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hdd

Toshiba Beefs Up 5400rpm 1.8-Inch Drives to 160GB

Just a few months ago we reported that Toshiba had turned up the spin-speed on its 1.8-inch hard drives to 5400 rpm. And now Toshiba's squeezed yet more storage onto those tiny spinning platters, beefing the storage capactity up to 160GB. Apparently it's the industry's first such drive with a serial ATA interface and it's exactly the sort of thing that could become your ultra-portable PC's new best friend when it goes into mass production in August, alongside a smaller 80GB version. Full press release below. More »

4:48 AM on Wed Jun 11 2008
By Kit Eaton
2,102 views, 14 comments

Latest by G2GdoB2B: Recently I was reading an article about the use of HDD, Flash or both [www.internetevolution.com] It seems like the use of both is a great way to use the benefits of both types of storage while technology to increase capacity more »

hard drives

Western Digital Researching 20,000RPM Hard Disk to Fight Solid State Drives

According to blog Bit-Tech.net, sources in the hard drive industry say that Western Digital (maker of the old world's fastest hard drive) "is working on a 20,000RPM Raptor hard drive to combat" Solid State Drives, since these are going to "be affordable in the next 12 or 18 months." The new Raptor will be a 2.5-inch drive inside a 3.5-inch custom box designed to make it "silent," since a 20,000RPM HD could probably make your ears bleed after a few minutes at fulll speed. But can a mechanical drive compete against solid state? More »

7:59 AM on Fri Jun 6 2008
By Jesus Diaz
7,239 views, 41 comments

Latest by n/a: This just tells us that WD will go kicking and screaming into oblivion. They will either adapt or get smaller and smaller as a company. What happens when SSDs are 20x faster and smaller and just as cheap more »

storage

WD Joins 7200rpm Club with 320GB 2.5-Inch Scorpio Black Drives

Today Western Digital announced its Scorpio Black 2.5" drive line, which reach 7200rpm, though at 5400rpm power demands. Like certain Fujitsu and Hitachi drives announced earlier this year, the speedy drives will ship in capacities from 80GB up to 320GB. The top model, with built-in free-fall sensor for drive protection, costs $250. [WD]

8:21 AM on Mon Jun 2 2008
By Wilson Rothman
3,872 views, 8 comments

laptops

Dell First to Offer 7200rpm 320GB Notebook Hard Drives

While a flood of 7200rpm 320GB notebook-sized hard drives dropped not too long ago from pretty much all the majors, Dell is actually the first notebook maker to ante up and offer them (from Seagate) in their 17-inch XPS notebooks. The ballyhoo is 'cause most notebook drives spin at a pokey 5400rpm, and if you wanted the extra performance of a 7200rpm drive, you had to skimp on capacity. Now for $50 more (vs. a 5400rpm 320GB drive), you don't. Expect them in Alienware stuff soonish. [Dell via Crave]

3:40 PM on Mon May 19 2008
By matt buchanan
2,040 views, 11 comments

Latest by n/a: Will this work in a MacBook Pro? more »

recycling

CDs Get Into the Groove, Do Music the 45RPM Way

This is a story of a not so environmentally friendly, but rather groovy repurposing idea: reusing CDs as records (remember them?) At the UK's Futuresonic festival last week, a guy named Aleks Kolkowski had his vintage record-cutting machine ready to carve sound tracks into old CDs and DVDs. People simply had to turn up with an old disc and a sound file and he'd "overwrite" the CD with a track ready to be played on a turntable. Neat! I'd have been there asking Aleks for a copy of my first ever record (that'll be the theme to Watership Down— I know, I know) on a crappy old AOL CD I found recently. [Futuresonic via DIYDaily via ] More »

4:22 AM on Fri May 9 2008
By Kit Eaton
4,486 views, 24 comments

Latest by infmom: @ideaman2020: Yes! They had one on one of the upper floors of the Empire State Building in the mid-50s and I remember making a record for my mom in there. It'd probably be a laugh riot if it had survived into more »

hitachi

Hitachi's 2.5-Inch HDD Does 7200rpm Speeds With 5400rpm Power

Fujitsu might have been the first to introduce a 2.5" 7200rpm hard drive with 320GB capacity, but Hitachi is hot on their trail. Today, Hitachi announced that they too have a quick lil'-drive, the Travelstar 7K320. The HDD will support the same SATA 3Gbps interface as the Fujitsu, but will supposedly use less power. With only a 1.8 watt read/write power draw and a 0.8 watt low power idle, Hitachi claims the 7200rpm 7K320 power consumption is on par with their 5400rpm models. So if you were set on getting a faster 2.5" 320GB HD for your notebook, Hitachi's version should be available in a few weeks with a $219 price tag. Press release after the jump.

