Hard disk drive

Toshiba To Showcase Latest Enterprise Hard Drive Tech at HPE Discover 2019

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Thursday, June 13, 2019

Toshiba America Electronic Components, Inc. (TAEC) is exhibiting at HPE Discover in Las Vegas on June 18-20, 2019 and will be showcasing its latest high-capacity enterprise hard drives on the show floor.

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  • Toshiba America Electronic Components, Inc. (TAEC) is exhibiting at HPE Discover in Las Vegas on June 18-20, 2019 and will be showcasing its latest high-capacity enterprise hard drives on the show floor.
  • HPE Discover attendees can witness a live demo of the performance and power-saving TCO benefits of the helium-sealed 9-disk Toshiba MG08 16TB[1] Hard Drive.
  • The 16TB MG08 Series is one of the industrys largest capacity[2] Conventional Magnetic Recording (CMR) HDDs.
  • About Toshiba America Electronic Components, Inc.
    Toshiba America Electronic Components Inc. , an independent operating company owned by Toshiba America, Inc., is the US based electronic components business of Toshiba Electronic Devices and Storage Corporation .

Toshiba Announces New Canvio® Slim Portable Hard Drive

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Tuesday, June 4, 2019

Toshiba America Electronic Components, Inc. (TAEC) announces the Canvio Slim, the latest addition to Toshibas Canvio portable hard drive family.

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  • Toshiba America Electronic Components, Inc. (TAEC) announces the Canvio Slim, the latest addition to Toshibas Canvio portable hard drive family.
  • With a lightweight, aluminium finish and at just 9mm thick (1TB[1] model), the Canvio Slim is one of the thinnest and most compact external mobile hard drives in the market.
  • View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20190604005081/en/
    The Canvio Slim delivers data storage in a form factor thats as stylish as it is portable.
  • [2] Source: Toshiba America Electronic Components, Inc., as of June 4, 2019 for the 1TB external hard drive.

Silicon Motion introduces the First Single Chip Controller for Cost Effective USB Portable SSDs

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Tuesday, May 28, 2019

Current portable and external SSD designs typically employ a stand-alone SSD with an USB to SATA or PCIe bridge chip for interface between the SSD and the host.

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  • Current portable and external SSD designs typically employ a stand-alone SSD with an USB to SATA or PCIe bridge chip for interface between the SSD and the host.
  • The SM3282 also enables battery powered small form factor portable SSDs while significantly reducing Bill of Materials (BOM) cost.
  • Portable SSDs have been inhibited by high pricing and limited capacity compared to portable HDDs, said Wallace Kou, President and CEO at Silicon Motion.
  • Our new SM3282 controller solution with its USB 3.2 Gen 1 interface enables the introduction of a new category of cost-effective portable SSDs as higher performance alternatives to portable HDDs.

DriveSavers Offers California Flood Victims Free Data Recovery of Wet Computer Hard Drives

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Thursday, March 21, 2019

DriveSavers , the worldwide leader in data recovery , today announced it will provide free data recovery services to Russian River, California residents who have lost critical data as a result of the devastating flooding that occurred in February and March of 2019.

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  • DriveSavers , the worldwide leader in data recovery , today announced it will provide free data recovery services to Russian River, California residents who have lost critical data as a result of the devastating flooding that occurred in February and March of 2019.
  • The company is donating time, resources and years of expertise to provide up to $1,000,000 worth of data recoveries from water-damaged hard drives.
  • DriveSavers is known worldwide for recovering data from severely traumatized devices including those that have been dropped, burnt, crushed, and submerged in water, said Scott Moyer, president of DriveSavers.
  • The free recovery service is available now for victims of the February/March 2019 flooding.

TRENDFOCUS: Combined SSD, HDD Storage Shipped Jumps 21% to 912 Exabytes in 2018

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Thursday, March 7, 2019

The number of exabytes sold increased 21.4% from the prior year to 912 exabytes.

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  • The number of exabytes sold increased 21.4% from the prior year to 912 exabytes.
  • Despite late-year fluctuations in both enterprise SSD and high-capacity HDD markets, the data storage industry grew solidly in 2018, stated Mark Geenen, President of TRENDFOCUS, a market analysis firm specializing in data storage.
  • HDD capacity shipped topped 800 exabytes, fueled by stunning growth in capacity enterprise (also known as nearline) HDDs bound for cloud and data center applications.
  • SSD exabytes sold skyrocketed over 45% in 2018, as sales to both client PCs and enterprise/cloud segments enjoyed healthy growth.

