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WD restarts Thai hard disk factory  
By Liam Tung | Dec 5, 2011 | Comment Now 
But shortages to go beyond March quarter.
 
Pacific may hold key to 'rare earth' quandary 
 
Federal investigation into missing presidential hard drive 
By Iain Thomson | May 21, 2009 | Comment Now 
U.S. Federal investigators are examining how a hard drive containing sensitive personal information from the Clinton era has gone missing from the National Archive.
 
Seagate and AMD show off 6Gbps SATA drives 
By Shaun Nichols | Mar 10, 2009 | Comment Now 
Hard disk specialist Seagate and chipmaker AMD have unveiled the first SATA hard drive capable of running at a transfer speed of 6Gb per second.
 
Samsung touts 1TB 'green' hard drive 
By Robert Jaques | May 23, 2008 | Comment Now 
Samsung has unveiled a 1TB "eco-friendly" hard drive designed to minimise power consumption..
 
Hard drive data recovered from Columbia disaster 
By Iain Thomson | May 8, 2008 | Comment Now 
Scientists have managed to recover critical data from experiments carried out in space from a hard drive found in the wreckage of the Space Shuttle Columbia..
 
Seagate ships billionth hard drive 
By Iain Thomson | Apr 25, 2008 | Comment Now 
Seagate has announced the shipment of its billionth hard drive, and said that it aims to sell another billion in the next five years..
 
Buffalo unveils 320GB portable hard drive 
By Clement James | Nov 27, 2007 | Comment Now 
Buffalo Technology has come to market with what it claims is the first external portable hard drive with a capacity of 320GB..
 
Hitachi hard drive losses fuel sale rumours 
By Simon Burns | Oct 2, 2007 | Comment Now 
Predictions that Hitachi will lose more than US$286m at its hard disk subsidiary in the current year have strengthened speculation that the unit could be sold off.
 
Terabyte hard drive for laptops 
By Andrew Charlesworth | Aug 13, 2007 | Comment Now 
Fujitsu has developed a hard disk manufacturing technology that will cram 1.2 Terabytes (TB) of data – or 1,200GB – on to a standard laptop drive.
 
Hard drive failures down to 'magnetic avalanche' 
By Robert Jaques | Jul 18, 2007 | Comment Now 
Wobbly polarity key to preventing data loss. Scientists have published new research that can help prevent the "magnetic avalanches" that wipe computer hard drives clean.
 
Global hard drive capacity to quadruple by 2011 
By Robert Jaques | May 24, 2007 | Comment Now 
The hard disk drive (HDD) industry will more than quadruple the total capacity shipped in 2006 by 2011, according to new research.
 
Fujitsu intros 250GB perpendicular hard drive 
By Clement James | May 17, 2007 | Comment Now 
Fujitsu's new MHY2250BH series mobile drives operate at 5,400RPM.
 
Hitachi closes hard drive plant in Mexico 
By Shaun Nichols | Mar 26, 2007 | Comment Now 
Factory closure will leave 4,500 out of work.
 
DigiSafe adds smartcard to encrypting hard drive 
By Ian Williams | Mar 22, 2007 | Comment Now 
Automatic data encryption on the road.
 
SanDisk touts 32GB Flash hard drive 
By Tom Sanders | Jan 8, 2007 | Comment Now 
US$600 replacement for mechanical disk.
 
Gadgets drive demand for hard disk drives 
By Robert Jaques | Oct 12, 2006 | Comment Now 
Flash still too expensive at multi-gigabyte capacities.
 
PS3 hard disk drive to include HDMI 
By Matt Chapman | Sep 25, 2006 | Comment Now 
High-definition output as standard.
 
The hard drive turns 50 
By Tom Sanders | Sep 14, 2006 | Comment Now 
IBM launched first magnetic hard disk on 13 September 1956.
 
Police seize hard drives 
Feb 25, 2005 | Comment Now 
NSW Police have seized computer hard drives and documents allegedly related to the production of false identification, such as licences and taxation records.
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