HGST has announced a new family of CinemaStar 2.5-inch hard drives aimed at the A/V and consumer electronics market. The new drives have 500 GB or higher capacity, low power demands, quiet operation, and high reliability to target what HGST calls the “sweet spot” in the market. The new drives include thin 7 mm Z-height 500 GB HDDs along with thicker 2.5-inch 1 TB HDDs.

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Remember the VelociRaptor hard drive from Western Digital? We’re so focused on SSDs these days that it’s easy to forget the company makes extremely fast hard drives using traditional platters too. Western Digital today announced the introduction of a 1TB model in the VelociRaptor range, packed into a 2.5mm form factor. That also makes it the largest capacity 10,000 RPM hard drive on the market.

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Market researchers believe that the HDD industry will be able to recover this year and grow unit shipments again.

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If you thought that having a 3 TB hard drive in your PC would give you a lot of storage space, Seagate says that you haven't seen anything yet. The hard drive maker announced this week it has come up with a way to pack even more data on a drive platter that could in the future see hard drives with as much as 60 TB of space.

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Now you can cram 2 TB into your pants and honestly brag about it.

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Cleversafe, a cloud storage software vendor which offers its customers «limitless storage space», says that it has designed a dispersed storage system that exceeds a storage capability of 10 Exabytes (EB), or 1,000 Petabytes (PB).

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Hardware manufacturers continue to feel the effects of the 2011 Thai floods.

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