SSDs are wonderful things that take up next to no space and are incredibly fast to boot. But while most people understand the basics data security on HDDs, the same isn’t necessarily true of solid state storage.
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Seagate’s 5mm hard drives already have a home in slender laptops; today, they’re coming to to Android tablets through the company’s new Ultra Mobile HDD. The 500GB disk augments the existing 5mm design with a speedy 8GB flash cache, a tougher enclosure and firmware that improves both the energy consumption and shock tolerance. In theory, the Ultra Mobile HDD gives Android slates the capacity of a laptop drive without giving up the speed or resilience of flash storage. It will be a while before anyone can verify those claims, as Seagate hasn’t mentioned any customers or ship dates. The company does have something to tide us over, though — it’s previewing a Rescue and Replace service that will offer both data recovery and drive replacements later this year, starting at $30 for two years. Check out details of both the Ultra Mobile HDD and the recovery service in the press releases after the break.
Source: Seagate
It’s been a while that we haven’t featured a HDD Stage Rack on AkihabaraNews and behold the RocketStor5212! Desinged by the US Based company Highpoint and imported in Japan by Dirac at a whooping 27,000 Yen, the RocketStor5212 is a dual SATA HDD dock that comes with a unique Thunderbolt port with a 10Gb/s maximum speed and capable to support HDDs up to 4TB!
Logitec is releasing high-performance, shockproof USB3.0 portable HDD “LHD-PBLU3″ and “LHD-PBMU3″ series in mid-June.
Inside of the HDD, Logitec’s unique energy-absorbing rubber frame and floating structure are adopted and it will absorb a shock from whatever angle the HDD falls from.
The surface has a scratch resistant rubber coating to make it tough. You can feel comfortable carrying it around!
LHD-PBLU3
Price: ¥7,980
Capacity: 500GB
Color: black, white
LHD-PBMU3
Price: 1TB – ¥10,980, 2TB – ¥21,980
Capacity: 1TB or 2TB
Color: black, white
Move over, Seagate — there’s a new sheriff in slimtown. Not content to introduce the first 5mm thick 500GB HDD, Western Digital just announced that it’s shipping the world’s thinnest 1TB hard drive, the 7mm WD Blue. It features StableTrack which secures the motor shaft at both ends to reduce vibration and improve tracking, plus dual-stage actuators — electromagnetic for coarse displacement and piezo for fine movement. SecurePark keeps the heads clear of the disk surface and increases shock resistance. It’s the same HDD we caught in prototype form at IDF 2012 and we reckon the 7mm WD Black (hybrid) version we saw at CES 2013 can’t be far behind. The 1TB model (WD10SPCXX) is priced at $139 with a two year warranty and is available to OEMs, integrators and consumers right now. We fully expect this drive to appear in one of the laptops / tablets launching at Computex this week, so don’t miss our coverage.
Seagate has just announced the launch of a new 5mm HDD (hard disk drive) which represents an important height reduction (30%) from the previous 7mm and 9mm versions. Seagate built this to enable ultra-thin computers to reach a storage capacity […]
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Western Digital may have been quick to release a 5mm hard drive, but it doesn’t have a lock on the category: Seagate is entering the fray by shipping its own slim disk, the Laptop Ultrathin. Like its rival, the drive stuffs as much as 500GB of conventional, rotating storage into SSD-like dimensions ideal for Ultrabooks and some tablets. It even costs the same $89 as its WD counterpart, although we’re more likely to find the disk built into our next PC than pick one up as an upgrade. Both ASUS and Dell have chosen the Laptop Ultrathin for new models, and we suspect they won’t be alone.
Filed under: Laptops, Tablets, Storage, ASUS, Dell
Source: Seagate
Toshiba is announcing external HDD “CANVIO DESK” – 1TB/2TB/3TB models. The 2TB model is already out, while the 1TB and 3TB models will be out on May 25.
Since “CANVIO DESK” is USB3.0 compliant, it’s able to transfer data 10 times faster than USB2.0 compliant HDD. You can connect it to your TV or Blue-ray recorder that features USB HDD recording functionality and can record hi-vision TV programs in high image quality for a long period of time.
In the large capacity 3TB model, an estimated 816,000 photos, 318 hours of video, and 762,000 songs can be saved.
Size: 42 x 129 x 167mm
Power source: AC adapter and/or USB
Interface: USB3.0
Compatible with: Windows 8/7/Vista, Mac OS X v10.8/v10.7/v10.6/v10.5
If you’re looking for pure storage for the dollar, SSDs have nothing on good old hard disks. And WD subsidiary HGST has packed more gigabytes into a smaller space than ever before with the new Travelstar 5K1500. It’s a 2.5-inch, 9.5mm thin model packing 1.5TB, giving your notebook a huge shot of extra storage space while taking up very little physical space. The two platter drive boasts 694Gb per square inch and draws a mere 1.8W, though it must spin at a miserly 5,400 RPM. Still, it can absorb 400Gs of shock for 2ms and keep on ticking — so it should have no trouble surviving reentry. HGST’s targeting notebooks, external drives, gaming consoles and AIO PC markets with the model, and will also offer an enhanced availability (EA) version for power sensitive servers and other 24/7 systems. There’s no price yet, but it’ll be available in June — so you might be able to take that film editing project on the road after all.
Filed under: Storage
I-O DATA is releasing a 9 mm thin USB3.0 compliant portable HDD called “Kakuusu 9″ in late June.
It has a compact body (75 x 110 x 9mm, 125g) with a stylish aluminum casing, making it a fitting accompaniment to an Ultrabook, MacBook Air, etc.
Capacity is 500GB.
It’s run with USB bus power, so an AC adapter is not needed.
Price: ¥11,000
Colors: Black, Silver, Gold
Interface: USB3.0/2.0
Power source: USB bus power
Size: 75 x 110 x 9mm
Weight: 125g
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