WD has announced the sale of its latest WD My DVR Expander External Hard Drive for DISH Network ViP Series HD DVRs. This HDD comes with a capacity of 500 GB letting the users store up to 300 hours of HDTV programming.

"WD’s My DVR Expander provides an ideal complement to the innovative archiving feature of DISH Network’s award-winning line of ViP HD DVRs," said Jessica Insalaco, senior vice president and chief marketing officer for DISH Network. "Combined with the already industry-leading storage capacity of our DVRs, DISH Network customers can create and control their own on-demand programming — reinforcing DISH Network’s leadership in digital entertainment."

These cool drives use up an eco friendly cooling system and boast GreenPower(TM) technology. They take up less power as compared to other HDDs. You can get these drives at $149.99 USD.

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Iomega brought forward the latest ScreenPlay HD Multimedia Drive that lets you say your PC bye. It brings your multimedia content to high definition TVs and home theater systems. It has a capacity of 500 GB and can store upto 2 million photos, 9,250 hours of music, or 750 hours of video.

Loren Bryner, ScreenPlay product manager, Iomega Corporation said “The ScreenPlay Drive is a great solution for Windows users — there’s no better way to leverage a big-screen LCD or plasma TV investment. The combination of ScreenPlay and today’s televisions give users a seamless way to show off family photos, play music, and enjoy their videos from the best seat in the house.”

The ScreenPlay HD Multimedia Drive is accompanied with a remote control. It facilitates navigation. The HDD equips HDMI and component video outputs to deliver high-resolution digital photos and video.

Weighing two pounds the HDD comes in the size of paper book. The Iomega ScreenPlay USB 2.0/AV in 500GB capacity is available for immediate sale in the America for $209.95. However, it will ship in the International Markets during May for Euro 179.99.

Seagate Technology recently launched its Cheetah 15K.6 full disk encryption hard drive. Specifically designed for storage arrays and mission critical servers, it is the world’s first self-encrypting hard drive. Take the hard drive anywhere in the world and encryption moves with it.

Mission critical enterprise data can now be secured as self encryption not only secures the data but also manages it and delivers improved performance. There is no need to change the operating system, databases or applications to encrypt it. Instantaneous Key-Erase technology ensures quick and secure removal.

Data center information security is benefited by self-encrypting drives. “Many organizations are considering drive-level security for its simplicity in helping secure sensitive data through the hardware lifecycle from initial setup, to upgrade transitions and disposal,” said Eric Ouellet, research vice president, Secure Business Enablement, Gartner. Though the price of the hard disk is not yet disclosed, it is surely going to set standards in security environment.

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STX recently released the Barracuda ES.2 SAS 1 TB HDD to offer benefits to the business class. No other SATA HDD in the market is full duplex and dual-port. Barracuda ES.2 offers 10 times greater reliability as compared to the desktop family drives. It therefore, is energy efficient. Barracuda ES.2 class consumes approx. 20% less power as it is incorporated with Seagate’s PowerTrim™ technology.

“With the added enterprise features found within SAS all merging into a lower-cost package, we anticipate our customers will be very interested in building and deploying SAS-based systems with Seagate® drives.”

In order to hold its performance in multi drive schemes, new RVFF™ (Rotational Vibration Feed Forward) arrangement is designed with its accessibility of uptime data. It is backed with a warranty of five-year.

Quick specs:

• Capacity: up to 1TB
• Functions at: 7, 200-rpm spin speeds
• Average seek: 8.5ms
• Capacity: 500GB and 750GB

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Sentry Group, one of the most renowned names in the field of small office as well as residential security storage containers, has announced its partnership with Maxtor(R) Storage Solutions on November 13, 2007 at New York City. The partnership is aimed at the development of world’s 1st affordable hard drives that is competent to protect critical data against fire, water, theft and computer crashes.

Maxtor’s latest SafetyDrill(TM) software is capable of an almost complete instantaneous restoration of PC’s operating system even during the time of an unforeseeable crisis.

It will not help to secure and back up the data but also would be beneficial in protection against common threats to PCs such as natural disasters and disk crashes. The hard drive is protected with an effective fireproof and waterproof enclosure that is ETL verified.

The Sentry(R) Safe FIRE-SAFE(R)/Waterproof Hard Drive is available in two size formats of 160GB and 80 GB at MSPR $319.99 and MSPR $259.99, respectively.

