hard drive
Seagate to padlock mobile data
News Hard-drive maker Seagate Technology has provided more details on encryption technology designed to make life tougher for computer thieves. Scott Shimomura, senior product marketing manager at Seagate,... [31 Oct 2006]
Western Digital and Sony to develop home server
News Hard disk drive maker, Western Digital (WD) is to join forces with Sony to develop multimedia storage products for the home consumer market. To achieve this, the companies are to jointly develop a new... [16 Dec 1998]
External USB HDD Backups: Using BackupAssist With External USB Hard Drives
White Paper 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 perform their backups using... [25 Aug 2007]
PC Hacks: Change Logical Drive Letters
White Paper Changing drive letter assignments is useful if one has added a second hard drive to a Windows NT/2000/XP/Windows Server 2003 system. Suppose one starts out with a hard... [17 Oct 2007]
Selecting Hard Drives for Test, Measurement, and Control Systems
White Paper The majority of today's test, measurement, and control systems include at least one hard drive. This hard drive may reside in the desktop or laptop PC that is... [25 Aug 2007]
To Internet or Not to Internet
White Paper Interactive multimedia training has been delivered via CD ROM or hard drive for a number of years. Others wonder if a CD ROM, a PC hard drive, or a LAN server might not... [25 Feb 2004]
Mac OS X Panther Edition: Organizing Your Stuff
White Paper The icon for the hard drive (usually called Macintosh HD) may appear in the upper-right corner of the screen. If the user upgraded an existing Mac to Mac OS X 10.3, he or she also sees all the original... [25 Oct 2007]
Sony to create its own 'iPod economy' with 20GB player
News Sony will begin selling two hard-drive music players this autumn which, combined with its new music download service, will create an iPod-like parallel universe. The Network Walkman comes with 256MB of... [01 Jul 2004]
Western Digital recalls 400,00 defective hard drives
News Disk drive manufacturer, Western Digital, has been forced to recall more than 400,000 hard drives due to a faulty chip. The hard disk drive is an extremely competitive... [30 Sep 1999]
One terabyte hard drives coming soon from Hitachi
News Hitachi Global Storage Technologies has announced it will come out with a 3.5-inch-diameter 1 terabyte hard drive for desktops in the first quarter of 2007. A terabyte is a trillion bytes, or a million... [05 Jan 2007]
MoD breach: Data goes missing from "secure location"
News IT contractor EDS has lost a hard drive containing Ministry of Defence data. On Wednesday 8 October we were informed by our contractor EDS that they were unable to account for a portable... [10 Oct 2008]
Zune not even close to snatching Apple's crown
News Although Microsoft's Zune captured a decent slice of the hard-drive-based audio player market at large US retail stores, it failed to crack into the top 10 list of models in overall sales, according to... [05 Jan 2007]
Analysis: Google goes for desktop search
Comment Having triumphed with web search, Google is now looking to expand with a tool that will search your desktop's hard drive. The Mountain View, Calif.based company is reportedly preparing to release... [24 May 2004]
Troubleshooting your Tape Drive Installation
White Paper Whether you have recently purchased a new 486 or Pentium system, or are simply upgrading your existing hard drive, you will quickly find that backing up and protecting your data on floppies is an... [25 Feb 2004]
Seagate hypes laptop with built-in data lock
News Seagate Technology has named the first manufacturer to sell laptops with its new built-in hard drive encryption technology. Seagate is also in discussions with major, brand-name laptop makers and expects... [12 Mar 2007]
