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Five years ago: Win95 update enables USB, 2Gb-plus PCs
News The key advantage of FAT32 is that it supports huge hard drives - up to 2 terabytes (2,000Gb), whereas today's drives only support 2Gb under Win95. When Microsoft releases its Windows 95 OEM Service Release 2.0 at the end of August, it will be the...
[August 3, 2001, 8:00]
Win95 update will spark USB, 2Gb-plus PCs
News The key advantage of FAT32 is that it supports huge hard drives - up to 2 terabytes (2,000Gb), whereas today's drives only support 2Gb under Win95. When Microsoft releases its Windows 95 OEM Service Release 2.0 at the end of August, it will be the...
[August 2, 1996, 16:22]
Seagate BlackArmor NAS 440 review
Reviews Seagate recommends you only use its hard drives and only provides technical support when you use its hard drives. However, the device works with SATA hard drives from any vendor. In our test using four 1TB hard drives, we built all four drive...
[April 29, 2009, 12:10]
More wires, more fire: FireWire 800 review
Reviews The technology is getting the most play with external hard drives, such as the Iomega External Hard Drive and the LaCie d2 Hard Drive Extreme, which harbour bridge chips that allow the ATA hard drives inside these boxes to communicate over the...
[May 5, 2005, 10:25]
NEC unveils multitasking set-top chip
News The chip performs high-speed data conversion between hard disk and DVD drives and enables consumers to use several record-and-replay functions including time shift, record and playback of different channels, according to NEC.
[April 22, 2003, 10:55]
Discarding old PCs carries hidden costs
News Disposal costs, which vary depending on the quantity and condition of the gear being sold as well as on the method of disposal, can involve things like disconnecting PCs from networks, erasing sensitive data from hard drives and, in some cases...
[September 30, 2003, 10:45]
Cool award for storage-robot maker
News An average system will take four 2.5-inch disk drives, one USB 2.0 port, and either four hard drives or Raid drives. It is an impressive little box, but the steep price tag — $500 without any hard drives — will limit its appeal to home users with...
[April 18, 2008, 16:16]
Toshiba, Fujitsu in talks over disk businesses
News A merger between the two companies would create the largest manufacturer of small-format, hard disk drives in the world. Both Toshiba and Fujitsu manufacture 2.5-inch and 3.5-inch hard disk drives, and competitors include Seagate and Hitachi.
[January 15, 2009, 14:17]
Freecom DataTank Gateway WLAN review
Reviews Furthermore, with the two integrated USB 2.0 ports, you can use a standard USB printer as a network printer and also add extra hard drives or other storage devices to increase the network storage capacity quickly.
[October 9, 2007, 9:37]
Don't take data-wiping methods for granted
News Hard drives For example, there was a time when IT staffers were told simply to format hard drives before sending a computer away at the end of its life. USB drives For other kinds of storage devices, such as thumb drives and iPods, depending on the...
[September 13, 2006, 14:00]
Virtual Dreaming (revised)
Blog Both Virtual PC's are set to run with 256MB of RAM space and have what I call the "expando-matic" type of virtual "hard drives". If the operating system enforced "virtual PC" workspaces in RAM, in swap-space and on the hard drives then the entire...
[August 7, 2008, 8:03]
Sales of MP3 players expected to soar
News However, IDC expects that more manufacturers will enter the market and begin to use less expensive and higher-capacity storage, such as hard disk drives and CD-rewritable discs. Some of these categories are already popping up in the form of...
[March 29, 2001, 8:37]
Via chips away at security issues
News The need for better data security has been highlighted lately by the rise of identity theft and developments such as a recent MIT study showing the ease with which old hard drives can yield sensitive information.
[January 21, 2003, 16:34]
LaCie Rugged All-Terrain Hard Drive 80GB review
Reviews It was among the fastest external hard drives we've tested, including products with faster drives and larger caches. We were very impressed with the performance of the LaCie Rugged All-Terrain Hard Drive.
[August 15, 2006, 9:10]
Users upset as CA antivirus attacks Windows
News CA Threat Manager customers should search local hard drives for files with the extension .AVB and manually rename to their original file extension by removing the appended text on the original file name.
[July 10, 2009, 11:55]
Prototype holographic storage device unveiled
Talkback The price of the first generation product is expected to be similar to, or possibly competitive with, corporate SAN SCSI type hard drives at a Net of Sales of 3:1, and also to have an attractive price/performance ratio for gamers.
[January 10, 2005, 8:46]
USB 2 arrives in Linux test version
News USB 2.0 support isn't generally built into computers; the competing FireWire standard is more common for high-speed connections to video cameras, hard drives or other devices that need to transfer data faster.
[January 16, 2002, 11:30]
Apple to update iBook, PowerBook
News The new iBooks are expected to have 15GB or 20GB hard drives, depending on the model, sources said. The updated Titanium PowerBook models are expected to sport new graphics chips from ATI Technologies, larger hard drives and faster processors.
[October 15, 2001, 9:25]
IBM labs unveil nanotech storage 'punch card'
News Unlike hard drives, where a needle moves to locate data, in Millipede the tips stay stationary and the film moves. Hard drives and flash memory still work, but these new techniques promise far greater storage data, allowing consumers to store...
[June 11, 2002, 8:44]
"Disabling" code is missing the point
Blog While desktop and notebook hard drives may be massive these days, there are devices with limited storage: Netbooks using SSD hard drives, and that godsend to the technician, the bootable USB stick. Even disabled components are still "staged" on the...
[March 10, 2009, 10:30]