Toshiba Announces 16TB MG08 Series Hard Disk Drives

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Tuesday, January 8, 2019

Toshiba Electronic Devices & Storage Corporation (Toshiba) announces MG08 Series, the industrys largest capacity 16TB[1] [2] Conventional Magnetic Recording (CMR) HDD.

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  • Toshiba Electronic Devices & Storage Corporation (Toshiba) announces MG08 Series, the industrys largest capacity 16TB[1] [2] Conventional Magnetic Recording (CMR) HDD.
  • View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20190107006110/en/
    Toshiba: 16TB MG08 series hard disk drives, the industry's largest capacity Conventional Magnetic Recording (CMR) HDD (Artist's impression) (Graphic: Business Wire)
    The MG08 Series is Toshibas second-generation helium-sealed HDD family, and eighth-generation Enterprise Capacity HDD family.
  • Toshibas new 16TB MG08 Series delivers new levels of storage capacity and density while delivering improved power efficiency for our cloud-scale and storage solutions customers.
  • Shipments of samples of 16TB MG08 Series drives to customers will begin sequentially at the end of this month.

Fledging Has Significant Kickstarter Success With Launch Of Fledging Shell, The World's Fastest External Storage Device Compatible With All Computers, Phones And Gaming Consoles

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Wednesday, October 17, 2018

Available in sizes including 256GB, 512GB, 1TB, and 2TB, Shell is compatible across all platforms including Mac, PC, Smart TV, Android, and gaming consoles including Xbox.

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  • Available in sizes including 256GB, 512GB, 1TB, and 2TB, Shell is compatible across all platforms including Mac, PC, Smart TV, Android, and gaming consoles including Xbox.
  • "Shell is great for quickly accessing and storing large amounts of data that hard drives and SATA solid-state drives can't handle as well.
  • In fact, Shell is twice as fast as traditional solid-state drives," said Mr. Weida Tan, founder and CEO of Fledging.
  • For more information about the Kickstarter campaign, please visit: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/879454305/fledging-shell-the-ultima...
    And for more information about Shell and Fledging, please visit: https://fledging.net/
    Fledging makes award-winning consumer electronics.

The Global Data Recovery as a Service Market size is expected to reach $4.1 billion by 2024, rising at a market growth of 12.9% CAGR during the forecast period

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Wednesday, August 22, 2018

LONDON, August 22, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- The Global Data Recovery as a Service Market size is expected to reach $4.1 billion by 2024, rising at a market growth of 12.9% CAGR during the forecast period.

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  • LONDON, August 22, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- The Global Data Recovery as a Service Market size is expected to reach $4.1 billion by 2024, rising at a market growth of 12.9% CAGR during the forecast period.
  • Data recovery is a process which is used to recall or recover data from various storage devices which have the potential of data loss.
  • Data recovery is used in conditions of accidental deletion, hard drive accidental formatting, Windows reinstallation, partition loss, system booting failure and others.
  • Based on the type, the Data Recovery as a Service market is segmented into In Lab Recovery, Data Recovery Software and RAID and Server Recovery.

The Newest MiniTool Power Data Recovery V8.1 Is Released

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Tuesday, August 21, 2018

Recently, MiniTool has announced the newest MiniTool Power Data Recovery V8.1 is released.

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  • Recently, MiniTool has announced the newest MiniTool Power Data Recovery V8.1 is released.
  • MiniTool team has researched and developed MiniTool Power Data Recovery for years to improve its data recovery performance and help more users to reduce the loss caused by data missing.
  • With this MiniTool data recovery software , users can recover lost and deleted data from various kinds of data storage devices, such as internal hard drives, external hard drives, USB flash drives, memory cards, SD cards, CDs/DVDs, and so forth.
  • All in all, MiniTool Power Data Recovery is still the free data recovery software , and it becomes more and more powerful.

MiniTool Solution Ltd. Updates Power Data Recovery to 8.0 with Many Changes

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Tuesday, May 8, 2018

The latest data recovery software brings many changes, including abrand new interface, recovery module, data scan function, supported languagesand some fixedbugs.

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  • The latest data recovery software brings many changes, including abrand new interface, recovery module, data scan function, supported languagesand some fixedbugs.
  • Four Recovery Modules - MiniTool Power Data Recovery Version 8.0has four recovery modules, including This PC, Removable Disk Drive, Hard Disk Drive and CD/DVD Drive.
  • When launching MiniTool Power Data Recovery V8.0, this recovery module is selected by default.
  • Moreover, MiniTool Power Data Recovery V8.0 displays the partition or disk size and the creation date of the previous scan.