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Seagate announces 750GB Momentus XT hard drive, combines HDD, SSD features on same unit

This could smack of the nifty. Per Engadget, hard drive manufacturer Seagate has released its 750GB Momentus XT, a hybrid HDD/SSD unit with a conventional 742GB hard drive attached to 8GB of NAND flash memory. The unit boosts a speedy SATA III 6Gb/s interface and promises to cut boot-up and lag times compared to a […]

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Hitachi announces 4TB external hard drive unit, includes Thunderbolt port

Following up on Seagate’s announcement of a 4TB external hard drive, Hitachi has introduced its own 4TB disk and is packing two of them inside a whopping 8TB G-RAID external case complete with Thunderbolt. Per Mac|Life, the company has placed two such drives inside a G-RAID casing and Thunderbolt I/O port on the outside. The […]

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Seagate releases 4TB FreeAgent GoFlex external hard drive

This could prove useful. Per Mac|Life, the cool cats at Seagate have released the company’s latest GoFlex Desk external hard drive, which now tops out at a whopping 4TB for only US$249. Seagate has announced a new model of their popular FreeAgent GoFlex Desk external hard drive, which now maxes out at 4TB with a […]

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Hitachi announces new hard drives, cites new capacity of up to 1 terabyte per platter

There’s some good news: all the data you love, it just got packed in a bit tighter. According to Macworld, Hitachi Global Storage Technologies Tuesday announced that it’s started shipping hard disk drives that cram a terabyte of capacity onto a single spinning platter. The new technology allows Hitachi to produce slimmer form factors. The […]

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OWC releases firmware updater for SandForce-based solid state drives

Accessory outfitter Other World Computing announced today the release of its Apple/Mac compatible firmware updater for SandForce-Driven Solid State Drives. The fully Mac bootable updater is freely available from OWC for use exclusively with select OWC Mercury Solid State Drive models manufactured since January 2010. This new Mac compatible firmware updater is in addition to […]