Author Archives: Lucas Mearian

Hitachi unveils 500GB, razor-thin laptop hard drive

Hitachi has announced its highest capacity 2.5-in laptop drive, which comes with up to 500GB of capacity and exceeds competitor’s products in areal density by almost 100Gbit per square inch. Continue reading

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Hitachi unveils 500GB, razor-thin laptop hard drive

Hitachi has announced its highest capacity 2.5-in laptop drive, which comes with up to 500GB of capacity and exceeds competitor’s products in areal density by almost 100Gbit per square inch. Continue reading

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Seagate releases first 1TB 2.5-in enterprise hard drive

Seagate today announced the second generation of its Constellation drive, the industry’s first 2.5-in enterprise-class drive with 1TB of capacity. Continue reading

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If Dell buys Compellent, it loses EMC partnership

Having lost to HP in a battle to acquire 3Par earlier this year, Dell announced that it’s in talks to acquire its next best option: SAN vendor Compellent. Since Dell’s reseller relationship is EMC already strained, experts say this will be the death kn… Continue reading

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Feds charge two EMC employees with stealing more than $1M in equipment

Two EMC employees were charged with stealing company equipment and distributing it to a reseller, which then sold it over the Internet. Continue reading

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From Pong to Furby, games and gadgets of holidays past

This holiday season’s biggest gifts — the e-readers, tablets and digital games techies and kids are clamoring for — are the result of 40 years of innovation. We take a look back at some of the biggest breakthroughs in tech gadgets from the ’70s, ’80s… Continue reading

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Apple nixes partner’s production of 256GB SSD for MacBook Air

Apple has asked PhotoFast, a licensed accessory partner, to discontinue production of a 256GB SSD upgrade kit for the MacBook Air laptop. Continue reading

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SanDisk, Nikon and Sony develop 2TB CompactFlash card spec

Sony, Nikon and SanDisk have developed a new specification for CompactFlash memory cards that promises photographers the ability to continuously shoot high-quality raw images. Continue reading

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Jury orders Seagate to pay $1.9M to former employee

An engineer hired for a job that never materialized was awarded $1.9 million by a Minnesota jury after his employer, Seagate, uprooted him from a job in Dallas and then laid him off nine months later. Continue reading

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IBM develops new clustered analytics processing platform

IBM said it has created a new distributed computing architecture that is twice as fast as existing clustered file systems and that provides management and advanced data-replication techniques. Continue reading

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