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HGST to demonstrate industry's first 12Gbps SAS SSD

The demonstration is scheduled to take place on May 9 at the SCSI Trade Association Technology Showcase held in Santa Clara, Calif.

Seagate, Western Digital slash hard drive warranties

In a bid to save money and redirect money towards product development, hard disk makers Seagate and Western Digital have separately announced plans to reduce the warranties on their hard disk drives

Samsung considering sale of HDD division for $1.5 billion

Samsung is reportedly considering the sale of its money-losing hard disk drive division for up to $1.5 billion. According to an April 18 report from the Wall Street Journal, the company hopes to use

Hitachi GST unveils enterprise SSD family

Hard disk drive manufacturer Hitachi Global Storage Technologies (GST) earlier this week unveiled a range of SAS and Fibre Channel SSDs targeted squarely at the enterprise. Available in 100GB, 200GB

Western Digital surpasses Seagate in HDD shipments

According to market watcher iSuppli, Western Digital (WD) shipped a record 51.1 million units of HDDs (hard disk drives) in the first quarter of 2010, or 3.2 percent more than it did in Q4 of 2009.

SSD could ultimately replace hard disk drives

In an interview with Network World, Hitachi Data Systems' CTO, Hu Yoshida noted that solid state disks (SSD) may ultimately replace the traditional Winchester (aka mechanical) disk drive. Of course,

Rotational HDD heads off into the sunset

The impending demise of the traditional rotational hard disk drive (HDD) probably won't be on your mind when you read about the announcement this week by Hitachi about its new 2TB desktop hard disk

Hard disk drive shortages to continue

There is a channel shortage of larger capacity hard disk drives (HDD) for laptops and it looks like it will continue through the third quarter, at least. Ironically, the genesis for the tight supply

Density of hard disk drives expected rise unabated

We won't be running out of hard disk space soon, if the state of hard disk engineering as outlined by Hitachi Global Storage product planning chief Tetsuya Kokubo is any indication. Speaking at

General Electric creates new 500GB holographic disc

By utilizing a holographic recording technique that it calls "micro-holographic storage," General Electric researchers have managed to cram some 500GB of data onto an optical disc the size of a DVD.