May 17, 2004
Driven by exponential increase in demand for its Microdrive storage media, Hitachi Global Storage Technologies is implementing an unprecedented growth strategy for the one-inch hard drive. In 2004, Hitachi GST plans a substantial manufacturing expansion for the 4 gigabyte (GB) Microdrive product at its Thailand facility. This development is being spurred by the proliferation of hard disk-based storage in consumer electronic devices, especially portable digital music players.
May 05, 2004
Toshiba is among the few companies that still produces DVD technology. The company has unveilled quality drives in the past, and currently, after quite some time of "inactivity", comes up with the new SD-R5272 dual format recorder. The drive is compatible with all current formats such as DVD-R/RW and +R/RW, CDs as well as DVD-RAM (read).
May 04, 2004
Seagate at WinHEC demonstrated in head-to-head tests using Intel's IOMeter benchmark that its Barracuda 7,200-rpm Serial ATA (SATA) hard drive with Native Command Queuing (NCQ) technology equals or exceeds the performance of the latest 10,000-rpm SATA hard drives on the market. Seagate also announced it is shipping its Barracuda 7200.7 SATA hard drives with NCQ technology to direct OEM customers next month.
May 03, 2004
Certance announced a licensing agreement for DAT 160 technology, the 6th Generation DDS tape solution. In cooperation with HP, DAT technology developer and manufacturer, Certance will market and distribute the next generation of DDS (digital data storage) technology with DAT 160.
May 03, 2004
Intel Corporation introduced a 10-Gbps Ethernet (10GbE) adapter for servers that helps overcome for the first time the cost and technical barriers that have previously made 10GbE server connectivity impractical for the data center.
April 22, 2004
Canyon motherboard CN-9I6PEA-L won a Strongly Recommended award in the group test of motherboards in April's issue of Personal Computer World magazine - Bulgaria.
April 22, 2004
Toshiba Corporation confirmed its leadership in the fast growing market for 2.5-inch hard-disk drives (HDD) with the announcement of the MK1031GAS, the highest capacity drive yet achieved in this increasingly important form factor.
April 12, 2004
Kingston® Technology Company, Inc. announced the immediate availability of a 1 GB CompactFlash. Elite Pro. card featuring the latest in high-density flash components. Kingston’s newest 1 GB CompactFlash Elite Pro provides a low, price per megabyte solution of reliable, high-speed media.
April 12, 2004
Iomega Corporation began shipping the exciting new Iomega® REV™ 35GB/90GB drive, bringing proven hard drive reliability and performance to the world of removable storage. As an alternative to tape and other backup and archiving solutions, Iomega’s new REV drive and 35GB removable REV disks deliver state-of-the-art server and desktop backup, while also providing businesses and home users with the ideal portable storage device for sharing and archiving large files.
April 12, 2004
Intel Corporation announced a new family of processors based on Intel XScale® technology that can handle multiple forms of wireless broadband access with enough computing power to provide cell phones with full motion video conferencing capabilities and PDAs with DVD-quality video playback.