How Hard Drives Work
	Although computers don't absolutely require hard drives to work properly, almost everyone has at least a hard drive. Mainframes and servers may have several hundreds of such devices on which they store terabytes of information at a time. Before the appearance of hard drives, computers used magnetic tapes to store information, today even VCR and camcorders use hard drives as alternative storing devices. Magnetic tape vs. ha ... [read more >>]
	05 April 2008, 05:39GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Elite Portable Hard Drives from Western Digital
	Western Digital is one of the most important and well established hardware companies that are in the business of providing reliable and top of the line data storage solutions. While other similar companies like Seagate and LaCie are already well known and appreciated for their families of portable storage hard disk drives, for Western Digital this is still somewhat of a new market, as the company has just a few products aimed at mobile con ... [read more >>]
	31 March 2008, 02:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Carbon Copy Cloner 3.1 Now Available
	Mike Bombich has just released version 3.1 of Carbon Copy Cloner. The new release features rsync 3.0.0 to provide even greater fidelity when backing up using the "Copy selected items" backup method. Whether it sounds impressive to you or not, everyon ... [read more >>]
	26 March 2008, 11:05GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Your Hard Drive Under the Looking Glass
	While most of the components of a typical computer system are not affected in any measurable way by their age, providing that they had spent their life in good conditions, there are still some systems that are based on mechanical components that are prone to a host of problems and critical failures. Among the still mechanical systems that are to be found inside a modern-day computer, maybe the most important and, unfortunately, the most pr ... [read more >>]
	29 February 2008, 07:35GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Samsung and Hitachi to Shake Hands for HDD Patents
	Samsung Electronics has announced that it has agreed with Hitachi to exchange technology licenses to include their hard-disk drive patents. The deal has been filled with the Korean Exchange, and the agreement with Hitachi covers technology patented by both Hitachi and IBM (as the Japanese electronics conglomerate bought IBM's disk drive operations in 2002 for $2 billion). Under the new agreement, both companies will be ... [read more >>]
	21 December 2007, 08:25GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

512 GB Solid-State Drives: The Revolution Has Begun!
	Solid-state drives are already the new trend if you own a laptop and have the necessary money to spare. The bad news was that the SSDs are in the pioneering stage and capacity barriers are somewhat low as compared to the classic hard-drive industry. A few days ago, Micron has made a bold move and introduced 32 and 64 GB solid-state NAND-based discs that should do a good job inside a business notebook, for example. Multimedia fanatics, ... [read more >>]
	05 December 2007, 06:00GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Fujitsu Announce 320 GB on a 2.5-inch disk
	Fujitsu has just reported their 2.5-inch hard drive to deliver a maximum storage capacity of 320 GB. The MHZ2 BH line is designed for use in notebooks and compact desktop PCs, as well as for other consumer electronic devices, such as HDD camera recorders or television sets. The MHZ2 BH has become a reference point in the nowadays storage industry, not only due to the fact that it is one of the largest 2.5-inch disks on the ma ... [read more >>]
	27 November 2007, 07:03GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Western Digital Cuts Down the Electricity Bill
	Western Digital has announced a new line of hard disks that practically spare up to 40 percent of power, as compared to the competition’s products. The GreenPower compliant class of SATA drives (RE2-GP) feature capacities ranging from 500GB up to 1TB and use around 5 watts less at no performance loss. This performance boost is the result of Western Digital's branded features. IntelliPower uses caching algorithms, data tr ... [read more >>]
	22 November 2007, 03:35GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Western Digital Breaks HDD Storage Density Barrier
	It seems that only yesterday, perpendicular recording was making its way into hard disks, and now, more than two years later, HDD manufacturers continue to break density barriers. Western Digital yesterday announced that they have achieved the "hard drive industry's highest demonstrated density to date using continuous media". The company revealed the milestone this week at the Perpendicular Magnetic Recording Conference in ... [read more >>]
	18 October 2007, 03:41GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Seagate Will Go Hybrid Soon
	The hard disk drive manufacturing industry recently reached a point where storage capabilities are plentiful and few users could ask for more while most of the time the very same industry has big trouble accelerating the access speed of the drives in order to improve response times and overall system performance. One possible solution would be to completely dump the traditional hard disk drive design and switch over to the sol ... [read more >>]
	25 September 2007, 05:18GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

