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Samsung sells hard drive business to Seagate
Seagate has finished purchasing rival Samsung's hard drive business. As originally announced in April of this (2012) year, there are many repercussions to the deal. Seagate will get a cadre of Samsung managers and employees, and Samsung solid-stage storage for its hybrid drives, too. Meanwhile, Samsung gets a 9.6 percent ownership stake in Seagate, a good bit of cash, and supplies of Seagate hard drives for its computers.
Future of mechanic based hard drives. HAMR or BPM?
Hard disk drives based on moving parts and storing information on magnetic plates, looks have reached its capacity limits, reaching density 1-1.5 terabits per square inch.. On the another hand, hard disk manufactures concentrated their attention on solid state technologies (SSD) providing significiant performance boost, but lagging behind with capacity. From apart it looks like poker game, guessing what will go next.
OCZ RevoDrive Hybrid
OCZ announced hybrid hard disk drive containing 100Gb SSD drive and 1Tb regular hard disk drive. Disk is represented as a PCI-e extension card. Such storage division will allow frequent files store on SSD disk while less frequent files tore on large capacity hard drive.
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Samsung (HD250HJ)
- Serial ATA 3.0Gbps Interface Support
- SATA Native Command Queuing Feature set
- Device Initiated SATA Power Management
- Staggered Spin-up Support
- High Speed Dual Digital Signal Processor (DSP) Based Architecture
- ATA S.M.A.R.T. Compliant
- ATA Automatic Acoustic Management Feature Set
- ATA 48-bit Address Feature Set
- ATA Streaming Feature Set
- ATA Device Configuration Overlay Feature Set
- NoiseGuard
- SilentSeek
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Western Digital (WD5000AADS-56S9B0)
As hard drive capacities increase, the power required to run those drives increases as well. WD Caviar Green drives make it possible for energy-conscious customers to build systems with higher capacities and the right balance of system performance, ensured reliability, and energy conservation.
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Samsung (HD322GJ)
• Formatted capacity is 320GB/Disk formatted capacity
• Serial ATA 3.0Gbps Interface Support
• Improved recording stability over temperature with PMR
• Advanced dynamic FOD control for best data integrity
• Intelligent compensation of external disturbance
• SATA Native Command Queuing Feature
• Device Initiated SATA Power Management
• Rotational vibration sensor(Optional)
• Environment friendly product with RoHS compliance
• Improved performance with dual-ARM based firmware
• ATA S.M.A.R.T. Compliant
• ATA Automatic Acoustic Management Feature
• ATA 48-bit Address Feature
• ATA Device Configuration Overlay Feature
• NoiseGuard
• SilentSeek
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Samsung (HD253GJ)
Key Features
• Max.500 GB Formatted Capacity Per Disk
• Serial ATA 3.0 Gbps Interface Support
• Improved recording stability over temperature with PMR
• Advanced dynamic FOD control for best data integrity
• Intelligent compensation of external disturbance
• SATA Native Command Queuing Feature
• Device Initiated SATA Power Management
• Rotational vibration sensor(Optional)
• Environment friendly product with RoHS compliance
• Improved performance with dual-ARM based firmware
• ATA S.M.A.R.T. Compliant
• ATA Automatic Acoustic Management Feature
• ATA 48-bit Address Feature
• ATA Device Configuration Overlay Feature
• NoiseGuard
• SilentSeek
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Western Digital (WD4500HLHX)
WD VelociRaptor
Bigger. Faster. Hungrier.
The PC enthusiasts' favorite 10,000 RPM hard drive is still the fastest, most dangerous carnivore around - now with an ultra-fast 32 MB cache and SATA 6 Gb/s interface and twice the capacity of previous generations.
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