June 21, 2004
In one of the most significant PC platform changes in a decade, Intel Corporation announced products that usher in a range of audio, video and other capabilities previously found only on specialty PCs. In addition to making the PC experience more entertaining and productive, these technologies pave the way for such emerging capabilities as High Definition (HD) video, 7.1 surround sound and robust file protection for office and home users.
June 14, 2004
Reinforcing its leadership position in all major disc drive market segments, and further extending the industry's broadest product portfolio, Seagate Technology introduced an unprecedented array of new products targeting applications ranging from MP3 players to DVRs and other consumer electronics, notebook computers, PCs, servers and corporate data centers. These new disc drives include the world's first 1-inch 5GB hard drive, solutions in 2.5-inch and 3.5-inch form factors, Serial ATA, Serial Attached SCSI and Fibre Channel interfaces, with speeds of up to 15,000 RPM and storage capacities of up to 500GB.
June 07, 2004
JustCDR.net had tested Lite-On SOHW 832S Dual Layer DVD Writer: "Overall I'm impressed with Lite-On's new dual layer writer, this is the first dual layer writer I have used (that's not hacked anyhow), the dual layer feature really is the next big thing in DVD writing and its nice to see Lite-On being one of the first manufactures taking this onboard. This is not the first Lite-On drive I used or owned, I have always been a big fan of Lite-On since the early days of the ever popular CD-RW 24x Lite-On and then onto the CD-RW 40x which was overclocked to 48x write using a firmware hack, and now I have a Lite-On 16x DVD-Rom, what made me keep coming back to Lite-On was the performance and value for money."
June 07, 2004
LITE-ON IT CORP. releases its latest ATAPI / E-IDE 12X DVD Dual Drive with all of the fastest DVD recordable media support: SOHW-1213S. This DVD Dual Drive is able to write DVD+R at 12X maximum & DVD-R media at 8X maximum, rewrite DVD+RW & DVD-RW media at 4X, and read DVD-ROM media at 12X maximum. It takes around 7.5 minutes to backup 4.7 GB data on a certified DVD+R media at 12X.
June 01, 2004
LSI Logic Corporation introduced a physical layer memory interface that can save customers months of development time while improving product performance with the industry's highest speed DDR-2 SDRAM technology. LSI Logic's new DDR-2 ASIC core is the first physical layer interface and I/O buffer to support 333MHz/667Mbps data speeds, enabling manufacturers of data storage, communications, multi-function printers, industrial and medical equipment to take advantage of the memory technology's superior density, bandwidth and lower cost.
May 27, 2004
Adaptec, Inc. won the Best of CeBIT America award with the Adaptec File Saver ESA1500, an application-specific storage array that automatically backs up corporate PC and laptop information unprotected by standard server backups and gives users an easy way to restore lost files.
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.