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News The US Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has launched an investigation into a portable hard drive that went missing late last month from an Alabama medical facility and may contain personal data on as many as 48,000 veterans.
[06 Feb 2007]
whitepaper One can enable DMA on a per channel basis, and all devices on that channel have to be DMA capable, but most drives these days are (although some CDROMs may not be) .PIO Only is much slower than DMA transfer rates & the Page File benefits from a...
[07 Aug 2007]
News The new chip - the size of a traditional transistor - will hold its memory even if the power supply fails, making it a feasible replacement for the hard drive. A team of Cambridge scientists, sponsored by Hitachi, yesterday heralded a breakthrough...
[19 May 1999]
whitepaper Hard drive recovery from electrical issues requires special tools and training. Hard drives these days require more advanced techniques to solve electronic hard drive failures. When a surged disk comes in for hard drive recovery often times the...
[11 Sep 2007]
whitepaper The explosive demand for next-generation consumer devices such as game consoles, digital video recorders (DVRs), MP3 players and digital cameras is creating new market potential for the industry's most well-established storage technology, the hard...
[14 Aug 2003]
whitepaper When this happens, it's time to buy a larger hard drive and migrate the system. While there are many different ways to copy files from one hard drive to another, some work better than others when transferring the full / directory.
[17 Oct 2007]
whitepaper Thus an attempt to improve the reliability of the hard drive causes deterioration of its performance. The drive needs to be protected against stronger external force. TRIZ is the Russian acronym for The Theory of Inventive Problem Solving.
[11 Sep 2007]
whitepaper If an unsafe fly height condition is encountered, the write process is stopped, and the information is rewritten or reallocated to a safe region of the hard drive. Western Digital's Fly Height Monitor protects write operations by detecting when a...
[24 Feb 2004]
News Fujitsu is to quit the desktop hard drive business to concentrate on more profitable drives for servers and laptops. The company blamed tough competition and low margins in the desktop section of the hard drive industry for the decision.
[02 Aug 2001]
News From deaths at the hands of bananas, sending a broken drive in a pair of dirty socks and WD-40 are some of the unusual fates to have befallen innocent hard drives. Click here to read the full list of hard drive disasters.
[28 Mar 2008]
whitepaper Many methods are used by Hitachi Global Storage Technologies to deliver industry-leading reliability in its hard drive products. Quality is a never-ending process that encompasses design and technology considerations, component selection...
[27 Oct 2006]
whitepaper Commercial models of hard disk drives (HDDs) now have 18 million times the magnetic recording density of the world's first hard disk drive and are the only candidate solution for storing the bulk of the world's information stock.
[11 Apr 2005]
whitepaper The computer market is dominated by two main hard drive interface standards - IDE/ATA and SCSI. The simple answer is that neither is really better than the other - it depends on how a person plans to use the hard drive.
[05 Oct 2006]
whitepaper 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]
News Fujitsu, the Japanese hardware specialist has unveiled its latest disk drive. The HDD drive, part of Fujitsu's MAP series, features high-speed and capacity up to 157GB and is designed for enterprise computing environments.
[28 May 2002]
whitepaper None of these products compare in capacity, performance, or price per megabyte to that of the hard disk drive, but until now, there was other convenient solution available on the market. Disk drive fragility has a dramatic effect on overall data...
[14 Aug 2003]
whitepaper Dell selected Hitachi as its sole source provider after a competitive review of several hard drive models. There are a number of miniature drives with high capacity, but Hitachi's Travelstar drive was the only one that met or exceeded all of their...
[14 Oct 2004]
whitepaper When accessing sequentially stored data, the highest sustainable transfer rate between a host controller and a hard drive is the disk transfer rate. If the transfer length of individual commands is small, the firmware overhead associated with each...
[24 Feb 2004]
News IBM is to launch a hard disk drive capable of storing 73Gb of data. This puts it at the top of the capacity ranks - beating Seagate's 50Gb drive. However, the IBM drive won't be available until early 2000
[15 Oct 1999]
whitepaper This paper will explain how spyware finds its way to the computer hard drive. There are several types of spyware out there today. No matter what kind one get, they are most annoying and can be quite costly.
[09 Jun 2006]
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