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Hard-drive Maker Notes Gap In Market
News The California-based hard-drive manufacturer, which offers disks for desktop PCs and servers, has begun development work on a new line of mobile drives and could enter the market quickly if it chooses to, said Steve Wilkins, director of marketing...
[June 20, 2003, 14:10]
Hard Drive Maker Goes Mini
News Hard drive maker Western Digital announced on Wednesday that it will be entering the mini hard drive market in the second quarter, when it begins shipping a one-inch product. Western Digital joins a growing list of companies, including Hitachi...
[January 20, 2005, 8:40]
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.
[January 30, 2008, 7:16]
Hard Drive Handles Multiple Memory Cards
News Western Digital on Tuesday unveiled a plug-in hard drive that reads eight memory card types, in a sign that the external drive market is heating up. Hard-drive makers Maxtor and Seagate Technology have already introduced external drive products...
[January 7, 2004, 12:15]
Hard Drive 'crash Guard' Pioneered
News Finally, a miniature hard drive you can drop on the pavement. Minidrive specialist Cornice will unveil a new 3GB, 2.5cm-diameter hard drive at next month's Consumer Electronics Show (CES) offers more shock resistance and uses less battery life than...
[December 15, 2004, 13:05]
Hard Drive Makers Hatch Huge New Year Plans
News Removable cartridge hard drive maker SyQuest will finally release the 1.3Gb SyJet drive in January. Seagate will in January add 3.2Gb and 4.3Gb 3.5-inch hard drives to its Medalist line. The products have average seek times of 12ms.
[October 14, 1996, 14:03]
Hard-drive Makers Look To The Middle Ground
News Hard-drive manufacturers are contemplating a new-size hard drive to counter the challenge presented by flash memory. Overall, the hard-drive market will increase 18 percent, from 380 million in 2005 to 450 million drives in 2006.
[April 4, 2006, 10:25]
Five Years Ago: Hard Drive Makers Hatch Huge New Year Plans
News Removable cartridge hard drive maker SyQuest will finally release the 1.3Gb SyJet drive in January. Seagate will in January add 3.2Gb and 4.3Gb 3.5-inch hard drives to its Medalist line. The products have average seek times of 12ms.
[October 14, 2001, 7:30]
Hard Drive Market Bottoms Out
News Poor results from Seagate and Quantum and the demise of vendors such as Micropolis have tarnished the hard disk drive market image but Twohig stands by the report made last June by US research company Disk/Trend that the worldwide market for hard...
[January 23, 1998, 15:27]
Hard Drive Mode Settings
White Papers One can enable DMA on a per channel basis, and all devices on that channel have to be DMA capable, but most drives these days are (although some CDROMs may not be) .PIO Only is much slower than DMA transfer rates & the Page File benefits from a...
[August 7, 2007, 0:00]
Hard Drive Question
Forum If I get an external hard drive will this fix it and make it quicker? My PC is intolerably slow; when I defrag it says there's 50% free space. When I try to save items onto CD there isn't enough virtual memory.
[June 16, 2006, 20:31]
Knoppix Hacks: Migrate To A New Hard Drive
White Papers When this happens, it's time to buy a larger hard drive and migrate the system. While there are many different ways to copy files from one hard drive to another, some work better than others when transferring the full / directory.
[October 17, 2007, 0:00]
US Report: Mac Users Hit By Hard Drive Problems
News The problems occurred even with Apple hard drives, formatted with Apple's own Drive Setup software and installed in Apple PowerPC-based systems. Just thought I'd let you know that I also experienced the 8.5 hard drive kiss of death," wrote Richard...
[October 27, 1998, 12:33]
Samsung Unveils 32GB Flash Hard Drive
News Samsung is planning to shake up the hard drive market with a 32GB drive that uses NAND flash memory chips rather than magnetic platters. The South Korean company formally launched its 32GB flash hard drive on Tuesday, having demonstrated the device...
[March 22, 2006, 14:05]
PalmOne Firms Up Hard-drive Plans
News PalmOne plans to announce later this month its first hard drive-based product line, broadening its device portfolio and leading another trend in the handheld market. LifeDrive will be a new line for PalmOne, but the hard drive may find its way into...
[May 6, 2005, 9:30]
Toshiba Unveils Hard Drive For Mobile Phones
News Toshiba on Thursday said it is aiming its newly unveiled mini hard-disk drive at mobile phones. The original iPod was based on a Toshiba 1.8-inch hard drive, and Toshiba has now shipped more than three million of the devices.
[January 8, 2004, 12:50]
Recovering Data From A Hard Drive
Forum I was having trouble booting a hard drive. So running some test I powered up the computer with the hard drive out on the chasis of the box. Not paying attention I had the drive facing downward and one of the chips on the drive was touching the chasis.
[July 22, 2006, 7:32]
A Year Ago: WD Debuts 3-inch Hard Drive
News Western Digital (WD) has shown its plans for changing the face of portable PC hard disk storage by formally announcing a family of 3-inch drives. WD claims that five of the top ten notebook makers will offer units with the drive, but declined to...
[December 4, 1997, 9:26]
Hitachi Claims Hard-drive Breakthrough
News Hitachi Global Storage Technologies, the hard-drive arm of the Japanese conglomerate, has made what it says is the world's smallest read head for hard drives. With the new, elegantly named "current perpendicular-to-the-plane giant magnetoresistive...
[October 15, 2007, 8:10]
World's First Transparent Hard Drive Launched
Talkback This is far from the first hard drive with a tranparent enclosure. Oh, come on! I used to work on banks of them in the 1970s. Someone needs to check their history. Very few things are "first" anymore.
[January 26, 2006, 21:14]
