The Deskstar™ 7K4000 offers the industry’s highest hard drive capacity at an enormous four terabytes of storage with 7200 RPM performance in a standard 3.5-inch form factor. This drive uses Advanced Format, which increases the sector size on HDDs from 512 bytes to 4096 (4K) bytes, thereby increasing capacities and improving error correcting capabilities. Consult the Hitachi Advanced Format Technology Brief for more information.

Esquire Technologies expects a slight slowdown in growth in 2012 – this, on the back of the current economic situation; the ongoing hard disk drives shortages; and a weaker Rand. This is according to Esquire MD, Mahomed Cassim.

Esquire Technologies may not be a household name in South Africa, but you may well be using one of the products imported by the company. Esquire has grown from a small operation – started in June 1999, and run from a house in Centurion – to one of the largest technology distributors in South Africa.

ESQUIRE Technologies said last week it had bought 50% of internet service provider SA Gateway for an undisclosed amount. The remaining 50% will be held by SA Gateway management.