IBM is to launch a hard disk drive capable of storing 73Gb of data. The 10,000 RPM Ultrastar 72ZX is part of a family of disk drives and along with the 36LZX, IBM claims to provide the most bits per square inch - 7.04 billion - in the market.
Shares in hard disk manufacturer Western Digital have risen three per cent on news it will beat analysts expectations thanks to strong PC sales. The firm said yesterday it now expects to record revenues in excess of $590m for the third quarter...
Fujitsu claims its latest development in storage technology could increase the amount of data held on a hard disk by up to three times. Normally these record fluctuations in the electrical current in parallel with the disk plane, but Fujitsu has up...
Hitachi is to pay £1.4bn for much of IBM's hard disk business. Hitachi will initially own a 70 per cent stake in IBM's hard disk business and for the next three years the two companies will operate it as a joint venture until Hitachi gains overall...
Japanese boffins have developed a supposedly hack-proof hard disk with two separate heads. The disk features a read-only head which is connected to the web server with one cable and a read/write head which is connected to the PC with another cable.
Toshiba said in the statement that it utilised new perpendicular recording technology to achieve storage capacity of 40GB on a single 1.8-inch disk (the 80GB drive will utilise two disks). Conventional hard-disk construction lays the microscopic...
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