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Great Post on Disk Drive Futures from Hitachi

By On October 4, 2011 · 9 Comments · In Storage

If you haven’t read it already, I urge you to have a look at the following post on Claus Mikkelsen’s (@yoclaus) blog over at HDS.  It’s a guest post from Ian Vogelesang, who seems to have held many jobs in HGST and Hitachi, but focusing on the disk drive [...]

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Recycling Drives – Update

By On July 23, 2008 · 8 Comments · In Uncategorized

Last week I posted about wasted hard drives, removed from arrays and crushed to prevent the leak of sensitive data.

I contacted HGST and Seagate to get some additional background. Here are their responses, slightly edited to correct any spelling mistakes but otherwise intact.

Seagate

(a) when will the technology be [...]

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Destroying hard drives, what a waste

By On July 16, 2008 · 2 Comments · In Uncategorized

Many financial and government organisations choose to destroy the hard drives that are declared as failing and removed from their arrays. They use products like this which make the hard drive unusable.

What happens to these hard drives? I presume they just end up in landfill and aren’t recycled. Is it beyond the [...]

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2.5″ is cool

By On January 7, 2008 · Leave a Comment · In Uncategorized

Hitachi Global Storage Technologies (the old IBM Disk Division) have announced a 500GB 2.5″ drive for laptops. Not particularly interesting I hear you say, however these latest drives from HGST now come in Standard and “Enhanced Availability” versions. The enhanced version claims to be able to run a 24/7 workload rather than standard [...]

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Disk Sizes Continue to Dazzle

By On October 15, 2007 · Leave a Comment · In Uncategorized

HGST (Hitachi Global Storage Technologies) announced yesterday that they have managed to further miniaturise the drive heads they use in the hard disk drives. I hadn’t realised exactly how small these recording heads were; apparently 2000 times smaller than the width of a human hair. Called “current perpendicular-to-the-plane giant magnetoresistive1 (CPP-GMR) heads” (I [...]

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