Samsung Electronics has unveiled a 256GB SSD solid state drive that is less than 10mm thick.
Seagate Technology, the industry's largest producer of hard drives, has finally started shipping its first batch of hybrid hard drives for notebook PCs.
Although a discrepancy between the traditional and modern definitions of kilobyte has led to Seagate Technology offering a rebate on their hard drives, a Seagate representative has confirmed that Australians will not be eligible for the refund.
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.
Information storage media company Maxell has said it will launch its first holographic storage products in September 2006. The first removable drive will have a capacity of 300GB and a throughput of 160mbps.
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.
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.
Seagate has unveiled two new portable hard drives -- one of which is just 3 inches in diameter, yet capable of storing 5GB of data.
More hard times for a hard-drive maker as Maxtor sends out a second-quarter warning and says it will make job cuts
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New hardware on show at CeBIT in Germany this year includes a Windows version of a low-power laptop and a notebook designed for air travel.
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This tough microdrive player has a lot of selling points but holds only 1.5GB.
Western digital has released a range of hard drives purporting to save up to 40 percent in power consumption over comparable drives. We found the drives not only lived up to promised efficiency, but also were competitively priced.
The Seagate FreeAgent Go is a handsome looking portable, with a variety of backup and security applications, that appears to provide good value for money.
A new hard drive from Cornice is small enough to fit into MP3 players or cameras but costs less than memory cards and other tiny drives.
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