WD Announces 3TB single-drive my book essential, two USB 3.0 Passport drives

By Darren Murph 2010 posted October 5th 11: 47 PM you may or may not have noticed, but Western Digital only followed up on Seagate's previous efforts by outbreak of external drive with 3 TB of eigenen-- one that has only a single hard drive within. Latest my book essential not only houses with auto 3 TB, but also packs a USB 3.0 port on the back and the same rounded black shell, you come to knowledge and love / hate. If this is to swallow too much for you (or just too big to move), the my passport essential and my passport essential SE lines are 3.0 on USB, came is the former shipping to a 500 GB version and the latter in 750 GB / 1 TB. Both of these guys will start colours exclusively through USB and ship in a variety of mind bending with prices at $ 99.99 for 500 gigger and running up to $ 249.99 free up more space, driven than you ever need.

WD ® delivers USB 3.0 and 3 TB with its new external hard drive product lines

Ultra fast USB 3.0 Flash drive connectivity immediately with my book ® and my Passport ® external hard drives

LAKE FOREST, California, Oct. 5 FirstCall /-WD ® (NYSE: WDC), the the world leader in external storage solutions, today introduced its new my passport ™ essential portable hard drive (photo), my passport ® essential ™ SE portable hard drive (photo) and my book ® essential external hard drive (photo).All three drive families come in a variety of capacities and lightning-fast USB 3.0 connectivity (1) offer. highest industry capacity is another important feature for the my book essential drive capacity of 1 and 2 TB capacity is available now in 3 TB. Equipped with WD Smartware ™ Visual backup software for automatic, continuous backup, users these drives offer the extra space needed to save or save all of your digital memories, such as high resolution photos and videos, along with music, and other critical files, all in one place.

The drives that use not only the latest ultra-fast USB 3.0 technology, but are also fully compatible with USB 2.0 for those that still not your computers USB 3.0 to aktualisieren.Wenn a Superspeed USB 3.0 port connected consumers up to 150 MB / s data transfer speeds. At that rate, a two-hour HD video is transferred in less than three minutes.The same two hours video want to transfer to a USB-2.0-port(2) in 13 minutes.

My passport essential, nor WD's smallest portable hard drive, a 500 GB capacity is available and comes in five colors - midnight black, cool silver, real red, Pacific Blue and Arctic white (Arctic white only available in EMEA and APAC) Spaß.My Passport essential SE portable hard drive 750 GB and 1 TB capacity are available and come in stylish black, silver, metallic blue metallic colors red and.The pocket-sized my Passport portable hard drives are powered directly through the USB cable; no separate power supply is needed(3).

My book essential hard drive, the world number one selling also impressed with its small footprint, slim design and high capacity of 1 TB to a massive 3 TB(4) storage.The drive is compatible with both USB 2.0 and USB 3.0 ports and WD Smartware used Visual backup software.

"" With more and more devices as touch ®, iPhone ® 4 and other smart phones, adding video-enabled cameras, digital video iPod is the always allgegenwärtig.Die most houses have already raise thousands of photos and music files, additional capacity to store these files and quickly move the need for memory around the Haus.Die a major problem for many consumers around the world, always will be, said Dale Pistilli, Vice President of marketing for WD branded products group."WD's newest line of my book and my Passport external hard disk drives of the latest USB 3.0 connection technology, more than tripled the speed transferring media files, but still working with today's USB 2.0. Moreover, consumers can the highest capacity available on external hard drives with the new 3 TB my book essential-use drive."

Features:

My book essential external hard drives, drives my passport essential and my passport essential SE portable hard feature:

Dual USB 3.0 and USB 2.0 interfaces;
Up to 3 X faster transfer rates than USB 2.0;
* WD Smartware software for automatic, continuous backup;
Password protection for privacy; and,
Planet friendly packaging from recycled materials, which are also recycled.

Capacity and compatibility:

The my passport essential portable hard drive 500 GB capacity is builders.the my passport essential portable hard drive is SE in 750 GB and 1 TB capacity assisttroubleshooting.the my book essential external hard drive is 1 TB, 1.5 TB, 2 TB and TB Kapazität.Die 3 drives are formatted NTFS for Windows ® XP, Windows Vista ® or Windows 7.Diese drives require reformatting for Mac ® OS ® X Leopard or snow Leopard ®.

Price and availability

My passport essential portable hard drives and my book essential external hard drives offer a 2 year guarantee in the United States and are now available and online at wdstore.com at select U.S. retailers.

EIA my passport essential portable drive for the is $ 99.99 USD.UVP for my passport essential SE ranges drives from $ 129.99 USD, $ 169.99 USD.UVP my book ranges essential drives from $ 129.99 USD release $ 249.99 USD.

