Western Digital launches 1TB 2.5 inch disk drive!

Western Digital launches 1TB 2.5 inch disk drive!
Western Digital has announced their latest disc drive product.
The company has launched their WD Scorpio Blue 1TB drive in a 2.5 inch format.
This format makes it suitable for laptops and portable storage solutions.
The company claims that this is the first drive of this size in [...]

General Electric develops a 500 GB media Disc

General Electric develops a 500 GB media Disc
General Electric has announced that they have managed to develop a media disc that is capable of storing 500GB of data.
This is equivalent to storing data worth around 100 regular DVD discs.
The company said that the disc was developed using a technology named “micro-holographic storage”.
This [...]

Western Digital launches a 2TB external hard drive

Western Digital launches a 2TB external hard drive
Storage solutions provider Western Digital has announced the launch of their latest product.
Western Digital is now offering a 2TB My Book external hard drive.
The company claimed that this is the first product in the market with so much capacity in a single drive system.
WD [...]

Wal-Mart to promote Blu-Ray drives and media with discounts

Wal-Mart pushes Blu-Ray drives to customers

US based retailing giant Wal-Mart has decided that they are going to make the Blu-Ray player more popular amongst the Americans.
Since the format war is now over with the exit of Toshiba from this industry, they now have the clear winner to promote in their stores.
The company said that during [...]

Toshiba staying away from Blu-Ray format for now

Toshiba staying away from Blu-Ray format for now
Toshiba lost the next generation format war when they announced their exit from the HD DVD industry.
The company had developed the HD DVD format and their exit meant that this format was dead and Sony won with their Blu-Ray format.
However, Toshiba has now said that they are not [...]

Universal Studios set to release Blu-Ray titles

Universal Studios set to release Blu-Ray titles
Universal Studios has announced that they would soon release the Blu-Ray edition of their titles.
They were one of the major supporters of the Toshiba’s HD DVD format which is now practically dead.
The movie studio plans to release about 40 titles in the second half of the year.
These would include [...]

Sun Microsystems to acquire Storage Technology Corporation

Sun Microsystems to acquire Storage Technology Corporation
Networking giant Sun Microsystems has decided to take over the Storage Technology Corp for a reported price of USD 4.1 Billion in cash. The deal is expected to enhance Sun’s capabilities in the rapidly growing market for data storage.
The deal would mean that Sun would be paying USD 37 [...]

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