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    The $5 budget challenge

    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.

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  • Seagate cranks up notebook drives to 160GB

    Seagate Technology, the largest hard drive manufacturer in the world, has started to ship its first drive for notebooks based on perpendicular recording techniques, a shift that increases capacity by 25 percent.

  • "Speed up" Linux with hdparm

    Many Linux systems use conservative defaults that could hamper performance but the hdparm tool might overcome this problem.

  • Seagate drive joins 400GB club

    Seagate's latest PC hard drives can absorb up to 400 gigabytes of data. The recenty unveiled Barracuda 7200.8 family includes 200GB, 250GB, 300GB and 400GB models for desktop PCs -- up from a maximum of 200GB.

  • A closer look at Serial ATA

    Find out how the new Serial ATA drive standard works.

  • Seagate hopes for big splash with small drives

    Seagate has unveiled two new portable hard drives -- one of which is just 3 inches in diameter, yet capable of storing 5GB of data.

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  • Western Digital WD RE2-GP & WD Caviar GP

    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.

  • Learning the hard way

    Hard drive failure can happen any time, but is your back (up) covered to minimise the loss?

  • Start-up brings hard drive to the masses

    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.

  • Burn baby, burn: Firewire inferno

    Maxtor's latest hard drive isn't just frighteningly large; it's also spookily portable. Firewire drives are nothing new, but the Personal Storage 3000XT takes matters to a new level.

  • Seagate FreeAgent Go (160GB)

    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.

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