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Disk drive stocks down and due to stay there
News Wishful thinking like that gave disk-drive stocks a boost in February and then again in early May but the message now is "Don't fall for the ‘worst is over' mantra. Disk drive stocks took a hammering on Wednesday and will probably fall further as...
[June 11, 1998, 12:11]
Disk-drive industry sees brighter future in store
Talkback raw uncompressed TV hours on 10 terabyte 3.5 in.removable disc.highest analog / digital capacity available lowest cost per gigabyte longest archive shelf life of any data storage media widest environmental conditions and tolerances only technology...
[September 12, 2003, 19:34]
Iterative Learning Control and Repetitive Control in Hard Disk Drive Industry - A Tutorial
White Papers This paper presents a tutorial on Iterative Learning Control (ILC) and Repetitive Control (RC) techniques in Hard Disk Drive (HDD) industry for compensation of Repeatable RunOuts (RRO). After each tutorial, an application example is given.
[August 23, 2007, 1:00]
Hitachi ships fastest 2TB disk drive
News Hitachi Global Storage Technologies on Thursday launched a 2TB hard disk drive for desktops, the industry's first to run at 7,200 rpm. Hitachi GST's Deskstar 7K2000 hard disk drive spins at 7,200 rpm and holds 2TB
[August 6, 2009, 15:45]
Samsung launches two-platter 1TB disk drive
News Samsung has taken advantage of rising hard-disk memory storage densities to launch a new line of high-end products with capacities of up to 1TB. A drive with a capacity of 500GB is available now, with the 1TB drive due to ship in August, according...
[July 30, 2009, 16:20]
Five years ago: Hard disk drive sales boom
News An estimated 126 million hard disk units will ship this year, compared to 105 million in 1996. First published 13 June, 1997. This figure is expected to grow to 201 million units by the year 2000, worth a staggering $75 billion.
[June 14, 2002, 7:32]
Hard disk drive sales boom
News An estimated 126 million hard disk units will ship this year, compared to 105 million in 1996. This figure is expected to grow to 201 million units by the year 2000, worth a staggering $75 billion. While the report indicates that 3.5-inch drives...
[June 13, 1997, 15:20]
Active@ Kill Disk - Hard Drive Eraser
Downloads Active@ KillDisk - Hard Drive Eraser is powerful and compact software that allows you to destroy all data on hard and floppy drives completely, excluding any possibility of future recovery of deleted files and folders.
[October 7, 2009, 11:47]
The 2.5-Inch Hard Disk Drive Delivers Home Entertainment: Trends, Advances and Opportunities in the Consumer Electronics Market
White Papers The DVR in particular presents a rapidly expanding market opportunity for manufacturers. Already, more than a fifth of all U.S.households utilize a DVR (such as Tivo) for recording their favorite shows and movies.
[June 11, 2009, 1:20]
Dell DJ set to debut
News Continuing its push into consumer electronics, Dell on Monday introduced a disk-drive-based MP3 player, and revealed details of a partnership with music download company Musicmatch. Dell is our most significant and earliest customer to adopt this...
[October 27, 2003, 14:50]
SMARTReporter
Downloads SMARTReporter is an application that can warn you of some hard disk drive failures before they actually happen! It does so by periodically polling the S.M.A.R.T.status of your hard disk drive. Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology) is a...
[October 16, 2009, 20:51]
SanDisk speeds up SSDs
Blog The latest SanDisk 120GB solid-state drive (SSD) costs less than $250, SanDisk says which makes it look like a neat replacement SSD for hard disk storage. In other words they are as fast as a 40,000 RPM disk drive in the real world, which seems fast.
[January 9, 2009, 15:43]
Cutthroat market forces Seagate job cuts
News In another sign of trouble in the disk drive industry, Seagate Technology said on Wednesday that it plans to cut its annual operating costs by about $150m and trim its workforce. The disk drive industry, a notoriously difficult one in which to...
[June 3, 2004, 9:05]
Grim times for hard drives
News The disk drive industry is spinning its wheels, according to a new report. And the number of drive makers had shrunk to a handful after Quantum sold its hard-drive business to Maxtor, and Hitachi bought IBM's disk drive division.
[May 28, 2004, 9:50]
Seagate takes $300m charge
News Seagate Technology Inc.said its second-quarter loss will be worse than expected after the disk-drive maker takes a $300 million charge for restructuring and other one-time charges related to the closing of a manufacturing plant in Ireland.
[January 8, 1998, 10:29]
Fujitsu closes HDD head business
Blog Fujitsu announced on Wednesday that it was getting out of the hard disk drive (HDD) head business and handing it over to Toshiba. The "head" on a disk drive is the part that flies across the surface of the disk "reading" or "writing" the data on...
[January 30, 2009, 12:09]
NetBSD 2.0 takes Xen path
Talkback I have changed the article to read "cryptographic disk drive" rather than "cryptic graphic disk drive" which was a typo. Thanks for your comments. Regards, Ingrid Marson Reporter at ZDNet
[December 17, 2004, 8:36]
SanDisk ImageMate USB
Downloads Driver for: ImageMate sits on your desk and acts like a removable disk drive, treating your memory card like a diskette. Drag and drop files from the card to your hard disk drive and back. ImageMate simply connects to your USB port.
[November 18, 2000, 7:00]
Apple Drive Setup
Downloads Drive Setup installs software (called a disk driver) that allows your computer to communicate with the hard disk. Use Drive Setup 1.7.3 to update your disk driver or to reinitialize a disk. Any time you install Mac OS versions 7.6, 7.6.1, 8.0, 8.1...
[June 14, 1999, 8:00]
Fujitsu speeds up corporate drive
News Fujitsu has beefed up a disk drive for the corporate market, in a move that matches rival Hitachi's introduction of a 300GB drive earlier this year. The 300GB hard-disk drive will let customers build storage systems with "significant enterprise...
[March 9, 2004, 10:00]
