Maximum PC: GST, a wholly owned subsidiary of Western Digital, announced on Tuesday what it claims is the highest storage density of any hard drive and highest capacity HDD for the mainstream mobile market, the Travelstar 5K1500. The new Travelstar 5K1500 is purportedly the industry's first 9.5mm to offer 1.5TB of storage capacity, though that's not all it brings to the table. High shock protection and low power performance are also traits of HGST's newest HDD.
Western Digital's HGST division is the first out with a 10TB enterprise-grade hard drive.
Maximum PC: We keep waiting for the day when solid state drives (SSDs) supplant mechanical hard disk drives (HDDs), and even though prices for NAND flash memory storage has dropped significantly in the past year or so, HDDS still offer more storage space for the dollar. Combined with notebook makers offering lower cost models, the demand for HDDs just keeps growing, and that's just fine by HGST.
Maximum PC: Western Digital Corp. said on Thursday that it is on-track to ship its helium-filled hard disk drives with enlarged capacities to select customers this quarter. The company even revealed that the first sealed hard drives will utilize seven platters. Unfortunately, as it was revealed earlier, those products will not become truly mass devices for several quarters to come.
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