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Top Tip: Does formatting a hard disk
really erase all data?

Top Tip: Does formatting a hard disk
really erase all data? 07/07/2004 02:23 PM
Does formatting a hard disk completely erase data?

News: Diskology shrinks Disk Jockey hard
disk duplicator

News: Diskology shrinks Disk Jockey hard
disk duplicator 03/30/2005 05:41 PM
Diskology Inc. on Wednesday introduced a smaller version of its Disk Jockey, a hardware appliance that duplicates, backs up and diagnoses hard disk drives. It retails for US$329.

Keep Your Confidential Data Confidential
With Biometric Fingerprint Flash Drives
and Hard Disk Drives

Keep Your Confidential Data Confidential
With Biometric Fingerprint Flash Drives
and Hard Disk Drives 02/01/2005 09:13 PM
Now you can have safe, secure, portable storage of your confidential business and personal data with the biometric fingerprint ClipDrive Bio USB Flash Drive and the Outbacker USB biometric fingerprint Hard Disk Drive. The devices are non-operational until a validated fingerprint or password is received. [PRWEB Jan 21, 2005]

Web E-Mail: The New Hard Disk

Web E-Mail: The New Hard Disk 06/24/2004 05:04 AM
Okay, let me get this straight... My GMail account is good for 1GB. I could probably use some of my next invites to get myself a few more accounts, let's say 4. It seems reasonable. That's 5GB of e-mail storage. My Yahoo Mail Plus account has 2GB of storage (employee perk). I could add a few more "normal" Y! Mail accounts at 100MB each. 10 would get me another gig, bringing my Yahoo total to 3GB and my grand total...

Hard disk goes kaboom

Hard disk goes kaboom 03/11/2003 09:44 AM
My hard disk fried last night. I'm using one of my "spares" while I download RedHat 8.0. If you're waiting for something from me... it will probably take the rest of the day before I'm back online and able to read and answer your e-mail. <sigh>...

Top Tip: 2MB or 8MB hard disk cache?

Top Tip: 2MB or 8MB hard disk cache? 01/22/2004 02:20 PM
Tonight I`m buying a new WD hard drive expansion for my home PC and am wondering what`s the diff between 2mb cache and 8mb cache(beside 6mb`s)? Does this extra cache allow for more what ?????? The tech specs show the same between the two drives,read/write speeds etc. . PLEASE. You tell me. THANKS FOR THE HELP... Dan.

Top Tip: Can't format hard disk!

Top Tip: Can't format hard disk! 01/26/2004 03:03 PM
I have this hard drive that cannot be reformatted. Whenever reformatting is taking place the hard disk reader head stops reading after certain sectors. When the "dir" command is used to view the disk, the files are shown but not the total about of bytes used up or free. The cursor seems to stop before this infomation is shown. Could it be that the FAT table has been damaged.

Internet Hard Disk with GmailFS

Internet Hard Disk with GmailFS 08/28/2004 08:52 PM
That's right, the pieces for the previously mentioned webmail basead Internet hard disk are coming together. The release of GmailFS provides a relatively seamless filesystem on top of your Gmail account. However, given that Google is being evil with Gmail now, there's no telling how long this will last. See Also: Ask Jeeves Upgrades Internet Hard Disk...

How to make more room on your hard disk

How to make more room on your hard disk 11/16/2003 11:49 PM
ZDNet Nov 16 2003 10:46PM ET

Top Tip: Sweep my hard disk clean?

Top Tip: Sweep my hard disk clean? 04/16/2004 02:18 PM
I was wondering if anyone could recommend a program to wipe my HDD clean--OS and all. Honestly, I don't even know if such programs exist, but I was just curious.

Build A Stereo From an Old Hard Disk

Build A Stereo From an Old Hard Disk 05/09/2004 10:16 AM

New Walkman-Branded Hard Disk Player

New Walkman-Branded Hard Disk Player 07/01/2004 10:07 AM

Bantam/GPX BA1000 2GB Hard Disk Player
for $100

Bantam/GPX BA1000 2GB Hard Disk Player
for $100 05/25/2004 10:32 AM
The boys over at DAPReview aren't real big fans of it, but if you want to pick up a 2GB hard disk player on the cheap, Outpost.com Bantam/GPX BA1000 audio player on sale for $100. It may not be the...

