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HDD Interface Technologies
White Papers Because of the recent demands for cost reduction, however, requests are being made for serial interfaces optimized for the use of the HDD units. As a result, the HDD market segments have become fractionalized, and the correspondence between the...
[June 2, 2006, 1:00]
SanDisk SSD: A More Reliable Alternative to the Laptop HDD
White Papers With no spinning disks or read/write head arms that must move over these disks to locate files, the SSD is immune from the most common HDD failure, a head crash, which can lead to partial and even total data loss.
[August 30, 2007, 1:00]
TOSHIBA HDD Protection - Shock Sensor Driver
Downloads This package supports the following driver models:TOSHIBA HDD Protection - Shock Sensor Driver
[October 27, 2004, 8:00]
Fujitsu closes HDD head business
Blog Fujitsu announced on Wednesday that it was getting out of the hard disk drive (HDD) head business and handing it over to Toshiba. In a statement, Fujitsu said that it was discontinuing the HDD head business at the end of March.
[January 30, 2009, 12:09]
MSI launches hybrid HDD/SSD netbook
News The U115 Hybrid, unveiled on Monday, comes with a solid-state disk (SSD) for most of the PC's operations, together with a hard-disk drive (HDD) that can optionally be used for storage. An 'ECO on mode' temporarily disengages the HDD; MSI claimed...
[December 30, 2008, 10:45]
Toshiba snaps up Fujitsu HDD business
News Under the agreement, Fujitsu will transfer all its hard-disk drive (HDD)-related businesses and functions to the new company, including HDD design, development, manufacturing and sales. It will retain a 20 percent share for "a certain period of...
[February 17, 2009, 10:48]
EXCELLENT! More RAM and HDD though
Member Review Also, 512MB of RAM and a 40GB HDD would improve this significantly. For camera issues see:
http://www.whatlaptop.co.uk/forum/topic.asp? TOPIC_ID=3052
[September 26, 2003, 10:12]
Dell HDD shortage spurs 600Mb freebie
News Dell buyers who are quick off the mark could get a 600Mb bonus. A shortage of 1Gb hard drives has led the direct seller to give 1.6Gb drives to purchasers at no extra charge. We had a bit of a shortfall and we are concentrating on supplying 1Gb...
[September 4, 1996, 16:42]
External USB HDD Backups: Using BackupAssist With External USB Hard Drives
White Papers For users without a tape drive, BackupAssist can perform backups to a backup file (with the .bkf extension). 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...
[August 25, 2007, 1:00]
Ubuntu 8.10 up & running!
Blog After a 4/5 week wait for parts, a HDD caddy, interposer & mounting screws kit finally arrived yesterday. The interposer fits nicely, and the mounting screws hold the drive in its caddy, but.the caddy is for HDD bay 1, whereas I asked for a caddy...
[March 10, 2009, 7:43]
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). For the RC part, a new application of RC in dual stage HDD...
[August 23, 2007, 1:00]
Drive density breakthrough from Toshiba
Talkback I'm still holding out for multi TB storage on a single HDD, none of this daisy-chain fake mock up stuff, I want HDD to be 10TB, thats a good size and I want it around 2010-2012
[August 17, 2005, 19:22]
More advanced upgradability would be nice
Member Review My laptop Toshiba Tecra 9100 1.6ghz 1GB DDR RAM 80Gb Hdd DVD/CD-RW 16 MB Video Card If so it will need to be ungraded to its maxxed out posibilities.mb Ram and a measly 20gb hdd is a let down, but a pro is that it can easily be upgraded without...
[September 8, 2005, 10:25]
Samsung hybrid hard drive extends laptop battery life
Talkback HDD hype has been cringe worthy (care of Samsung)… predictions of flash replacing HDDs have been laughable (Samsung again). By 2009 the average HDD capacity shipped is forecast to be somewhere between 200-300GB (Source: TrendFOCUS).
[May 16, 2006, 11:55]
Dell admits Indian mistake
Talkback However, when I tried to make a ghost of the whole HDD using an external HDD USB drive, very difficult - but I managed it! Dell - Inspiron 6400! Class act. The Built-in Symatec Ghost Recovery system is the bizz!
[May 19, 2006, 12:38]
still waiting..
Blog Comment Hi Roger.yes, there is a caddy supporting the current drive, but the 2nd bay is empty, a fact I only discovered AFTER buying a new HDD. What I was hoping to do is install Ubuntu on the new HDD, and leave my Vista drive alone (as far as possible...
[March 3, 2009, 7:18]
PD Tweaker
Downloads It has two major features which can be enabled separately: Optimizes caching for HDD and SAV files A much better caching strategy for these files is actually no caching at all. HDD files do not need caching because the client OS will already have a...
[June 23, 2006, 8:00]
Asus cuts Eee PC storage options
News The manufacturer's spokesperson told ZDNet UK that, while Eee PC models are currently available in each country with a choice of hard-disk drive (HDD) or solid-state drive (SSD), the company will from August offer only one version per model in any...
[March 16, 2009, 12:11]
Billionaire backs defendant in landmark P2P case
Talkback Without copious media like Music, DVD's, TV programmes and home video why would I need more that my 3GHz CPU, my 200GB HDD, Firewire, Windows XP, 1GB RAM, DVD/RW, SUrround sound speakers -- it's all driven by media.
[March 29, 2005, 17:06]
Samsung mass producing 256GB SSDs
News The largest equivalent hard-disk drive (HDD) for notebooks is 1TB in capacity. The SSD "launches applications 10 times faster than the fastest 7,200rpm notebook HDD", Samsung suggested. Samsung claims that the new SSD draws much less power — around...
[November 20, 2008, 14:48]
