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Toshiba Jumps Into Portable Drive Fray

Eylül 9, 2025 • technewsworld.com

Toshiba on Monday announced it is adding a new high-capacity portable hard drive to its already well-established product roster of televisions, laptops and DVD players. The Toshiba model 200GB is a USB 2.0 portable external hard drive that comes in capacities ranging from 100 GB to 200 GB and has the largest capacity yet in…

New VelociRaptor Runs Fast, Runs Cool

Eylül 9, 2025 • technewsworld.com

Western Digital is now shipping the next generation of its 10,000 RPM (revolutions per minute) “Raptor” series drives. The new drive doubles the previous capacity to 300 GB and picks up a 35 percent performance increase. Aimed at PC and Mac enthusiasts as well as users of professional-grade workstations that can benefit from high-performance drives,…

Sony Rumor Mill: Flash of Chrome, Rumble of Thunder

Eylül 9, 2025 • technewsworld.com

Sony is readying a hybrid Vaio notebook with a docking system that augments its hardware, as well as another Vaio sporting Chrome OS, according to a report in SonyInsider. The so-called hybrid notebook will feature the communications technology Apple introduced as “Thunderbolt” recently in its MacBook Pro notebooks, the report stated. This notebook will apparently…

Storage Tech Sizzles With Hot, Hot Hard Drives

Eylül 9, 2025 • technewsworld.com

An international team of researchers led by the University of York in England has demonstrated fast data recording on hard drives using heat. A research team was able to record data to a hard drive using only heat. They used an ultra-short pulse of heat to reverse the poles in a ferrimagnet in order to…

Helium-Filled Hard Drives Lift Performance

Eylül 9, 2025 • technewsworld.com

Storage manufacturer HGST, a division of Western Digital on Thursday demonstrated a helium-filled hard drive enclosure. This platform will let HGST design seven-platter drives in a standard 3.5-inch form factor. The company currently has five-platter drives in that form factor. With the added capacity two more platters offer, a helium-filled enclosure will improve the total…

Boxee Opens All You Can Eat TV Buffet

Eylül 9, 2025 • technewsworld.com

Boxee on Tuesday announced a new device, Boxee TV, which combines live TV, Web apps and a digital video recorder (DVR) with cloud storage. The Boxee set-top box and remote The box hardware is based on a new chipset from Broadcom and runs software written from scratch for the device. The Boxee Box, which is…

BitTorrent Sync Flies Around the Cloud

Eylül 9, 2025 • technewsworld.com

The peer-to-peer technology company BitTorrent this week introduced the alpha version of BitTorrent Sync, a service that will let people sync and transfer files between multiple devices. “There are no file size limits, and the speed of transfer is only limited by your Internet connection,” said Brett Nishi, director of product management at BitTorrent. “Because…

HGST’s New Hard-Drive Isn’t Full of Hot Air

Eylül 9, 2025 • technewsworld.com

Western Digital subsidiary HGST has found a novel way of packing more storage capacity into a standard 3.5-inch hard disc drive: filling it with helium instead of air. Now, it is bringing the first product of this type to market. The 6-terabyte Ultrastar He6 HDD is the highest-capacity drive in the world, according to the…

HPE Unveils Huge Single-Memory Computer Prototype

Eylül 8, 2025 • technewsworld.com

HPE on Tuesday introduced the world’s largest single-memory computer as part of The Machine, its research project into memory-driven computing. The computer has 160 T-bytes of memory, and HPE expects the architecture to allow memory to scale up to 4.096 yottabytes. The memory is spread across 40 physical nodes that are interconnected using a high-performance…

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