HDD

Seagate To Pay $300m Penalty Over Huawei Exports

Ouch. Seagate to hand over $300 million in fines after it exported 7.4 hard disk drives to Huawei, despite US…

2 years ago

Second Hand Drives On eBay Still Hold Personal Data

Report reveals worryingly amounts of personal data still held on second hand drives for sale

6 years ago

Toshiba Looks To Power Users With 8TB HDD

How big? Life still left in magnetic platters as Toshiba launches a 8TB HDD for power users

8 years ago

Seagate Fires Back At HGST With 10TB Helium Hard Drive For Data Centres

Seagate catches up with the helium competition with announcement of data centre helium hard drive that incorporates seven platters and…

9 years ago

VMware Adds Spinning-Disk Storage Option To Cloud Service

vCloud Hybrid Service users can now opt for a less costly storage tier for data that doesn't require high performance,…

11 years ago

Western Digital Inflates 3.5in HDD Storage To 6TB Using Helium

Helium cuts turbulence, boosts drive capacity to 6TB, and opens the way to liquid cooling

11 years ago

Seagate Ultra Mobile HDD Targets Mobile Devices

Seagate's Ultra Mobile hard disks target tablets with reduced power consumption and high performance

11 years ago

Seagate Gets Serious About SSDs

The HDD giant announces its new flash storage strategy, launches four new drives

11 years ago

Infosec: One In 10 Second-Hand Hard Drives Keep Personal Data

ICO research confirms the fact that valuable data is still on many hard drives even after they are supposedly wiped

13 years ago

Western Digital Super Slim HDD Targets Ultrabooks

Western Digital is seeking to provide an alternative to SSDs with its new shock resistent Scorpio Blue 7mm hard drive

13 years ago

Natural Disasters Contribute To HDD Decline In 2011

IDC figures confirm that natural disasters in both Thailand and Japan impacted the HDD industry in 2011

13 years ago

Seagate Squeezes 1TB Into A Square Inch

Seagate says it'll make 6TB 3.5-inch drives in the near future after making a major breakthrough

13 years ago

Storage Breakthrough Claimed With Hot Disk Technology

Scientists are detailing a potential storage breakthrough that uses heat to magnetically record and store data

13 years ago

Intel Lowers Forecast After Thailand Floods

The knock-on effects of Thailand's damaging floods continues with Intel lowering its Q4 forecast

13 years ago

Q1 PC Shortfall Expected Due To Thai Floods

There will be a shortfall of 3.8 million PCs shipping in the first-quarter because of the HDD shortage

13 years ago

EC Clears Western Digital’s Hitachi Acquisition

After selling off some assets, WD's merger goes ahead, reducing the number of HDD suppliers to to three

13 years ago

Companies Urged To Opt For Flash-based Storage

Businesses are being advised to replace their tiered storage with a full SSD-based approach

13 years ago

Thai Floods, Economy To Hurt Chip Shipments

Analysts are scaling back their Q4 chip forecasts due to the Thailand floods and gloomy economic outlook

13 years ago

Thai Flooding To Hurt HDD And PC Shipments

The flooding in Thailand has resulted in significant damage to the world's HDD supply chain, IDC warns

13 years ago

Thailand Floods Threaten HDD Supply Chain

A key component of PCs could potentially be in short supply after severe flooding in Thailand

13 years ago

Strong Tablet Sales Begin Impacting HDD Market

Signs are emerging that tablet sales are starting to have an effect on the hard disc drive (HDD) sector

13 years ago

Why Seagate Had To Buy Samsung’s Hard Disks

Hard disks are waning but Seagate can't afford to give in to market-leading WD, says Chris Preimesberger

14 years ago

Seagate Buys Samsung’s Hard Disk Unit In £0.8bn Deal

Seagate snaps up Samsung's hard disks, and the pair gear up for the solid-state drives that will replace them

14 years ago

Samsung May Sell Struggling Hard Disk Division

Samsung is considering offloading its hard disk business as tablets drive huge growth in solid-state technology

14 years ago

Pencil-Thin Portable HDD Shipped By Seagate

The portable 2.5-inch HDD in a slim casing that is a mere 9mm thick but packs in 320GB of storage…

14 years ago

Western Digital’s Hitachi Storage Buy Is A Gamble

Western Digital will soon own half of the world's HDD market. But why take a risk on a waning technology,…

14 years ago

Other World Computing Launches 12TB Desktop Drive

Other World has shipped the largest-ever RAID storage drive for the desktop

14 years ago

SSD Data Purging Presents Security Difficulties

Californian researchers have found that fully erasing SSDs is more difficult than previously thought

14 years ago