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Data recovery company DriveSavers has recovered over six billion data files for Apple users since the company’s debut some 25 years ago. So they decided to announce the feat to the world.
According to their estimates, six billion data files are the equivalent to the amount of data stored in the Library of Cong... |
26 January 2012
10:51 GMT |
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A number of 232 hard drives containing confidential information on Brighton General Hospital patients were stolen from a locked storage facility, where they were being decommissioned, and put up for sale on eBay.
The Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust appointed the Sussex Health Informatics Service t... |
11 January 2012
05:16 GMT |
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While making a movie about the hard rock band called The Angels, a filmmaker from Sydney was shocked after he discovered that his newly purchased Seagate 1.5 terabyte hard drive contained pieces of malware and tons of pirated movies. According to The Sidney Morning Herald, Darryl Manson purchased an allegedly new ha... |
23 December 2011
06:49 GMT |
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Japanese buyers always seem to get cool hardware and gadgets to play around with way before those of us living in other parts of the world have a chance to, and these 4TB hard drives from Hitachi are no different.Codenamed HDS5C4040ALE630, the HDDs haven’t yet been announced by the company, yet these have someh... |
9 December 2011
06:11 GMT |
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Among the new features that Microsoft’s upcoming Windows 8 client is set to bring along, we can count Storage Spaces, an option that was mentioned before, but never actually seen in action. There is no video to show this feature in action at the moment either, but we do have some screenshots available to have ... |
5 December 2011
12:00 GMT |
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The end of the hard drive shortage caused by the catastrophic floods that affected Thailand seems to be in sight as Western Digital (WD) has just announced it restarted HDD production in one of its buildings in Bang Pa-in (BPI).WD managed to get the facility ready for production one week ahead of its internal schedul... |
2 December 2011
07:11 GMT |
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The Xbox 360 hardware division at Microsoft has announced a new 320 GB hard drive for the home console, which comes complete with a download code for LEGO Star Wars III: The Clone Wars.Microsoft has called the new device the Media Hard Drive, suggesting that it is big enough to satisfy the needs of those console owne... |
19 October 2011
09:23 GMT |
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A person who took their Mac in for repairs at an Apple retail store was handed a hard drive containing an Apple Retail Store server Time Machine backup disk with secret internal documents.
Dating from late 2009 to May 2011, the files on the disc included “confidential docs, internal manuals, Apple’s sa... |
2 September 2011
05:21 GMT |
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Western Digital has released a new external drive catering to the needs of Mac professionals, both aesthetically and functionally speaking.WD’s newest generation of the popular My Book® Studio external hard drives are said to be designed for use with Mac computers and Time Machine, the OS X standard backup ... |
7 July 2011
08:56 GMT |
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The following tutorial will teach you how to easily boot any ISO image of a Linux distribution directly from your hard drive. We've tested the tutorial on the Ubuntu 10.10 (Maverick Meerkat) and the current development version of the upcoming Ubuntu 11.04 (Natty Narwhal) operating systems. Would you like an eas... |
18 March 2011
14:41 GMT |
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Users have reported that the newly released Halo: Reach from Bungie and Microsoft is not playable in the campaign cooperative mode when using a 4 GB version of the Xbox 360 Arcade model with the console maker and video games publisher saying that it is working on a fix for the issue but not offering a timeline for it... |
16 September 2010
06:16 GMT |
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The executive producer working on the upcoming Gran Turismo 5 racing simulation from Polyphony Digital and Sony has announced that players who would like to have the best experience while playing the game will need to have no less than 10 GB hard drive space ready for the game.Kazunori Yamauchi is the main man behind... |
31 August 2010
15:11 GMT |
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DriveSavers Data Recovery, Inc. has announced that Apple has selected the company for a special feature story on iPhone integration and usage in business. Apple representatives recently visited the DriveSavers facility, the company said. During a meeting with CEO Jay Hagan, Director of Marketing Lynda Martel and o... |
29 July 2010
06:56 GMT |
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A retail listing on the German language site of Internet giant Amazon has unveiled the existence of the 4 GB hard drive version of the Xbox 360 Arcade System Bundle. This is the first time a retailer has offered information on a new gaming console from Microsoft that bears the Arcade name after the manufacturer unvei... |
15 July 2010
05:11 GMT |
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Toshiba has announced the Canvio for Mac Portable Hard Drive lineup, three storage units shipping with 500GB, 750GB and 1TB storage capacities that not only look great, but come pre-loaded with backup software developed with the Mac user in mind. The drives start at $99.99 for the 500GB model.“With consumers ac... |
13 July 2010
12:11 GMT |
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With such cool add-ons for the Apple iPad, no wonder even some companies encourage users to jailbreak. Yes, someone apparently found a way to get an iPad to recognize an external hard drive, according to a 9to5mac report. The tablet was tricked into thinking it was only handling a USB camera kit. The process involved... |
7 May 2010
06:37 GMT |
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Other World Computing has announced the launch of its Mercury Elite-AL Pro mini 1TB portable hard drive. The company claims it is the first-ever 2.5-inch 1TB drive to ship with a quad interface (e-SATA, USB, FIreWire 400, and FireWire 800). Although the specs are impressive, OWC leaves quite a bit of room for improve... |
