A failed hard-disk at a traffic control centre wreaked havoc on Melbourne streets this morning.
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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.
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Seagate Technology, the industry's largest producer of hard drives, has finally started shipping its first batch of hybrid hard drives for notebook PCs.
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Keen news readers would have heard about the strong earthquake that rocked south-western Greece on Sunday. Fewer may have realised that the quake was not so much an act of God, as an act of Jobs.
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.
There are times when the tone of Australia's broadband discussions makes me want to laugh, and others when it just makes me want to cry. The past week has been one of the latter, after two very different broadband-related stories made their way across my desk.
One wouldn't expect the price and privacy-conscious public sector to shop at Harvey Norman. But occasionally they do.
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Two Massachusetts Institute of Technology graduate students have uncovered a treasure trove of personal and corporate information on used disk drives.
Hitachi Global Storage will come out with hard drives containing 230 gigabits of data per square inch, the company is expected to announce on Monday, which could mean a 20GB iPod mini.
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.
Hard drive failure can happen any time, but is your back (up) covered to minimise the loss?
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