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Archive of posts tagged Hard Disk Drive (HDD)

Solid-State Drives Going Great Guns

IHS announced it forecasts that PC Solid-State Drive (SSD) shipments will rise to 227 million units in 2017, up more than 600% from 2012, while shipments of hard disk drives (HDDs) will decline to 410 million units in 2017, down 14% from 2012.

Toshiba Launches Canvio Connect HDD

Toshiba’s Digital Products Division (DPD) announced its new Canvio Connect, a portable external hard drive that offers data storage as well remote access and file sharing capabilities.

Maxell Rolls Out External HDDs

Maxell Corporation announced its latest multi-interface external hard disk drives (HDD), which are available in 1TB ($213), 2TB ($276) and 3TB ($351) capacities.

Imation Rolls Out IronKey Secure Drives

Imation announced its new encrypted IronKey D80 flash and H80 hard disk drives.

Seagate Ships Two Billion HDDs

Seagate Technology announced that it has shipped two billion hard disk drives (HDDs) over the company’s history.

Apricorn Rolls Out Encrypted Biometric Access Drives

Apricorn announced its new Aegis Bio 3.0 hard disk and Solid-State drives, which feature hardware encryption as well as biometric fingerprint access.

HDD Revenue in Decline

IHS announced it forecasts that global hard disk drive (HDD) market revenue will decline to $32.7 billion in 2013, down 11.8% from $37.1 billion last year.

Toshiba Rolls Out New Canvio HDDs

Toshiba’s Digital Products Division (DPD) announced its new 2TB Canvio Basics 3.0 and 2TB Canvio Special Edition portable hard disk drives.

Drobo Ships 5N Storage Array

Drobo announced that it is now shipping its new Drobo 5N networked storage array.

Seagate Rolls Out Central Shared Storage

Seagate Technology announced its new Seagate Central shared storage system, which is available in 2TB ($189.99), 3TB ($219.99) and 4TB ($259.99) configurations.

LaCie Buffs d2 Hard Drives

LaCie announced that its latest d2 series of hard disk drives feature SuperSpeed USB 3.0 and Thunderbolt interfaces and come in 3TB and 4TB capacities.

Addonics Rolls Out USB HDD/Flash Duplicators

Addonics Technologies announced its new line of standalone USB HDD/Flash duplicators, which is available in 1:7 ($735), 1:15 ($1,445) and 1:31 ($2,799) configurations.

Verbatim Launches Ultra Slim Hard Drive

Verbatim Europe announced its new 500GB Store ‘n’ Go Ultra Slim hard disk drive (HDD), which features a SuperSpeed USB 3.0 interface.

Imation Bags Tekne Award

Imation Corp. announced that it has received a 2012 Tekne Award for its DataGuard Data Protection Appliance.

Drobo Ships Mini and 5D Storage Arrays

Drobo announced that its now shipping its new Drobo 5D and Drobo Mini storage arrays featuring Thunderbolt and SuperSpeed USB 3.0 interfaces as well as automated SSD acceleration.