Fujitsu Limited announced that it has developed a new series of 2.5" hard disk drives (HDDs) specifically designed for 24-hour continuous operation and are available in a category-leading capacity of 250 GB(1) and a rotational speed of 7,200 RPM. Sales of the new MHZ2 BK Series will start at the end of July 2008.

Hitachi, Ltd. (NYSE: HIT / TSE: 6501) and Hitachi Global Storage Technologies (Hitachi GST), announced today they have developed the world's smallest read-head technology for hard disk drives, which is expected to quadruple current storage capacity limits to four terabytes (TB) on a desktop hard drive and one TB on a notebook hard drive.

Hitachi, Ltd. commented on articles that reported Hitachi decided on a plan to sell its Hard Disk Drive business.

Toshiba Corporation today announced commercialization of two advanced 1.8-inch hard disk drives (HDD): the MK1626GCB offers a storage capacity of 160GB, the industry's largest in this form factor, while the thin and light MK8022GAA has a capacity of 80GB. Both drives are designed for mobile devices, such as portable media players.

Toshiba Corporation today announced a prototype hard disk drive (HDD) that uses Discrete Track Recording (DTR) technology to boost capacity to a record-breaking 120 gigabytes (GB) on a single 1.8-inch platter.

For capturing all of life's moments, consumers can easily record and share up to 15 hours of High Definition (HD) footage with the newest member of the Canon family of HD camcorders – the Canon HG10 AVCHD1 Hard Disk Drive Camcorder.

Dell today announced that it is offering a 1.8-inch 32GB1 solid state drive (SSD) from SanDisk on Latitude D420 ultra-mobile and D620 ATG semi-rugged notebooks. The company is one the first to offer a flash-based drive as an alternative to hard disk drives (HDD) on corporate notebooks .

Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., a worldwide leader in digital consumer electronics and information technology, today announced development of its 7200rpm premium 2.5" hard drive series, SpinPoint MP1. Samsung's SpinPoint MP1 Series provides the industry's highest storage density of 200 gigabyte (GB) at 7200rpm on a 2.5inch disk base with SATA interface.

Texas Instruments today said that C.S. Lee, senior vice president and head of TI's high-volume analog and logic operation, will take medical leave immediately due to a heart condition