Western Digital, one of the biggest rival of Seagate has just acquired Hitachi Global Storage Technologies which considered as one of their competing rival. It’s all about big fish feasting small fishes. It’s feeding frenzy and Western Digital has grown so much in the past few years to the state they can have head-to-head battle with Seagate (which has also acquired Maxtor technologies in the past).

Hitachi Global Storage Technologies was acquired for a deal price of USD $4.3 billion. With Hitachi’s technology, WDC might be able to produce even better storage solution in the future. It’s interesting to see what they are coming up when they’ve fully fused their technology. According to the source, two Hitachi’s executives will be added to Western Digital’s board of directors’ seats, while the $4.3 billion is expected to close at Q3 of 2011 and comprising $3.5 billion in cash together with 25 million WD common share that worth $750 million.

As a consumer, I don’t care how the big boys battling each other. All that I want to care and enjoy is the increase in their quality, and of course, decrease in pricing for their entire new product line if possible.

[via TheCoolGadgets and SlashGear]

Western Digital Acquired Hitachi Global Storage Technologies For $4.3 Billion
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Charging Your iPhone with USB wire or A/C Adapter is kind of old method of rejuicing the power, at least that’s what Hitachi Maxell is thinking of right now. The reason is because the company has just announced two new charging pads that are pretty similar to the previous WildCharge that we have reported in the yesteryear. It will charge your gadget (iPhone 4) wirelessly using induction technology.

All you have to do is to sleeve the iPhone into a special charging sleeve that will come along with the wireless charger, and place it on the charging pad to re-juice the battery.

Those two charging pads are known as WP-PD10.BK and WP-PS10S.BK. Hitachi Maxell WP-PD10.BK is capable of rejuicing two iPhone 4 at once because it has two 5V power transmissions, while the WP-S10S.BK only has one 5V power transmission.

Pricing for both devices have not been announced yet, but the market is expected to receive these devices on April 25th.

[via HotHardware]

Hitachi Maxell Wireless Charger For iPhone 4
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3TB external desktop hard drive has started to flood the market since the start of 2011 as the demand for more space has been rising rapidly. Since Hitachi is one of the old player in the storage market, they’ve also launched their own version of 3TB HDD into their series of external HDD called XL Desk.

This XL Desk series has three capacity model, including 1TB, 2TB and largest at 3TB. However, it’s pretty sad that Hitachi is not using USB 3.0 interface for the maximum performance. Hitachi XL Desk and Hitachi X Mobile are still using USB 2.0 interface that has growing old.

[via Akihabaranews, The Cool Gadgets]

Hitachi Releases 3TB XL Desk Hard Drive In Japan
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Hatachi has announced a new series of UltraStar HDD codenamed as 7K3000, which has a huge storage capacity at 3TB. This hard drive is coming with 7,200RPM, 6Gb/s SATA and 6Gb/s SAS interface, it also saving about 32 percent of power (watts/GB) with 50% more capacity.

Hitachi UltraStar 7K3000 3TB HDD is also available in 2TB size with all series backed with five-year limited warranty.

Expect to see the hard drive to enter to the market in Mid-2011.

Hitachi Announces UltraStar 7K3000 3TB 3.5-inch HDD
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As of one the top storage manufacturer, Hitachi has revealed new series of hard drive namely the CinemaStar C5K750 and CinemaStar 5K2000 made exclusively for media recording usage. The hard drive has been optimize for any recording device such as DVR, IPTY set-top-box, or video surveillance system that require 24-hours operation.

On Hitachi CinemaStar C5K750, this HDD is Hitachi’s first 2.5-inch CE drive with Advanced Format, where they’ve increases the physical sector from 512bytes to 4096bytes and it’s available in 500GB, 640GB and 750GB.

Meanwhile, Hitachi CinemaStar 5K2000 is coming with CoolSpin technology that could practically lower down the power consumption and noises made by the spinning disc. CinemaStar 5K2000 3.5-inch HDD will be available in two sizes of 1.5TB and 2TB.

[via EarthTimes]

Hitachi CinemaStar Announces C5K750 And 5K2000 HDD For A/V Market
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Hitachi has released Travelstar Z5K500, which is the new 7mm thin 2.5-inch hard drive with uncommon thinness suitable for ultrportable devices that need slim HDD.

Hitachi Travelstar Z5K500 is not only thin, it’s also using less power when operation. It uses 1.8W when working, and 0.55W when idling. Hitachi Travelstar Z5K500 is 5,400RPM HDD, and it will be available in the size of 250GB, 320GB as well as 500GB.

There is no pricing details ATM.

[via SlipperyBrick]

Super Slim 7mm Hitachi 500GB HDD Shipped
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Hitachi has announced that they’ve just joined the 3TB party started by Both Seagate and Western Digital.

