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hard disk
CNET.co.uk has 51 stories on hard disk
Storage giants push hybrid hard drives
News The flash chips are used to store certain data that would otherwise be written to disk. Several major hard-drive vendors have announced that they will work together to promote and develop a new type of storage: hybrid hard drives.
5 January 2007, 9:26
Fujitsu takes wraps off enterprising hard drive
News Fujitsu, the Japanese hardware specialist has unveiled its latest disk drive. The MAP series consists of three new hard drives with high capacities and faster data access. The HDD drive, part of Fujitsu's MAP series, features high-speed and...
28 May 2002, 17:10
Porn and secrets: what's on your old hard drive?
News Earlier this year, one forensics expert sparked concern among charities who provide reconditioned PCs to projects in the third world by saying the only way to be 100 per cent certain is to take a hammer and nails to the disk.
16 September 2005, 10:05
Tiny hard disk could give mobile phones 4GB
News Hard-disk maker Cornice has launched a 2.5cm (1-inch) disk drive that will easily fit into mobile phones, GPRS devices or very small MP3 devices -- and it has a substantial 4GB capacity. The new Storage Element features a new architecture that...
20 July 2005, 11:21
IBM announces 2,800 job cuts
News IBM has announced 2,800 job cuts and the closure of a hard disk manufacturing plant in Hungary. The closure of the plant in Szekesfehervar will account for 2,100 redundancies - with 600 further cuts coming in its services division and 100 from...
23 October 2002, 14:30
Seagate launches perpendicular drives
News Seagate has announced its first 3.5-inch disk drives using the groundbreaking perpendicular storage technology that it hopes will break through the storage limitations that are beginning to impact on hard-drive technology.
19 April 2006, 10:12
Samsung develops flash-based disk for PCs
News The company announced Monday that it has developed a 'solid-state disk' using flash memory for PCs, which traditionally have used hard drives. The company said the solid state disk is made up of 8-gigabit chips and consumes power at a rate of less...
24 May 2005, 9:57
Home storage to boost hard-drive growth
News Research firm IDC's 'Worldwide Hard Disk Drive 2005-2009 Forecast', released on Wednesday, shows that the number of drives shipped worldwide and the resulting profits should increase at a compound annual growth rate of 15.5 per cent and 10.1 per...
30 June 2005, 9:28
Samsung shows off 32GB flash hard drive
News If successful, this will leapfrog the immediate competition from miniature hard-disk drives, with Hitachi saying its 20GB Microdrive won't be out until 2007. Also, 32GB of NAND flash is much more expensive than the equivalent disk-based hard drive.
23 March 2006, 9:52
Samsung brings 32GB solid state disk to UK laptops
News They also cost over five times more, with the 32GB Samsung unit priced at £350 plus VAT, compared with £65 for a regular 100GB hard disk. Given that prices of flash memory and hard disk drives experience a similar downward trend, the price...
23 May 2007, 10:22
The drive for multi-disk PCs
News While all the major computer makers let customers add a second, third or even fourth hard drive, some PC manufacturers are installing dual hard-disk drives in their basic computers so consumers don't have to fiddle with external devices.
11 August 2005, 9:46
IBM brains capture a PC's soul
News SoulPad uses a USB or FireWire connection to accesses the network cards for connecting to the Internet, the computer's display, the keyboard, the main processor and the memory, but not the hard disk. And while using a flash memory-based hard drive...
16 August 2005, 9:36
iPod tech pioneers win Nobel Prize
News When atoms are laid down on a hard disk in ultra-thin layers, they interact differently than when spread out more. A computer hard-disk reader that uses a GMR sensor is equivalent to a jet flying at a speed of 30,000 kilometres per hour.at a height...
11 October 2007, 9:32
Dell offers auto backup
News While all the major computer makers let customers add a second, third or even fourth hard drive, Dell's redundant hard-drive system is part of a trend by PC makers to automatically install multiple hard-disk drives so consumers don't have to...
27 October 2005, 10:39
Matsushita to sell larger Blu-ray recorders
News A model equipped with a 1-terabyte hard disk drive is expected to sell for $2,600 (£1,300), Matsushita said. The high-end model with a 500GB hard disk drive is likely to sell for $1,125 (£552), Matsushita said.
3 October 2007, 10:43
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Format wars: The tech that should have won
Did you love Laserdisc? Were you bonkers over Betamax? Travel back in time with Captain Tech and check out the format losers that should have triumphed
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