Ready for CeBIT: Fujitsu, Maxtor and Quantum's latest High-Performance IDE Drives. ready for cebit. Fujitsu sent us one drive of their MPG family, Maxtor their DiamondMax Plus 60 and Quantum the Fireball Plus AS. All drive families store 20 GB per platter, but which one is the best?. The first news is a small disappointment, as we could only gather three newdrives right now. Some moths ago they sent us their 80 GB DiamondMax drive, which is still the largest IDE hard drive available. We received the Fireball Plus AS at a capacity of 60 GB. There are also several smaller drives available also....

New Performers From Western Digital: 100 GB Hard Disk With 8 MB Cache, Plus A New 120 GB Drive. new performers from western digital. Now, WD has come out with new version of this model, increasing the original 2 MB buffer to 8 MB. They've released a 120 GB hard drive as well. The 120 GB is not particularly exceptional in and of itself, as Maxtor now offers 160 GB at 5400 rpm and IBM is close to releasing their newdrive series with capacities up to 120 GB as well, but WD has never really tried to compete in the high-end sector before. Although IDE drives certainly won't ever be able to replace high-end SCSI drive arrays, they still provide features such as hot-swapping, and thus might possibly gain market share. Whether that's the intention behind the powerful IDE products or not, these newdrives make the high-end IDE drives attractive once again. ...

Hop To It: Kanguru Micro Drive With USB 2.0. hop to it. Portable USB flash drives with 256 or 512 MB are no longer a rarity. The USB 2.0 Kanguru drive promises to transfer even more data from and to the PC in less time. Here, we compare it with the smallest of the newdrives, the Axis Mobile Disk from Hana Micron.. The USB drive, meanwhile, can disappear in a jacket or pants pocket....

Maxtor Atlas 10K V Inaugurates the 300 GB SCSI Drive Generation. maxtor atlas 10k v inaugurates the 300 gb scsi drive generation. In addition to doubling maximum capacity to 300 GB, the fifth generation Atlas drive has more features. Does putting this much effort into development of the newdrive pay off?. ATA drive generations change rather frequently, while progress in the SCSI drive sector is usually quite gradual. It will now be possible to get 300 GB SCSI drives running at 10,000 RPM, and Maxtor's Atlas 10K V is the first drive in this category....

Hitachi's 7K1000 Terabyte Hard Drive. hitachi 7k1000 terabyte hard drive uk. The newdrive is a milestone for both Hitachi and the hard drive industry. In addition to its Serial ATA II interface, it is the first hard drive that carries as much as 32 MB of cache memory, and it is Hitachi's first 3.5" drive to implement perpendicular magnetic recording technology (PMR). To reach the high capacity of 1 TB, Hitachi had to increase the areal density of the storage media in its newdrive. Hitachi has already had hard drives with five platters in the past, and such a configuration is fairly common for enterprise hard drives as well....

Hitachi ships fastest and biggest drive. hitachi ships fastest and biggest drive. The 2.5" drives sport a SATA interface and have a 4.2 ms average latency according to Hitachi. The drives also have an optional data encryption technology which can scramble the information on the entire drive. Hitachi says Dell and Alienware will be the first vendors to offer the newdrive. Using "Bulk Data Encyption4", users can scramble drive contents with an encryption key....