Hitachi rolled out their Desktar 7K3000 which has come with 3TB storage in one 3.5-inch HDD. Along with the 3TB, Hitachi also made the 1.5TB and 2TB available at the same time. Performance-wise, Hitachi Deskstar 7K3000 3TB 3.5-inch HDD is a 7200RPM hdd, featuring SATA II or 6Gb/s SATA interface with 64MB cache buffer, and it’s also one of the halogen-free HDD that good for environment.

No news yet when Hitachi will ship to US market and what the pricing will be. It shouldn’t be too far from WDC and Seagate version.

[via AKihabaranews]

Hitachi Deskstar 7K3000 3TB Phat HDD Announced
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Hitachi Global Storage Technologies has intros the Travelstar 7K500, a 7200RPM laptop hard drive which is the fifth-generation of Hitachi Travelstar.

This HDD is design for gaming system, notebook and professional external storage solution using supported SATA interface cases. Yes, this HDD is absolutely the latest 3Gb/s SATA HDD that also offers hardware-based Bulk Data Encryption (BDE) as an option and is the first hard drives to be compliant with the Trusted Computing Group’s (TCG) Opal storage security specification.

Hitachi 7K500 also has the energy efficiency features come along. It will cost as little as 0.69 watts in idle power mode while it will only cost 1.8 watts during operations. The 500GB size is one of the option from the array of 120GB, 160GB, 250GB and 320GB offered by Hitachi.

Price remain unknown.

[Source: Hitachi via UberGizmo]

Hitachi Intros Travelstar 7K500 500GB 2.5-inch HDD
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In the post of Hitachi SimpleNet Device, we’ve mention about their SimpleTough external USB hard drive. Well, here it is, the SimpleTouch hard drive. It’s portable, rugged case, and it has a cool 3m drop-test which mean any kind of drop from within 3 meters will not going to damage the hard drive.

Hitachi SimpleTech SimpleTough USB Hard drive Features:

• Plug n‘ play simple for instant USB drive access
• Automatic backups with Hitachi Local Backup™
• Complete, unbeatable protection with Hitachi Ultimate Backup™ online service (2 GB free)
• Joggle™ digital content manager for easy tracking, sharing and publishing of photos, music, and videos
• Rugged pocket-sized design
• Drop and spill resistant
• Velvety smooth texture for a secure grip
• Durable and made for travel
• Integrated USB cable
• Free technical support
• 3-year warranty

One purchase is actually worth the size of the capacity you choose + 2GB of free online storage provided by Hitachi (Hitachi Ultimate Backup). Although it’s only 2GB, you can use it to store very sensitive data that won’t go damage because of the hard drive failure.

And the most interesting feature Hitachi SimpleTOUGH has is the rugged body case which capable of withstanding a 1-TON truck rolling through it. I know such extreme condition is not going to happen (unless you are super-unlucky), but this proved that the TOUGH simply means TOUCH, not just there for cool effect for the brand name.

Hitachi SimpleTOUGH USB hard drives are currently available in three different sizes, 250GB, 320GB and 500GB and they are priced at USD$99.99, $109.99 and $139.99, respectively.

UPDATE:

I’ve missed something important. Hitachi Simpletough is also having three color choices on each of the capacity. here is the detail:

• 250GB Red Wine for $99.99
• 320GB Blue Dusk for $119.99 and
• 500GB Texture Black for $119.99

Thanks to Kevin at Neo Gadgets for the tip.

(Hitachi via Geeky-Gadgets, OhGizmo)

Hitachi SimpleTech SimpleTough USB Hard Drive is SimpleCool
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Do you think that you don’t have other option but to buy a Network Attached Storage (NAS) system as your network storage? The latest invention by Hitachi will set you free from relying the actually NAS system as your network storage. Hitachi SimpleNet is the device that will help you turning all of your USB Drives, such as flash drives or external Hard drive into your home network storage in a snap. Just plug in your Network cable to the ethernet port, and jack in your USB drive into the provided (two of them) USB ports.

At a mere $79, SimpleNet will connect your network and turning almost any external USB storage device into your NAS, with hot-swappable functionality. SimpleNet is actually design to work together with their SimpleTouch or SimpleDrive from Hitachi, but working with drives from other brand is also allowable. The only problem that will (probably) occur is the driver compatibility between your storage devices and SimpleNet USB-to-Ethernet gadget.

(via UberGizmo)

Hitachi SimpleNet: Transform USB Drives into NAS
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If you are searching for a next level camcorder, you should check out this Hitachi DZ-BD70A blu-ray camcorder! Newegg’s Shell Shocker has this Hitachi DZ-BD70A camcorder price slashed! From the $510.99 to $399 – 22% discount!

You would also get a free shipping (yes, zero dollar!) via UPS (with guaranteed 3 business day service).

HITACHI DZ-BD70A Blu-Ray Camcorder Specs and features:

• Lens with 10X Optical Zoom, 500X Digital Zoom and 43mm Filter Diameter
• Records to BD-RE/-R/DVD Disc or store data to SD Card
• 2.7″ Widescreen View
• 2 Channel Stereo Dolby Digital

HITACHI DZ-BD70A Silver Blu-Ray Camcorder
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