Samsung with miniSD...Hitachi unleashes 100GB notebook drives.
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Over the several months, Computerworld has reviewed the latest in hard disk drive technology, from 1TB models and energy-efficient "green" drives to solid-state disks that outpace their spinning disk counterparts on every dimension of speed and power consumption.
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Hard drive maker Seagate has begun shipping what it claims is the world&#39;s highest capacity PC hard drive: a 400GB beast that&#39;s also the first drive of its class to hold up to 133GB on a single platter.
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New hard drive technology developed with Tohoku University could increase areal density to 1Tbit/sq inch and beyond.
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Not a Flash in the pan The CEO of hard disk drive (HDD) maker Seagate Technology has declared the firm's intention to enter the Flash memory market. Bill Watkins said in an interview with CNET that Seagate will begin shifting solid-state drives (SSD) based on Flash memory chip technology from next year.â¦
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Lacie today introduced a new series of external harddrives with SATA interface at the SMAU trade show in Milan, Italy. The drives are available in capacities up to 400 GByte.
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The growth in hard disk technology is set to continue with more storage in ever smaller products.
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(InfoWorld) - Samsung ElectronicsÂ has begun shipping its first hybrid hard-disk drives that mix conventional magnetic storage with flash memory, it said Wednesday. The drives are designed for use in laptop PCs and willÂ work with the ReadyDrive featureÂ in the new Windows Vista operating system. Under ReadyDrive, the flash memory acts as a temporary cache enabling the number of disk accesses to be cut. This means the drive spends less time in motion and so uses less power. Samsung claims a 70 percent to 90 percent cut in power consumption thanks to the system. Because data can quickly be stored and retreived from the flash memory, ReadyDrive should also allow PCs to wake up faster from sleep mode. The first three drives from Samsung are 80GB, 120GB, and 160GB models and have either 128MB or 256MB of flash memory. That's the same flash capacity as prototypes Samsung unveiled at last year's Windows Hardware Engineering Conference (WinHEC) in Seattle in May. In July of last yearÂ Samsung followed up with a prototypeÂ that included 4GB of flash memory. Software support for ReadyDrive exists in Windows Vista only so PCs running other operating systems won't benefit from the technology. IntelÂ has a competing system that isÂ code-named Robson. It has the flash memory on the PC motherboard and will be included on Intel's new Santa Rosa laptop platform that is due in the second quarter of this year. Â
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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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Samsung is showing off a new 128G-byte flash-based SSD (solid-state drive), one of the largest such drives shown to date, at C.E.S.
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Blog: Samsung announces a 1.8-inch, 120GB drive; a 2.5-inch, 120GB hybrid drive; and a 3.5-inch 1-terabyte drive, while Seagate goes rugged with an 80GB model.
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Storage devices such as external hard drives are becoming more popular as data protection and backup requirements get more complex.
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New Hitachi drive represents a giant leap forward in  notebook storage.
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According to JCN Network, Toshiba has announced a new breakthrough technology in hard disk drives (HDD) based on perpendicular recording, setting new benchmarks for data density, boosting the capacity of a single 1.8-inch hard-disk platter to 40 gigabytes
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Higher-capacity hard drives will be available by the end of the year.
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Hitachi Global Storage Technologies and Hewlett Packard yesterday announced availability of what they claim are the industry&#39;s first storage and server systems offering 300GB Fibre Channel and small computer system interface (SCSI) disk drive capacity.