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  Easy-to-mold custom earbuds; 2TB portable storage for Mac users

  The scoop: Sculpted eers, by Sonomax Technologies, about $170

• HGST announces 12Gbps SAS SSDs for use in enterprise data centers

  Western Digital company HGST on Tuesday announced what it claimed to be the first 12 gigabits-per-second (Gbps) SAS solid state drive for use in enterprise storage servers, delivering twice the throughput compared to current 6Gbps SAS technology.

• Hitachi releases first enterprise-class 4TB hard drive

  Hitachi's former disk-drive division today announced what it said it the first enterprise-class 4TB hard disk drive.

• Western Digital closes Hitachi GST acquisition, to operate separate subsidiaries

  Western Digital completed Thursday the acquisition of the hard drive business of Hitachi, and set up two subsidiaries with separate brands and products, to meet the conditions of antitrust regulators.

• China approves conditionally Western Digital's acquisition of Hitachi

  China has approved with conditions Western Digital's planned acquisition of Hitachi Global Storage Technologies (GST), requiring that the Hitachi entity operate independently for at least two years after the acquisition.

• Lab notes: Kingston vs. VelociRaptor storage smackdown

  It's time for a storage upgrade, but your budget won't bear the burden of both a blazing new VelociRaptor hard drive and an extra injection of Kingston RAM. Decision time: if you're looking to improve general performance on the cheap, do you shell out for more RAM or a high-performance hard disk?

• First USB 3.0 tests: Western Digital's My Book sails through

  The Western Digital My Book 3.0 desktop external drive will be one of the first to market with the new SuperSpeed USB 3.0 interface. Announced today, the 1TB version is available for sale today; the 2TB is due later this week. So does USB 3.0 deliver on its promises? We got the 1TB My Book 3.0 into the PC World Lab, and our early results look very promising.

• Western Digital drive creates dilemma for laptop buyers

  It's pretty much a given that solid state drives (SSDs) are the future of PC storage, and that hard drives are on the way out. But if you're buying a laptop today, which option is best?

• Seagate, Western Digital go green with new 2TB drives

  Capitalizing on the buzz around green IT, Seagate and Western Digital have released new "green" hard drives designed to use less power (in part by spinning more slowly than the latest generation of drives) and produce less heat (thus requiring less cooling).

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