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Future Hard Drives Will Feature Advanced Magnetic Recording Capabilities

Investigators at the University of York Department of Physics led an international collaboration of researchers who recently announced the development of an improved method for magnetic recording. The achievement could be used to develop very advanced hard drives, as well as other devices. Information stored on suc...

8 February 2012
05:38 GMT

LG Makes Hard Drives Light

Normally, when we think about a hard drive, our minds unfortunately drift to the large, heavy, complicated and huge data-storage units used in everyday PCs. Until a few years ago, the term hard drive specifically determined these monstrous, often circuit-covered box-shaped things that could break concrete if, for wha...

11 November 2009
10:12 GMT

Hitachi Offers Three New External Drives for the EMEA Markets

Hitachi has just announced the expansion of its line of portable hard drives with the addition of three new models, targeted at customers in Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA). Designed to meet the requirements of road warriors, prosumers and SOHO users, the new drives offer a choice for portability, high-capacity...

27 October 2009
07:15 GMT

Advanced Magnetic Devices Have Unexpectedly Long-Range Effects

Electromagnetic nanostructures used in data storage are, at this point, some of the most complex devices in the world, and they make storing information at the nanoscale possible with relative ease. But a tiny grid of the stuff has recently led researchers to a totally unexpected find, namely that they have surprisin...

2 July 2009
17:01 GMT

Seagate Rolls Out New Low-Power Barracuda Drives

In a market where Flash-based Solid State Drives are recording a growing popularity, Seagate Technology, one of the world's leading vendors of storage solutions, has announced its latest Barracuda hard drives, promising an increased storage capacity in a lower-power package. Simply dubbed Barracuda LP, the new d...

22 April 2009
09:55 GMT

Seagate Firmware Fix Turns into Fiasco

On Monday, leading hard disk drive maker Seagate announced a new hard drive firmware fix, designed to provide support to those users who had reported issues with their 1TB Barracuda 7200.11 hard drives. In an unfortunate turn of events, the released firmware has reportedly caused 500GB versions of said drives to stop...

22 January 2009
09:26 GMT

Fujitsu Offers 500GB of External Storage Space

Fujitsu, one of the worldwide leading manufacturers of storage solutions, has recently announced its newest travel-ready HandyDrive additions, offering the world's highest capacity 2.5-inch external hard disk drive, with up to 500GB of storage space. The new product has been designed to offer a sleek and ultrapo...

15 July 2008
05:12 GMT

ioSafe Rolls out 3.5-inch Hard Drives with Disaster Protection

Almost any user that employs a digital media product to store his personal data on knows how bad it is to lose it all because of unpredictable accidents. This, of course, includes fires and water-related hazards that can seriously damage a hard disk or any other digital product used for storage. Apparently, this shou...

10 June 2008
03:09 GMT

Intel Launches SSDs in Q3?

Intel, the world's leading manufacturer of processors, plans to enter the storage market with the release of its SSD flash drives. But it appears that Intel's strategy is somewhat different than previously expected, according to Digitimes. First of all, they intend to release their products at the end of th...

23 May 2008
09:00 GMT

The Fact That You Deleted It Doesn't Mean It's Not There!

Some people, when selling their old computers will erase everything on their hard drives. This is a pretty good security measure if you don't want others to get a hold of your data. Thing is, this will just prevent some users from accessing your data, and not all of them. The ones that are really tech-savvy can ...

17 September 2007
08:21 GMT

The Trinity of Hard Drives

Having gathered experience in the years spent in the computer business, I've come to the conclusion that more and more often, past ideas seem to apply to present and future ideologies. As the story goes, once upon a time, there was this student who was failing math, and for that he wasn't thought of being ...

24 April 2007
08:55 GMT

Toshiba Introduces The Biggest External Hard Drive

As a computer user, I've found myself many times in the position when I needed an external storage device to transfer information between point A and point B. First I used CDs, then switched to DVDs, but, both are very sensitive storage media and so I bought a pendrive, a 1GB model, considering that it would be ...

18 April 2007
06:04 GMT

What Is 2.5 inches in Size and Withstands Vibration

When it comes to hard drives, Samsung doesn't have the same reliability among people because of their reputation, "what, they make hard drives too? I thought they were only good at TV-sets". This general belief hasn't changed their minds though, they have tried hard to make people see behind the facade and ...

11 April 2007
05:39 GMT

Western Digital AV

Western Digital is commonly known as a hard drive manufacturer, with a great deal of success on their Raptor series of drives, also known as the fastest desktop drives. The company has withdrawn from the SCSI business some time ago, dedicating their services for the desktop segment and having many intrusions into the...

10 April 2007
09:00 GMT


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