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3:01 AM on Wed May 7 2008
By Christopher Mascari
5,738 views, 8 comments

Latest by Ja<b>X</b>s: Nuts, it still draws too much for a USB enclosure. more »

storage

Fujitsu's 7200rpm 2.5-Inch Drives First to Hit 320GB

Today, Fujitsu introduced its MHZ2 BJ drives (heh, heh...BJ), the first 2.5" 7200rpm hard drives to reach the 320GB capacity. They'll be available at the end of June, for an as-yet unannounced price, and will support the SATA 3Gbps interface. So now when go trick out your laptop, you're gonna have a full-on headache trying to decide between maximum HDD spin speed, maximum capacity—at this point 500GB at 5400rpm— and of course the higher-priced SSD alternatives. [Press Release]

11:08 AM on Mon Mar 24 2008
By Wilson Rothman
2,344 views, 14 comments

Latest by n/a: I love to have one of these but the current laptop market 80% of the laptop only use 5400rpm drives with larger GB than the 7200rpm drives. I wonder if it is even profitable with such a small market share, more »

storage

Toshiba Speeds 1.8-Inch Drives Up to 5400rpm

The bitch about using 1.8" drives in computers is that they run at a sluggy 4200rpm, as opposed to the 5400rpm commonly clocked in 2.5" laptop drives. Toshiba today announced a 1.8" drive that runs at 5400rpm in capacities of 80GB (MK8016GSG) and 120GB (MK1216GSG). More »

12:12 PM on Tue Feb 26 2008
By Wilson Rothman
3,086 views, 23 comments

vroom

Blender With Built-In Tachometer: How Fast Does It Blend?

We present the latest evolution in "Will It Blend?" technology: A 900-watt, 20,000-RPM blender with a built-in tachometer. Although I've been quite happy with my run-of-the-mill Cuisinart, I have slight gadget lust for the brushed steel-y, $134 L'Equip RPM blender and a pulsing desire to see how many RPMs it takes to liquefy my new GH controller. It's 2008's version of "How Many Licks?" [Tabletools.com via BBG]

5:20 PM on Wed Jan 2 2008
By matt buchanan
1,690 views, 15 comments

peripherals

Fujitsu's 2.5" HDD Breaks Storage and Speed Records

The world of hard drives isn't that exciting, but Fujitsu broke some records today with its new MHW2 BJ HDD, the first 2.5-inch laptop drive to hit 7,200 rpm and offer 160GB of storage, so not only is it fast, but it's also upping the storage capacity on laptops. Fujitsu claims the drive is super quiet when idle and only sucks up 2.3 watts of power at its max, which is about average for most notebook HDDs. You can expect to see it inside custom-built lappies starting this May. – Louis Ramirez More »

10:39 AM on Tue Mar 6 2007
By Louis Ramirez
3,767 views, 8 comments

Latest by djdare: @klamerus: I also assumed the same, although I just like the product name they gave it, what with the BJ in there... who wouldn't want to buy a BJ.... more »

portable media

Record Breaking: iPod Cases Made of Old 45s

Now you can encase your iPod in a shell made of an old 45rpm records. Pick out your choice of 45 different sides from a variety of types of mostly very old music. Each one of the $38 cases is unique. Save that copy of "Revolution" by The Beatles for me. Definitely retro-cool. – Charlie White More »

12:47 PM on Tue Feb 6 2007
By Charlie White
1,006 views, 12 comments

peripherals

Toshiba 200GB Notebook Drive

Hard disk drives are holding more and more data, and now notebook hard drives aren't going to miss out on all the fun. Toshiba announced its MK2035GSS drive, a 2.5-inch SATA II hard disk for notebooks that crams 200GB into its tightly-packed perpendicularity. More »

10:24 AM on Mon Jun 5 2006
By Charlie White
1,427 views, 7 comments