10 March 2010
10:10 GMT |
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Since they were first invented, hard drives have steadily become faster, more reliable and more capacious, as well as more compact and efficient. This trend is visible in all areas of the IT industry, as all the technology is evolving into forms that are capable of higher performances at reduced costs. Currently, the... |
8 February 2010
04:06 GMT |
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Microsoft, the creator of the Xbox 360 home gaming console, has announced that it plans to release an external 250 GB hard drive for its platform on the Japanese market. The new storage device is set to arrive on March 11 alongside other accessories and will cost interested players 15,540 Yen, which is about 172 doll... |
3 February 2010
15:01 GMT |
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I-O data is preparing to once again jump on the external-storage bandwagon with its upcoming high-capacity hard disk drives. The company is gearing up to launch the HDJ-U series of external storage units. All models are designed with a stylish, black casing and can sit either vertically or horizontally, depending on ... |
27 January 2010
08:08 GMT |
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G-Technology by Hitachi is taking part, as an official Leadership Sponsor, in the 2010 Sundance Film Festival, January 21-31, 2010, in Park City, Utah. Taking advantage of this opportunity, G-Tech has announced a new family of external hard drives aimed at complementing MAC systems. The company has presented two new ... |
23 January 2010
05:03 GMT |
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Kanguru Solutions, a division of Interactive Media Corporation, has recently announced the introduction of a new full featured, entry level, hard drive duplicator. Simply dubbed Kanguru HD Duplicator Mini Clone, the new product has been designed as an ultra compact, stand alone solution, being able to provide users ... |
26 November 2009
03:16 GMT |
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The amount of digital data is increasing everyday, making consumers continuously search for new storage solutions, that can provide enhanced capacities, performance, and reliability, features that are required to store and protect one's digital content. On that note, ioSafe has announced today the availability ... |
13 November 2009
05:26 GMT |
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Toshiba's Storage Device Division (SDD) announced today the expansion of its line of 1.8-inch, traditional hard disk drives with the introduction of two new additions designed to meet the requirements of a full range of mobile computing applications. The new additions include a high-performance 5,400RPM family o... |
5 November 2009
03:36 GMT |
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Western Digital, one of the world's most recognizable brands in the consumer storage market, has announced today the debut of its new WD S25-inch 2.5-inch traditional hard drive, featuring a SAS interface. Designed for the traditional enterprise market segment, the new drive is the company's first SAS-based... |
3 November 2009
10:31 GMT |
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QNAP Systems, a Taiwanese manufacturer of NAS servers, NVR video surveillance systems and Network-based video players, continues to expand its line of external storage solutions with the introduction of a new TS-110 desktop NAS server, designed to meet the requirements of today's SOHO users. Part of the company&... |
19 October 2009
06:36 GMT |
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Apple has released a new software update for users of its desktop and portable Macintosh computers. Performance Update 1.0 for Mac OS X versions 10.5 and 10.6 “addresses intermittent hard drive-related stalls reported by a small number of customers,” Apple reveals on the Support section of its website. Th... |
15 October 2009
03:03 GMT |
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Hitachi Global Storage Technologies, one of the world's leading vendors of high-performance hard-disk drives, has announced today the expansion of its line of Ultrastar hard drives for enterprise storage applications. The company has just introduced two new 15,000RPM Ultrastar hard drives for Tier 0/1, mission-c... |
13 October 2009
05:37 GMT |
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A-DATA, a leading vendor of Flash and DRAM memory, has just announced the introduction of its new portable storage solution, designed to provide computer users with as much as 640GB of storage space inside a rugged chassis. Dubbed the SH93 series, the new drive has been specifically built to meet a number of standard... |
6 October 2009
05:23 GMT |
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The market for portable storage solutions has expanded at a fast pace, as users are now able to choose from a wide range of products that come in various shapes and sizes, ready to provide them with a choice for a portable hard drive or flash drive product. While flash drives can be made available in smaller, more po... |
30 September 2009
05:53 GMT |
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Following a report, earlier today, the Scotts Valley, California-based Seagate has announced the official debut of its new Barracuda XT hard disk drive, claiming it to be the world's fastest, largest-capacity mainstream desktop hard drive. Boasting an impressive 2TB of storage space and the next-generation SATA ... |
21 September 2009
09:03 GMT |
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Back in late July, Lake Forest, California-based Western Digital announced the introduction of the industry's first 1TB mobile hard drive, as part of the company's Scorpio Blue line. It now appears that Seagate, Western Digital's main competitor, is also gearing up to announce its first 1TB mobile driv... |
1 September 2009
05:56 GMT |
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The storage market continues to evolve as technology enables companies to roll out new products that deliver increased performance and better power consumption, all within an affordable package. On that note, Hitachi GST has announced today the launch of its fifth-generation 7200RPM mobile hard disk drive. Coming in ... |
1 September 2009
04:05 GMT |
