More than a third of data loss from digital storage media is caused by human error, undermining the potential business benefits of cheaper, higher capacity storage, according to Ontrack.
The disk drive industry is spinning its wheels, according to a new report.
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Samsung has developed a new computer flash technology with so much capacity it could replace mini hard drives in some PCs, the company said on Monday.
Micron Technology has announced two new lines of solid-state drives, one of which could offer huge performance and power-management benefits in servers, according to the company.
The ever-decreasing cost of storage might look like a useful development for the cash-strapped IT manager, but in fact the falling bucks per gigabyte figure can carry a hidden sting in the tail.
Storage is a serious business, but when things screw up in a chronic manner, sometimes all you can do is cackle louder than Jeanne Little and then get on with cleaning up the mess.
I'm standing in a room with roughly a quarter of a million backup tapes. No, this isn't where the FuelWatch guys hid the evidence, it's the Perth storage area for Spectrum Data, which specialises in storing ageing backup media and helping companies retrieve data from long-forgotten archives.
Google has attracted a lot of attention with a new study that contradicts the accepted wisdom that hard drives are more likely to fail in cool conditions than warm ones. However, I don't think we ought to be switching off the datacentre air conditioners any time soon.
Apple also used the event to launch its latest bid for storage supremacy: the Time Capsule. For Mac-loving households, this might be good news, but as a business storage solution it leaves a lot to be desired.
A look at IBM's RAMAC, the original hard disk drive created in 1956. It weighed more than 250 kilograms and stored only 5 megabytes of data on 50 disks, 24 inches in diameter.
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A group working to improve the Serial ATA communication standard for hard drives promises to up its data-transfer rate to 3Gbps by the end of the year.
Many Linux systems use conservative defaults that could hamper performance but the hdparm tool might overcome this problem.
Storage gear maker LSI Logic and Hitachi Global Storage Technologies will join forces to work on development of serial-attached SCSI, which could speed up the delivery of devices using the next-generation high-speed connection technology.
If you need to roll out a software configuration across more than one desktop or laptop, you'll need an app that can make a mirror image of an existing hard drive.
Storage maker Quantum has unveiled two disk-based backup appliances designed as tape replacements for Australian mid-sized office and datacentre use.
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