hard drive

News.blog: Samsung hybrid drives ready to spin

News Samsung is shipping three MH80 hybrid hard drives -- a combination of a traditional hard drive and flash memory -- to PC makers, it announced on Wednesday. Samsung expects laptop makers to use the drives to help extend battery life, since the...

8 March 2007, 9:45

News.blog: Hitatchi to start new storage company?

News The new company would combine the limping hard drive divisions of Silver Lake and others about spinning off its money-losing hard drive group, according to sources and news reports. Either way, "something has got to happen", said one former hard...

14 January 2008, 9:10

Dell launches an open-source PC

News The company's Dimension E510n PC comes with a blank hard drive and a copy of the FreeDOS operating system, which can be installed by customers. The desktop retails for $849 (it isn't yet available in the UK) and comes with a Pentium 4 processor...

5 October 2005, 10:59

News.blog: Expect laptops with flash and no drives

News Substituting flash for a hard drive cuts weight and power consumption. The main concern is that a hard drive has a motor, which can break down when exposed to lots of dust, a common problem in villages in countries like Mali or Chad.

14 August 2006, 9:50

News.blog: Intel launches flash drives

News The company formally launched the Intel Z-U130 Value Solid-State Drive (just rolls right off the tongue) on Monday, promising to deliver the drives to PC and server companies as either replacement hard drives or performance enhancers.

13 March 2007, 9:03

Apple launches Intel Mac Minis and iPod Hi-Fi

News The low-end model sells for £449 and comes with a 1.5GHz Intel Solo single-core chip, a 60GB hard drive and a combo drive that can play DVDs and burn CDs. It comes with a dual-core 1.67GHz Core Duo processor, an 80GB hard drive and a SuperDrive...

1 March 2006, 10:15

Apple brings consumer chic to MacBooks

News Billed as a replacement to the 12-inch PowerBook, the 13-inch widescreen MacBook, which is on sale now, starts at £749 for a 1.83GHz Intel Core Duo processor with a 60GB hard drive. Like the former iBooks, that model -- and the next model up, which...

17 May 2006, 10:37

News.blog: MacBook Air SSD price drops

News 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 reduced that premium to £1,719. Using flash memory instead of moving parts to store data improves the reliability of the...

Tags: air, hard drive, memory, premium

4 July 2008, 9:17

Flash PC drive battle lines drawn

News In Robson, a large amount of data and applications will be stored in flash memory so that the processor won't have to retrieve it from the hard drive, which takes far longer. Samsung, Microsoft and Seagate, meanwhile, all have their eye on the...

2 October 2006, 9:48

Will your PC keep up with Vista?

News The 'Windows Performance Rating', which can be seen in the latest test version of the operating system, evaluates components such as the processor, the memory, the hard drive and graphics cards to come up with an overall score.

16 March 2006, 11:14

News.blog: Asus Eee Box details released

News Hard drive: 80GB / 160GB 5,400 rpm There is no optical drive, but the Eee Box does feature a user removable hard drive to simplify upgrades and repairs. One for $269 (£140) comes with 1GB of RAM, an 80GB hard drive and an unspecified version of

Tags: hard drive, box, linux, lan

3 June 2008, 9:47

How much is Sony losing on each PS3?

News The PS3 with the 60GB hard drive comes with a manufacturing and component bill of $840.35. The hard drive-equipped Microsoft game console now has a manufacturing and materials cost of $323.30. The higher costs for the PS3 are largely driven by the...

17 November 2006, 10:11

News.blog: Apple laptops could give flash a boost

News And although flash prices are dropping, so are hard-drive prices. Apple may come out with a laptop that has a drive made from flash memory, according to Shawn Wu of American Technology Research, and that could become a big boon to a market under...

8 March 2007, 9:27

News.blog: Sony Vaio TZ series shipping in Japan

News Back in the day, for roughly the same price (which starts at around £1,418) you would get you a 200MHz Pentium processor, 32MB of RAM, a 2.1GB hard drive, integrated modem and external floppy. With the Vaio TZ90, you get considerably more: a 1.2GHz...

23 May 2007, 9:41

Sky offers movie downloads to subscribers

News The movie-focused service lets a user download a full-length feature film to their hard drive and watch it an unlimited number of times within 30 days -- after which time, the file will be "automatically deleted" from the hard drive, according to...

11 January 2006, 10:01