Notes and Tips: Huge Hard Disk?

Notes and Tips: Huge Hard Disk? 02/13/2004 11:54 AM
Just how big can you get with Xserve RAID?

Hard disk heads can be polished with
green tea

Hard disk heads can be polished with
green tea 04/27/2004 04:11 PM
Green tea is an environmentally sound substitute for diamond polishing compound used in the preparation of super-smooth hard-disk read-write heads.

John Lombardi, at Ventana Research based in Tuscon, Arizona in the US, suspected that green tea might also provide be an effective compound for polishing magnetic read-write heads. This was because tannin, a chemical that gives tea and coffee a bitter taste, binds to certain ceramic and metal materials. It is this quality that causes it to stain teapots and mugs...

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Toshiba Develops 0.85'' Hard Disk

Toshiba Develops 0.85'' Hard Disk 12/15/2003 07:58 PM
onebuttonmouse writes "Toshiba have set a new record for the world's smallest hard disk at a tiny 0.85". Surely this will have some great applications in ...

Top Tip: Hard disk config for file
server?

Top Tip: Hard disk config for file
server? 02/19/2004 12:44 PM
I am planning to get a new file server which also will be a dc. It will be installed with Win2003 advance server and currently I have 2 Win2000 servers which are DCs.What is the recommended h/w configuration for the harddisks ? how many hdds for the OS, ide or scsi, raid 1 or 5 ?

First Impressions: JVC Everio Hard Disk
Camera

First Impressions: JVC Everio Hard Disk
Camera 03/19/2005 02:45 AM

InfoSync has their first impressions of JVC's 3CCD 4GB hard drive based camcorder from a recent hands-on at CeBIT. The Everio GZ-MC500E allows the user to easily swap out the existing 4GB Microdrive card making future upgrades simple and also offers myriad quality settings to increase recording time from its default 60 minutes (near-DVD-quality) to as many as 5 hours of video. The infoSync piece has more on their personal experience with the $1,800 device, but overall their impressions were that it looks to be quite the camcorder. It also includes a separate SD/MMC card slot and supports PictBridge for direct-to-printer connectivity. JVC says it will launch sometime this month.

Preview: JVC Everio GZ-MC500E [infoSyncWorld]
First seen: JVC Everio GZ-MC500E: 3CCD Hard Disk Camera [Gizmodo]

Ask Jeeves Upgrades Internet Hard Disk

Ask Jeeves Upgrades Internet Hard Disk 06/25/2004 12:52 AM
Well, that was fast. According to ResearchBuzz, Ask Jeeves will be increasing their free and paid web mail offerings to compete with GMail, Y! Mail, and so on. This new Internet Hard Disk is getting bigger by the day. Rock on!...

i-Bead 1000 1.5GB Hard Disk Player

i-Bead 1000 1.5GB Hard Disk Player 07/09/2004 01:27 PM

South Korean firm i-Bead is releasing a new 1.5 gigabyte hard disk player with a built-in 65k-color screen. Although there's no word on price yet, the feature set looks nice, with a built-in FM tuner and recorder, line-in recording, text viewing (something that is missing from way too many players), and USB 2.0, as well as a variety of major audio formats. And the best news? It looks like the i-Bead 1000 will be making it to Europe and the US; previous i-Bead players have been Asia-only.
Read - i-Bead to launch i-Bead 1000 [DAPreview]

Hard disk 'speed limit' found

Hard disk 'speed limit' found 04/23/2004 09:22 AM

Maxtor a good hard disk backup

Maxtor a good hard disk backup 06/29/2004 12:37 AM
Washington Times Jun 29 2004 5:03AM GMT

Linux Laptop w/ 3.5' Disk, USB, and No
Hard Drive?

Linux Laptop w/ 3.5' Disk, USB, and No
Hard Drive? 07/06/2004 08:17 PM
Slashdot Jul 6 2004 11:30PM GMT

Another Hard Disk Sony Video Player?

