All Entries Tagged With: "HDD"
Seagate’s SSHDD hybrid Momentus XT
Share Seagate today announced channel and OEM shipments of the Momentus XT drive, the world’s fastest 2.5-inch laptop PC hard drive, combining SSD-like performance with the massive capacity and much lower cost of HDDs.
Seagate 3TB HDDs will arrive this year
Share Apparently, Seagate will not only increase the maximum storage space, but it will also enable higher transfer speeds by means of the 6Gbps SAS interface. Known as the Constellation ES, the HDD will have a capacity of no less than 3TB and will come to replace the Baracuda ES. The latter spins at 7,200RPM [...]
ICY DOCK Announces MB561US-4S-1 Quad Bay SATA External Enclosure
Share Icy Dock reveals the MB561US-4S-1, a new quad-bay SATA enclosure with USB 2.0 and eSATA support. Introducing the MB561US-4S-1 Quad Bay SATA External Enclosure featuring USB and eSATA Port Multiplier, and newly added, User Defined Fan Settings with Smart Cooling Technology. Incoming search terms:2 5 external dock hot swapthermaltake external hard drive casesLacie 4 [...]
Plextor unveils the PX-NAS2 2-bay NAS
Share Dangerously seeking products for the market Plextor released a two-drive NAS known as the PX-NAS2.
Seagate to preload HDDs with Paramount movies
Share I’m fairly sure this is actually forbidden by EU legislation tying products, but somehow Seagate announced a deal with Paramount Pictures to preload some of its portable hard drives with Paramount movies. The 500GB FreeAgent Go for instance will be sold in the US with 20 preloaded movies, which can be unlocked online for [...]
OCZ announces 2TB SSD with 1,4GBps Transfer Rate
Share Intended for the corporate market OCZ announces the Company’s plan to enter mass production of the Z-Drive R2 Solid State Drive (SSD) Series, the second rendition of the original Z-Drive family. The Z-Drive R2 builds on the existing solution but provides greater performance and design flexibility due to the implementation of a series of [...]
WD VelociRaptor 600GB 6Gb/s 10,000rpm HDD arrives
Share We reported about is last week already, yet now they are official. Western Digital have updated their high-performance VelociRaptor hard-drive range with another, even larger SATA 6 Gb/s model. The WD VelociRaptor 600GB 6Gb/s spins at 10,000rpm and has a whopping 32MB cache, and the company reckon it’s up to 15-percent faster than the [...]
WD to launch new-series VelociRaptors HDDs
Share In a leaked PDF file it became apparent that WD is working on a new series VelociRaptor HDDs. Looks like WD is increasing capacity towards 450 and 600 GB models. The new VelociRaptor will get an extension in their name called VR200M. The platters will be 200 GB each, rotating at 10.000 RPM. Power [...]