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Prison Staff Unencrypted Information Lost

British prisoners are not the only ones affected by personal information loss. The News of the World tabloid claims that prison workers are in the same situation of having their personal data in the open, technically at anyone's disposal, once a portable hard-drive disk got lost. Names, birthday dates, ins...

8 September 2008
04:35 GMT

IBM Paves the Way to Nano-Scale Solid-State Drives

IBM is currently working on a new breed of memory chips, that is alleged to deliver extended reliability at cheaper costs than the existing DDRAM offerings. According to the company, the new type of memory is an interesting mixture of the technologies used in solid-state storage media and hard-disk drives.Shortly put...

11 April 2008
06:59 GMT

How Reliable Are Eee PC's Solid-State Drives, After All?

The Eee PC sold great last year, and continues to sell even better. Many sub-notebook fans can hardly wait for the next-generation of Asustek's ultra-mobile Eee. While the Asus Eee PC is getting more and more popular, rumors regarding the premature wearing out of its different hardware components are frightening...

16 January 2008
03:51 GMT

Hard-Drives to Gather Money on Silicon Platters

The hard-disk industry has returned to profitability in the third quarter of the last year, as the storage market has finally landed on firm ground. Research company iSuppli recently issued a report about the situation on the hard-disk storage market.The industry managed to ship about 138 million units in the third q...

4 January 2008
09:13 GMT

Hitachi to Release 500GB TravelStar for Notebooks

The Japanese storage expert Hitachi is full of surprises at this time of the year. After a series of reports claiming that things are far from normal with its storage business, the company has announced a new 500GB 2.5-inch hard drive.The TravelStar disk comes in two flavors: the standard 5K500 is designed for lapto...

3 January 2008
06:05 GMT

Samsung to Deliver High Capacity 2.5-Inch Disks

Samsung have just unveiled their high capacity 2.5-inch hard disk drive in the Spinpoint M6 series. The new line of 2.5-inch hard disk drives offers a storage capacity of 320GB and addresses the notebook market. The Spinpoint M6 HM320JI uses a SATA interface for notebook, slim PC and blade server connectivity. The ha...

20 December 2007
05:11 GMT

New Technology Increases HDD Operating Speed 100 Times!

The fastest enterprise hard disks spin at 15,000 RPM, and can achieve sequential media transfer speeds of up to and beyond 110 MB/s.Modern hard drives use the spinning motion of a disk to move magnetic regions past a component that can read and change the data encoded on these regions. They record data by magnetizing...

12 May 2007
05:24 GMT


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