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Hitachi Travelstar 5 K 750 and 7 K-Intros 750 mobile hard drives: 750 GB 9.5 mm

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It's a common story, really. Your puny 120GB mobile hard drive has been overflowing for months, and you've been waiting for what feels like an eternity for an affordable, capacious SSD. It's about time to give up the fantasy and get real, and thankfully Hitachi GST is making said pill a touch easier to swallow. The company's new Travelstar 5K750 (5400RPM; 8MB buffer) and 7K750 (7200RPM; 16MB buffer) have been announced this morning, and they're the company's first to feature Advanced Format. In other news, they're also the industry's largest drives in a standard-height form factor, cramming up to 750GB (375GB per platter) into a conventional 9.5mm shell that'll slip into just about any laptop made in the last decade. Yeah, WD managed to stuff 1TB into a laptop drive earlier in the year, but you'll need a machine that's beefy enough to handle a 12mm height drive in order to take advantage. At any rate, the drives will also be available in 500GB and 640GB sizes for those who can't handle three-quarters of a terabyte, and while the 5K750 family is already shipping in volume with a starting tag of $129.99, the speedier 7K750 crew won't be out until Q1 2011.

HITACHI GST LAUNCHES NEW FAMILY OF 750GB MOBILE HARD DRIVES

Full Portfolio of 5,400 RPM and 7,200 RPM 2.5-Inch Travelstar Hard Drives Deliver the Perfect Balance of Capacity, Ruggedness and Low-Power to Meet the Needs of Mobile Computing Devices

SAN JOSE, Calif., October 5, 2010 – Hitachi Global Storage Technologies (Hitachi GST) today announced its new 375GB/platter, 5,400 RPM and 7,200 RPM, 2.5-inch hard drives – the Travelstar™ 5K750 and the Travelstar 7K750 hard drive families. Featuring the industry's highest capacities in a standard 9.5mm two-disk design, the new drives come in capacities of 750GB, 640GB and 500GB. The drives are built on Hitachi's proven platform for quality and reliability, and feature innovative technology that delivers high shock protection, low power and fast performance for a variety of notebook computers, external storage solutions, gaming consoles and other mobile devices.

The Travelstar 5K750 and 7K750 drive families are the first Hitachi GST hard drives that feature Advanced Format. Advanced Format increases the physical sector size on hard drives from 512 bytes to 4096 (4K) bytes. This helps utilize the storage surface area more efficiently, allowing for increased drive capacities and improved data integrity at higher storage densities. By integrating Hitachi drives with the new Advanced Format, IT managers, system integrators and OEMs can take advantage of the latest operating systems to deliver new high-capacity, power-efficient systems.

"From their recently announced slim, 7mm 2.5-inch drives to their broad new family of standard 9.5mm 2.5-inch hard drives, Hitachi offers a wide variety of capacities, speeds and form factors that support virtually all of our notebook computing needs," said Wentao Yang, vice president, Global Procurement of Lenovo. "We are currently qualifying and integrating Hitachi's new 750GB family in to our mainstream and performance systems, and look forward to continuing our relationship with them now and into the future."

5,400 RPM Travelstar 5K750 Family
The Travelstar 5K750 family is the next generation of Hitachi's mainstream mobile hard drive line engineered to achieve the best capacity, reliability and cost per gigabyte. It is a 5,400 RPM hard drive offered with an 8 MB buffer and a Serial ATA 3Gb/s interface for fast data transfer rates. The Travelstar 5K750 family has been designed with superior low power consumption for energy efficiency, offering 0.5 watts idle power and 1.4 watts power during read/write operations, which contributes to longer battery life in notebooks and other unplugged applications. The new Travelstar 5K750 also offers the best non operation shock at 1000G/1ms to protect against bumps and rough handling in mobile environments.

7,200 RPM Travelstar 7K750 Family
The Travelstar 7K750 is the latest hard drive in Hitachi's most popular 7,200 RPM family, that meets the growing demand for performance computing. With a 16MB buffer, 3Gb/s SATA interface, and excellent media transfer rates, Hitachi Travelstar 7K750 series allows quicker access to data and faster system performance, especially for multi-tasking, and other high performance office and home applications. With the lowest read/write power specification in its class at 1.8W, users don't have to sacrifice battery life for fast 7,200 RPM performance.

Both Hitachi Travelstar 5K750 and 7K750 families feature exceptional operating shock, Thermal Fly-height Control (TFC) for better soft error rate and improved reliability, and Hitachi's TrueTrack Technology™ for tracking accuracy in high shock or vibration environments. Fluid dynamic bearing motors also deliver a near silent operation. The drives use halogen-reduced components to support the "green" computing initiatives that are of increasing importance in today's end users. Hitachi Travelstar 5K750 and 7K750 have also earned the Hitachi EcoTrac classification, used to describe products that minimize environmental impact in the areas of product design, manufacturing, operation and disposal.

