hard drive in comment and analysis
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Heavyweight delete
Comment Written at home after a few frustrating hours trying to recover from a dual hard-drive failure. So down in the garage, data deletion and hard-drive death came in the form of a 5mm cold chisel and a 2kg hammer. [03 Jan 2006]
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 downloadable software that enables people to search... [24 May 2004]
Peter Cochrane's Uncommon Sense: A sea of bits
Comment Manufacturers of hard drive storage technologies are having a ball. The technology to realise hard drives up to and beyond 100TB is emerging in the R&D labs whilst petabyte (PB), or about 1,000TB, systems have already been engineered at great... [20 Oct 2004]
Peter Cochrane's Uncommon Sense: Over the moon
Comment Ever since the first time I lost a significant amount of data due to an application crash, system and hard drive failure, which is many years ago now, I have been almost paranoid about saving, duplicating and backing up all my data. [15 Jul 2004]
Leader: Put down the six-inch nails
Leader Very credible research from the University of Glamorgan revealed that the majority of PCs discarded currently contain a great deal of sensitive data - a worthwhile point - but all the media wanted to talk about was the advice that destroying the... [18 Feb 2005]
XP licensing far from clear to HP PC users
Comment Instead of sending users a CD the recovery files are now tucked away on a hidden partition on the hard drive - available in an emergency but invisible the rest of the time. But what happens if the hard drive is damaged? [10 Jan 2002]
The Bloor Perspective: IBM's big blues, Citrix's ASP success, and boo.com's deepening crisis
Comment IBM's hard drive business has struggled with design problems and late delivery times. However, it is clear that IBM has highlighted three areas where it can make improvements - its business structure, its hard drive business and its PC sales - and... [15 May 2000]
Farewell, floppy
Comment Dell noted that if the hard drive fails on a no-floppy Dimension, consumers will be able to boot up using its CD drive. When connected, the Dell-branded device appears on a computer's desktop as a removable hard drive, allowing people to drag and... [07 Feb 2003]
Peter Cochrane's Uncommon Sense: Insecure thinking
Comment In just one year the standard PC purchased on the high street has moved from a 60GB hard drive to 120GB at more or less the same price. The discarding of a hard drive full of data or indeed any other document, electronic or paper gives the... [12 Feb 2003]
Peter Cochrane's Uncommon Sense: My life bits
Comment The vast majority seem to be consigned to a hard drive or disk never to be viewed and ultimately to be lost by an accidental overwrite or disk damage. Now digital photographs cost nothing but hard drive space (and at 4-5 megapixels per pic they are... [10 Jul 2003]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: The last CD
Comment When travelling internationally I carry a mirror of my laptop in the form of a 120GB pocket hard drive stashed in my luggage, while at home I enjoy several terabytes. Most people I know now travel with a memory stick and an MP3 player or pocket drive. [25 Oct 2007]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Back me up
Comment The last time I had a really severe problem on this scale it was a full hard drive failure. Since that event it has been my practice to travel with a pocket drive replica of my main hard drive that I update regularly. [01 Sep 2005]
Peter Cochrane's Uncommon Sense: Crash, crash, crash
Comment Rebooting revealed even more problems which again culminated in a crash, while trying to reboot saw the machine unable to locate the hard drive. Under normal circumstances, I would have had my back-up hard drive with me, but on this day I had flown... [25 Sep 2003]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: A crash-free life?
Comment Similarly, my mobile phone, camera, pocket hard-drive and memory stick are all conservatively rated to give a little extra safety and operating margin. So, soon I think I will be contemplating the removal of back-up OS and apps discs, portable hard... [20 Apr 2006]
Storage: A year in review
Comment In October, big was the word, as far as the disk drive goes - US storage specialist Maxtor bought Quantum's Hard Disk Drive (HDD) Group in a deal valued at $2.3bn. Developed by the chip giant's networking business, the InBusiness Storage Station... [19 Dec 2000]
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