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• Seagate updates hard drive portfolio

  Unlike in the past, when hard-drive makers typically released the same basic drive for various markets, they now nip and tuck their products to fit specific customer profiles and applications.

• Apple orders 50 million GB serve of flash chips

  Samsung is warning its customers that NAND flash memory might be hard to come by for some time after Apple placed a large order, according to a report out of Taiwan.

• Hybrid drive to extend notebook battery life

  Microsoft and Samsung showed off a prototype hard drive on Monday that can record data while idling, a twist that has the potential to significantly cut power consumption in notebooks.

• Networked storage heads for homes

  Storage companies are betting a technology once reserved for businesses will appeal to consumers dealing with large files shared by multiple PCs and a need for data protection.

• Toshiba touts data density record with new drive

  Toshiba says it has earned the right to say it's more dense than its competitors.

• Store your life in gigabytes

  As disk capacities expand, we'll be storing more and more of our books, music, images, and videos on our PCs.

• Starting Over

  Sit down and erase your hard disk now! Probably the best thing that could happen to a computer user is to lose the hard disk, forcing a user to rebuild a system from scratch, as painful as this sounds. Hear me out on this.

• Samsung puts hard drive in a mobile

  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.

• IBM's racetrack memory seeks 100x density boost

  IBM researchers gave ZDNet.com.au's sister site CNET News.com an insight its latest "racetrack" memory, which IBM promises will bring a 100 fold increase in density by storing data in long magnetised nanowires rather than disks.

• Magnetic memory moves on

  Toshiba and NEC have joined forces to cut down power consumption and size in cells of MRAM

• PDA memory storage basics

  There is more than one type of memory used in Palm-based PDAs. Before deciding on a PDA purchase, review the extended storage options presented here.

• Hunting down hard disk resource hogs

  Find out how to narrow your search for the cause of system slowdowns by configuring the Performance Monitor and Task Manager to reveal rogue processes that can tie up valuable system resources.

• SanDisk rolls out flash hard drives for laptops

  SanDisk wants to replace the hard drive in notebooks with flash memory, a swap that it says will make thin laptops faster and more reliable.

• Hard drives, telephoto lenses meet mobile phones

  Samsung has unfurled a mobile phone with a 1-megapixel camera, two colour screens and a 1.5-gigabyte, 1-inch hard disk drive. It can be used to play MP3 files or display pictures or shoot videos.

• Hard drive 'crash guard' pioneered

  A new 2.5cm hard drive will be unveiled early next year that has built-in protection against drops and other shocks, which could have massive implications for the use of hard drives in mobile phones and other devices.

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