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RSS hard drivesTechnological Impact of Magnetic Hard Disk Drives on Storage Systems
White Paper Magnetic hard disk drives have undergone vast technological improvements since their introduction as storage devices over 45 years ago, and these improvements have had a marked influence on how disk drives are applied and what they can do. [25 Aug 2007]
DMA and Hard Disk Drives - Keys to Mastering the ATA/IDE Bus
White Paper Today's IDE/ATA interface hard disk drives support both Direct Memory Access (or DMA) and PIO mode (or Programmed I/O) bus mastering protocols. In general, DMA is a high speed data transfer to or from the hard disk that allows the host to move the... [27 Oct 2006]
Dual-Stage Servo Systems and Vibration Compensation in Computer Hard Disk Drives
White Paper The second is the instrumentation of disk drive suspensions with vibration sensing strain gages, in order to enhance airflow-induced suspension vibration suppression in hard disk drives. This paper discusses two mechatronic innovations in magnetic... [23 Aug 2007]
Voodoo Pumps Up PC Gaming Performance With Hitachi Travelstar Hard Drives
White Paper Voodoo's products, nearly all of which use Hitachi hard disk drives, sit at the top of a total video gaming market the at had 2002 revenues of more than $28 billion. Voodoo Technology Inc.is located at Calgary, Alberta, Canada. [11 Apr 2007]
Backing Up to External Hard Drives: Cost-Effective for SMB
White Paper Inexpensive, external hard drives can play an important role in the backup process for a variety of business environments. Backing up to external hard drives is a cost-effective, easy-to-manage strategy that allows companies to store vital data in... [01 Jan 2007]
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 and mature industry and Western Digital having to recall its drives is a big issue. [30 Sep 1999]
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]
Firewire Hard Drives
White Paper The Firewire standard has been adopted by a number of manufacturers and can now be found on a variety of devices, such as digital cameras, CD recorders, computer audio interfaces, and hard drives and other storage devices. [05 Oct 2006]
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 BackupAssist when a tape drive is unavailable With the advent of USB 2.0 and storage... [25 Aug 2007]
Magnetic Hard Disk Drives Recovery: Leading the Way in Storage
White Paper The development and evolution of hard-disk drives is one of the outstanding technological success stories of the past 40 years. In a data storage world dominated by paper and magnetic tape and punch cards, RAMAC was the world's first commercial... [05 Oct 2006]
Portable Storage: Five Trends That Have Forced Out Tapes, Zips, and Orbs, and Made Hard Drives the Preferred New Choice
White Paper Olixir Technologies, a provider of technologically advanced ruggedized, portable data storage solutions, recently began shipping its Mobile DataVault 2LX and 3DX, the industry's first slim, rugged, high-capacity 2.5-inch and 3.5-inch portable hard... [25 Aug 2007]
Laptops to get bigger hard drives
News Notebooks will soon gain more onboard capacity for storing data, thanks to new 80GB hard drives introduced this week. Fujitsu on Monday announced its new MHT line of notebook hard drives that offers manufacturers the ability to boost their... [11 Mar 2003]
University of Oslo Students Accelerate the Learning Revolution With Nexsan Technologies and Hitachi Deskstar Hard Drives
White Paper Open Systems' proposed solution was the Nexsan ATAboy2 RAID array, each of which is populated by a series of hard drives from the Hitachi Deskstar range. Nexsan's decision to use the Deskstar was no accident - other hard drives just couldn't compete. [14 Oct 2004]
Why 7200 RPM Mobile Hard Disk Drives?
White Paper The 7200 RPM mobile hard disk drive now makes it possible to achieve true desktop performance and in many cases exceed performance of some existing desktop platforms. Increasing the spindle speed to 7200 RPM, assuming BPI is held constant, will... [01 Mar 2004]
Exploring the Popularity of Mobile Hard Disk Drives
White Paper This paper focuses on the features that make 2.5" Mobile hard disk drives in such great demand, and highlights the exceptional qualities of the Fujitsu MHV series that have made the company a dominant player in the Mobile industry. [26 Aug 2006]
