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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]
Hard disk upgrades review
Reviews Hard disk storage, like memory, is something you can never have enough of -- after all, just loading Windows and Office takes care of several gigabytes. But there's more than one way of boosting your hard disk capacity: internal or external, Ultra...
[May 22, 2002, 15:10]
Hard disk makers collaborate for more speed
News Compaq, IBM and the biggest hard drive manufacturers have begun a programme to revamp high-end disk drives with the same technology being brought to lower-end models. Endorsing the move was Western Digital, another hard disk maker, along with...
[November 28, 2001, 9:10]
Hard disk-based MP3 players
Talkback The plus points of the Zen is that you can replace the hard drive yourself and also the battery, the two most fragile parts of any hard disk based mp3 player so far as i can work out. The only problem with replacing the hard drive is it does...
[March 16, 2004, 20:08]
Iomega launches hard-disk autoloader
News Iomega on Wednesday launched an autoloading version of its REV backup kit that uses hard-disk cartridges in place of tape. The REV Autoloader 1000 is a desktop PC-sized box that contains up to ten hard disk cartridges, each able to store 35GB of...
[October 14, 2004, 11:45]
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]
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]
FWB Hard Disk ToolKit Updater
Downloads This updater will update only retail versions of Hard Disk ToolKit 2.5. FWB recommends that you perform a clean install of Hard Disk ToolKit 2 before performing the update. This ensures that you have a good set of applications and extensions to...
[March 27, 1998, 1:41]
Dual-Stage Servo Systems and Vibration Compensation in Computer Hard Disk Drives
White Papers This paper discusses two mechatronic innovations in magnetic hard disk drive servo systems, which may have to be deployed in the near future, in order to sustain the continuing 60% annual increase in storage density of these devices.
[August 23, 2007, 1:00]
Modeling Hard-Disk Power Consumption
White Papers Studying and reducing power consumption, however, often involves running time-intensive disk traces on real hardware with specialized power-monitoring equipment. This paper presents Dempsey, a disk simulation environment that includes accurate...
[August 23, 2007, 1:00]
Very fast, but needs a better hard disk and bluetooth
Member Review Hard disk - slow. I bought my laptop from dabs.com and hard to tinker with the hard disk because it was partitioned into about 3 partitions, and was FAT32. I refactored to one partition and am now using NTFS, as FAT 32 was wasting some disk space...
[September 29, 2004, 15:44]
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. Lots of very serious specialized service centres...
[October 5, 2006, 0:00]
FWB Hard Disk ToolKit
Downloads FWB's Hard Disk ToolKit (HDT) features a Power Mac native storage device driver that optimizes the performance of SCSI,IDE,and FireWire devices including most removables and virtually everydisk drive available.
[January 8, 2002, 7:00]
FWB Hard Disk ToolKit Updater
Downloads Available in this download is the latest update for Hard Disk ToolKit, operating under Mac OS 8.5. This updater updates the full version of Hard Disk ToolKit 3.0 or 3.0.1 to a full version of Hard Disk ToolKit 3.0.2.
[May 5, 1999, 0:02]
IBM blows away hard disk cobwebs
News IBM has run in the new year by completing the $2.05bn (£1.28bn) sale of its loss-making hard disk operation to Hitachi. The hard disk business will be reorganised into a new company called Hitachi Global Storage Technologies, in which IBM will...
[January 2, 2003, 15:04]
Hard disk-based MP3 players review
Reviews Hard disk-based MP3 players, which allow you to store massive amounts of MP3s and other files on a portable device, have been around for a few years. But recently, a new batch of players have taken the concept to a new level, with impressive...
[July 23, 2002, 12:56]
Hard disk-based MP3 players
Talkback BILL ITS MORGAN HERE> IVE LOST YOUR EMAIL. DROP ME A LINE AS I HAVE A TUNE FOR YOU TO PLAY AT CLUB CLOR.hopefully these replies get sent
[June 27, 2005, 17:02]
Hard disk upgrades
Talkback I would strongly recommend avoiding all IBM/Hitachi Desktar model hard disks e.g.my IBM Deskstar 120GB IDE drive has loads of bad sectors and one out of three Hitachi 7K250 160GB SATA (March 2004 batch) failed (click-of-death), after only 6 months...
[April 24, 2005, 13:56]
Hard disk-based MP3 players
Talkback An update on this? There's so many new ones on the market, I can't find any decent reviews! Cheers
[September 14, 2005, 10:26]
