Western Digital unveils 1TB TiVo external drive
April 22, 2009Western Digital today announced the availability of a 1TB version of its My DVR Expander for TiVo boxes for recording television programming.
New Intel chips prompt rise in demand for DDR3 memory
April 22, 2009A new series of Intel microprocessors aimed at the computer server market has caused a spike in demand for DDR3 (double data rate, third generation) DRAM chips, according to Samsung Electronics.
Lenovo shows tool to manage encrypted drives
April 22, 2009PC maker Lenovo hopes to give IT managers a helping hand with encrypted hard drive systems after announcing a new password management tool.
Seagate announces new green desktop drives
April 21, 2009Seagate today announced a new family of lower-power desktop drives under its Barracuda line. The drives use 25% less power than standard 3.5-in. desktop drives.
Schooner touts SSD appliance as replacement for eight traditional servers
April 21, 2009Start-up Schooner Technology has begun beta trials for its new solid-state disk appliances, which it said can replace up to eight traditional servers, reduce space needs and power costs and boost performance for MySQL and Memcached environments.
I Think My Hard Drive is Dying
April 21, 2009Repartitioning software told Bloodboughtme that his hard drive had "bad blocks." He asked the Answer Line forum for advise.
NASA dumps Sun, sticks with tape for archives
April 21, 2009NASA has replaced 10 aging Sun/StorageTek tape libraries with two new models from Spectra Logic, allowing it to reduce the floor space required for tape archives by 1,400 square feet.
Review: OCZ's high-capacity solid-state disk 'a solid choice'
April 21, 2009OCZ's Apex 120GB SSD is an all-around good drive that offers decent read/write speeds at an attractive price. If you don't need the absolute fastest SSD, but want to noticeably boost your laptop's performance, this is a solid choice.
Full disk encryption comes to SSDs for mobile devices, laptops
April 17, 2009Samsung today announced its first solid-state disk drives with hardware-based full disk encryption, which is designed to protect all data written to its flash drives against theft.
LaCie intros the Rugged XL 1TB hard disk
April 16, 2009Hard drive-maker LaCie introduced a new version of its Rugged line of hard drives. The Rugged XL doubles the capacity of the original model to 1TB.