A ToughDisk Is a Rugged Disk
	Rugged storage solutions are largely based on hard disk drives that are encapsulated into a protective casing that implements a number of shock absorbing technologies as well as technologies designed to maximize the life of the drive in extreme operating environments. Formation is one of the companies that focuses on the manufacture of such drives and it announced the availability of a new product from the ToughDisk family, which comes wit ... [read more >>]
	14 September 2007, 05:52GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

160Gb of Data on an 1.8-inch HDD
	There is no such thing as too much storage space, says an old computer saying and the engineers from Toshiba seem to live by that expression as the company announced a new mini hard disk drive with an impressive storage capability: 160GB. While 160Gb of storage capacity is looking like old and dusty news for a desktop intended 3.5 inch hard disk drive or a smaller 2.5 inch laptop designed HDD, Toshiba did not launch such a drive but rather ... [read more >>]
	06 September 2007, 11:13GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Fire up Those Lasers and Write Something on a HDD
	The conventional design of a hard disk drive calls for a read/ write head to modify the magnetic field of a certain memory bit in order to modify its stored value and thus information. While this method has been in use for decades and it is reliable and quite fast, researchers from the Netherlands and Japan tried a different approach to flip the magnetic field of a memory bit without using a classical hard disk drive head. Instead they use ... [read more >>]
	06 September 2007, 10:48GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Toshiba Launches a 320GB Mobile HDD
	Once with only a fraction of the storage capacity of a desktop intended hard disk drive, now the mobile, laptop intended 2.5 inch hard disk drive (HDD for short) is making great progress in expanding its capacity. After the Japanese computer hardware manufacturer Fujitsu announced that it started work on a laptop intended hard disk drive with a nominal storage capacity in excess of 1TB, another Japanese hardware-centered company is announc ... [read more >>]
	21 August 2007, 04:33GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Running Low on HDDs
	After the NAND memory crash down from Samsung, when the manufacturer ceased production for a few hours because of a power leakage at one of its production facilities in Korea, it looks as if the hard disk drive market is next on the list of disasters just waiting to happen. Hard disk drives inventories are running low and the most affected models are those with 80GB or 160GB of storage capacity. According to the Korean news si ... [read more >>]
	14 August 2007, 03:14GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Understanding Hard Drive Technical Specifications
	From my personal experience with computers, I can say that there is no such thing as too much space on the hard disk drive, users rapidly finding new things to store there, from photos and music file, to games, movies and just about every other thing that can be downloaded, copied or transferred through a network or using other means. So, the hard disk drive is one of the most upgraded components in the entire computer, either by replacing ... [read more >>]
	06 August 2007, 10:40GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

“Singing” and Failing Hard Disks
	Usually, hard disk drives are pretty silent hardware components. I mean, of course you can hear them, but the normal sounds they make are not too powerful and they appear under heavy workloads. Or so it is supposed to be, as there are some older drives that make a lot of noise when running at full capacity. Sometimes, users may hear knocking or clicking sounds coming out from the hard disk drive in the form of a rhythmic sound that star ... [read more >>]
	03 August 2007, 07:03GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

The Story Behind The Green Hard Drives
	It looks as if the entire computer manufacturing industry is having a collective green "fit". It is not something really new, some power regulations were installed long ago, but not until now were they so closely observed and respected. Don't get me wrong: I'm all in favor of a greener and environment friendly computing industry, but some of these things are happening just too fast for me to believe that they are not so ... [read more >>]
	26 July 2007, 09:58GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Only SATA Drives from Now On
	Serial ATA hard disk drives and optical drives are becoming more and more popular as their price drops (now it is already equal with the price of a Parallel ATA drive). Their popularity is not only due to their now lower costs, but mainly because they offer better performance in a computer hardware segment where speed usually increases at a snail's pace. For the last decade or so, mass storage devices have always been the wo ... [read more >>]
	26 July 2007, 06:56GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Western Digital Passport Review
	Portable hard drives have been around for quite some time offering a healthy alternative to internal storage. Buying one for yourself at this particular moment seems a rather good idea especially if you need to carry a large amount of data with you. While this statement alone doesn't directly relate to the importance of owning such a device, perhaps the following lines will do a better job. In any case, Western Digital' ... [read more >>]
	12 April 2007, 11:00GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

A Class 10 Certified Clean Room For Data Recovery
	A room that has a Class 10 certification represents an almost perfect environment. Why almost perfect? Because you can find 10 particles of dust in every cubic meter of air, or so I've been told. Such a room is being used by research companies for analysis of certain elements in a controlled environment. One well known “clean room” is HP's center where they develop and test cartridge technologies and ink. Besides hav ... [read more >>]
	27 March 2007, 06:49GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia