Hard Drive

Exciting times are ahead in the high-tech industries with the discovery by three independent groups that a new class of materials mimic the special electronic properties of graphene in 3D.

LaCie has a number of new hard drives on hand for CES 2014, including an updated Little Big Disk Thunderbolt model, the wireless Fuel aimed at extending the storage of iPads, and the shiny silver Sphère created in collaboration with Christofle.

Seagate, which purchased Samsung's HDD division in 2011, has begun shipping the world's thinnest 2 TB hard drive. The Samsung Spinpoint M9T, which comes in a 2.5-inch form factor, measures 9.5 mm thick, giving notebooks a bit more storage space.

Connected Data has launched the Transporter Sync, a device that turns ordinary external hard-drives into private cloud storage. Users can access their documents, photos, videos and music from computers on their home network, online or via Android, iPhone and iPad apps.

The Transporter is a device that allows people to back up their files off-site, on the hard drives of people whom they know and trust.

At 8.9 mm thick, ADATA’s new DashDrive Elite HE720 has claimed the title of world's thinnest external HDD from Toshiba, which held the title for just a few days.

New helium-filled hard drives from HGST feature an increase in storage capacity of 40 percent and reduction in power consumption of 23 percent.

The recently released G-RAID with Thunderbolt, which claims the title of the world’s highest capacity, RAID 0, Thunderbolt external storage drive, is available in 4, 6 and 8 TB storage capacities.

Seagate has demonstrated a milestone storage density of 1 terabit per square inch using a next-generation recording technology called heat-assisted magnetic recording (HAMR) that promises 60 TB hard drives.

Seagate has begun shipping the second generation of the Momentus XT hybrid solid state/hard drive that it claims is the company's fastest ever drive for personal computers.

A team of researchers from Singapore has developed a process that uses table salt to increase the data storage density of conventional HDDs by up to six times.

Microsoft is about to release a 320GB HDD for its Xbox 360 gaming console.