Tag Archive for 'hard-drives'
A-Data is making their contributions to the ever-increasing line-up of SSD drives with drive available in 1.8 or 2.5-inch sizes and capacities up to 64GB. Their main design force is to make their drives for desktops, but they could also be used in PMPs, UMPCs, and Laptops.
Toshiba expands 5 new slim 1.8-inch hard drives for mobile pc and consumer electronics with capacities of 60GB, 80GB and 120GB. These are not the typical compact size 1.8 HDD, they are all ultra compact with only 8mm inches thin. The mobile pc application line-up including the 120GB MK1214GAH with two platters, the 60GB MK6028GAL [...]
Alright, so I don’t think it can get much better than this without going SSD. Because, this is not an SSD drive, this is a traditional HDD, a 60GB 1.8-inch Toshiba HDD to be precise.
You read right, come CES 2008, Samsung is unveiling a 1.3-inch HDD, a 1TB 3.5” RAID Edition HDD and a new 320 GB 2.5” HDD. More curious than I am to see a 1.3” HDD, I wonder what the capacity will be.
For those of you wondering what a 1.3-inch HDD might look like, crack open [...]
Not to be outdone by Western Digital and Toshiba, Fujitsu announced its latest 2.5” SATA harddrives that sport up to 320GB of storage. The MHZ2 BH series spins at 5400RPM and uses SATA2 interface. It is available in capacity of 40GB, 80GB, 120GB, 160GB, 200GB, 250GB and 320GB. According to Fujitsu’s press release, the [...]
That’s right, what you see in the picture is in fact a touchscreen asking for your secret PIN of 7 digits. Sure, you could use encryption, or a fingerprint scanner, or any number of other biometric options, but for this one you actually have to be conscious.
And its an enclosure, which means you get to [...]
So, Samsung has this series of hardrives called the Spinpoint F1 series, with the HD103UJ topping it at 1TB. All three drives in the series have a data density of 350GB, operate at 7200RPMs, and utilize the SATA/300 interface.
its the one on the left.
Only the 750GB and 1TB drives have the full 32MB cache though. [...]
So you buy this device, there is a $200 model that does SATA and PATA/IDE and will do multiple passes, you know, just to make sure. Then there is a $100 model that does single pass and only PATA/IDE, anyways, you buy one of these, hook it up to your hard drive of choice, flip [...]
Western Digital starting to ship its new Scorpio 320GB 2.5-inch Serial ATA hard drive (WD3200BEVT). I use the 250GB version on my own laptop and have been quite happy with its performance despite the 5400RPM rotation speed.
Taking your nice, normal hard-drive, clamping on like the face hugger out of Alien, and leaving the whole thing looking like the sole of some hellish “sports shoe”, Ultra Products’ heatpipe-flaunting drive cooler will have to be pretty successful if it wants to live up to its appearance. Thing is, while the manufacturers are [...]
