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  • 2TB hard drives hit Australia

    Western Digital has gained the honour of releasing the first two-terabyte drives in the market, with units turning up on Australian shelves.

  • Seagate announces 500GB notebook drive

    Seagate last week unveiled a 500GB 2.5-inch notebook drive as well as a 1.5TB desktop hard drive, claiming industry firsts for both.

  • 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.

  • Seagate set to enter flash-based hard drive market

    Seagate Technology, best known as a maker of magnetic hard drives, plans to make storage components based on flash memory as well, according to CEO Bill Watkins.

  • Storage giants to push hybrid hard drives

    Several major hard-drive vendors have announced that they will work together to promote and develop a new type of storage: hybrid hard drives.

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  • Minchin is gaining on Conroy

    Communications Minister Stephen Conroy needs to stop handing his opposite Nick Minchin free kicks and put some transparency back into the National Broadband Network process before he finds himself losing favour with Chairman Rudd.

  • How to destroy a hard drive

    In this video, we don our white lab coats and set about deleting data from hard drives. Instead of using more traditional methods, we decided to barbecue one hard drive, smash another one to pieces with a hammer and microwave the third.

  • Photos: Disk drive dissection

    What's inside the latest 160GB notebook hard drive from Western Digital? Our photo gallery shows you.

  • Photo gallery: Making the first disk drive

    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 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.

Reviews (26)

  • Seagate Barracuda XT

    The Barracuda XT is a 7200rpm 3.5-inch desktop drive featuring 2TB of storage capacity and a fast Serial ATA (SATA) 6Gb/second interface.

  • Microsoft Exchange 2010 beta 1: Review

    There's a lot to like in the first beta of Exchange 2010, from storage improvements to new high availability tools and better integration with the cloud, not to mention Outlook Web Access support for Firefox and Safari. But not everyone will be impressed by the lack of a 32-bit GUI management client.

  • Intel X-25M solid-state drive (80GB)

    Intel's X-25M solid-state drive enjoys several advantages over both conventional disk drives and other SSDs, including improvements to data throughput, boot time and notebook battery life. If you can forget about the cost, this is by far the fastest data drive available.

  • Apple MacBook Air (1.6GHz)

    Apple has released what has to be the thinnest notebook ever -- the MacBook Air.

  • Toshiba Qosmio G40

    Like its predecessor, the Qosmio G30, Toshiba's flagship multimedia desktop replacement offers a complete suite of entertainment features. The G40 is slightly slimmer and has a couple of tricks up its sleeve.

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