Ecotricity has announced a partnership with GRIDSERVE. It will bring the decade-old Electric Highway in the UK up-to-date with the latest technology to provide faster charging and double capacity.
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The results of hard drive reliability tests conducted by online backup company Backblaze show that Seagate lags far behind competitors when it comes to the dependability of their products.
A group of over 20 chip makers have joined forces to develop MRAM, the next breakthrough in memory chips which is set to deliver up to 10 times more speed compared to the current DRAM chips.
Hitachi's latest breakthrough seems to be glass-based storage media that should last forever. All you'll need to read it is a microscope and a computer, if you'd like more than binary codes.
Western Digital has finally completed its acquisition of the hard drive division of Hitachi for $4.8 billion in cash and stock, making Western Digital the world's largest hard drive company.
Samsung, Sharp, Hitachi and other makers of LCD-based devices have reached a settlement with the US government on alleged price fixing for their products, with the companies paying over $553 million.
A new report claims that Hitachi has become the first PC hard drive maker to release one with 4 TB of storage. The hard drive is now on sale in Japan for $345.
Hitachi has developed a 500GB 7mm thin single-platter hard drive, dubbed the Travelstar Z5K500. The single platter disk drive has a density of 636GBit/inch, and uses the Advanced Form drive specification which increases the sector...
Just recently we reviewed the A-DATA SH93 portable hard drive which featured a rugged design said to be both shock resistant and water proof -- within reason anyway. After abusing it for a few days...
Its fun to think that ten years ago the biggest hard drive available was 73 gigabytes. However with the constant and near unstoppable push to solid state drives, hard disk manufacturers must continue to press...
Hitachi has announced plans to have a commercial 3.5-inch hard drive on the market that can hold 5TB. They hope for this to be available by 2010. Hard drive specialist Hitachi Global Storage...
Japanese conglomerate, Hitachi, may be in talks with Toshiba and Fujitsu on forming a new company dedicated to hard drives and storage systems. The new company would combine the limping hard drive divisions of Hitachi...
Soon after news of Sharp and Toshiba’s LCD alliance, Hitachi, Canon and Panasonic (Matsushita) have agreed to similar LCD collaborations. The three companies plan to merge their strengths to accelerate the development of cutting-edge display...
Hitachi has announced it will be releasing green hard drives this quarter with up to 40% better idle power savings. The pricing will be comparable with non-green devices. Hitachi will remain at 7200rpm throughout all...
Hitachi Global Storage Technologies plans to announce Monday it has developed technology that will quadruple the storage capacity of desktop hard drives within the next two years. The new reading-head technology will allow the company...
Infineon Technologies AG, a leading semiconductor developer, and Hitachi Global Storage Technologies, a leading producer of hard disk drives (HDDs), on Friday unveiled their new read/write channel system-on-chip solutions for HDDs that can be combined...
The terabyte race for consumer desktop hard drives has been on for a long time, now the first generation of drives is here. On April 25th, Hitachi announced that it would begin shipping the Deskstar...
Hitachi has started shipping the Travelstar 7K200: a 200GB 7,200 RPM notebook hard drive with optional data encryption technology. Compared to its predecessor, the drive has double the capacity and reportedly a 22% performance...
The Hard Drive Plays a Critical Role in Overall Gaming System Capacity and Performance. We recently had the opportunity to exchange information with Shiv Shivaji, Hitachi GST's Director for 3.5-inch (Hard Drive) Commercial and Consumer...
Hitachi Global Storage Technologies has started to ship its 1TB hard disk drives which were commercially introduced early this year. Hitachi's Deskstar 7K1000 HDS721010KLA330 model features five 200GB platters and ten heads, has a 7200RPM...
By the end of 2008, Hitachi Global Storage Technologies plans to lay off around 11% of its 40,000-person global workforce as part of what the company calls its long term commitment to the hard disc...
A day after rival Seagate Technology announced plans to ship a 1-Tbyte hard drive in the first half of this year, Hitachi Global Storage Technologies said it would release its first 1-Tbyte drive within three...
Hitachi Global Storage Technologies recently introduced a miniature 8GB hard disk drive that it believes with be all the rage in light, portable storage. The new drive, known as "Mikey" or Microdrive 3K8, is...
Hitachi announced today that 20GB 2.5cm hard drives will be commercially available by the end of next year. This represents a "density breakthrough" which will allow much higher capacities than today's drive technology. Current micro-drives,...
Thanks rumbleph1sh. On Friday, Hitachi announced that they will set up a joint venture with NEC to make mid-range and high-end routers and switches. Although the demand for these devices are constantly growing, competing with...
The six-week waiting list to get a popular iPod Mini digital music player from Apple Computer is likely to get shorter by the end of the year. Hitachi's hard disk drive unit said Sunday that...
Global Storage Technologies calls its just-announced Ultrastar 10K300 the worlds first 300-GB enterprise hard-disk drive. The 1-inch high disk drive, which spins five platters at 10,000 rpm, meets the requirements of mission-critical storage applications, such...
THE DIVISION OF HITACHI that took over IBM's hard drive division said it has released a 250GB Serial ATA unit today. The 3.5-inch Deskstar 7K250 uses 80GB+ platters combined to create 250GB, that's a quarter...
Hitachi is focusing its efforts and targeting emerging markets to do what IBM couldn't--make money with hard drives. Executives from a Hitachi and IBM hard drive joint venture, Hitachi Global Storage Technologies,...
Thanks xStainDx for posting this in BPN IBM announced it has completed an agreement to combine its hard disk drive operations with Hitachi's, forming a new company called Hitachi Global Storage Technologies....
Hitachi has announced the commercial launch of its water-cooled notebook PC, a 1.8-GHz mobile Pentium 4-based machine which uses a patented Hitachi system to aid heat dissipation. Most notebooks are cooled by air...
Thanks CC.SO for this one. Hitachi has agreed to pay $2.05 billion for IBM's hard-drive operations and to move them into a company under the control of the Japanese electronics giant, the companies said on...
Thanks SlashDot14 for this one! Water-cooled processors, currently the domain of supercomputers, high-end servers, and garage hobbyists, may be about to enter the mainstream. Hitachi has developed a prototype notebook PC...
Hitachi will enter the intensely competitive personal digital assistant market later this year with a product based on Microsoft's new Windows CE .Net operating system, the company announced on Tuesday. The prototype PDA was unveiled...
NEC and Hitachi are mulling over the dissolution of their memory manufacturing joint venture and fleeing the DRAM business entirely, according to investors cited by Bloomsberg. NEC and Hitachi are fifth and...
Hitachi announced on Monday that it has developed a drive that can read and write several formats for recordable and rewritable DVD discs, as well as for recordable and rewritable CDs. The...
