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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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With the world waiting for the official release of Intel's next-generation desktop platform, Seagate has decided to introduce a new hard drive to its Savvio family of 2.5-inch SAS 2.0 enterprise solutions. The company's latest addition is said to deliver a high performance level, while using about 70% less ... |
3 November 2008
09:22 GMT |
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Hammer Storage has recently announced the launch of its largest storage solution, the new morespace Portable. morespace Portable is a storage solution that features capacities ranging from 160GB to 500GB. The 2.5-inch portable hard drive features a 141 grams weight and comes with USB 2.0 interface (compatible with US... |
27 October 2008
01:17 GMT |
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Seagate Technology, one of the largest manufacturers of magnetic hard drives, is planning to enter the SSD market with a couple of flash-based storage solutions designed for the enterprise market. The company, which has a long story of creating traditional magnetic hard drives, is considering launching its first SSDs... |
10 October 2008
09:47 GMT |
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In nowadays computer systems the venerable hard disk drive is the main data storage unit and its purpose is to "remember" all kinds of stuff, ranging from music, video and document files to games and software applications, though the list can go on almost indefinitely. The hard disk drive, or HDD for short, dates bac... |
6 August 2008
11:04 GMT |
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Samsung is undoubtedly one of the leading manufacturers of consumer electronics, but it also has a significant presence on the computing market, granted especially by its storage products. By the looks of things, this Korean manufacturer is set on taking one of its product lines to the next level by making it more ap... |
28 July 2008
08:39 GMT |
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Through firmware update 2.41, the cleaned up version of the disastrous 2.40, Sony finally introduced Trophies to the PlayStation 3, bringing a reward system to its console that is on par with the Achievements system available on the Xbox 360. There might be some time before we really see all the games for that platfo... |
18 July 2008
16:11 GMT |
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What was just a rumor at the end of last week is confirmed reality at the beginning of this one. Just a few days prior to the now usual E3 press conference, Microsoft has finally announced that the Xbox 360 is getting a price cut and that the standard 20 GB console version is enjoying a significant upgrade.The offici... |
14 July 2008
03:49 GMT |
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Sentry Safe, a leader in residential and small office security-storage containers, announced yesterday the launch of its next generation 250GB FIRE-SAFE/Waterproof Hard Drive, capable of providing data protection from fire and water disasters and computer crashes. The development of the innovative, award-winning hard... |
2 July 2008
05:04 GMT |
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As we already stated a couple of times now, Solid State Drives are the way of the future, even if most of us still have to wait a while until the cost per gigabyte becomes more affordable. Until that happens, we can only hope that the technology is going to advance and will eventually improve the lifetime of the flas... |
1 July 2008
10:49 GMT |
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Nintendo is really working on a solution to the storage issues that Nintendo Wii users are reporting, but apparently it is not preparing to deliver an external hard drive for the Wii. The same Laurent Fischer of Nintendo Europe that ignited a small controversy by calling all those wishing for more storage space "geek... |
19 June 2008
17:51 GMT |
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Laurent Fischer, one of the most important people at Nintendo Europe, has issued an apology regarding some remarks he made last week regarding people that demanded more storage space for their Nintendo Wii gaming consoles.He now says that "I have huge respect for those who, like me, share a common passion for Nintend... |
16 June 2008
18:06 GMT |
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If you ever ran a Windows operating system, then I'm most certain that you have encountered at some point in time an error saying something like "Your system is low on virtual memory..." and so on, but you have never really figured out what it meant or what virtual memory really was. The virtual memory is part o... |
6 June 2008
09:10 GMT |
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On the 1st of February 2003, the space shuttle Columbia re-entered Earth's atmosphere while severely damaged to the left wing. The intense heat generated by the friction with the air eventually weakened the structural integrity of the vehicle and determined its disintegration, killing the crew of seven it was ca... |
10 May 2008
04:26 GMT |
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Have you ever noticed how as soon as you enter a computer shop the seller starts talking in some alien language, mentioning words such as 'L2 cache', '16 megabytes buffer' or 'virtual memory', but never has time to explain what those words really mean? If you have, then you're in th... |
18 April 2008
09:49 GMT |
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Looking to upgrade your MacBook Pro hard drive? Good. That's always good. Upgrading is good. But what if you've never popped open a laptop, or don't have much experience with swapping hardware in and out of a system, all this while Apple support doesn't sound too appealing either? You watch a vide... |
5 February 2008
05:35 GMT |
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The experiment for which Albert Fert and Peter Grünberg received the Novel Prize, for their new discoveries in the field of magnetism, concentrates mostly on the study of magnetic cores on the nanoscale, which seem to present extremely stable magnetization, which could potentially be used in the developing of the fut... |
20 December 2007
10:52 GMT |
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The Xbox 360's hard drive is a very delicate and valuable asset to your console. Sometimes however, the damned thing just won't work. It is possible in some cases that the user is an idiot and doesn't follow the rules of using the machine, but some users may have trouble with the hard drive despite tak... |
18 December 2007
09:42 GMT |
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Data recovery providers are the last resort when things go extremely, and I mean extremely nasty with your computer. Among the most precious things to lose when your hard drive fails are pictures of your ex or the final paper your promotion depends on. There are times when such disasters occur because of a defective ... |
5 December 2007
09:02 GMT |
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This should come in handy to every PlayStation 3 owner on the planet. Apparently, there's more to the console than you thought and although some of you may have discovered an extra feature or capability by now, Sony hasn't disclosed at least 10 solid ones.A piece up on tech.co.uk by Dean Evans mentions 10 s... |
14 November 2007
06:05 GMT |
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In case you haven't already ordered this piece of hardware, we bring good news: Western Digital have just launched a 320GB 2.5 inch Scorpio SATA hard drive. This 5400 RPM baby costs only $200 and it will be compatible with the PS3 that supports any SATA hard drive out there. Finally some freedom from Sony who wi... |
2 November 2007
04:34 GMT |
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With Microsoft and Sony throwing bundles around the globe to attract buyers, what do you think Nintendo is going to do? Probably launch a bundle of their own, with a new type of Wii even, but given that people are buying more Wiis than Nintendo can ship, they wouldn't have to worry about the holiday season. Stil... |
9 October 2007
05:49 GMT |
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Parallel ATA or IDE data transfer interfaces have been around for some years now and they are slowly but steadily driven to extinction by the ever increasing adoption of the fast and more manageable Serial ATA interfaces. As more and more computer hardware manufacturing companies are abandoning the use of the old sta... |
24 September 2007
08:59 GMT |
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