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Hitatchi Make 2nd Gen Terabyte Hard Drive
San Jose (CA) – Hitachi renovated its 3.5” hard drive family and now offers the second-generation 1 TB drive, which does not offer more capacity or speed, but comes with effective power saving features that may allow storage farms to run these 3.5” drives at 2.5” power consumption rates.
On the surface, there is not much new about Hitachi’s new 3.5” 7K1000.B drive. In fact, the main difference to spot right away is the fact that the storage density has been increased substantially and Hitachi GST has joined the leading 3.5” vendors: Instead of five 200 GB disks, the new drive has three 333 GB disks. Hitachi representatives told TG Daily that the 5-disk model will continue to be available through 2009, but the 3-disk version will ramp quickly and replace the old drives.
What makes the new 7200 rpm drive interesting is not its performance or capacity (which theoretically could hit 1.6 TB in 5-disk models), but its power consumption.
Compared to the 8.4 watts the first-gen drive consumed in idle-mode, the B-model checks in at only 5.2 watts. And if power consumption is the primary concern of the user (such as data storage facilities), the drive supports a “reduced power idle state”: The disk rotation speed can be dropped via HDD commands to less than 5000 rpm, which will take the idle power consumption down to 2.4 watts That is close to 2.5” territory (about 2 – 2.2 watts) and could make these drives an interesting option for any environment that does not depend on maximum data transfer rates.
The price of the terabyte drive is substantially lower than what we paid last year. Hitachi said that the 7K1000.B is offered at $239.99 MSRP, which means that you should expect street prices not too far away from the $200 mark. The price is about in line with the competition: Samsung’s 1 TB drive, for example, is currently sold in a price range of $159 to $265, according to Pricegrabber.com.
Hitachi also offers an enterprise version of the 7K1000.B. For an extra $40, the E7K1000 comes with a larger (32 MB) buffer a higher reliability rating 1.2 million hour MTBF (there is no MTBF rating on the 7K1000.B) as well as a 5-year warranty instead of the 3-year warranty on the 7K1000.B.
San Jose (CA) – Hitachi renovated its 3.5” hard drive family and now offers the second-generation 1 TB drive, which does not offer mor... more -
Charred hard drive from Space Shuttle Columbia recovered
It's taken four and a half years, but the data recovery specialists charged with extracting data from a cracked, charred 400MB Seagate drive aboard the ill-fated Space Shuttle Columbia have done their duty, retrieving 99% of the information written to the disk. The Columbia burned up on re-entry on Feb. 1, 2003, over Louisiana and Texas. Computerworld reports that the drive was found in a dry lakebed and handed to a team at Kroll Ontrack about six months after the tragedy, but the successful recovery has only just come to light. So, you ask, what was on the drive that was so important?
Computerworld reports that the shuttle mission included conducting atmospheric tests.
One of those tests was an experiment for the National Institute of Standards and Technology to determine how xenon gas flows in a zero gravity environment. It's taken four and a half years, but the data recovery specialists charged with extracting data from a cracked, charred 400MB Seagate... more -
Gdrive: Googles Online Hard Drive
Google's plan for free online information storage raises questions about privacy for its users. Online storage would theoretically be extremely convenient eliminating the need for personal hard drives and allowing individuals to access all of their information from any device. Google's plan for free online information storage raises questions about privacy for its users. Online storage would theoretically be... more
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Western Digital bills its new RE2-GP drive as the "greenest" ever
Western Digital is billing its new RE2-GP hard drive as the greenest high capacity drive on the market. How does one make a hard drive "green," and what's the payoff? We take a quick look, and end up green with envy.
http://www.westerndigital.com/en/products/Products.asp?... Western Digital is billing its new RE2-GP hard drive as the greenest high capacity drive on the market. How does one make a hard drive... more -
Hard Drives Spying on Computers?
Seagate hard drives made in Thailand apparently come with preloaded trojans. An investigation of computers used by the Taiwanese government showed that the trojans upload files to Beijing web sites, causing speculation that the Chinese government is involved in a clandestine spy program. Seagate hard drives made in Thailand apparently come with preloaded trojans. An investigation of computers used by the Taiwanese gove... more
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Box of Tiles Packaged as Hard Drive: Best Buy Won't Refund
The Consumerist's Meghann Marco sez, "Reader Sam ordered a hard drive from Best Buy. What he got was a box of bathroom tiles." Best Buy won't give him a refund, saying that he needs to take it up with the manufacturer. The Consumerist's Meghann Marco sez, "Reader Sam ordered a hard drive from Best Buy. What he got was a box of bathroom tiles." Best Bu... more
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Thanks For the Memory
The Nobel Prize in Physics goes to two Nanotech pioneers whose work is basically responsible for hard drives. Which means we essentially have these guys to thank for our laptops, and ipods and anything that uses memory. I'd say that's prize worthy! The Nobel Prize in Physics goes to two Nanotech pioneers whose work is basically responsible for hard drives. Which means we essentia... more
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Safely Remove Sensitive Data From You Hard Drive
Works for Mac or PC. Just look out for the shrapnel.
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