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Cornice launches 10GB matchbook hard drive
News The hard-drive maker will show off what it calls the market's smallest hard drive at the Consumer Electronics Show, the company said on Monday. The Dragon series micro hard drive is Cornice's answer to our customers' needs.and a result of focusing...
3 January 2006, 10:06
One terabyte hard drive imminent
News Last year, Hitachi predicted hard-drive companies would announce 1 terabyte drives by the end of 2006. A terabyte is a trillion bytes, or a million megabytes, or 1,000 gigabytes, as measured by the hard-drive industry.
5 January 2007, 9:28
Ten things not to do to your hard drive
News One customer left a banana on top of his hard drive, which then rotted and seeped through into the device. Another customer, failing to read the warning signs, managed to reformat his hard drive not once, not twice, but ten times before he realised...
17 November 2006, 10:23
Seagate ups hard drive capacity with new tech
News Seagate Technologies has unveiled ten new hard drives, including its first hard drive to use next-generation perpendicular-recording technology, the company said on Wednesday. In a 2.5-inch hard drive, you could see 1.5 terabytes of storage.
10 June 2005, 9:50
Samsung shows off 8GB hard-drive phone
News Samsung has taken the wraps off a mobile phone that boasts what it says is the biggest hard drive seen on such a device to date. In addition to its large hard drive, the device will let users sync playlists from their PC as well as store documents...
8 March 2006, 10:25
Fujitsu takes wraps off enterprising hard drive
News Fujitsu, the Japanese hardware specialist has unveiled its latest disk drive. The HDD drive, part of Fujitsu's MAP series, features high-speed and capacity up to 157GB and is designed for enterprise computing environments.
28 May 2002, 17:10
Samsung unleashes hybrid hard drive
News Samsung says laptop users will get an extra half hour of battery life and be able to boot up their computers faster using its hybrid hard drive, which will come out in PCs in 2007. A hybrid hard drive is a hard drive that contains a flash memory...
16 May 2006, 12:24
Coming soon: the 1-terabyte hard drive
News It's not that big a stretch for some hard drive makers. Besides, humans continue to show that they can come up with ways to gobble up hard drive space. Happy birthday, hard driveOn 13 September, the hard drive will turn 50.
15 August 2006, 10:14
Home storage to boost hard-drive growth
News Storing all of those digital photos and on-demand TV shows on your computer should keep sales brisk for hard-drive manufactures for at least the next four years, a new study has shown. Research firm IDC's 'Worldwide Hard Disk Drive 2005-2009...
30 June 2005, 9:28
Samsung shows off 32GB flash hard drive
News Samsung is planning to shake up the hard drive market with a 32GB drive that uses NAND flash memory chips rather than magnetic platters. The South Korean company formally launched its 32GB flash hard drive on Tuesday, having demonstrated the device...
23 March 2006, 9:52
New hard drive hints at 100GB iPod?
News Toshiba on Tuesday announced new 100GB models of a small hard drive, a move that could lead to larger-capacity iPods next year. A Toshiba representative wouldn't discuss customer plans for the 46mm (1.8-inch) drive, and Apple declined to comment on...
6 December 2006, 9:23
News.blog: iTV has a 'small' hard drive
News Disney president and chief executive Bob Iger revealed a few details about Apple's forthcoming iTV product yesterday, including the fact that it will come with a small hard drive. The iTV device will let users stream movies or television programmes...
21 September 2006, 10:44
Porn and secrets: what's on your old hard drive?
News Companies and consumers are failing to take note of the importance of properly cleaning data from their hard drives before selling or discarding them. Data recovery specialist Disklabs recently bought 100 second-hand hard drives and 50 used memory...
16 September 2005, 10:05
Apple launches new MacBook laptops
News Apple announced on Tuesday that it has updated its MacBook laptops with faster processors, more memory and more hard drive space. The lower-end white MacBook, with a starting price of £699, comes with an 80GB hard drive; its 2.16GHz counterpart...
16 May 2007, 10:41
Zune fails to make it into US top ten
News Although Microsoft's Zune captured a decent slice of the US' hard drive audio player market at large retail stores, it failed to crack into the top ten list of models in overall sales, according to market researcher Current Analysis.
5 January 2007, 10:34


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