hard drives

News.blog: Yahoo Music switches off

News Yahoo is shutting off support for Yahoo Music after 30 September, which means starting 1 October, if users want to move music to new hard drives or computers, they will be out of luck. The Los Angeles Times reported on Thursday that Yahoo Music...

Tags: keys, yahoo, transfer, protection

25 July 2008, 8:56

News.blog: MacBook Air SSD price drops

News PC companies have been interested in flash memory hard drives for some time, but it's not clear how well they are selling. Before today, you would have paid a £2,028 premium if you wanted a MacBook Air with a solid-state hard drive, but Apple has...

Tags: air, hard drive, memory, premium

4 July 2008, 9:17

'Half' of teens' MP3s are illegal tracks

News More than half (58 per cent) admitted to copying music from friends' hard drives, while 95 per cent have copied music in some way. Young people are getting almost half of their music collection through illegal means.

Tags: cent, sharing, industry, research

17 June 2008, 8:51

Asus Eee PCs upgrade to Intel's Atom

News In an interview with Laptop Magazine published on Saturday, Jerry Shen also said that Asus may at some point incorporate hard drives, rather than solid-state storage, into the popular machines. In his interview, Shen also indicated that Asus was...

Tags: storage, machines, processor, intel

11 March 2008, 8:53

Company trials films on flash

News Delivering movies via hard drives and flash memory eliminates many of the packaging and shipping expenses associated with DVDs. The kiosks will be packed with hard drives that can hold 350 to titles. The drives come from Seagate Technologies...

Tags: bandwidth, stores, hard drive, titles

4 March 2008, 9:07

Photos: A touch of power for new MacBooks

News MacBook Pro, up to 250GB hard drives are available. The processors run at up to 2.6GHz, and the laptops come with up to 6MB of cache memory, 4GB of RAM and a hard drive with up to 250GB of storage space.

Tags: ram, core, model, inch

27 February 2008, 9:35

Photos: Lego celebrates 50 years

News The two built the system, which included 10 4GB hard drives. Since the beginning, Lego sets have been themed, and the very first theme was space. Not long afterward, Lego added castle and pirate themes.

Tags: elements, europe, plan, plastic

29 January 2008, 8:52

Ultraportable speculation at Macworld

News This slenderness could be the result of a switch from traditional hard drives to flash-based storage, claimed Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster in an interview with USA Today. As the Macworld expo gears up to open today, the greatest amount of...

Tags: apple

15 January 2008, 8:52

News.blog: Hitatchi to start new storage company?

News We haven't able to confirm this, but we've heard it now from a couple of people: Hitachi, the Japanese conglomerate, is talking to Toshiba and Fujitsu about forming a new company dedicated to hard drives and storage systems.

14 January 2008, 9:10

Photos: Apple reveals mighty Mac Pro

News The new Mac Pro will come with four internal hard drive bays that can each hold a 1TB Serial ATA hard drives for up to 4TB of internal storage. Just a week before Macworld, Apple has unveiled a Mac Pro with eight processor cores and a new system...

Tags: core, memory, graphics, ati

11 January 2008, 10:06

Asus boasts terabyte laptops

News Las Vegas this week, each contain two of Hitachi's 5K500 hard drives. Asus is promoting the M50 and M70 as entertainment laptops, saying their large hard drives mean the laptops can hold sizeable amounts of high-definition video content.

Tags: laptops, hard drives, asus, consumer

9 January 2008, 11:55

FireWire speed set to quadruple

News The technology is used as a high-speed data interface for linking devices such as external hard drives and camcorders to PCs. The association's statement claimed the development of S3200 meant users would see no advantage from eSATA, a competing...

Tags: pcs, television, trade, hard drives

18 December 2007, 9:32

Photos: Gutsy new Ubuntu

News Windows Vista and Mac OS X also have desktop search tools to let people more easily and quickly find what they need on ever-larger hard drives. A number of people have griped about Ubuntu's default brown colour-scheme, but it's still there with...

Tags: mac os, linux, credit, interfaces

18 October 2007, 9:17

Hitachi claims four terabyte drives for 2011

News Hitachi Global Storage Technologies, the hard-drive arm of the Japanese conglomerate, has made what it says is the world's smallest read head for hard drives. And, if it comes out in 2011 or so as expected, the head will allow Hitachi to continue...

15 October 2007, 10:13

News.blog: Two laptops approved for Wireless USB

News Wireless USB will enable peripherals like printers, cameras, mice and hard drives to connect to a PC without a USB cable from distances of up to 5m to 8m. It's taken long enough, but they're here: the first computers that can make USB connections...

24 July 2007, 9:53