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Tuesday, June 12, 2007

Phillips Tuesday, June 12, 2007

Philips Unveils 1 TB External HDD

Digital pictures, music files or videos - all ever more fixed disk requires for. Goods so far sizes within the three-figure GB-range custom, come now slowly however surely ever more devices on the market, which a Terabyte capacity offers. So far only as solutions with two non removable disks available, Philips with the SPD5130 now a model presented, which in such a manner offers much storage location on a disk.

Philips which is better known for its TVs and high-end audio equipment has just introduced a new external hard drive, the SPD5130, at Computex 07, that offers 1TB of storage capacity and is built on the eSATA interface.
The SPD5130 is equipped with a USB-2.0-Schnittstelle, which is suitable for filling the equipment however only conditionally.The drive according to Philips’s website will include a thick aluminum shock-proof case, 32 MB buffer for speedy performance, 1 touch backup functionality and a heat control system. Baking UP procedures can be started over a Button at the non removable disk, “Safe shutdown” - key is to prevent overrun.
The noncommittal price recommendation for the SPD5130 amounts to 449 Euro.

Original Article{German Language } Here
{English Translated Article Here }

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Friday, April 06, 2007

samsung Friday, April 06, 2007

Samsung Launches Quiet SpinPoint Hard Drives

Silence is golden with Samsung's new hard drives

Samsung today announced that its new 3.5” SpinPoint S166 Series of ultra silent and high-speed hard disk drives are currently shipping in 80GB and 160GB capacities. The S166 Series has a spindle speed of 7,200RPM and provides an 8MB buffer. The Series features the SATA 3.0Gbps interface and includes Native Command Queuing (NCQ). The drives are also available with a PATA interface for customers who require this application.

The new SpinPoint S Series of hard drives offer upgraded versions of Samsung’s proprietary SilentSeek and NoiseGuard technologies to accelerate operational speed while reducing noise. Benchmarking results presented by Samsung show competing hard drives generate on average 2.8 bel (1 bel = 10 decibels) in idle mode and 3.2 bel in seek mode, while Samsung’s S166 series generate just 2.4 bel and 2.75 bel respectively.

Samsung claims the fifteen percent noise-level reduction is “significant” and makes the drives ideal for use in office computers, as well as in home consumer electronics such as DVR/ PVRs, or any other hard drive equipped products intended for use in a quiet environment.

“Samsung is constantly pushing the technology envelope with the introduction of new and innovative products that meet the computing needs of today’s most demanding customers and operating environments,” states TJ Lee, vice president of sales & marketing at Samsung Electronics’ Storage System Division. “This latest technology development by Samsung in the new SpinPoint S166 Series makes our high-end, award-winning hard drive products attractive to a wider audience by even further reducing acoustic noise and improving disk data transfer speed.”

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Hitachi Friday, April 06, 2007

Hitachi Ships 1TB Hard Disk Drive

Hitachi Ships 1TB Hard Disk Drive.

Hitachi’s 1000GB HDD Available in Japan

Hitachi Global Storage Technologies (Hitachi GST) has started to ship its 1TB hard disk drives (HDDs) introduced early this year commercially. But the hard drive that represents a milestone in desktop data storage costs a little less than two times higher compared to slightly less capacious one, which makes it not very affordable.

Hitachi’s Deskstar 7K1000 HDS721010KLA330 model features five 250GB platters and ten heads, has 7200rpm motor as well as 32MB data buffer. The manufacturer claims that the drive has 8.5ms read seek time, 9.2ms write seek time and 1070Mb/s (133.75MB/s) maximum media transfer rate. Currently the company ships 1TB hard disk drive with Serial ATA-300 interface, but a model with Parallel ATA interface is also expected to be available.

Hitachi’s 1TB hard disk drive indisputably represents a milestone in desktop storage, as only ten years ago the world’s most capacious hard disk drive was 16.7GB IBM Deskstar, whereas 1GB landmark in desktops was achieved in 1995. But, it appears, end-users will have to pay a significant premium to acquire the product that reached 1TB milestone.

Currently Hitachi Deskstar 7K1000 hard disk drives with 1TB capacity are available in Japan for ¥51 500 - ¥55980 ($433 - $470), much higher compared to Seagate Barracuda 750GB, which retails for ¥29400 - ¥39660 ($247 - $333) in Tokyo, according to Akiba PC Hotline web-site. The recommended price of the 1TB drive from Hitachi for the U.S. is $399, whereas Seagate’s 750GB product costs starting from $249 in the country.

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