Hitachi has announced it will begin selling 4TB drives this month.
The new Deskstar 7K4000 hard drives will be some of the first in their capacity with 7200rpm spindle speed.
Xbit explains that the “model (HDS724040ALE640) boasts 4TB capacity and uses five previous-generation 800GB platters with 446Gb/square inch areal density, Serial ATA-600 interface, 64MB cache as well as 7200rpm spindle speed.”
The new hard disk drives also use the 4K format.
Additionally, the company will offer Deskstar 5K4000 drives with slower 5400rpm speed. Those drives also use five 800GB platters and not newer 1TB plates.
For now, the higher capacity drive is available in Japan for ¥28800 ($377), an expensive price even with the baked-in “flood” premium.
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Following this weekend’s big story on Zappos being hacked, the shoe retailer has been sued by an angry customer.
The customer claims Zappos did not properly “maintain adequate procedures for protecting customers? personal information.” 24 million accounts were compromised over the weekend in the largest breach of security since the PSN hack in April 2011.
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Late last night, I received an email, as did 24 million other account holders, that our Zappos accounts had been hacked and we needed to change our passwords.
The popular shoe retailer owned by Amazon says that information such as names, email addresses, billing and shipping addresses, phone numbers, the last four digits of credit card numbers and encrypted versions of account passwords were likely compromised.
Zappos says all credit card numbers and other payment information were not accessed, since they were housed in a different database.
Additionally, Zappo’s discounted 6PM.com site was also hacked in the same attack. At 24 million compromised, the attack is the largest since Sony’s PlayStation Network was taken down in April 2011, compromising data on 101 million gamers.
The retailer reset everyone’s passwords, but has shut off its phone lines, meaning all customer service requests will go to email.
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IBM’s supercomputer will now help save lives.
After beating up on lowly humans on ‘Jeopardy,’ IBM’s supercomputer Watson will now help Wellpoint Inc., the health insurer with 34 million members, to diagnose medical problems and authorize the correct treatments.
By integrating Watson’s database into its own existing patient information, Wellpoint says they should be able to find the best treatment and remedies in the quickest time.
Says IBM: “This very much fits into the sweet spot of what we envisioned for the applications of Watson.” Wellpoint agrees: “It’s really a game-changer in health care.”
More specifically, the databases being integrated are Wellpoint’s patient charts/electronic record, the insurance company’s history of medicines and treatments, and Watson’s vast database of textbooks and medical journals.
IBM says it will only take seconds for Watson to sift through all the data and provide several diagnoses or treatments.
