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Hard drives: a pictorial history review
Reviews The original 1956 hard disk drive, known as the RAMAC (Random Access Method of Accounting and Control), stored only 5 megabytes of data on 50 disks, 24 inches in diameter. Later drives encapsulated the head inside the drive.
[September 13, 2006, 15:10]
The Quantum Leap Within Hard Disk Drives
White Papers 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...
[October 5, 2006, 0:00]
Fujitsu promises 170GB notebook hard drives
News Manufacturers have been able to double the capacity of hard drives over the past four to five years. This would translate to about 170GB of capacity on hard drives with 2.5-inch platters -- commonly used in notebook PCs.
[May 13, 2002, 9:02]
Dual-Stage Servo Systems and Vibration Compensation in Computer Hard Disk Drives
White Papers 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...
[August 23, 2007, 1:00]
Old hard drives yield data bonanza
News The research indicates that the market for used hard drives is flooded with devices brimming with confidential information that could be exploited. Lots of people know it is important to clean drives before you repurpose them, but few people do it...
[January 16, 2003, 8:55]
Seagate launches hard drives with encryption
News Seagate Technology on Monday plans to announce the first manufacturer to sell laptop PCs with Seagate's new hard drive that has built-in encryption technology. The Seagate drives are equipped with the company's new "DriveTrust" technology, which...
[March 12, 2007, 8:37]
Samsung and Seagate release hard drives
News Samsung and Seagate have released a collection of hard drives that demonstrates the huge choice now available. On Tuesday, Samsung announced three hard drives: a 1.8-inch 120GB model, a 3.5-inch 1TB drive and a 2.5-inch, 120GB "hybrid" drive that...
[June 20, 2007, 16:06]
Samsung developing 2cm hard drives
News Samsung is joining the ranks of companies making tiny hard drives, with a device under development that will have a disk that measures just over 2cm in diameter. The massive cell phone market is seen as a potential new arena for hard drives.
[September 30, 2004, 11:05]
Start-up creates tiny hard drives for gadgets
News The Longmont, Colorado-based start-up has developed a 1.5GB, 1-inch diameter hard drive for consumer-electronics devices that the company says will be cheaper, smaller and hold more data than some other mini-hard drives or flash-memory cards.
[June 4, 2003, 7:28]
Samsung flash chip threatens hard drives?
News Samsung has developed a new computer flash technology with so much capacity it could replace mini hard drives in some PCs, the company said on Monday. But Samsung's top brass are touting the new small-size, large-capacity device as an alternative...
[September 13, 2005, 9:30]
Seagate to make flash-based hard drives
News Seagate Technology, the number-one maker of magnetic hard drives, will start manufacturing hard drives based around flash memory, according to its chief executive officer Bill Watkins. Magnetic hard drives have been a crucial component for servers...
[August 23, 2007, 16:33]
Terabyte hard drives are ready
News Last year, Hitachi Global Storage Technologies predicted hard-drive companies would announce 1 terabyte drives by the end of 2006. The two companies, along with others, will tout their new drives at the upcoming Consumer Electronics Show in Las...
[January 5, 2007, 7:44]
Seagate goes mobile with new hard drives
News On Monday the company will introduce a new line of hard drives for notebook PCs, a move that marks the company's return to the mobile market. Seagate, which offered notebook drives in the mid-1990s, is one of the oldest companies in the hard-drive...
[June 16, 2003, 8:16]
Seagate ships virus-infected hard drives
News Some Seagate hard drives infected with a virus have been sent to users. Seagate said that antivirus vendor Kaspersky Lab had discovered the existence of a virus on some of its Maxtor Personal Storage 3200 hard drives.
[November 14, 2007, 7:29]
Multiple Robust Track-Following Controller Design in Hard Disk Drives
White Papers This paper presents a new technique for track-following control in hard disk drives, in order to achieve high tracking precision of magnetic read-write heads uniformly for a huge number of disk drives.
[August 25, 2007, 1:00]
Nuggets: Data to go with ultra mini hard drives
News Designed for highly mobile data-maniacs, LaCie have brought out three whopping new versions of its PocketDrive portable hard drive. The drives feature both a FireWire controller and a USB controller. Ideal for sharing stuff between computers...
[January 12, 2000, 12:29]
Quantum ships first Ultra ATA hard drives
News Storage specialist Quantum today announced the first hard drives that host the super-fast Ultra ATA interface. The new drives will achieve burst rates up to 33Mb per second, twice the former best of 16.6Mb per second.
[October 25, 1996, 10:02]
Industry divided over future of hard drives
News This has helped PC makers to boost the capacity of hard drives from a few megabytes to more than 100GB. The enemy of hard drives is your thermostat. In fact, patterned media hard drives could easily become the first widescale application for both...
[August 29, 2006, 13:25]
Backing Up to External Hard Drives
White Papers This white paper talks about backing up external hard drives. Backing up to external hard drives can be cost-effective, easy-to-manage strategy, which provides for onsite/offsite media rotation, allowing companies to store vital data in a secure...
[May 18, 2009, 8:57]
Hitachi sees money in hard drives
News Hitachi is focusing its efforts and targeting emerging markets to do what IBM couldn't -- make money with hard drives. Pricing in notebook and server (hard drives) has become more aggressive than desktops over the last six months, which will make...
[January 6, 2003, 9:32]