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Responding to complaints from hundreds of users buying MacBook Pros with 7200-rpm hard drives, Apple has, at last, issued a firmware update to address beeping / freezing issues. The update is highly recommended for users of a “June 2009 MacBook Pro.” In regular Apple fashion, the company headquartered in... |
20 August 2009
04:42 GMT |
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While the rest of the storage industry is moving towards more affordable and higher-performance Flash-based Solid State Drives (SSD), Verbatim continues to provide its customers with storage solutions based on the traditional hard disk drive. The company has announced today the launch of the new InSight Portable USB ... |
17 August 2009
09:54 GMT |
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Complaints about malfunctioning hard drives have prompted Apple to take steps into solving this issue, and, as such, initially confirmed by the company’s support staff, and now by spokesperson Bill Evans, the Mac maker is working on a firmware fix for it. "We are aware of the issue and are working on a softwar... |
11 August 2009
03:13 GMT |
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Apple is reportedly working on a fix for MacBook Pro owners whose 7,200RPM hard drives randomly click and beep as the computer accesses data on the drive. Hundreds of users on the Apple Discussions forums have complained of the issue, with some of them confirming that Apple’s tech support staff is aware of ongo... |
10 August 2009
03:08 GMT |
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Samsung Electronics, one of the world's leading vendors of digital consumer electronics and IT products, has recently announced the launch of a new lineup of Spinpoint F3 hard disk drives, featuring 500GB platters. The new storage solution has been specifically designed for working environments where high-densit... |
29 July 2009
05:09 GMT |
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Toshiba's Digital Products Division has just announced the release of a new 3.5-inch external hard disk drive, marking the company's entry in the market for 3.5-inch external storage solutions. The new product from Toshiba has been designed to provide users with an alternative to other 3.5-inch external sto... |
29 July 2009
03:05 GMT |
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Seagate, one of the world's leading vendors of storage solutions, has announced today the availability of its new Cheetah 15K.7 enterprise-class hard drives, designed to deliver enhanced performance to a wide range of server and storage applications. According to the Scotts Valley, California-based company, the ... |
13 July 2009
10:44 GMT |
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CleanMyMac is an all-in-one utility that helps you keep your Mac clean and healthy. Using the app, you can delete useless files that pile up over time and waste valuable disk space, while slowing down your system. The new version of the software adds an impressively looking user interface, as well as significantly im... |
15 June 2009
05:07 GMT |
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The folks at DriveSavers, who deal with what the company's name implies, have come up with a truly helpful iPhone application. Not only does DriveSaver simulate real-life scenarios of hard drives failing as the user interacts with their inner-workings, but it also provides helpful advice on how to stay out of ha... |
11 June 2009
10:05 GMT |
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Coming to support the increasing demand for external storage solutions, Iomega, an EMC company, recently announced the introduction of a new portable hard drive, part of the Iomega eGo Portable Hard Drive line. According to the company, its latest addition to an expansive line of portable hard disk drives takes advan... |
19 May 2009
03:04 GMT |
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As technology continues to develop, higher-capacity portable storage solutions are being released on the market. Currently, users can hold up to 64GB of data on a single, small-sized USB Flash Drive. However, there are a couple of users out there who are looking for higher storage solutions that are ultra-portable an... |
12 March 2009
07:20 GMT |
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Western Digital, a leading vendor of hard disk drives, has just introduced the world's first 2TB hard drive, in the form of a new environmentally-friendly WD Caviar Green hard drive. Designed as a 3.5-inch product, the world's highest-capacity hard drive takes advantage of the company's industry-leadin... |
27 January 2009
10:13 GMT |
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Nobody talks about the importance of backing up your computer anymore. The subject is always brought up only when someone's hard drive crashes. But then it's too late, isn't it? However, it looks like at least one Mac user learned from others' mistakes, and acted before all was lost.Meet Jharston,... |
22 December 2008
11:09 GMT |
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As some of you already know, Seagate has recently announced a new firmware fix for its high-capacity 1.5TB Barracuda SATA hard disk drives, of which numerous users have reported freezing moments. The issue has raised serious questions regarding the company's products, with some users expressing their skepti... |
28 November 2008
05:40 GMT |
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If you have recently acquired one of Seagate's high-capacity Barracuda 7200.11 1.5TB hard drives and have experienced some freezing problems with it, then you will probably be happy to know that the company has just acknowledged these issues, and has released a firmware update for its high-capacity hard disk dri... |
27 November 2008
10:54 GMT |
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One of the main elements included in the New Xbox Experience, which has just launched for all the users of the Xbox 360 gaming console from Microsoft, is the ability to install parts of a game on the hard drive of the device, if you have one of the two models with an internal storage solution. The idea was to r... |
20 November 2008
20:11 GMT |
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Customers are reporting that Apple has e-mailed them with an apology for delaying their orders on the new, NVIDIA-based MacBook Air units. The delay only appears to be affecting the entry-level 1.6GHz model with a 120GB SATA hard drive, sources indicate.Apple explains that an unforeseen issue has made it unlikely for... |
6 November 2008
08:40 GMT |
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