Self-encryption Options
Travelstar 7K750 is a self-encrypting drive (SED) designed to meet the industry-standard Trusted Computer Group (TCG) Opal Storage Security specification. This drive is the fifth generation to feature Hitachi's Bulk Data Encryption (BDE). These self-encrypting drives encrypt data using protected keys in real time, providing users with the highest level of data protection available. It also speeds and simplifies the drive re-deployment process. By deleting the encryption key, the data on the drive is rendered unreadable, thereby eliminating the need for time-consuming data-overwrite.

Enhanced Availably Options
Designed specifically for use in blade servers, network routers and video surveillance systems, the new Travelstar 5K750 and 7K750 EA models bring together a host of features such as high capacity, durability
and low power for applications needing 24x7 access to data.1 Based on a proven platform for quality and reliability, the Travelstar drives help system designers, integrators and IT managers build and maintain their storage systems, achieving greater storage density in the same 2.5-inch footprint, while maximizing performance, and improving data integrity in "always-on" applications in lower-transaction environments.

Travelstar Retail Hard Drive Kits
Hitachi Retail Hard Drive Kits are designed for Mac® and PC users who want to replace or upgrade their internal hard drives in their notebooks or compact desktop systems. Providing solid warranty protection, service and support, Hitachi Retail Hard Drive Kits give users the additional capacity and/or performance needed for demanding multimedia applications such as games and video, or for those who want to upgrade to a new operating system such as Microsoft® Windows® 7 or Apple® Mac OS X. In capacities up to 750GB, Hitachi Retail Kits include simple step-by-step instructions – making it easy to upgrade.

"Our new Travelstar 5K750 and 7K750 offerings address the growing demand for high-capacity and low-power hard drives, which are at the heart of today's notebooks, external storage devices, gaming consoles and other mobile computing applications," said Brendan Collins, vice president of Product Marketing at Hitachi GST. "Couple this with our proven design platforms and broad 2.5-inch portfolio, and Hitachi GST continues to demonstrate its leadership in the 2.5-inch mobile hard drive market."

Availability
The Travelstar 5K750 family is currently shipping in volume. Hitachi Travelstar 5K750 Retail Hard Drive Kits will be available in November with a suggested retail price of $129.99. The Travelstar 5K750 EA version will be shipping to OEMs for qualification by the end of the year. The 7,200 RPM Travelstar 7K750 family, including EA versions and retail kits, will be available in Q1 2011.

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Seagate 3 TB hard drives in BlackArmor NAS, it stores a digital boatload

SCOTTS VALLEY, California - 28 September 2010 - Seagate (NASDAQ: STX) the highest capacity, 4-Bay and 2-Bay, desktop network attached storage solutions, data-intensive small business address, today introduced industry's evolving storage requirements to help. BlackArmor ® NAS 440 network storage servers and network storage server BlackArmor ® NAS 220, extend the capacity range of Seagate's BlackArmor ® family of storage solutions so that companies now 1TB to 12 TB to help scale with the growing business of high-definition multimedia and business-critical data keep pace. Initially both solutions come with 3 TB drives in each bay predefined technology¹ and offered only for 30 days by Seagate.com and select online retailers. For the first 30 days CDW 12 TB BlackArmor NAS 440 for a manufacturer's suggested retail price (EIA) of $ 1,899.99, and NewEgg will sell the BlackArmor NAS 220 6 TB for a manufacturer's suggested retail price (EIA) of $ 649.99.

Both the BlackArmor ® NAS 440 BlackArmor ® are designed NAS 220 network storage servers with up to 50 employees and little or no IT support, centralize and securing data with maximum uptime by providing:

Software management tools that are compatible with the family with minimal training or the need for additional support for the provision of consistent user experience and future growth.
Support for Microsoft ® Active Directory 2000, 2003, 2008 to populate users and groups.
Unprecedented security with powerful hardware based encryption.

Remote access with the supplied, Seagate global access ™ service Web-based and FTP functionality.

Quick start features ability to easily view or assign to a computer of shared volumes, or secure the PC, which you, work products, which are connected to the network with the BlackArmor discovery tool - software, which shows all BlackArmor NAS-.

Can everything on your PC hard disk including operating system, full system backup and recovery programs and settings to Schützen.Bei crash or your computer to an earlier time may fail during the SafetyDrill + ™ software be restored.

Event e mail notification the user status and changes to the Server alert.

Additional USB ports to the extra USB storage devices, simply share a USB printer or close an uninterruptible power supply (UPS) to protect from power failure.

The BlackArmor NAS 440 Server is RAID 5 and out-of-the-box, configures ships with 10 backup software licenses during the BlackArmor NAS 220 - server with RAID 1 configuration for the automatic data mirroring and 5 backup software licenses delivered. additional licenses for both products can in 2- and 5 - purchased set steps at Seagate.com.

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