disks

PC World bids farewell to the floppy disk

News PC World is to stop selling floppy disks once current stock has run out. The increasing use of digital downloads and photography means many files are now too large for a floppy disk to hold and with plenty of other storage devices -- USB keys...

31 January 2007, 9:36

Companies expose private data with PC clearouts

News Two graduates from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have sent out a warning to all computer users and companies about the dangers of discarding old hard disks. The almost improbably named Simson Garfinkel and Abhi Shelat obtained second...

17 January 2003, 10:50

Samsung shows off 32GB flash hard drive

News It has forecast that by 2008, one third of laptops will use solid-state hard drive, rather than rotating magnetic disks: Intel among others have predicted that NAND flash will be used in conjunction with hard disks, caching boot and system files...

23 March 2006, 9:52

Dell to ditch the floppy disk

News It's smaller and lighter than a floppy drive, yet it has the ability to store more data than 10 or more standard 3.5-inch floppy disks, Dell representatives said. New said: "Our view is that floppy disks are less valued by customers, which means...

30 October 2002, 13:30

Samsung brings 32GB solid state disk to UK laptops

News The mean time before failure is guaranteed at one million hours, although the nature of SSDs makes it difficult to compare this directly with mechanical hard disks. In mechanical hard disks it is usually the read/write heads that fail.

23 May 2007, 10:22

Samsung develops flash-based disk for PCs

News The 46mm (1.8-inch) NAND flash-based disks, which will be available in August, will have a capacity of up to 16GB. The first disks will target sub-notebooks and tablet PCs. The solid-state disks also weigh less than half of what comparably sized...

24 May 2005, 9:57

iPod tech pioneers win Nobel Prize

News It is thanks to this technology that it has been possible to miniaturise hard disks so radically in recent years," the academy said in a statement. This makes it possible to pack more data on disks. Nobel Prize in Physics on Tuesday for a...

11 October 2007, 9:32

Seagate launches perpendicular drives

News The three new drives join Seagate's existing Cheetah line of disks which, as the name suggests, are among the fastest in the industry for data transfer rates. Seagate has announced its first 3.5-inch disk drives using the groundbreaking...

19 April 2006, 10:12

Driving Vista in the fast lane

News Vista will automatically de-fragment hard disks, make better use of memory to load programs more quickly, and include a new performance control panel that will identify performance bottlenecks, according to the company.

9 August 2005, 11:51

Death knell sounded for cassettes

News Three years later, however, its star began to fade with the launch of the CD, and by 1993 the shiny disks were outselling analogue tapes. Following the demise of the floppy disk, it looks like analogue tape is about to meet a similar fate: Currys...

9 May 2007, 12:28

Porn and secrets: what's on your old hard drive?

News In 2003, two US techies called Simson Garfinkel and Abhi Shelat found more than 5,000 credit card numbers on one of a number of hard disks they examined. Companies and consumers are failing to take note of the importance of properly cleaning data...

16 September 2005, 10:05

DVD-swapping site presses retailers for play

News These disks could then subsequently be swapped for others for 99 cents a pop. Buy a new DVD and get two or three used ones for free -- that's the deal DVD-swapping site Peerflix is pitching at retailers.

20 July 2005, 10:21

Toshiba rolls out HD DVD laptop

News It comes with a 2GHz Core Duo processor from Intel, two 100GB hard drives with RAID (redundant array of independent disks) support for backing up movies and music, and 1GB of DDR2 memory. Toshiba is expected to unveil what it says is the first...

Tags: intel, definition, toshiba, high definition

9 May 2006, 11:38

Dell offers auto backup

News The backup technology combines Symantec's Ghost 10 data backup software and two hard-disk drives that mirror each other through a level 1 RAID (Redundant Array of Independent Disks) configuration. Worried about losing files or photos?

27 October 2005, 10:39

Hitachi plans laptop drive revolution

News Perpendicular recording effectively lets disks store more data on a surface than in the past. Laptop drives are facing a revolution in 2007. Hitachi Global Storage Technologies, the hard-drive division of the Japanese electronics giant, will sell...

1 November 2006, 10:26