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RSS hddApple unveils 'world's thinnest notebook'
News It features a 13.3-inch LED-backlit display, 2GB of memory, a 1.8-inch 80GB HDD and a 1.6GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor. Apple unveiled its ultra-portable MacBook Air, the world's thinnest notebook according to CEO Steve Jobs, during his keynote... [16 Jan 2008]
SanDisk SSD: A More Reliable Alternative to the Laptop HDD
White Paper With no spinning disks or read/write head arms that must move over these disks to locate files, the SSD is immune from the most common HDD failure, a head crash, which can lead to partial and even total data loss. [30 Aug 2007]
External USB HDD Backups: Using BackupAssist With External USB Hard Drives
White Paper For users without a tape drive, BackupAssist can perform backups to a backup file (with the .bkf extension). This backup file can be saved to a hard drive, DVD/CD, USB Memory Stick, USB Hard Drive or Network Storage Device, enabling users to... [25 Aug 2007]
Simulation of Flow Field and Particle Trajectories in Hard Disk Drive Enclosures
White Paper The airflow field and particle trajectories inside Hard Disk Drive (HDD) are investigated in this study using commercial software Fluent and Gambit. Three-dimensional grids inside the HDD configuration are built using Gambit taking into account all... [25 Aug 2007]
New Heights for Hard Disk Drives
White Paper The technologies involved in building a HDD are truly interdisciplinary, including coding and signal processing, electromagnetics, materials science and engineering, magnetism, microfabrication, electronics, tribology, control systems, heat... [25 Aug 2007]
Bringing Solid State Drive Benefits to Computer Notebook Users
White Paper As a drop-in replacement for the traditional mechanical Hard Disk Drive (HDD), the flash-based Solid State Drive (SSD) can be used inside thin and light laptops, ultra-portable, Ultra-Mobile PCs (UMPCs) and other portable computers. [25 Aug 2007]
Iterative Learning Control and Repetitive Control in Hard Disk Drive Industry - A Tutorial
White Paper This paper presents a tutorial on Iterative Learning Control (ILC) and Repetitive Control (RC) techniques in Hard Disk Drive (HDD) industry for compensation of Repeatable RunOuts (RRO). For the RC part, a new application of RC in dual stage HDD... [23 Aug 2007]
Recorder Capacities: A White Paper for Resellers and Installers
White Paper The recorder is fitted as standard with a 120GB HDD which gives around 105GB of on-line storage. There are three types of storage which can be used by the RBR2600 Series recorder; on-line recorder storage, removable storage and Networked Storage. [23 Aug 2007]
Drop Proofing a Hard Disk Drive
White Paper Until now, that protection usually consisted of some foam isolation, and/or some plastic suspension that "Gives" when the unit hits a hard surface thus reducing the exterior shock force to a smaller value than is tolerated by the HDD. [27 Oct 2006]
The Era of Giant Magnetoresistive Heads
White Paper High areal densities have been achieved by introducing new technology and by proportionally reducing certain key dimensions within the HDD ("Scaling"). Areal density (expressed as billions of bits per square inch of disk surface area, Gbits/inē) is... [27 Oct 2006]
Thermal Fly-Height Control (TFC) Technology in Hitachi Hard Disk Drives
White Paper The ever increasing demand for higher capacity storage devices continues to challenge Hard Disk Drive (HDD) companies to find innovative solutions for fundamental magnetic recording technology issues. [27 Oct 2006]
Fluid Dynamic Bearing Spindle Motors: Their Future in Hard Disk Drives
White Paper Hard Disk Drive (HDD) designs have continued to evolve over time to meet the ever-changing requirements of applications, performance, and cost. Ball Bearing spindle motors have been the common design-in for HDDs for many years; however, the market... [27 Oct 2006]
The Quantum Leap Within Hard Disk Drives
White Paper This paper provides a brief architecture description, the main problems of modern hard disk drives, methods of Hard Disk Drive (HDD) servicing and repairs of simple malfunctions, SMART, passwords. The authors warn regular users of personal... [05 Oct 2006]
Exploring the Popularity of Mobile Hard Disk Drives
White Paper The remarkable growth in the Mobile Hard Disk Drive (HDD) industry should come as a surprise to no one. Also discussed will be the future outlook for Mobile HDD products. While the huge popularity of notebook PCs has played a part in this surge... [26 Aug 2006]
Radioactive: Mobile phones - the battery conundrum
Comment The larger cell for the HDD-based player offers an operating life of up to 60 hours on a single refill. The latest mobile device developments burn through standard Li-Ion batteries like no tomorrow. So what's the solution? [09 Nov 2005]
