Seagate gets into storage on the side
Subject: Storage | January 16, 2006 - 04:15 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
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Seagate has implemeted some new technology into their new series of laptop harddrives. By using Perpendicular storage, as opposed to the Longitudinal storage that all current harddrives use, they vastly increase storage denisty, as well as improving shock tolerance. Read the full review at Big Bruin and clear up the confusion you likely feel right now.
"The future of perpendicular recording hard drives looks to be very interesting, and Seagate is
ready to show off their first entry
Intel Brings Together Storage Community
Subject: Storage | January 12, 2006 - 03:50 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
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SANTA CLARA, Calif., Jan.
Serving up a quiet hard drive on a single platter
Subject: Storage | January 12, 2006 - 03:46 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
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Silent PC Review attacks one of the hardest to quiet components in the PC, the hard drive. To meet the challenge, the review 2 single platter drives, one from Hitachi and one from Seagate. Read on to see just how successful they were.
"It's no secret that the quietest desktop hard drives tend to be low capacity models that use only
a single platter. There's a simple reason for this: Fewer platters have fewer read/write heads,
and thus produce less air turbulence.
This hard drive bares all
Subject: Storage | January 9, 2006 - 06:00 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
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Legit Reviews got a hold of Western Digital's Raptor X HDD, 150 gigs of storage on a 10,000 RPM SATA drive, with a very special feature. The casing is see-through, and will fit great into a case with a lot of windows! Not only can you see the inner workings of your hard drive, it provides great ESD protection too!
"While at CES 2006 we got a chance to see the the revolutionary WD Raptor X SATA hard drive, the
first ever drive with a view.
Clear WD Raptor HDD Announced
Subject: Storage | January 5, 2006 - 09:01 PM | Ryan Shrout
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Western Digital announced another new addition to the Raptor family -- this one with a clear cover on it for case modders!
http://www.wdraptorx.com/
Western Digital Announces 150 GB Raptors
Subject: Storage | January 3, 2006 - 08:45 PM | Ryan Shrout
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Yes!!! More information available at their website. These new drives will support NCQ, have a 16 MB buffer, spin at the same 10k RPM and come at a cost of $309 MSRP.
WD DOUBLES WD RAPTOR® CAPACITY TO 150 GB
World's Highest Performance SATA Hard Drive Also has Double the Cache, Additional Features for Enterprise Applications
LAKE FOREST, Calif. Jan. 3, 2006 Western Digital Corp.
New 150 GB Raptor Drive Coming?
Subject: Storage | December 28, 2005 - 05:53 PM | Ryan Shrout
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According this write up at The Inquirer, it looks like Western Digital might be making my dreams come true by releasing a new Raptor driver with a 150 GB capacity, SATA-II support and NCQ as well!
The new model, the WD1500 addresses the biggest problem everyone had with drives: capacity. In today's world, where author of this article can download eight gigs in a single night, a 36GB capacity seems laughable. Especially when you can get 250GB for the very same price as a 36GB model.
Seagate Buys Maxtor
Subject: Storage | December 21, 2005 - 03:00 PM | Jonathan Hung
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Looks like Seagate is buying Maxtor for $1.9 billion. This will increase Seagate's position as the world's largest hard drive manufacturer, followed by Western Digital.
Introduction
XFX's Revo64 is a unique RAID controller offering speed and security. Does the PCI interface matter? How can it compare to the Silicon Image SiL 3132 and NVIDIA controllers? The results are very interesting indeed! (This also a good review of integrated controllers).
Seagate is thinking small
Subject: Storage | December 15, 2005 - 03:29 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
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CNet has an article that gives you some insight into the minds of Seagate's engineers. Significant amounts of money have been invested in nanotechnology, and it may well be affecting their next generation of hard drives.
"The Londonderry plant will now become a nanotechnology center of excellence in the development of
thin film technology, specializing in next generation and leading-edge photolithography.
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