Hitachi Ships 1TB Hard Disk Drive
Hitachi Global Storage Technologies (Hitachi GST) has started to ship its 1TB hard disk drives (HDDs) introduced early this year commercially. But the hard drive that represents a milestone in desktop data storage costs a little less than two times higher compared to slightly less capacious one, which makes it not very affordable.
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6.4.2007 Hitachi aiming for 5TB hard drive by 2010
Solid-state disks may be eating into the territory of traditional hard drives, particularly in laptops, but that doesn't mean spinning platters are on their last legs – particularly not at Hitachi.
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3.7.2008 Western Digital launches world's first 2TB Hard Drive
Western Digital haven't officially launched their brand-new WD20EADS 2TB Western Digital Caviar Green HDD, however it is already available for purchase at Australia's Mwave online store.
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27.1.2009 Western Digital Launches High-Performance 7200RPM 2TB Drives
Western Digital has announced today that it will be shipping 7200 RPM 2TB drives: the WD RE4 (WD2003FYYS) which is targeted towards servers and enterprise systems, and the 2TB Western Digital Caviar Black (WD2001FASS) for desktop systems
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1.9.2009Hitachi GST announces first 7,200RPM 2TB hard drive
Its fun to think that ten years ago the biggest hard drive available was 73 gigabytes. However with the constant and near unstoppable push to solid
state drives, hard disk manufacturers must continue to press on. Fast forward to today and Hitachi Global Storage Technologies becomes just the first
vendor to announce a 2TB 7,200RPM desktop hard drive. Hitachi is not the first hard drive manufacturer to reach 2TB, Western Digital did that earlier
this year, but the first 2TB drives were limited to a read/write of 5,400RPM. Seagate hit 5,900 RPM earlier this year as well, but again these new
drives will have a distinct speed advantage.
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07.08.2009Western Digital launches world's first 2TB Hard Drive
Western Digital haven't official launched their brand-new WD20EADS 2TB Western Digital Caviar Green HDD, however it is already available for
purchase at Australia's Mwave online store. Priced at AU$377.80 (US$250) Western Digital will be the first ever hard drive maker to
provide users with a 2TB hard disk drive. Image Courtesy: Engadget So far, Seagate's Barracuda 7200.12 packs 500GB per platter, and has the
highest areal density of 329 Gigabits per square inch. Western Digital might have reached this areal density with the release of its 2TB hard drive.
Further product specifications are not known yet.
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27.01.2009Hitachi to Exit Home PC Business, Refocus on Servers
While Japanese consumers have associated the Hitachi name with personal computers since 1978, recently it was more for historical reasons than
practical ones. Today, Hitachi decided to close a chapter of its history, discontinuing production of its Prius PC line apparently effective
immediately...
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23.10.2007Hitachi Scrambles to Prove It Can Beat Fujitsu to 1 Terabit HDDs
In its regular prediction of future milestones at the opening of a major annual magnetic recording conference in Tokyo, Hitachi raised the bar yet
again: This time, the company is promising to reach the one terabit per square inch milestone commercially by 2011. First, that might be too late to
beat its competition; second, Hitachi may have to show more proof it can reach that goal even that soon...
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16.10.2007Review: HP StorageWorks X510 2TB Data Vault
The HP StorageWorks X510 2TB Data Vault is a simple device with a lot to offer. What is the HP StorageWorks X510 2TB Data Vault you say? It's a
home server that offers up to 5TB of storage, up to 10 PC clients (unlimited Mac) and endless streaming, storage, and access options. When I took the
conference call to get the background information on the product, they made one thing clear. They reiterated that this product was designed for
either the high end home user with a lot of PCs or the small business user and it was supposed to be as easy, if not easier to setup than a new PC.
In a simple phrase, they nailed it.
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17.11.2009Hitachi answers Seagate with its own half-terabyte self-encrypting HDD
In a week where all electronics manufacturers are considering how to tailor their value propositions for the demands of the new economy, Hitachi GST
is not one to be left behind...
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11.11.2008Seagate release their first 2TB SATA 3.0 hard disk
Seagate have introduced their first hard drive which supports the new SATA 3.0 specification. The Barracuda XT is the Seagate's first drive to use
the new interface, which has a theoretical bandwidth of 6GB/s - double that of the SATA 2.0 (3GB/s) specification. The drive offers 2TB of storage
space, using four platters, according to Seagate (via Techspot). The 7200RPM drive has a sustained data rate of 138MB/s – the fastest speed
achieved by a 7200RPM drive, Seagate claims. The 64MB cache provides "screaming burst rate speeds and improve
overall performance," according to
their website.
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neowin.net - 22.09.2009
Hitachi to form hard drive company with Toshiba, Fujitsu?
Japanese conglomerate, Hitachi, may be in talks with Toshiba and Fujitsu on forming a new company dedicated to hard drives and storage systems. The
new company would combine the limping hard drive divisions of Hitachi and Toshiba as well as some of the storage systems technology from Fujitsu. Each
would own a third. The three-way deal is being proposed as an alternative to a private equity buyout. Hitachi has been in discussions with equity firm
Silver Lake and others about spinning off its money-losing hard drive group, according to sources and news reports. Those talks, however, have not
gone smoothly, sources familiar with the discussions said.
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neowin.net - 14.01.2008
Western Digital's 2TB Caviar Green hard drive
Late last week Western Digital briefed us on their forthcoming release of a new addition to their Caviar Green family of hard drives.
