Components For Laptop

Toshiba plans to introduce two new 1.8-in. hard drives, which the company claims can reduce the storage footprint in ultra-portable and sub-notebook PCs by as much as 40% compared to traditional 2.5-in. drives.
Toshiba said the single-platter 80GB MK8017GSG and dual-platter 160GB MK1617GSG drives will ship to mobile PC manufacturers and resellers in August. Patty Kim, [...]

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VW Twin Drive Golf(Source: Wired)VW Twin Drive sounds a lot like the Chevy Volt
While we languish under the ever increasing cost of oil, which in turn drives the price of gasoline up in America and abroad, many are looking to hybrid and electric vehicles to save us from greater oil dependence. Several [...]

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Seagate announced Tuesday that it has shipped 1 billion hard drives since pioneering an industry that shows no signs of slowing down 29 years later.
In 1979, the Californian company was a trailblazer in hard drives that were small enough for the early PCs then emerging. Its first product, the ST506, was 5.25 inches (13.3 centimeters) [...]

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Fujitsu plans to begin selling in late June a new range of high-performance hard-disk drives for laptop PCs that offer more storage space than current models.
The “MHZ2 BJ” series of drives have disks that spin at 7,200rpm (revolutions per minute) — faster than the 5,400rpm common on most similar drives — and will be [...]

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Toshiba is set to unveil a line of micro-Serial ATA 1.8-in. disk drives that can operate at spin speeds of 5,400 rpm.
Toshiba said the 80GB MK8016GSG and 120GB MK1216GSG drives are slated to ship to mobile PC manufacturers and partners in April. The drives weigh about 62 grams, according to the company.
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If you think that encrypting your laptop’s hard drive will keep your data safe from prying eyes, you may want to think again, according to researchers at Princeton University.
They’ve discovered a way to steal the hard drive encryption key used by products such as Windows Vista’s BitLocker or Apple’s FileVault. With that key, hackers [...]

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Korean startup Mtronstorage has become the latest vendor to announce an SSD drive based on the SATA II interface, hot on the heels of larger rivals.
As with the Samsung SSD (solid state disk) drive, announced this week, Mtron’s product combines higher-performance SATA II with the diminutive 1.8 inch drive format, making it smaller as [...]

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(Source: Seagate Technology)Half a year late with high-capacity notebook drive but still climbing the charts

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Seagate Technology today is set to unveil an updated Momentus laptop disk drive that boosts capacity from 160GB to 250GB.
The new 2.5-in. Momentus 5400.4 version includes two disk platters and 8MB of cache, and it can spin at speeds of 5,400 rpm, the company said. The new version of the storage device is currently [...]

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