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Major hard disk drive manufacturers announced at the Flash Memory Summit in Santa Clara, California, last month, the launch of a new industry association, the Storage Products Association.  Seagate®, Western Digital®, HGST® and Toshiba® are the founding members of the organization devoted to helping storage manufacturers and users understand and support current and future storage needs. The organization will emphasize the role hard disk drives continue to play in storage technology innovations, while also promoting solid state and HDD hybrid storage media.Hard Disk Drives Are Not DeadEven with the prevalence and proliferation of flash media storage, conventional rotating media hard disk drives are not dead. A case in point is Seagate’s newest ultra-slim HDD and a number of new, eco-friendly…

Samsung® is leading the race in the development of solid state drives (SSD) using 3D NAND Flash memory, but rivals Toshiba and Micron are hot on the manufacturer’s heels.What’s the big deal about 3D flash? 3D NAND Flash: Surpassing Physical LimitationsFlash memory has already met or surpassed Moore’s Law, the technology rule that stated the number of transistors on integrated circuits doubles every two years and has since broadened to indicate that the performance of a technology (whether that means, speed, storage capacity or some other measurement) will double every two years.Since the development of NAND flash in 1980, storage capacity has expanded to 64 thousand times the original.However, conventional, 2D flash is nearing the end of this rapid growth…

More and more homes and businesses are relying on RAID servers for their durability, reliability, and increased storage capacity. Less complex to manage than a virtual server, yet providing the benefits of redundancy, improved read/write times and greater storage capacity through connected drives, RAID arrays are becoming the technology of choice for big data as well as home movie, music and other media collections. But when a hard disk drive in a RAID array fails, it puts strain on the other disks and can lead to complete RAID array failure. When this occurs, it’s typically outside the realm of do-it-yourself data recovery to successfully restore the lost data, re-build and re-initialize the array. That’s why you want to be able…

The new Seagate hard disk drive, tailor made for laptop computers and tablets, is now shipping in Dell computers and other popular devices. The Seagate® Laptop Ultrathin HDD is just 5mm and has up to 500GB of storage capacity. The 2.5-inch drive weighs only 3.3oz., so it doesn’t add significantly to the weight of today’s mobile devices like tablets, phablets and slim notebook computers.  According to Seagate, the drive is as thin as four credit cards in a stack and lighter than a deck of playing cards. Features of the New Seagate Hard Disk DriveThe storage industry has been eagerly awaiting this “world’s thinnest” HDD since it was introduced in September 2012, and it began shipping this summer. The drive:…

24 Hour Data was started in the Dallas-Fort Worth area, servicing local Dallas small businesses, the IT departments of larger corporations and organizations and, of course, families and individuals. Our first state-of-the art data recovery facility was built in Dallas, with a certified clean room environment in an SAS 70 Type II compliant facility, the corporate industry’s standard for an overall control structure.  But we’ve been expanding rapidly, providing local data recovery services to customers in Houston, Oklahoma City, Atlanta, Los Angeles, and New York. What does this mean for our customers?  We Handle the ShippingYou can drop off your hard disk, smartphone, tablet, iPhone, RAID array, Mac, SSD, flash memory, USB drive or any other storage media or device…

Our customers often come to 24 Hour Data for RAID data recovery, as our data recovery specialists are tops in RAID data recovery nationwide and in their regions, including Dallas-Fort Worth, New York, Oklahoma City, Houston, Atlanta, and Los Angeles.  Since we maintain client confidentiality for all data recovery cases, we can’t share the exact details, but we can share a summary of our customers’ common concerns, a typical conversation our data recovery specialists have when they answer the phones at all hours, day and night, here at 24 Hour Data.  “I lost all my family’s movies and all the data stored in my RAID array. It was on a NAS server in a RAID 5 configuration. One of the…

Conventional hard disk drives don’t always meet the needs for the storage of today’s big data, from mission criticalfor organizations, small businesses and Fortune 500 companies to families storing music, movies and photos. But Solid State Drives still tend to be a costly solution when a business or individual requires multiple terrabytes of storage capacity. For more and more storage media manufacturers, hybrid drives are becoming the obvious answer for this growing market segment.  Two top names in hard disk and solid state drive development recently announced the release of hybrid Solid State/Hard Disk Drive storage devices.  Toshiba Hybrid Drives for Slim Notebooks Toshiba Corporation released the 7mm high, slim hybrid drive family, starting with the MQ01ABFH, available in 320…

http://www.tomshardware.com/news/Seagate-NAS-HDD-Hard-Drive,23076.html Network Attached Storage is “big,” as in, a good solution for the big data storage needs of small businesses and organizations and the ever-increasing storage requirements of families who have digitized their music, photo and movie collections onto home servers. But many NAS devices don’t come with their own internal hard drive, leaving consumers and IT directors with yet another purchasing decision to make. Enter Seagate. The leading storage solutions manufacturer has introduced a new line of NAS storage products, appropriately named (drumroll, please…) Seagate NAS HDD. The name can’t get much easier to remember and the purpose can’t be more obvious. Designed for home servers, NAS solutions, small business file sharing and backup servers, the drives will be…

Western Digital has announced plans to acquire Solid State Disk manufacturer sTec, Inc. for $340 million in cash. sTec will be merged into the Hitachi Global Storage Technologies (HGST) division. The merger was unanimously agreed upon by sTec’s board of directors and now sits in the hands of stockholders. The deal is expected to go through in the third or fourth quarter of 2013.  A Brief History of WD Storage media giant Western Digital has been a leader in storage technology virtually since its inception. Although the company experienced a slump in the 1990s, the new century brought new success to the global leader.  In 2001, Western Digital introduced high performance mainstream ATA hard disk drives, with 8MB of cache…

With the proliferation of “big data” and cloud computing, the data storage needs of organizations are larger than ever before. When it comes to mission critical data, RAID arrays have been a solid reliable choice. But as data storage needs increase, IT managers for data centers and other large organizations may have to make choices and sacrifices. Getting enough affordable storage could mean compromising speed and performance for lower costs. Data Growth by the Numbers According to an article at IT Pro Portal, http://www.itproportal.com/2013/06/11/bridging-data-deluge-gap-new-raid-flash-technology/ IT storage and bandwidth needs are increasing faster than IT budgets can keep up.  – Network traffic could increase 32 percent between 2011 and 2015– Storage capacity needs will grow at a rate of 50 percent, compounded annually,…