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March of the notebook hard drives

March of the notebook hard drivesFive more choices, 160 to 250GBOther 2.5-inch, 9.5mm-thin SATA drives that offer capacity, speed, or both:Hitachi TravelStar 5K160: 160GB, 5400rpm, available since August 2006, now only about $120. I use one in my daughter's MacBook.Seagate Momentus ST9160821AS: 160GB, 5400rpm, available since September 2006 Fujitsu MHW2...

Tags: Notebooks, Hitachi Travelstar, notebook hard drive, notebook, hard drive

Discussion threads 2007-05-23

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News to know: Gmail outage; VMWorld; Skype; Browsers; Steve Jobs; Google Wave

Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET's around-the-Web tech coverage. Andrew Nusca: Partly cloudy: Google's Gmail goes down; outage chronicled on Twitter Christopher Dawson: Oh sure...4 days in...

Tags: Steve Jobs, Sony Corp., Google Inc., Google Gmail, Larry Dignan, Andrew Nusca, Skype Technologies S.A., Microsoft Corp., Web Browser, Outage, Sam Diaz, E-mail Providers, Microsoft Windows, Cloud Computing, Web Browsers, Operating Systems, Internet, Software

Blog posts 2009-09-02

Hitachi announces 500GB 2.5" Travelstar hard drive

Just what's neededfor those home media centres, nas devices and home servers. Until ssd's are comparable in price , capacity and don't require special periodical cleaning to maintain read/write speeds.

Tags: Network-attached storage (NAS), Storage, Hitachi Ltd., hard drive

Discussion threads 2009-09-01

Hitachi announces 500GB 2.5" Travelstar hard drive

Hitachi on Tuesday announced that is it shipping its fifth-generation, 7200 RPM mobile hard drive, the Travelstar 7K500. The 500GB, 2.5-inch, 3Gb/s SATA drive is intended for notebooks, gaming systems and external storage and is the fastest hard drive in its class,...

Tags: Hard Drive, Hitachi Ltd., Travelstar 7K500, 7K500, Storage, Hardware, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2009-09-01

Notebook SSDs REDUCE battery life at 50x the cost

Tom's Hardware is reporting test results that show that costly notebook flash drives actually use MORE power than hard drives - shrinking battery life by up to an hour. How could this be? The test Testing 4 SSDs against a 7200 RPM 2.5" drive on a...

Tags: Disk, Battery, USB Flash Drive, Tom, Notebooks, Engineering, Flash Memory, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Robin Harris

Blog posts 2008-07-02

Review: OWC Mercury On-The-Go 500GB portable HDD

Other World Computing makes my favorite 2.5-inch hard drive enclosures, bar none. Their Mercury On-The-Go cases are killer because they're made of clear Lucite so that you can instantly tell which drive is inside just by looking at them. I know, I know, stickies work too, but stickies come off...

Tags: jason D. O'Grady, Apple MacBook, Apple MacBook Pro, Hard Drive, Notebooks, Hardware, Hitachi 5K500 Mechanism, Notebooks & Tablets

Blog posts 2008-06-05

OWC Mercury On-The-Go (500GB)

Laptop hard-drive capacity hit the 500GB mark just a few months ago. The OWC Mercury On-The-Go is an external version of this new breed of 2.5-inch hard drives. Aside from having the largest storage capacity among compact external drives, the Mercury offers a handful of other features. The drive supports...

Tags: Apple Mac OS X, Backups, FireWire, OWC, OWC Mercury On-The-Go, FireWire 800, USB

Product reviews 2008-05-13

Who makes the best hard drives?

Who makes the best hard drives?I cannot think of a time where a blogger ....... at zdnet has spread more bunk about an industry then you have with your vendetta against disk drive manufacturers. For the most part there are very few issues with disk drive reliability. Even...

Tags: Storage, hard drive, Seagate Technology LLC, Maxtor Corp., Western Digital Corp.

Discussion threads 2007-07-11

Panasonic ToughBook W4

Since CNET gave an Editors' Choice award to the ultraportable Panasonic ToughBook W2 in 2003, Panasonic has renamed the system the W4 and made a few modest enhancements to the laptop. The few case modifications involve adding a handy Wi-Fi on/off switch and a connector for Panasonic's optional port...

Tags: Performance management, Notebooks, Processors, Panasonic, performance, Gateway NX100X

Product reviews 2006-06-13

Thermal Fly-Height Control (TFC) Technology in Hitachi Hard Disk Drives

The ever increasing demand for higher capacity storage devices continues to challenge Hard Disk Drive HDD companies to find innovative solutions for fundamental magnetic recording technology issues. One such issue is how to effectively OverWrite (O/W) pre-existing data, which is critical for good Soft Error Rate SER performance, over a...

Tags: Hard Drive, Disk Drive, Hitachi Ltd., Storage, Hardware

White papers 2006-05-01

Function Follows Form at iRiver With Hitachi Travelstar 1.8-Inch Hard Drive

In a world crowded with portable digital media devices, iRiver America Inc. is the "Keeper of Cool". iRiver wanted to be the first to come up with a consistent look and feel across the entire product family. iRiver's designers knew they were onto something, though, when they were shown the...

Tags: Hard Drive, Hitachi Ltd., iRiver, Storage, Hardware

Case studies

Audavi Uses Hitachi Travelstar 2.5" Drives to Invent "No Compromise" Removable Storage Solution

For more than 20 years, the world of removable storage has been dominated by floppy disks, tape, CDs and DVDs and a handful of exotic devices. Now a Milpitas, Calif. company is taking a fresh look at an old friend: hard disk drives. Using Travelstar hard disk drives from Hitachi...

Tags: Hard Drive, Removable Storage, Hitachi Ltd., Storage, Flash Memory, Hardware

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Voodoo Pumps Up PC Gaming Performance With Hitachi Travelstar Hard Drives

Voodoo Technology Inc. is located at Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Voodoo's products, nearly all of which use Hitachi hard disk drives, sit at the top of a total video gaming market the at had 2002 revenues of more than $28 billion. Over the next decade, analysts forecast it will surpass the...

Tags: Voodoo, Hard Drive, PC, Hitachi Ltd., Computer Game, Storage, Hardware

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