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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]
ArcGIS Software Deployment Using External Hard Drives
White Papers The last and most recent release (ArcGIS 9.1) was accomplished using 80-gigabyte external hard drives loaded with all ESRI software commonly used in USGS. It's anticipated that the 200 external hard drives acquired for the deployment of version 9.1...
[August 25, 2007, 1:00]
A half-century of hard drives review
Reviews Here's a brief look at some notable hard drives in history Commercially, this is when hard drives take off. Although the size, capacity and internal electronics of hard drives have changed massively, the basic principles remain the same as they...
[September 13, 2006, 15:10]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
Seagate touts new line of hard drives
News Seagate has also said it plans to move into the market for flash-based hard drives. The company now sells only hard drives that store data on magnetic platters. This year, we will do $1bn in backup drives at retail.
[September 6, 2007, 8:06]
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]
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]
External USB HDD Backups: Using BackupAssist With External USB Hard Drives
White Papers This backup file can be saved to a hard drive, DVD/CD, USB Memory Stick, USB Hard Drive or Network Storage Device, enabling users to perform their backups using BackupAssist when a tape drive is unavailable With the advent of USB 2.0 and storage...
[August 25, 2007, 1:00]
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]
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]
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]
