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Ten ways to speed up a slow PC

Ten ways to speed up a slow PC

...running XP might mean an operating system upgrade as well. Hard driveThe hard disk is typically the slowest part of the computer. When loading data... Read more

21 April, 2012 by Craig Simms
History of storage: Cuneiform tablets to flash

History of storage: Cuneiform tablets to flash

Hard disk The mainstay of modern computing, the hard disk was invented in... Read more

5 November, 2010 by Rupert Goodwins
Promise Pegasus R6 (12TB)

Promise Pegasus R6 (12TB)

If you have a Thunderbolt-enabled computer, the Promise Pegasus R6's storage capacity, features and especially its performance are worth the hefty investment for those who demand fast external storage. Read more

15 November, 2011 by Dong Ngo

Western Digital reopens hard-disk plant after floods

...Hard-disk giant Western Digital said on Friday that it has partially restored... Read more

5 December, 2011 by Brooke Crothers

HP and EMC warn of hard-disk price rises

...Thor Jorgen Udvang/Shutterstock.com Both companies can no longer swallow the hard-disk drive (HDD) price increases caused by the flooding, EMC and HP... Read more

21 December, 2011 by Jack Clark

Micron sees SSD demand rise in wake of Thai floods

...the flooding in Thailand. Since late summer, the prices of traditional spinning hard disk drives have been steadily rising because of shortages due to flooding... Read more

1 December, 2011 by Brooke Crothers

Seagate and Archos develop tablets with hard drives

...Archos has introduced two new tablet computers with Seagate physical hard disk drives on board. Archos has introduced two new tablet computers with... Read more

24 June, 2011 by Rachel King

Samsung sells disk drive unit to Seagate for $1.4bn

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

19 April, 2011 by Jack Clark

Teradata launches hybrid data-warehouse appliance

...information tiering on autopilot as it is shuttled between solid-state and hard-disk drives. The appliance, the Active EDW 6680, comes in four flavours... Read more

11 April, 2011 by Larry Dignan
CES: Marvell unveils SSD and HDD hybrid

CES: Marvell unveils SSD and HDD hybrid

...performance while allowing all data to be stored on a traditional Sata hard-disk drive (HDD). Marvell has unveiled its SSD and HDD hybrid storage... Read more

5 January, 2011 by Dong Ngo

Four-strong team builds digital TV revolution

Proving that small independent teams can produce top-quality consumer design, Ascot-based Promise TV has come up with a clever way to record Freeview. But it faces a familiar barrier: how to sell it? Read more

25 March, 2012 by Rupert Goodwins

Seagate sees hard-drive benefit after Thai floods

...Seagate led the global hard-disk drive market during the fourth quarter of 2011, according to the... Read more

1 March, 2012 by Rachel King

Heat promises to speed up hard-disk data storage

A UK-led team of scientists has found a way to use heat to reverse the polarity of magnetic media, which they say could let data be recorded at a rate of terabytes per second, for lower energy drain Read more

8 February, 2012 by David Meyer

Microsoft revenue grows despite PC market woes

...growth will outpace consumer PC growth," he said. "We also expect the hard-disk drive shortage to continue to challenge the PC market to at... Read more

20 January, 2012 by Ben Woods

IBM stores one bit of data using 12 atoms

...magnetic storage that is at least 100 times denser than today's hard-disk drives and solid-state memory chips," the company said in a... Read more

13 January, 2012 by Jack Clark

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