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HGST Ultrastar SSD800MH 12Gb/s SAS SSDs

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HGST is proud to announce the industry’s first 12Gb/s SAS SSDs, the Ultrastar SSD800MH. Coming in 200GB, 400GB and 800GB sizes, these enterprise SSDs feature MLC NAND Flash memory chips, a SAS 12Gb/s interface, a MTBF of 2.0 million hours, 25 full drive writes per day (DW/D) for five years and capable of delivering read and write speeds of up to 1,200MB/s and 750MB/s, respectively. The Ultrastar SSD800MH 12Gb/s SAS SSDs will become available from June 2013, prices unannounced yet. [Product Page]

HGST unites nanoimprints, self-assembling molecules to double hard drive space

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HGST melds nanoimprints, selfassembling molecules to double hard drive space

Hard drive makers are in a race to boost capacities and keep spinning disks at least a beat ahead of flash drives on the value curve. We've seen some exotic developments as a result, but HGST wants to go the extra mile by relying on two breakthroughs at once. Its future storage primarily takes advantage of self-assembling polymer molecules that align themselves into rows. By first splitting the molecules into very small lines and then using an equally rare nanoimprinting technology to put them into circular tracks, HGST can create platters with a 10 nanometer-wide bit pattern that's twice as dense as current hard drives. The technique should hold up in the real world despite ditching typical photolithography, the company says: the nanoimprinting remains useful in the error-prone world of storage, and it should scale as the patterns get smaller. If only the drive designer had a roadmap -- while the company has a tendency to bring its research to market, the lack of a timetable hints that we won't see these nanoimprinted drives very soon.

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HGST Unveils New 1.2 TB 2.5-Inch 10,000 RPM Hard Drive

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HGST has announced the industry's highest capacity 10000 RPM hard drive. The drive is called the C10K1200 and provides 33% more capacity than existing drives aimed at tier 1 mission-critical cloud...

HGST launches the $99 Travelstar 1TB 2.5-inch HDD, crams it inside its Touro, G-Drive and G-Raid units

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HGST launches the $99 Travelstar 1TB 25inch HDD, crams it inside its Touro, GDrive and GRaid units

Henry Ford may have felt that your Model T could come in any color "as long as it is black," but HGST feels differently about consumer choice. It's announcing its latest hard drive, the 1TB, 2.5-inch Travelstar HDD, which goes toe-to-toe with other 7,200 RPM drives like the Constellation.2 and Scorpio Blue. If you want to sling one of the new units inside your current machine, the vanilla model, available later in Q1, will set you back $99.99, but HGST is also offering a swathe of external drives to suit your needs. If you'd call yourself a consumer, then you can snag the Touro Mobile Pro, which offers a bonus 3GB of cloud storage space for (£99.99) while professionals can pick up the 1TB G-DRIVE Mini for £149.99 or the 2TB G-RAID Mini, which can be yours in exchange for £339.99 of your earth currency. Wanna know more? Drive your jalopy down after the break.

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HGST outs Touro Mobile Pro external hard drive and Travelstar 2.5-inch HDD

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Hitachi Storage HGST outs Touro Mobile Pro external hard drive and Travelstar 25inch HDD

Here at CES, HGST (Hitachi Storage) has announced two storage options that look to immediately get cozy in your workflow. First, the "industry's first" 1TB 7,200 RPM 2.5-inch Travelstar HDD measures 9.5mm and looks to boost performance over 5,400 RPM models for $100. If an external storage solution is more your style, the Touro Mobile Pro houses one of the aforementioned 1TB hard drives with USB 3.0 connectivity, two-level protection and 3GB of could storage. The Touro will set you back $109 and like the Travelstar, is available now. Need to check the fine print before committing? Consult the full announcement that follows after the break.

(We're waiting on official images from HGST and will update this post as soon as they arrive.)

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G-Technology updates G-Drive mini and G-Raid mini with 1TB HGST Travelstar hard drives

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GTechnology updates GDrive mini and GRaid mini with 1TB Hitachi Travelstar hard drives

G-Technology's G-Drive mini and G-Raid mini have been around for a bit, but the storage brand is taking the opportunity at CES to update the duo with Hitachi's (HGST) Travelstar hard drives. Both external storage repositories are set to get the 1TB 7,200 RPM 2.5-inch components that notch the measuring tape 9.5mm. The G-Drive mini is now available for $200 sporting one of the drives, USB 3.0 and Firewire 800 connections. Dual-wielding the Travelstar, the G-Raid mini touts 2TB capacity while remaining Firewire bus powered during USB 3.0 transfers, RAID configurability and is scheduled to arrive in Q1 for $450. A few more details about each model awaits in the full PR below.

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HGST develops helium-filled, high-capacity hard drives: no, they won’t float away

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With certain exceptions, talk of advanced hard drive technology regularly has a tough time escaping research labs. Western Digital's HGST is promising a much more tangible project that could boost data capacities by a wide margin. By filling the gaps between drive platters with less buffeting-prone helium instead of air, HGST can safely fit as many as seven platters in a typical, 3.5-inch desktop hard drive instead of the current five. Going with the lower density gas creates a raft of side benefits, such as fitting more data on a single platter along with reducing the drag that both slows down and heats up the disk. We'll have to wait until 2013 to see shipping helium-filled drives in our PCs; given the slightly exotic nature of the technique, though, we wouldn't count on HGST or Western Digital handing out drives for free like balloons at a birthday party.

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