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In an effort to help users back up important files, Hitachi recently announced HitachiBackup.com, a cloud storage service that provides anywhere, anytime access to your digital files. With the service, the first 3GB of online storage are free. For $49 per year, you can upgrade to 250GB. With a...
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Hitachi GST is a well-known storage company, but are they really known for style? They are now. The company's new line of USB 3.0 Touro Pro Desktop and Mobile HDDs are about as slick as they come, and each includes two levels of protection -- local backup and cloud storage. This unit is also...
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NAB is usually about high-end broadcast gear, but this time, there's a whole ton of peripherals making their debut as well. Hitachi's G-Technology line of HDDs is expanding this year, with a new 3TB 7200RPM drive used across eight G-Technology high-performing external storage solutions for...
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In the chase for first place among hard drive makers, Western Digital's acquisition of Hitachi should pay off handsomely. Market research firm iSuppli reckons the purchase will net WDC a commanding 49.6 percent share of global HDD shipments, increasing its lead over Seagate (29.4 percent) from...
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Western Digital plans to acquire Hitachi Global Storage Technologies in a cash and stock transaction valued at approximately $4.3 billion. The resulting company will retain the Western Digital name. By combining these companies, WD says...
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Hitachi Maxell on Monday unveiled a wireless power transition pad and case intended for the iPhone 4. The no-fuss, cable-free battery charger has the blessing of the Wireless Power Consortium (WPC), an industry group tasked with wireless charging standards. On tap is the WP-PD10.BK and...
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Another long day, another large hard drive. It feels like the storage industry is growing its product line at a crazy pace these days, with new hard drives surfacing just about every other day. Not that we're complaining; in fact, we...
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With the amount of smartphones, slates and UMPCs on the market today, the use of smaller hard drives is growing. 3.5" internal HDDs are fine, but won't fit in anything other than a desktop. Even the standard 2.5" HDDs that are used in most laptops have grown too large for products like the...
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Hitachi revealed three new storage offerings with capacities up to 3TB. The new 3TB, 7,200 RPM Hitachi Deskstar Internal Hard Drive Kit comes with software that enables 32- and 64-bit Microsoft Windows, Apple OS X, and Linux systems to utilize the full capacity and power of the 3TB drive as a...
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Hitachi announced its new Ultrastar solid state drive family. The new Ultrastar SSD400S family comes in capacities of 100GB, 200GB and 400GB with 2.5-inch 6Gb/s Serial Attached SCSI or 3.5-inch 4Gb/s Fibre Channel interfaces. The 400GB SSD is designed to endure up to 35 petabytes of random writes over the life of the drive. The new Ultrastar...
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Oh my, is that Hitachi's new G-Drive with G-Technology in your pocket, the slimmest external hard drive on the planet, or are you just really unhappy to see us? Oh it is Hitachi's G-Drive! That would explain the ultra-slim footprint. The G-Drive is a 2.5-inch external unit measuring just...
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Hitachi announced the new Ultrastar C10K600 enterprise hard drive. The 10K RPM, 6Gb/s Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) Enterprise hard drive is available in capacities of 300, 450, and 600GB. These 2.5-inch drives consume 65 percent less power than Hitachi’s 3.5-inch enterprise hard drives...
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Bigger, better, faster. That motto goes a long way in the storage world, and Hitachi GST is making strides in the 2.5" department. The company has just announced a new 375GB/platter 2.5" drive, which means that they have crammed 750GB onto a single notebook drive. Both 5400rpm and 7200rpm...
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We know things innovate quickly these days. Really quickly. In the CPU world, a new processor barely stays "new" for six months now, and the same is true in the GPU world. There's a saying that explains how your "new" PC is probably old by the time it actually gets to your doorstop, but we...
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Those new to the storage market may be unfamiliar with G-Technology. It was a company swallowed by Hitachi a few years back, and it remains (quietly) one of the more stylish HDD brands on the market today. The only real competition in terms of design is given by LaCie, but today G-Tech is...
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Ever since SSDs began to hit the mass market several years ago, analysts have tied themselves in knots attempting to predict when solid state drives would reach price parity with their magnetic counterparts. This isn't expected to occur anytime in the immediate future—SSDs remain some...
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It seems that the whole world is trying out new external HDD designs. We know that's not true at all, but being in this business, it sure feels like it. Western Digital has their My Book line, and even Seagate has recently produced some...
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It had to happen at some point. The standard 9.5mm height hard drive has been around for years, and even in super-thin notebooks of today, that drive has managed to fit. Snugly, of course, but still fit. But with new notebook concepts...
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In case you haven't noticed, very few netbooks have ever shipped with an optical drive. You've either had to get a more expensive ultraportable, a thin-and-light or an external ODD in order to have the ability to read/burn a disc while...
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The news just keeps flowing from NAB 2010. G-Technology, who has since been teamed with Hitachi in the storage realm, just announced new drives today aimed at professionals in the content creation industry, but if we know you, we're...
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We've been playing with Apple's iPad over the past few days (expect a full review soon), and we're amazed by the battery life. But as tech enthusiasts, we're always yearning for more. Hitachi seems to agree with us in thinking that there's...
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Hitachi Global Storage Technologies (Hitachi GST) has been riding the 2TB bandwagon for some time now, producing a solid 7200rpm 2TB internal HDD and outfitting its G-Technology line with the same spacious platters. Nowm, the company is announcing the availability of the newly designed...
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