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Hard drives: a pictorial history review
Reviews The original 1956 hard disk drive, known as the RAMAC (Random Access Method of Accounting and Control), stored only 5 megabytes of data on 50 disks, 24 inches in diameter. Later drives encapsulated the head inside the drive.
[September 13, 2006, 15:10]
Backing Up to External Hard Drives
White Papers This white paper talks about backing up external hard drives. Backing up to external hard drives can be cost-effective, easy-to-manage strategy, which provides for onsite/offsite media rotation, allowing companies to store vital data in a secure...
[May 18, 2009, 8:57]
Seagate launches hard drives with encryption
News Seagate Technology on Monday plans to announce the first manufacturer to sell laptop PCs with Seagate's new hard drive that has built-in encryption technology. The Seagate drives are equipped with the company's new "DriveTrust" technology, which...
[March 12, 2007, 8:37]
External USB HDD Backups: Using BackupAssist With External USB Hard Drives
White Papers This backup file can be saved to a hard drive, DVD/CD, USB Memory Stick, USB Hard Drive or Network Storage Device, enabling users to perform their backups using BackupAssist when a tape drive is unavailable With the advent of USB 2.0 and storage...
[August 25, 2007, 1:00]
Seagate goes mobile with new hard drives
News On Monday the company will introduce a new line of hard drives for notebook PCs, a move that marks the company's return to the mobile market. Seagate, which offered notebook drives in the mid-1990s, is one of the oldest companies in the hard-drive...
[June 16, 2003, 8:16]
Industry divided over future of hard drives
News This has helped PC makers to boost the capacity of hard drives from a few megabytes to more than 100GB. The enemy of hard drives is your thermostat. In fact, patterned media hard drives could easily become the first widescale application for both...
[August 29, 2006, 13:25]
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. The authors warn regular users of personal...
[October 5, 2006, 0:00]
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]
Quantum ships first Ultra ATA hard drives
News Storage specialist Quantum today announced the first hard drives that host the super-fast Ultra ATA interface. The new drives will achieve burst rates up to 33Mb per second, twice the former best of 16.6Mb per second.
[October 25, 1996, 10:02]
Hitachi sees money in hard drives
News Hitachi is focusing its efforts and targeting emerging markets to do what IBM couldn't -- make money with hard drives. Pricing in notebook and server (hard drives) has become more aggressive than desktops over the last six months, which will make...
[January 6, 2003, 9:32]
A half-century of hard drives review
Reviews Here's a brief look at some notable hard drives in history Commercially, this is when hard drives take off. Although the size, capacity and internal electronics of hard drives have changed massively, the basic principles remain the same as they...
[September 13, 2006, 15:10]
Samsung and Seagate release hard drives
News Samsung and Seagate have released a collection of hard drives that demonstrates the huge choice now available. On Tuesday, Samsung announced three hard drives: a 1.8-inch 120GB model, a 3.5-inch 1TB drive and a 2.5-inch, 120GB "hybrid" drive that...
[June 20, 2007, 16:06]
Xbox will use Seagate hard drives
News Seagate has been chosen to supply hard drives for Xbox, Microsoft's forthcoming video games console. In a press release Tuesday Seagate announced that the hard drives will be from its entry-level range rather than its more expensive models.
[November 8, 2000, 15:31]
Old hard drives yield data bonanza
News The research indicates that the market for used hard drives is flooded with devices brimming with confidential information that could be exploited. Lots of people know it is important to clean drives before you repurpose them, but few people do it...
[January 16, 2003, 8:55]
Samsung flash chip threatens hard drives?
News Samsung has developed a new computer flash technology with so much capacity it could replace mini hard drives in some PCs, the company said on Monday. But Samsung's top brass are touting the new small-size, large-capacity device as an alternative...
[September 13, 2005, 9:30]
Nuggets: Data to go with ultra mini hard drives
News Designed for highly mobile data-maniacs, LaCie have brought out three whopping new versions of its PocketDrive portable hard drive. The drives feature both a FireWire controller and a USB controller. Ideal for sharing stuff between computers...
[January 12, 2000, 12:29]
Fujitsu promises 170GB notebook hard drives
News Manufacturers have been able to double the capacity of hard drives over the past four to five years. This would translate to about 170GB of capacity on hard drives with 2.5-inch platters -- commonly used in notebook PCs.
[May 13, 2002, 9:02]
Seagate touts new line of hard drives
News Seagate has also said it plans to move into the market for flash-based hard drives. The company now sells only hard drives that store data on magnetic platters. This year, we will do $1bn in backup drives at retail.
[September 6, 2007, 8:06]
Grim times for hard drives
News While demand for hard disk drives remains robust, an extremely competitive pricing environment has emerged, particularly in enterprise drives, which has served to eliminate most of the industry's profit pool for (the) calendar second quarter," the...
[May 28, 2004, 9:50]
ArcGIS Software Deployment Using External Hard Drives
White Papers The last and most recent release (ArcGIS 9.1) was accomplished using 80-gigabyte external hard drives loaded with all ESRI software commonly used in USGS. It's anticipated that the 200 external hard drives acquired for the deployment of version 9.1...
[August 25, 2007, 1:00]
