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Worldwide shipments of PCs dropped towards the end of last year as consumer demand slowed. Ultrabooks, introduced to the market in the holiday season, didn't attract consumers, and the overall decline in PC shipments for the fourth quarter of 2011 was 1.4 percent.

Super Talent Technology, a leading manufacturer of Flash storage solutions and DRAM memory modules, today announced the USB 3.0 Storage POD enclosure, a hard drive enclosure that converts almost any 2.5" HDD into a USB 3.0 external hard disk.

In what is presumably quite a momentous moment, Seagate says it had shipped its millionth 'solid state hybrid drive for laptop PCs' - the Momentus XT.

Seagate has finally broken the 'areal density barrier' and has unveiled the world's first hard drive with 1TB on each platter and will have it on sale soon, in 'mid-2011'.

Crucial, the SSD brand of memory company Lexar, is flexing its muscles, delivering a new 'm4 SSD' with higher capacities and faster performance as the battle between the HDD and the SDD intensifies yet again!

Computer hardware continues to get smaller, faster and cheaper. opening up new usage scenarios as it does so. Near year's end 2010 Hitachi unveiled their  second generation of 7mm thick single-platter 2.5-inch hard drive range, while for comparison Intel announced their SSD 310 series of solid-state drives that are only 5mm thick.

Til now only included in special edition Xbox 360's, owners of the Microsoft gaming console cramped for space may now have an answer.

It's expensive, and not available everywhere, but Microsoft are slowly giving Xbox 360 owners a way to store their increasing volume of games, photos, music and HD movies.