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Russian firm warns of Roron virus
News The new computer virus can spread through email messages, shared hard drives and the Kazaa file-sharing network, Kaspersky Labs spokesman Denis Zemkin said. Once opened, Roron copies itself to several folders, including those used to share music...
[November 7, 2002, 9:49]
Western Digital debuts Serial ATA hard disks
News Most hard drives designed for the server and storage market are built for speed. A 30 percent difference is a wide margin for storage system makers because much of their costs comes from stringing together a large numbers of hard drives in order to...
[February 11, 2003, 8:30]
Hard disk upgrades
Talkback I am not happy that many external drive manufactures do not say which make/family of drives they use, it makes it hard to avoid crap drives unless I build my own. I would strongly recommend avoiding all IBM/Hitachi Desktar model hard disks e.g.my...
[April 24, 2005, 13:56]
FireWire speeds set to quadruple
News The technology is used as a high-speed data interface for linking devices such as external hard drives and camcorders to PCs. The association's statement claimed the development of S3200 meant users would see no advantage from eSATA, a competing...
[December 17, 2007, 11:45]
Drive doldrums cost jobs
News Singapore, however, continues to be the command and control centre of our hard-drive manufacturing and we will continue to manufacture our multi-platter desktop and SCSI drives here," a Maxtor spokesperson told ZDNet UK sister site CNETAsia.
[July 5, 2004, 11:05]
Upstart could shake up networked storage
News But for those accustomed to the cost of storage on hard drives built into a server, the price tag can be daunting. Enter ATA over Ethernet, which uses a regular Ethernet network to link a computer to a group of ordinary, inexpensive ATA hard drives...
[July 27, 2006, 16:25]
XP for eXcluded People?
Blog Comment The chipset is a term usually used to refer to the north and south bridges on the motherboard which are used to send data to and from the processor and elements of the computer such as the graphics card, memory and other high speed components in...
[July 19, 2007, 7:03]
Vista may require "unproven" drive technology
News Hybrid hard drives save power, as they use solid state flash memory as a large cache, so the hard drive only spins up when the cache is full or needs refreshing, a useful feature with early betas of Vista criticised for draining batteries too fast.
[June 16, 2006, 13:30]
Quad-core Xeon laptop gets 1.5TB storage
News The company plans a further revamp later this year, with a 3TB model made possible by doubling the number of hard drives to six, said Eurocom president Marc Bialic on Tuesday. The hard drives are set up to support Raid 0, Raid 1 or Raid 5.
[May 14, 2008, 12:07]
Simple Backup 4.71 review
Reviews It won't work with removable drives (such as Iomega Jaz and Zip drives), tape drives or other hard drives. Simple Backup works only with CD-R/RW drives. When the program asks you to select a backup device, all the CD drives present on your system...
[February 4, 2002, 23:00]
Bigger Toshiba minidrive may boost iPod capacity
News Apple historically has used 1.8-inch drives from Toshiba in its iPods but uses 1-inch, 4GB hard drives from Hitachi in its iPod Mini music player. Hard drives have become increasingly popular as a means to store data in consumer electronics...
[June 3, 2004, 12:50]
EMC announces storage upgrade
News Like other storage systems, EMC's pool data across large arrays of hard disk drives. The system can also now be ordered with 73GB, 15,000 revolution per minute Fibre Channel interface hard drives, which promise higher performance for more demanding...
[February 9, 2004, 16:40]
Open-source encryption software gets update
News TrueCrypt 4.3 features full compatibility with 32-bit and 64-bit Windows Vista, and support for devices and file systems that use a sector size other than 512 bytes — such as hard drives, USB flash drives, and DVD-RAM.
[March 21, 2007, 14:23]
SanDisk speeds up SSDs
Blog What does work for me though are comments like, the latest SanDisk SSDs, the G3 series, are "more than five times faster than the fastest 7,200 RPM hard disk drives" and, they are " more than twice as fast as SSDs shipping in 2008".
[January 9, 2009, 15:43]
Employees lax on corporate data security
News Fourteen percent of employees admit to storing company material on their laptop's hard drives and nine percent on personal devices not owned by their workplace, while eight percent use portable hard drives and seven percent use mobile devices to...
[November 14, 2007, 8:28]
Asus Eee to get Intel's Atom processor
News In an interview with Laptop Magazine published on Saturday, Jerry Shen also said that Asus may at some point incorporate hard-drives, rather than solid-state storage, into the popular machines. In his interview, Shen also indicated that Asus was...
[March 10, 2008, 16:27]
Hitachi set to launch self-encrypting hard drive
News This is because, according to Hitachi, in some markets — such as China or Russia — special permits are required to buy or use hard drives with built-in encryption. Hitachi announced on Tuesday the third generation of its 2.5-inch Travelstar hard...
[November 12, 2008, 13:49]
Intel to launch 160GB SSD this year
News Intel has confirmed plans to launch solid state drives (SSD) this week at the Intel Developer Forum in Shanghai, and claimed SSDs will beat their hard disk drive equivalents on failure rates. According to Dadi Perlmutter, Intel's mobility group GM...
[April 3, 2008, 10:06]
IBM blows away hard disk cobwebs
News The deal is expected to give Hitachi a leading position for hard drives for mobile applications, while the alliance with IBM should help Hitachi compete with EMC; when the deal was announced in April, IBM and Hitachi said they would collaborate on...
[January 2, 2003, 15:04]
Magicstor puts 4.8GB in one-inch drive
News The hard-drive maker on Wednesday said its new series of one-inch drives, which also come in 2.2GB, are targeted at consumer electronics devices. China-based GS Magicstor unveiled a one-inch hard drive that can hold up to 4.8GB of data, the highest...
[January 8, 2004, 9:20]
