Hitachi GST has updated its Simple line of external drives for EMEA, and given the G-Technology line an internal transplant with Hitachi GST drives being used in all its products.
Hitachi GST has three external storage brands: Easy, Simple, and a line of Mac disk drive products in the form of G-Technology.
From left to right there are [...]
Hitachi’s hard drive division has begun shipping – in “limited quantities”, mind – a notebook-oriented 3Gb/s Sata HDD with a raw capacity of 500GB and a spin speed of 7200rpm.
Like past TravelStar drives, the new 7K500 incorporates automatic data encryption. Hitachi said the drive is one of the first mobile drives to be compliant with the [...]
1. Firmware problem
Inimitable, HITACHI has another Service Area called SA-C; in this area store some backup firmware which could upload to SA-A replace the broken mods, which means we needn’t waste time anymore to try to find the donor drive. If the drive didn’t work which caused by the firmware corrupt, first load from [...]
A profitable 2008 for Hitachi has been followed by a miserable 2009, with two loss-making quarters and a possible fall behind in the areal density stakes.
In April last year, and after much high-level debate within Hitachi, it was decided that Hitachi GST would remain as part of Hitachi, not be sold off in whole or part, [...]
The 2TB hard drive club just got its third member, with Hitachi GSTjoining Western Digital and Seagate. Pretty soon desktop PC cred willdemand a 2TB spinner.The 7200rpm Deskstar 7K2000 3.5-inch drive a 32MB cache and a3Gbit/s SATA II link to its host PC. There are five platters, whichmeans Hitachi GST has not achieved the 500GB/platter areal [...]
Hitachi Global Storage Technologies (Hitachi GST) today announced that it has agreed to acquire a substrate manufacturing facility located in Sarawak, Malaysia from Western Digital. The facility currently produces aluminum substrates used in hard disk drives. WD originally acquired the Sarawak facility through its purchase of Komag in 2007.
“This acquisition further strengthens Hitachi GST and is [...]
Hitachi Global Storage Technologies is a wholly owned subsidiary of Hitachi, Ltd. Hitachi purchased IBM’s hard disk drive division, integrated their own HDD operations, and launched the new company in January 2003.
Hitachi GST is headquartered in San Jose, California, USA. Another US development site is located in Rochester, Minnesota. In Japan, development sites are located in [...]
What is HDD firmware? Let me put it this way. HDD is like a computer, while its firmware is like the operating system and application programs. Firmware contains boot instructions and code such as P list, partition table, etc. A small part of firmware is stored in the PCB rom, while the other part in the [...]
In computer industry, there are three kinds of semiconductor memorizer mostly used.
EEPROM(Electrically Erasable Programmable Read Only Memory)used to save BIOS information. Data can be kept after power off, in recent years, the flash RAM used to save BIOS information is also one kind of EEPROM.
The DRAM(Dynamic Random Access Memory)is used to save temporary data, the data [...]
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