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Tiny hard drive is made for gadgets

News Cornice wants to take the hard drive out of PCs and put it into your camera. The Colorado-based start-up has developed a 1.5GB, 1-inch diameter hard drive for consumer-electronics devices that the company says will be cheaper, smaller and hold more...

Tags: tiny, hard drive, microdrive, small

[04 Jun 2003]

Drop Proofing a Hard Disk Drive

whitepaper Designing a hand held device, like a PDA, cell phone or MP3 player with a hard disk drive requires designing in some kind of drop protection. Until now, that protection usually consisted of some foam isolation, and/or some plastic suspension that...

Tags: protection, sensor, hitachi, laptop

[27 Oct 2006]

STOP! Don't take a hammer to your <strong>hard</strong> <strong>drive</strong>

STOP! Don't take a hammer to your hard drive

News One discarded hard drive contained 12 months worth of cashpoint transactions, including bank account numbers. Charitable PC recycler Computer Aid International has responded to a report last week which claimed a high percentage of discarded hard...

Tags: charity, recycle, pc, recycling

[22 Jan 2003]

'World's first' mobile with its own <strong>hard</strong> <strong>drive</strong> revealed

'World's first' mobile with its own hard drive revealed

News The convergence of mobile phones and other portable devices has shuffled another step forward - Samsung has launched a handset that contained a 1.5GB hard drive with a one-inch diameter. Samsung has claimed that the SPH-V5400, which was launched in...

[07 Sep 2004]

Avoiding Self-Inflicted Security Breaches Through Effective Hard Drive Decommissioning

whitepaper One area that is often misunderstood, or completely overlooked, is hard drive decommissioning - the process of removing data from a drive prior to disposal or recycling. While there are several methodologies for eliminating data from hard drives...

Tags: network security, conference board, method, self

[25 Aug 2007]

Get to know the versatile eWay TK-63T--and install a hard drive yourself

whitepaper Step one: A look at the system (and the adventure of ordering it), along with a walk-through of the hard drive installation process. You can view a complete set of images illustrating the hard drive install by checking out the photo gallery "Meet...

Tags: install, hard drive, discussion, energy

[14 Dec 2006]

BDD Zero Touch Deployment of Windows XP/Office 2003 - Demo 5: Workstation Deployment: A New Hard Drive

whitepaper In this webcast, you will learn how to create an installation CD and deploy an OS image through RIS to a new system with a blank hard drive.

Tags: image, installation, os, hard drive

[11 Aug 2005]

DriveLock Hard Drive Protection for the Armada 7800

whitepaper The feature has been designed to meet expressed needs from customers who cannot afford to have their sensitive hard drive data fall into the wrong hands. DriveLock is a security feature that offers customers advanced protection against unauthorized...

Tags: best practices, protection, strategies, implement

[10 Apr 2008]

Can I be your MSN Messenger buddy? And look at your <strong>hard</strong> <strong>drive</strong> too…

Can I be your MSN Messenger buddy? And look at your hard drive too…

News The vulnerability in MSN Messenger versions 6.0 and 6.1 could let an attacker view the contents of a victim's hard drive during a chat session with the victim. To obtain particular information, such as credit card numbers, attackers have to trawl...

[10 Mar 2004]

Iterative Learning Control and Repetitive Control in Hard Disk Drive Industry - A Tutorial

whitepaper 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). After each tutorial, an application example is given.

Tags: removable storage, compensation, hard disk drive, hdd

[23 Aug 2007]

Samsung unveils 8GB hard drive phone

News Samsung has taken the wraps off a mobile phone that boasts the biggest hard drive seen on such a device to date. As well as its large hard drive, the device will let users sync playlists from their PC or store documents, photos and other...

Tags: 8gb, samsung, storage, external storage

[07 Mar 2006]

HP Notebook Hard Drive: Measures of Care, Diagnosis and Maintenance

whitepaper This white paper explains the measures that HP is providing to its customers to reduce the risk of hard drive failure. These measures include a new power management policy, an enhanced hard drive self-test, and recommendations for maintaining...

Tags: hard drives, events, hard drive, shock

[25 Aug 2007]

The Problem & Solution for Notebook Hard Drive Upgrades

whitepaper A larger, faster hard drive can extend the useful life of your notebook. Download this informative white paper to read more about the special issues surrounding notebook hard drive upgrades and to learn how EZ Upgrade from Apricorn can help yield...

Tags: back-up, upgrade, notebook, hard drive

[12 Dec 2007]

Validation of a New Methodology Using VHDL-AMS on a Hard-Disk Drive Design

whitepaper The paper describes the validation of a new methodology using VHDL-AMS on a STMicroelectronics hard-disk drive read/write channel design called Giotto". The new mixed-signal simulation environment ADVance MSä supporting multi-language from Mentor...

Tags: graphics applications, mentor graphics, multi, signal

[24 Feb 2004]

Choosing a Hard Disk Drive for Embedded Applications

whitepaper The most important issue to consider when selecting a hard disk drive for an application is how the HDD will be used. For applications that require reliability and availability of data upwards of 100Mbytes, hard disk drives (HDDs) are the most...

Tags: embedded systems, availability, disk, hard disk

[24 Feb 2004]

Hard Drive Secure Information Removal and Destruction Guidelines

whitepaper The focus of this paper is to address the problems facing government departments regarding the issue of cleansing, disposal and destruction of computer hard drives which contain various levels of classified or protected information.

Tags: security management, media, agencies, departments

[25 Aug 2007]

A Reconfigurable FPGA-Based Readback Signal Generator for Hard-Drive Read Channel Simulator

whitepaper A hard disk readback signal generator designed to provide noise-corrupted signals to a channel simulator has been implemented on a Xilinx Virtex E FPGA device. The generator simulates pulses sensed by read heads in hard drives.

Tags: hard drives, device, signal, interference

[25 Aug 2007]

Leading Defense and Aerospace Contractor Protects Mission-Critical Data Using Full Hard Drive Encryption

whitepaper The software solution, Encryption Plus Hard Disk, was successfully deployed to thousands of laptop and desktop PCs around the globe. This case study details the experience of a global aerospace and defense contractor as they deployed full disk...

Tags: data recovery - security, disk, defense, desktop

[26 May 2006]

Wiped Out: Removing the Valuable Data From Your Hard Drive Is a Must Before Recycling Your Used Computer Equipment

whitepaper Short of physically destroying hard drives, the use of a good file-wiping program is the most effective method of protecting sensitive data from falling into the wrong hands. A major issue facing state and local government agencies and educational...

Tags: file, protecting, structures, hands

[30 Aug 2005]

Fujitsu unveils 10GB miniature hard drive

News Fujitsu has unveiled a range of 2.5in mobile hard drives offering up to 10GB of storage. The snappily-titled MHG2102AT/MHH20XXAT range relies on a proprietary Fujitsu CPU and 16bit system bus. The drives have an internal data transfer rate of...

[23 Mar 1999]

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