Two-headed Hard Drive Aims For 'perfect' Web Security
News A Japanese start-up has come up with a mutant piece of hardware that it says may deliver "perfect security" for Web servers: a two-headed hard disk drive. The Internet should have one-way component like diodes, and the two-heads hard disk drive can...
[July 24, 2002, 11:51]
A Half-century Of Hard Drives review
Reviews Early hard disk drives were open to the air and often had exchangeable sets of platters that could be slotted in and out of the drive itself, similar to floppy disks. But by 1973, when IBM produced a twin-spindle hard disk with 30MB per spindle, it...
[September 13, 2006, 15:10]
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]
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. Under Johnson's leadership, the lab created the first magnetic disk drive...
[September 13, 2006, 15:10]
Perpendicular Recording Promises Roomier IPods
News The MK8007GAH and MK4007GAL both offer an areal density of 206 megabits per square millimetre, which Toshiba says is the highest ever achieved in a commercial hard disk. Our research confirmed the superior potential of perpendicular recording...
[December 14, 2004, 15:30]
Toshiba Makes 100GB Laptop Drive Breakthrough
News Toshiba increased the capacity of its latest notebook drive by bumping up the areal density, or the amount of data each of the disk’s platters can hold, to 80 gigabits per square inch. Toshiba has unveiled a super-size hard drive for notebooks.
[April 22, 2004, 18:10]
Monitor Hard Drive Health With SMARTDefender
News It's a standard for predicting the likelihood of impending failure for a hard disk. The duration of the test really depends on the size of your hard disk and the speed of your machine. This means that if your disk starts running low on space, it...
[May 21, 2003, 13:37]
Hitachi Slides Faster Drive Into Notebooks
News Overall, the 7,200-rpm disk consumes about the same amount of energy as existing 5,400-rpm notebook drives. They are going in the right direction," said Jim Porter, president of market research firm Disk/Trend.
[May 14, 2003, 14:44]
IBM ThinkPad T42 Range: A First Look review
Reviews To minimise the chance of hard disk failure, IBM employs its Active Protection System, which senses untoward behaviour prior to the notebook being dropped and unloads the drive head safely before impact.
[May 10, 2004, 10:55]
Fujitsu Announces 80GB Notebook Storage
News Fujitsu created the 80GB device by increasing the drive's areal density, or the amount of data that a hard-drive platter -- a small, thin disk -- can store per square inch. Hard drives hold data on one or more platters, and the data is written by a...
[March 10, 2003, 15:39]
Microsoft May Introduce Game Console In Autumn
News The Microsoft features may include a DVD player, a hard disk drive and extra circuitry suited to fast-moving games and connections to a TV set display. Sony's machine will be able to run high-quality three-dimensional animations, play digital video...
[October 26, 1999, 16:27]
Whom Do You Trust? review
Reviews Now available in a free public beta, Microsoft OneCare offers antivirus, anti-spyware and anti-phishing tools, as well as disk defragmentation tools plus backup and recovery solutions. Symantec is also working on a managed-service solution code...
[February 6, 2006, 10:45]
Four IT Men
Leader Michael Dell: Them days we were glad to have a 5-1/4 inch floppy disk drive on us Apple II. We used to have to log into an ICL mainframe at three o'clock in the morning, clean the mainframe, eat a handful of hot RS232 leads, work 20 hours a day in...
[September 13, 2006, 16:35]
IBM Bullish On New Year
News After a series of moves that included 15,000 job cuts, divestitures of businesses, such as its hard disk drive operation, and the $3.5bn (£2bn) purchase of consulting giant PricewaterhouseCoopers, IBM believes it is back on track after suffering a...
[November 14, 2002, 15:43]
