disks

An obituary for the floppy: RIP the 3.5 incher

Crave Floppy disks were pocket-sized time-bombs in the 80s and 90s. Floppy disks are the past, the very distant past. We carried our data in their precarious bellies, dragging them like leaky buckets from one computer to another -- certain that every...

Tags: disks, machines, floppy, floppy disk

31 January 2007, 11:21

Naim HDX: An audiophile jukebox... at last

Crave 80GB hard disks are only good for old people and the terminally decrepit. And these larger disks would also mean you could store CDs in lossless format. When used inside central music jukeboxes, that is.

Tags: naim, cds, disks, store

30 April 2008, 11:23

Drobo 2: Return of the data robot

Crave Feed it some disks -- the process is as simple as putting a CD into a drive -- and it aggregates their individual storage space to form one humongous, nearly indestructible super drive. Even if one of the disks dies, your data remains safe on the...

Tags: storage, disks, gen, final cut pro

20 August 2008, 10:55

Crave Talk: It's too soon for flash-based video iPods

Crave Apple Insider cites Wall Street analyst Shaw Wu as saying, ".our sources indicate that while Apple plans to migrate the rest of its iPod product line to NAND flash from hard disks, fairly low price points and customer appetite for high storage...

Tags: apple, storage, disks, hard disk

9 March 2007, 10:59

Blu Monday: Hitachi touting world's first Blu-ray camcorder?

Crave Presumably, utilising smaller disks which are the same dimensions as other current storage media will allow these cameras to take other cheaper disks as well as Blu-ray. Rumour is building that Hitachi will be first to debut a Blu-ray video camera...

Tags: hitachi, japanese, hd, disc

23 July 2007, 13:03

Photos: New Commodore XX gaming PCs LAN it up

Crave What was interesting is that Commodore told us its plans to include SSD disks in a future model, along with 4GB of on-board flash memory for even quicker program loading times. Two gigabytes of Corsair Dominator memory sit alongside the CPU, along...

28 June 2007, 12:44

iomega StorCenter: Storage-tastic

Crave Alternatively, you can check out the cheaper iomega REV drive that uses removable disks, similar to Zip disks. It's not as cheap as we might have liked, costing £340, and the disks aren't cheap either -- a five-disk pack costs around £200.

Tags: iomega, storage, hard drive, disk

5 September 2006, 9:44

Photos: The history of the digital camera

Crave It cost $499 in the US, but consumers had to splash out a further $999 on a battery, computer interface card with software, and floppy disks. It stored pictures on two-inch floppy disks called Mavipaks, that could hold up to fifty colour photos for...

2 November 2007, 8:00

Crave Talk: How flash will destroy optical and magnetic storage

Crave I think we may see flash memory destroying hard disks as well. Will the hard disk be made useless after it's forced to help flash memory destroy optical media? As flash encroaches on more of optical media's territory, I see it teaming up with hard...

21 January 2008, 10:53

The Augustus Gloop of storage: Terastation

Crave The Buffalo Terastation's four 250GB hard disks combine to give a magnificent terabyte (1TB) of networked capacity. This storage system really can wolf it down. These drives can be set up as a massive single volume, or as a RAID array.

Tags: storage, capacity, storing, gigabit ethernet

19 September 2005, 10:48

Mac Expo London: Wild photos!

Crave These may look like the sort of arty trinket that Harajuku girls hang from their ears, but they're actually USB hard disks. LaCie's gear was the most innovative at this year's Mac Expo in London's Kensington Olympia.

27 October 2006, 13:44

Crave Talk: Should user interfaces cater for the intoxicated?

Crave Why do you drag disks to the 'Trash' to eject them in Mac OS? Why is the button that connects your mobile phone to a premium-rate Internet service twice as big as the button that answers calls? Why do you go to the 'Start' button in Windows to shut...

Tags: cash, mac os, machines, london

6 February 2007, 12:24

Samsung launches disk-free Q1/Q30 portables

Crave Not only has the company announced two new portables that use solid state disk (SSD, aka flash) technology, but it recently told Crave that it'll no longer make MP3 players with traditional hard disks, a la iPod.

Tags: samsung, nt, model, hard drive

21 August 2006, 12:14

Drobo: Automated data robot

Crave It's basically a whacking great USB storage device that accepts up to four separate 3.5-inch SATA hard disks. Data storage is usually as dull as ditchwater, but our ears pricked up when we heard about Drobo -- the world's first storage robot.

Tags: data robotics, disk, remove, storage

21 December 2007, 8:00

Aftermath: One week with the new iPod classic

Crave Hard disks need to spin up, the read head must seek the location of whatever album art is going to be displayed and subsequently load into the player's RAM. It's been just over a week since I bought a brand-new 160GB iPod classic.

Tags: apple, playback, navigation, art

18 September 2007, 10:00