Today WD introduces the industry’s first two-terabyte hard drive. WD® LAUNCHES INDUSTRY’S FIRST 2 TB HARD DRIVES WD’s Eco-friendly, Cool and Quiet, WD Caviar® Green™ Drive Marks the Largest Capacity Hard Drive in the Industry LAKE FOREST, Calif. – Jan. 27, 2009 – WD (NYSE: WDC) today announced the first 2 terabyte (TB) hard drive

Today Seagate introduces its newest Cheetah drives, the 600 GB 15K.7 and NS.2. Seagate Announces New Cheetah® Hard Drives Cheetah® 15K.7 and Cheetah® NS.2 HDDs take on 3.5-inch Tier 1 enterprise storage environments with high speed, top capacity, and highest reliability with lowest power consumption SCOTTS VALLEY, Calif. – January 13, 2009 – Seagate (NASDAQ:STX)

Seagate has doubled the capacity of its physically-tiny IOps monster to 146 GB. SEAGATE® INTRODUCES WORLD’S FASTEST, GREENEST ENTERPRISE HARD DRIVE New Savvio® HDD uses 70% less power than competing 3.5-inch hard drives, and is a key component in Seagate’s new Unified Storage™ architecture SCOTTS VALLEY, Calif. — November 3, 2008 — Seagate (NASDAQ:STX) today

Performance numbers for Hitachi’s revised terabyte drive (featuring three platters versus the older 7K1000’s five) have been entered into the Performance Database. Deskstar E7K1000 vs Deskstar 7K1000 The manufacturer’s newest drive delivers across-the-board performance improvements. Hitachi Deskstar E7K1000 vs. Western Digital Caviar Black WD1001FALS vs. Samsung SpinPoint F1 While it doesn’t hit the 1100+ IOps/sec

Results for a final production model VelociRaptor, WD’s performance-oriented terabyte Caviar Black, WD’s mobile 7200 RPM Scorpio Black, and Hitachi’s 500 GB notebook monster have been added to the performance database. Some relevant comparisons: VelociRaptor – Beta vs. Final version WD’s 10,000 RPM drive loses a bit of ground in the Office DriveMark 2006 but

Today Seagate leads the charge to the next capacity level with the 1.5 terabyte Barracuda 7200.11. Utilizing 4 375-gigabyte platters, the 7200.11 represents the first leap in capacity since the Hitachi Deskstar 7K1000’s debut over a year ago. Also announced in the firm’s press release are a pair of 500-gig notebook drives, the 5400 RPM

Western Digital this week announced its latest drive, another terabyte drive. Unlike the firm’s 1 TB Caviar GP, however, the new Caviar Black features just 3 platters a la the Samsung SpinPoint F1 and a 7200 RPM spindle speed. WD has also finally upped its largest buffers to 32 megabytes. With this announcement, the manufacturer

Western Digital has finally joined other notebook drive manufactures with a unit featuring a 7200 RPM spindle speed. Available in capacities of up to 320 GB, this family includes a 16 MB buffer and specs seeks at 12 milliseconds… WD® INTRODUCES NEW FAMILY OF 7200 RPM 2.5-INCH HARD DRIVES FOR FAST NOTEBOOK SYSTEMS AND PORTABLE

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