Seagate has completed its acquisition of Samsung’s hard drive business, resulting in the transfer of selected assets, infrastructure and employees from Samsung to Seagate, including the M8 product line of 2.5in drives. In addition to the purchase total of $ 1.375 billion, composed of equal…
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Samsung Series 5 Ultra: High Performance Ultrabook Launches in Korea
Samsung has been flirting with the Ultrabook space with its Series 9 laptops even before Intel started pushing the new product category. Samsung isn’t entering the space mildly, the two models are being announced today are high end all the way. The 14-inch version measuring…
Acer Raising Prices & Pushing Ultrabooks Thanks to Hard Drive Shortage
Thailand accounts for 25% of the global production of Hard Drives and the Thai floods have created scarcity. Due to the hard drive shortage Acer’s chairman J.T.Wang confirmed at an investors meeting they will be raising their PC prices mid November even though the move…
Thailand floods Affect NAND Flash & HDD With Acer Lowering Sales Projections
We’re reminded once again that we live in a global village, the floods that have swept across Thailand have affected the global NAND Flash market & HDD availability. In case you didn’t know Thailand is the absolute hotspot of HDD & NAND Flash production.
Western…
OCZ Announces the First 1TB Laptop SSD
OCZ has announced a 1TB SSD that will pop right into your laptop! The Octane SSD uses the standard 2.5-inch size that you find in most notebook computers. In addition to the higher capacity, this SSD also uses the new Indlinx Everest controller, which provides…
Ultrabook’s Considering HDD Integration for Cost Savings
Ultrabooks are starting to hit the streets and they are coming out at below the expected price point with models like the Toshiba Z830 or the ASUS series coming is at $899. In order to keep the price low and the performance high, apparently manufactures…
Gigabyte A2 Tiny a 160GB Hard Drive Looks Like a Lighter!
Gigabyte is traditionally known for its motherboards but its notebook division is starting to come out with some interesting products like the Windows 7 Tablet the S1080. I never would have guessed that Gigabytey would be coming out with an external hard drive that resembles…
Seagate Releases Pencil Thin 2.5″ Hard Drive
If you’ve even been carrying around your portable hard drive on your keyboard and watched it slip off into data recovery oblivion then you’ll be like me and thankful for thin and light portable hard drives. The folks over at Seagate have released a 2.5…
Eee PC 1.8″ 30GB USB HDD Now Available in Taiwan
Looks like Taiwan is getting a little piece of hardware before the rest of the world, ASUS is releasing a Eee line of USB hard drives, PC Home is listing a 1.8 inch, 30GB USB hard drive from Asus which is selling for about $31…
How to Upgrade HDD & RAM on an Asus Eee PC P1001PX
ASUS Eee PC P1001PX Specs
Intel Atom N450 (1.66 GHz, 512 KB L2 Cache)
1 GB DDR2 SODIMM memory, Max Capacity 2 GB
160 GB SATA Hard Drive (5400RPM); No optical drive
10.1-Inch Matte 1024X600 WSVGA LED Display; 802.11 b/g/n; 0.3 MP Webcam
Up to…
HDD Will Not Die – Breakthrough Could Increase Densities 50x
We all thought that HDD would eventually go slowly into the night when SSD came down in price enough, but two existing technologies can be combined to create vastly bigger disks.
The two technologies in question are Thermally-assisted Magnetic Recording (TAR) and Bit-patterned Recording (BPR).…
Acer Aspire 1825PTZ gets Undressed & its HDD Swapped
Johannes of NewGadgets.de gives us a tutorial on how to replace the harddrive and the RAM of the Acer Aspire 1825PTZ 11.6-Inch Convertible Subnotebook.
If you were looking for specs on the Acer Aspire 1825PTZ Laptop it has an Intel Pentium SU4100 central processor and…
