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Hard Drive Upgrader
Downloads Hard Drive Upgrader simplifies the process of upgrading to a new hard drive by duplicating the entire contents of your existing drive to the new one. The program does not require you to fdisk or format the new hard drive.
[January 15, 1999, 7:19]
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 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 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 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]
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 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]
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]
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]
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 industry shows continued growth
News In the first quarter of 2008, hard-disk-drive (HDD) vendors shipped 137 million drives, 21 percent more than in the same quarter the year before, according to market research company iSuppli. Despite industry leader Seagate's poor results earlier...
[July 23, 2008, 8:23]
Western Digital launches 2TB hard drive
News Western Digital has launched the first 2TB internal hard disk drive, as the latest addition to its WD Caviar Green series. It has a transfer rate of 3Gbps and a 32MB cache, and can be installed inside a PC or in an external hard-drive casing.
[January 27, 2009, 16:01]
LaCie Safe Mobile Hard Drive (80GB) review
Reviews Measuring 13.8cm wide by 8cm deep by 25cm high and weighing 230g, the LaCie Safe Mobile Hard Drive is bigger than portable hard drives such as the Transcend StoreJet or the Apricorn EZ Bus Mini, but while it may not fit in your shirt pocket, it...
[September 29, 2005, 0:00]
Tiny hard-drive firm secures large investment
News Toshiba makes the hard drives that run the popular iPod music player from Apple Computer, for example, and a 1-inch drive from Hitachi is at the heart of Apple's new iPod Mini. A Colorado start-up that makes tiny hard drives has landed some big bucks.
[February 5, 2004, 9:45]
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 set to launch self-encrypting hard drive
News Hitachi announced on Tuesday the third generation of its 2.5-inch Travelstar hard drive with built-in encryption, the 5K500.B. The TravelStar 5K500.B is a 5400rpm, Sata II hard drive that comes in capacities ranging from 120GB to 500GB, and is...
[November 12, 2008, 13:49]
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]
Western Digital 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, 1996, 12:22]
Five years ago: IBM to ship 8.4Gb hard drive
News IBM will this month release the highest density hard drive on the market when it ships a 3.5-inch unit capable of holding 8.4Gb of data. The Deskstar 8 ATA-3 drive uses four platters, has an average seek rate of 9.5ms, and supports Ultra DMA 33Mb...
[July 3, 2002, 7:27]
Matchbox hard drive packs in 4GB
News IBM plans to make a beefed-up tiny hard drive available later this month, targeting laptop users. Hitachi Global Storage Technologies took over IBM's hard drive business last year. The removable drive, which is the size of a matchbox, carries the...
[February 12, 2004, 7:40]