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Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., the global forerunner in semiconductor, telecommunication, digital convergence technologies and advanced memory technology, recently introduced its latest 1.8-inch and 2.5-inch 64Gigabyte (GB) solid state drives (SSD) with a super-fast SATA (Serial ATA) II/native SATA interface. These SSDs comes with a sequential write speed of 100 (MBps) and sequential read speed of 120MBps.

The new SATA II SSD has a 3.0 gigabit-per-second (Gbps) interface speed which is two times as quick as its SATA I predecessor and also the SATA II SSD need merely 50% as much power as the 1.9 watts consumed by hard drives currently used in notebook PCs. Samsung would always remain a global leader in the creation of higher-density solid state drives, inventing a 32GB PATA SSD in last year March after which it created a 64GB version using the SATA I interface in this year March again.

The market research firm Web-Feet Research calculates approximately that the NAND flash-based SSD market is anticipated to show 74 percent compounded annual expansion from 2007 through 2012. Samsung has not revealed any information on the price range and date of availability of these 64GByte SATA II SSDs till now, so stay tuned till our next updation.

Via: Newswire Press

BiTMICRO unveils its latest E-Disk Altima E2A3 416GB 2.5-inch SATA Flash Disk Drive in the SSD Industry. The New SATA Disk boasts of 3Gb/sec Burst Rate. This intelligent flash SSD can sustain transfer rates of up to 100MB/sec, making it ideal for mobile computing, embedded and networked storage solutions. The company has announced it will commence the shipping of its E-Disk Altima E2A3 from Q2 2008. The disk is supported by the EDSA DMC and LUNETA MFI ASIC. The E2A3 has the capacity to withstand shock and vibration up to 1,500 G and 16.5 Gs.

Via: Businesswire

Hitachi’s storage unit Hitachi Global Storage Technologies (Hitachi GST) recently debuted world’s most energy efficient desktop hard disk the Deskstar P7K500 with 7200 RPM Performance and 250G-Per-Platter Capacity Ideal for Power-Friendly PCs. The latest HDD employs power-saving technologies reducing active and idle power consumption by up to 40 percent.

The Deskstar P7K500 boasts of Serial-ATA interface. The Deskstar P7K500 is scheduled to be available in high volume later in 4Q 2007. Hitachi GST’s HDD is engineered for commercial and consumer PCs. It will be available in capacities ranging from 250GB to 500GB. The latest HDD is up to 59 percent more power efficient than 250GB hard drives in its class with similar specs.

Features of Deskstar P7K500

• 185 billion bits per square inch maximum areal density
• 2/1 platters, 4/2 recording heads
• 1138 Mb/s max. media data rate
• 7200 RPM, 4.17 ms average latency
• PATA-133 and 3Gb/s SATA
• 8 MB (single disk)/8MB and 16MB (two disk) data buffer
• 26.1 mm in height (max)
• 550 in weight (max)
• 350 G/2 ms non-operating shock
• 3.6/4.8 watt idle power

World’s smallest read-head technology for hard disk drives has been established by the Hitachi Global Storage Technologies and Tokyo Hitachi Limited. It is invented with the notion that it will quadruple the present storage capacity up to four terabytes on a note book hard drive and on desktop. Thus the canvassers have attained success of dropping the accessible recording heads to acquire latest heads in the ranges of 30-50 nanometers which are even smaller in comparison to the thickness of human hair. According to Research Director, Storage Technology Research Center, Central Research Laboratory, Hitachi, Ltd, Hiroaki Odawara this is the most low cost high storage capacity hard drive which gives customers unlimited capacity for accumulating digital data content. It also possesses some characteristics features that make it identical like:

• It allows 500 gigabits per square inch to one terabit per square inch for hard disk drive recording densities.
• It also provides the strongest signal in comparison with noise ratio which is like the signal out put is high and the noise is less.
• It displays less electrical resistance
• The innovations of the recording head technology has become very fast with the Hard Drive disk.
• It also acts as the Tunnel magneto-resistance head.

LG Korea recently unveiled its Art Series LX97WH “dual” HD Format PC featuring 300 nits brightness, 2ms speed of response, higher contrast ratio of 5,000:1 and angle of visualization right and left 160 degree. It comes equipped with 320GB HDD and supports 3-D gaming capabilities. The LX97WH not only supports DVD and HD-DVD but also Blu-Ray. The PC comes in three color options including Silky Black, Snow White and Fantasy Red. LG’s latest launch is based on the A10 featuring with a Core 2 Duo CPU, an Nvidia Geforce 8 series video card. LG LX97WH Art Series PC is expected to reach stores during October at 1800000 won whereas only the A10 would cost you 1500000 won.

Via: LG and LG