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Comdex Fall: Iomega clicks with 2-in Clik! disks
News The card-thin 2-in x 2-in disks are aimed at highly mobile devices such as handheld PCs and digital cameras, where the competition is usually based on expensive Flash memory technology. is that it is highly portable, has a large storage capacity of...
[November 18, 1997, 9:16]
Redundant Array of Independent Disks - Whitepaper on RAID
White Papers RAID (Redundant Array of Inexpensive or Independent Disks) is an important component for servers on a critical enterprise or workgroup network. RAID provides crash-proof hard drive systems. RAID technology makes data more accessible by preventing...
[August 16, 2003, 2:17]
Using Hard Disks for Digital Preservation
White Papers This paper describes the LOCKSS system as an example of the techniques needed to use hard disks as a medium for long-term preservation. The LOCKSS system is a tool librarians can use to preserve long-term access to content published on the web.
[August 23, 2007, 1:00]
Removable disks reach a 'Peerless' 20Gb
News Iomega is currently in discussion with several software companies about the possibility of selling data-intensive applications installed on Peerless disks. Peerless -- Iomega's latest addition to its range of removable storage products -- allows...
[March 23, 2001, 10:43]
One Year Ago: Iomega recalls faulty Jaz disks
News Iomega is recalling faulty disks for its Jaz mass storage drives. Users of the bad disks are likely to suffer performance hits and possibly loss of data. The firm says the recall affects disks that will have been bought after March 24 and claims...
[April 27, 1998, 5:00]
Samsung clears the way for 16GB flash disks
Talkback Breakthrough Nanotechnology Will Bring 100 Terabyte 3.5-inch Digital Data Storage Disks http://www.physorg.com/news785.html
[September 21, 2004, 19:07]
PC World waves goodbye to floppy disks
News PC World is to stop selling floppy disks once current stock has run out. The increasing use of digital downloads and photography means many files are now too large for a floppy disk to hold and with plenty of other storage devices — USB keys...
[January 31, 2007, 8:39]
Bug hits Seagate disks
News Users affected lose all access to data on their disks, and the disks themselves are reported to become undetectable to the computers in which they are mounted. Seagate on Friday acknowledged failures among recent models of its Barracuda and...
[January 19, 2009, 15:12]
IBM gets flak for 'quiet' fix of faulty ThinkPad hard disks
News IBM has issued a patch to fix a problem with Hitachi hard disks on some models which appears to have caused data loss. The firmware upgrade is for several models that use a particular 60GB Hitachi hard disk.
[March 19, 2004, 16:35]
Sun Datapath Policies for Disks and Disk Arrays
White Papers Although disks and arrays implement many standard interfaces, there are still numerous problems with lack of interoperability. This paper contains policies for disk and disk array implementations. This paper is limited to datapath interfaces and...
[September 11, 2007, 1:00]
Utilizing Solid State Disks in the Financial Industry
White Papers This is being accomplished by implementing faster servers, more powerful applications, high-bandwidth networks, and high-performance storage, such as solid state disks. Solid state disks are a cost-effective way to improve application performance...
[August 25, 2007, 1:00]
MediaHeal for Removable Disks
Downloads MediaHeal for Removable Disks retrieves files from magneto-optical media, such as Zip/Jazz diskettes and others. MediaHeal for Removable Disks scans corrupted file system and saves the recovered files and folders into a folder on a safe drive.
[April 25, 2007, 7:38]
Dialogue Box 6.7: Testing solid-state disks
Video SSDs are now available with capacities of up to 256GB, but prices remain high enough compared to conventional hard disks to make them uneconomic in the datacentre for the foreseeable future. Rupert and Charles outline the solid state of play.
[June 5, 2009, 15:42]
Redundant Array of Independent Disks (RAID) on HP Compaq dc5750 Business PCs: Using ATI Array Management Software (WebPAM)
White Papers A RAID (Redundant Array of Independent Disks) is a data storage scheme that uses two or more drives accessed in combination to improve fault tolerance. Initially used with servers, desktop PCs are increasingly using RAID controller and extra ATA or...
[August 25, 2007, 1:00]
Samsung clears the way for 16GB flash disks
News Samsung Electronics announced Monday that it has developed an 8GB NAND-type flash memory chip with a 60-nano design rule, paving the way for 16GB flash disks. The company also made an announcement that it has developed the world's first 2-gigabyte...
[September 21, 2004, 8:10]
What about British 12 inch Disks?
Talkback Apparently, this British computer manufacturer had experimented with distributing software by mailing these disks in special envelopes but had met user resistance. Ten years later, after computers emerged from their sterile computer rooms, our...
[February 27, 2007, 12:48]
New storage technology could replace hard disks...
Blog or, if you prefer, "Could new storage technology replace hard disks? On the face of it, this is a much better idea than the way hard disks work: hard disks have mechanical bits whirring away and tiny physical tolerances that are most unsuitable to...
[May 13, 2007, 12:22]
Iomega recalls faulty Jaz disks
News The firm says the recall affects disks that will have been bought after March 24 and claims the problem affects only a "small portion" of all disks, about 50,000 in total. Disks stamped with a manufacturing date between March 13 and April 20, 1997...
[April 28, 1997, 9:39]
Seagate revs up high capacity disks
News Seagate plans to announce its highest-capacity 15,000 revolutions-per-minute hard disks yet on Monday, with a 73GB model. For the latest news, reviews and price checks on everything from USB flash cards and PCCard hard disks to storage area...
[May 3, 2002, 14:31]
IBM gets flak for 'quiet' fix of faulty ThinkPad hard disks
Talkback I similar failure just occured on my Hitachi 40 gb drive on a Thinkpad T41. Extremely fast service on getting th enew drive but no insight or help on getting the data off of the dead drive.
[February 5, 2005, 4:19]
