Hard drive failure can happen any time, but is your back (up) covered to minimise the loss?
Toshiba says it has become the first manufacturer to commercially release hard drives with perpendicular recording platters, an industrywide innovation that greatly increases the amount of data a drive can hold.
The convergence of mobile phones and other portable devices shuffled another step forward on Monday when Samsung launched a handset that contained a 1.5GB hard drive with a one-inch diameter.
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In another sign of trouble in the disk drive industry, Seagate Technology said early today that it plans to cut its annual operating costs by about US$150 million and trim its work force.
Faced with the thought of a USB drive, notebook PC or backup tape going missing, most IT managers look to some form of encryption as the first layer of defence. However, according to one storage security expert, that's largely a pointless exercise.
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Troubled online storage start-up Omnidrive late last week said it was continuing to develop its products and was examining the potential to merge its technology with that of other companies.
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IBM is expected to announce technology that shortens the time it takes to find information is being extended to its desktop hard drives.
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.
Two Massachusetts Institute of Technology graduate students have uncovered a treasure trove of personal and corporate information on used disk drives.
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Maxtor's OneTouch III Turbo Edition packs in a lot of features and capabilities at a fair price. Among external desktop hard drives, it's a winner.
More than just a hard drive enclosure, the SC101 provides compelling features at a low price, making it a good choice for shared storage.
Hard drive failure can happen any time, but is your back (up) covered to minimise the loss?
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