Tag: drive

Storage

WD restarts Thai hard disk factory

By Liam Tung | Dec 5, 2011 | Comment Now

But shortages to go beyond March quarter.

Security

Ponemon lashes out at thumb drive 'negligence'

Aug 10, 2011 | Comment Now

Employers, employees in firing line.

Oddware

Pacific may hold key to 'rare earth' quandary

By Liam Tung | Jul 5, 2011 | Comment Now

But is it worth it?

Security

Flash drive exposed US war plans

By Liam Tung | Aug 26, 2010 | Comment Now

Old thumb drive trick.

Storage

Seagate launches 3TB external desktop drive

By Sharon Brennan | Jul 1, 2010 | 2 Comments

Too big for most PCs.

Security

Pirate Bay downloads to flash drive before sale

Aug 17, 2009 | Comment Now

Could rise from the dead if deal "disappoints".

Software

Windows 7 upgrade path looks rocky

By Iain Thomson | Aug 10, 2009 | 6 Comments

Users will not find it easy.

Hardware

Market forces drive innovation at Axa

By Gareth Morgan | Jun 13, 2009 | Comment Now

Before taking on a project, the insurance giant’s IT team must show it can outperform external providers.

Storage

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.

Hardware

Western Digital enters solid-state drive market

Apr 6, 2009 | Comment Now

Western Digital has completed a US$65 million cash acquisition of SiliconSystems which supplies solid-state drives for the embedded systems market.

Hardware

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.

Storage

Diskeeper launches solid state drive optimiser

By Ian Williams | Jan 14, 2009 | Comment Now

Storage maintenance firm Diskeeper has unveiled what it claims is the first optimiser designed exclusively for solid state drives (SSDs), promising faster performance and ...

Storage

Samsung releases green solid state drive

By David Neal | Jan 8, 2009 | Comment Now

Samsung has used the Storage Visions 2009 show in Las Vegas to demonstrate an enterprise-level 2.5in 100GB solid state drive (SSD) designed to handle applications such as ...

Storage

Toshiba unveils 512GB solid state drive

By Ian Williams | Dec 19, 2008 | Comment Now

Toshiba has unveiled the world's first 2.5in 512GB solid state drive (SSD), designed to provide a high level of performance and endurance for use in notebook computers, and ...

Hardware

Seagate fixes bug in Barracuda drives

Nov 29, 2008 | Comment Now

Seagate has fixed a bug in its Barracuda 7200.11 1.5TB hard drive which caused applications to hang intermittently.

Hardware

Samsung takes solid state drives up to 256GB

By Iain Thomson | Nov 21, 2008 | Comment Now

Samsung has announced that it has started volume production of a new 256GB solid state drive (SSD), the company’s most capacious ever.

Hardware

Seagate speeds up "world's fastest and greenest drive"

By Rosalie Marshall | Nov 5, 2008 | Comment Now

Storage provider Seagate solutions has introduced a new drive called the Savvio 15K.2 HDD, which it is advertising as the “world’s fastest and greenest drive”.