No
we're not talking some sort of exotic sushi or cracker-bound fish egg here either but rather a new, rather humongous and environmentally more
friendly hard drive from WD, that can be considered an "industry first". Today marks the day that standard rotational media breaks the 2TB barrier.
Let's spell that out a bit more clearly again here; T-W-O full Terabytes of SATA-based storage on a single, standard 3.5" hard drive.
Those of you on the consumer side of the market, hording gigs of music, movies, pictures and other media just got a bunch more breathing room to play
with. And those of you in the enterprise space now have a new option to consider with respect to bulk, low-cost, power-efficient storage. Perhaps
that rack just got a little smaller or the need to cool it a little less? well anyway the 2TB Monster is available from a starting price of $299.
jcxp.net - 27.01.2009
Hitachi to Debut 1-Terabyte Drive at CES
Hitachi introduced the first
commercially available
one-terabyte hard drive on
Friday, delivering on a
promise made nearly two years
ago. The drive uses
perpendicular recording
technology in order to store
data...
betanews.com - 06.01.2007
Hitachi debuts 500GB laptop drives, but you can't buy them
If 320GB isn't enough storage for your mobile computing needs, Hitachi has a new option that offers a whopping 500GB of space, but with one caveat:
it's bigger than standard laptop hard drives...
betanews.com - 04.01.2008
Sharp, Hitachi investigated for fixing price of Nintendo DS screens
Sharp and Hitachi said Thursday that their LCD display businesses were probed to look for evidence of price fixing in portable game console displays...
betanews.com - 28.02.2008
Sony, SanDisk plan to make 2TB Memory Sticks
SDXC format is just not good enough. So, Sony and SanDisk have just announced that they plan to offer a new format for their jointly built memory
stick. The format is tentatively dubbed "Memory Stick format for Extended High Capacity".
This new format can reach 2TB and neither
company has released much more information than that.
In addition to the 2TB memory card format announcement; they are working on a new
Memory Stick HG Micro format, which promises to boast a blazing 60MB/s maximum data transfer speed.
There has been no indication of a
release date for either announcement. The companies are only saying that format licensing for both new formats is "scheduled to start in 2009".
jcxp.net - 09.01.2009
Hitachi Officially Shipping 1TB Drive
Hitachi this week announced it
has ramped up production on
its 1 terabyte hard drive,
shipping the unit to retailers
across the United States.
Pricing for the drive, which
spins at 7,200 RPM and
features a Serial ATA
interface is set at $399 USD...
betanews.com - 27.04.2007
Hitachi introduces third-gen Blu-ray camcorder
Hitachi today announced the third version of its Blu-ray camcorder that is able to record and store video directly on a disc so it can be later viewed
on any PC or TV with a Blu-ray drive -- but not a PS3...
betanews.com - 25.07.2008
1000GB Blu-ray Recorder Announced By Hitachi
Hitachi has revealed a
1 Terabyte Blu-ray recorder at
the Harvey Norman retail
conference being held at the
Melbourne Convention
Centre.
According to Hitachi
Australia the device will go
on sale in 2008 for around
AU$2,000 (US$1665).
A
leader in storage devices,
Hitachi has also released in
the USA for US$400 the
Deskstar 7K1000. It was first
announced at CES 2007 as the
world's first one-terabyte
hard drive and has now been
shipping for a month.
winbeta.org - 13.05.2007
Hitachi GST and Intel make a solid-state deal
This week's agreement between Hitachi and Intel to jointly develop enterprise-class solid-state drives shows the industry's further movement to
flash-type storage, but disk-based drives aren't dead tech yet...
betanews.com - 04.12.2008
Seagate plans SSD, 2TB hard drive for next year
Seagate will introduce its first SSD (solid-state drive) storage and 2TB hard drive next year, company CEO Bill Watkins said.
The company's first SSD product will be targeted at enterprises that need speedy storage and can afford to pay a premium for the expensive
drives. Seagate has no plans to release SSD drives for consumers as the high prices could deter them for the next few years, Watkins said in an
interview.
The release date and price information for the 2TB hard drive were not available. Seagate released 1TB hard drives,
the Barracuda 7200.11 and Barracuda ES.2, in the middle of 2007.
winbeta.org - 30.05.2008
Hitachi Recalls 16,000 Sony Batteries
Japanese electronics maker
Hitachi said Friday that it
would recall 16,000
Sony-produced laptop
batteries, becoming the
seventh company do so over the
past month. The batteries are
found in laptops sold to
businesses mainly in Japan...
betanews.com - 06.10.2006
Hitachi Deskstar 7K1000 (1 Terabyte) HDD review
The terabyte race for consumer
desktop hard drives has been
on for a long time, now the
first generation of drives is
here. On April 25th, Hitachi
announced that it would begin
shipping the Deskstar 7K1000,
their latest series of
consumer hard drives,
weighting in at 750GB and a
monstrous 1000GB (1TB). The
1TB version which we are
reviewing today is slated at
$399, a serious price tag
for this colossal amount of
storage.
The
Deskstar 7K1000 represents a
milestone for Hitachi and for
the hard drive industry as a
whole, as it is the first
drive to offer a 1 terabyte
capacity. However, Hitachi has
not simply grabbed five 200GB
platters and stuck them
together to create a 1TB hard
drive. Rather, there is much
more to the Deskstar 7K1000,
such as its Serial ATA II
interface and the massive 32MB
memory buffer. This is also
the first desktop Hitachi
drive to feature PMR
technology (Perpendicular
Magnetic Recording).
neowin.net - 21.06.2007
