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Western Digital has sold more hard drives this year than Seagate

Five hundred and fifty eight million hard drives were shipped in 2009. Think about that for a moment. Five hundred and fifty eight million. Of those, 175.2 million (or 31.4%) carried the Seagate brand...

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Hitachi unveils super-fast, super-slim HDD for laptops

Hitachi Global Storage Technologies announced the Travelstar Z5K320 today, a new line of 2.5-inch mobile hard drives that are just 7mm thick. The HDDs will be available in capacities of 160GB, 250GB...

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We live in a world where a 1.5TB Seagate Baracuda hard drive costs only $95

Starting off your Tuesday with a quick deal. Amazon has a 1.5TB Seagate Baracuda (7200RPM, SATA II, 32MB cache) for $95—a full $100 off the regular price. Could make a fine storage drive, you know,...

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Toshiba Lays Out Three New 2.5” Hard Drives

Toshiba Storage Device Division has released a new line of 2.5” mobile drives. These 7200 RPM SATA drives are designed for the more demanding user and are optimized for “demanding performance, power...

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Iomega Won't Charge Premium For Upcoming USB 3.0 Portable Hard Drives

Please be advised: from here on out all of Iomega’s portable hard drives will be fully USB 3.0 compliant. Of course, this is useless to you unless your motherboard works with USB 3.0, or you add a USB...

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True To Form, LaCie Releases Two New USB 3.0 Drives

Clearly the world can never have enough storage… or enough monkeys. LaCie has released two USB 3.0 drives, the Rikki and the Minimus, for small business and personal use. The Rikki, which we’ve...

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Seagate's Momentus Laptop Hard Drive Gains Key Government Security Certification

Seagate has a laptop hard drive, yeah? It’s called the Momentus, yeah? It has self-encryption, yeah? It just secured the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology’s FIPS 140-2 certification,...

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10,000 Hard Drives Stolen, Craigslist Hard Drive Market Crashes

Thieves in Malaysia managed to drive off in a truck containing 10,800 Western Digital hard drives. Don’t expect to see the drives hit the market though, Malaysian police were able to identify the...

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Seagate Angry At Jobs' Heartless Cracks Against Hard Drives

This is not your grampy’s hard drive. SSD isn’t so great, guys, OK? When Steve was all like “SSD is the future! Blah de blah blah!” he definitely wasn’t thinking of those poor hard drive manufacturers...

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CrunchDeals: 1 TB External Drive for $64

What will it be? A bottle of nice whiskey or a 1TB external hard drive? What will it be? This Iomega drive costs $74 before $10 rebate, but it’s pretty amazing that we’ve gotten this far when it comes...

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New Toshiba HDD Withstands Extreme Temperatures, Can Be Used 24/7

Toshiba announced [PDF] the MK1060GSCX today, a 2.5-inch SATA type HDD with 100GB capacity that’s designed for use in “rugged operating environments”. The company says the hard drive can be used 24...

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Toshiba D-BW500: Blu-ray/DVD/VHS recorder And 320GB HDD Rolled Into One

Some companies simply don’t forget about VHS: Toshiba Japan announced [JP] the D-BW500 today, which essentially is a Blu-ray /DVD and VHS recorder plus a 320GB hard disc rolled into one. The Swiss...

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8-Bit Memory Take An NES Cartridge And Ups Storage A Few Billion Bytes

If you consider yourself a gamer, then you likely have a few NES cartridges lying around the house. If not, leave now. Rather than letting them continue to collect dust, 8-Bit Memory turned a bunch...

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1TB Platters Mean Huge Hard Drives Are Coming

One terabyte? Pshaw. That’s so last week. Samsung just perfected a method for putting over 1TB on a single platter, allowing for 4TB hard drives at considerably lower cost. These drives could actually...

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Gigabyte Unveils Utility To Allow Higher Storage Capacities On 32-Bit Systems

Sometimes things get complicated and your old 32-bit machine can no longer handle the new array of 3 TB hard drives. You see, 32-bit systems cannot easily run more than 2.19 TB of hard drive capacity....

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Toshiba HDD Destroys Content Automatically When Connected To Unknown PC

Toshiba announced [PDF] it has developed a series of self-decrypting hard drives that automatically destroy their content when connected to an unknown piece of hardware. The company says it’s the...

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Hitachi Announces First USB 3.0 External Drives, Bundled With Personal Cloud...

Hitachi Global Storage Technologies (which was just acquired by Western Digital) has announced the company’s first USB 3.0 external hard drives, the so-called Touro Mobile Pro Portable Drive and the...

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Seagate Streamlines Hard Drive Offerings With 1TB Per Disk Technology

Just a couple months after selling its 1 millionth hybrid hard drive, Seagate has some fresh news to announce, including the death of its Barracuda green drive and the announcement of its new enhanced...

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Review: Iomega 2TB Mac Companion Hard Drive

Iomega's Mac Companion hard drive is a 2TB ($349, 3TB model is $449) desktop drive with a few features that make it interesting to the average Mac (or PC) owner. While it doesn't have the bells,...

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iDrive Debuts 1 TB And 2 TB Wireless Drives Offering Encrypted Local Backups...

Cloud storage and backup company iDrive today launched its first hardware product sold directly to consumers and businesses, with the debut of the new iDrive Wi-Fi. The encrypted external drive offers...

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