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Exhibition charts the history of computing

Exhibition charts the history of computing

...The heart of the world's first disk drive (1956) has 50 24-inch disks that once spun at 1... Read more

26 January, 2011 by Scott Ard

Hitachi unveils 1TB-per-platter drives

The latest hard drives in Hitachi's Desktar and Cinemaster lines come with its 1TB-per-platter technology Read more

7 September, 2011 by Dong Ngo

Samsung sells disk drive unit to Seagate for $1.4bn

...has agreed to pay $1.4bn to take over Samsung's hard-disk drive division, in a deal that will give the South Korean company... Read more

19 April, 2011 by Jack Clark
Easy <endeca_term>Disk Drive</endeca_term> Safeguard 3.7

Easy Disk Drive Safeguard 3.7

Easy Disk Drive Safeguard is a password-protected security utility that you can use... Read more

27 November, 2011
<endeca_term>Disk Drive</endeca_term> Security 3.66

Disk Drive Security 3.66

Disk Drive Security offers you both rich functionality and simplicity in a simple... Read more

31 October, 2011
Easy <endeca_term>Disk Drive</endeca_term> Safeguard 3.6

Easy Disk Drive Safeguard 3.6

Easy Disk Drive Safeguard is a password-protected security utility that you can use... Read more

4 December, 2010
<endeca_term>Disk Drive</endeca_term> Administrator 3.6

Disk Drive Administrator 3.6

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4 December, 2010

Seagate closes Samsung HDD business buy

Seagate has completed its £890m takeover of Samsung's hard disk drive division, following regulatory approval. Following a brief investigation, the European Commission... Read more

20 December, 2011

Windows 8 'hybrid' mode brings faster boot

...much faster boot times, whether using a solid-state or a hard-disk drive Read more

9 September, 2011 by Ben Woods
Seagate refreshes enterprise SSDs and disks

Seagate refreshes enterprise SSDs and disks

...solid-state drives, two fast hard drives and an enterprise-grade 3TB disk drive Read more

15 March, 2011 by Jack Clark
A Novel Approach Using Advanced Encryption Standard to Implement Hard Disk Security

A Novel Approach Using Advanced Encryption Standard to Implement Hard Disk Security

...the paper is to develop an proficient and economical method for Hard Disk Drive(HDD) Security. The task is implemented using Full Disk Encryption (FDE... Read more

1 January, 2012
Growing arrays need bigger pipes

Growing arrays need bigger pipes

Storage array and disk drive vendors have excelled themselves and delivered the highcapacity goods. But some... Read more

20 October, 2011
Dell PowerVault RD1000 and 114X RD1000

Dell PowerVault RD1000 and 114X RD1000

Dell™ PowerVault™ RD1000 removable disk drive lets you quickly protect all your important information and take it... Read more

30 March, 2011

Netbook Upgrade - SSD IN, Windows OUT

...get access to the internal components. Once the case was open, the disk drive was right there in front of my face... and that got... Read more

17 May, 2012

HP Pavilion dm1-4010ez - Installing Linux Mint 12

...Cinnamon 1.1.3). The first thing to do is prepare the disk drive. As I said in the previous post, all four Primary Partitions... Read more

5 January, 2012

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