Another Hard Disk Sony Video Player? 08/02/2004 10:25 AM

So there's stink about this one possibly being a fake, but there's a new Sony hard disk-based video player on Japanese website CD Report that claims to have a 20GB hard drive crammed into a unit just a hair bigger than the iPod mini (hence, the fake rumors). If it is legit, it is supposed to be released sometime around Christmas for a price in the neighborhood of $450 - not a bad price if it ends up being the real deal.

Of course, Sony learned from the HMP-A1 that people might actually like players that could support native MP3 playback, so the new unit is rumored to have only ATRAC support (that means, basically, that this thing will be a dud as a music player).

Re ad - The SONY next machine HDD prayer estimate (Japanese) [Nifty via PMW via DAPreview]

Update: Okay, we're talking fake here. Babelfish failed me and the intern is probably curled up in a nest of barely-legal college hotties. At least he better be.

Linux Laptop w/ 3.5" Disk, USB, and No
Hard Drive?

Linux Laptop w/ 3.5" Disk, USB, and No
Hard Drive? 07/06/2004 06:50 PM

UK police moot paedo hard disk amnesty

UK police moot paedo hard disk amnesty 12/09/2003 10:54 AM
Hand yourself in and avoid court

Toshiba unveils tiny hard-disk drive

Toshiba unveils tiny hard-disk drive 12/16/2003 08:54 PM
CNET Asia Dec 16 2003 8:13PM ET

Hitachi to build hard disk factory in
China

Hitachi to build hard disk factory in
China 06/21/2004 12:12 PM
SiliconValley.com Jun 21 2004 3:08PM GMT

SATA Hard Disk Controller Recommendation
Needed

SATA Hard Disk Controller Recommendation
Needed 09/21/2004 12:45 AM
I'm in the process of consolidating a lot of computer hardware (selling off another notebook soon) and want to add a lot more disk space to my home "server" so I'll have space to dump all the files. The machine has lots of room in the case, but it's a couple years old so there's no on-board SATA. My plan is to drop in 3 250GB SATA disks and use Linux software RAID-5 to give me close to 500GB of...

Sony takes aim at iPod with new
hard-disk Walkman

Sony takes aim at iPod with new
hard-disk Walkman 07/01/2004 08:50 AM
Sony Corp. has unveiled its first hard-disk drive-based digital music player to bear the Walkman name. The device was launched on Thursday as the Walkman brand marked its 25th anniversary. The NW-HD1 features a 20GB hard-disk drive and is, according to the company, the smallest music player at this capacity. It measures 89 millimeters by 62.1 millimeters by 13.8 millimeters and weighs 110 grams. The capacity is half that of Apple Computer Inc.'s highest capacity iPod, but Sony says its player trumps Apple's in terms of the number of songs it can store: 13,000 on the Walkman versus 10,000 on the iPod.

Toshiba unveils sub 1-inch hard disk
drive

Toshiba unveils sub 1-inch hard disk
drive 01/08/2004 07:56 PM
Toshiba Corp. has unveiled a prototype hard-disk drive smaller than any currently on the market.

Creative's 24 Hour Zen Touch Hard Disk
Player

Creative's 24 Hour Zen Touch Hard Disk
Player 06/07/2004 09:06 AM

Creative's got a new hard disk player coming out called the 'Zen Touch' (apparently dropping the NOMAD branding) that takes them even close to the land of outright iPod clones, with a solid white casing and integrated vertically-oriented touchpad on the front. Stealing is the sincerest form of flattery, I say. Even better, the battery life is amazing -- the claimed 24 hours of the Zen Touch would triple that of the iPod. The 20GB player will be out in the fall and (according to IGN) be available for $330. Size-wise, the Zen Touch is just a tad larger than the iPod, at 4.12 x 2.7 x 0.87 inches.
Read [Creative via EverythingUSB]
Rea d [Gear.IGN]

Hitachi GST plans big hard-disk plant in
China

Hitachi GST plans big hard-disk plant in
China 06/22/2004 07:47 AM
Hitachi Global Storage Technologies Inc. is planning to spend up to $500 million to build a hard-disk drive manufacturing center in China, the company said Monday.

Seagate Believes In Self, Ups Hard Disk
Warranties to Five Years

Seagate Believes In Self, Ups Hard Disk
Warranties to Five Years 07/27/2004 09:21 AM

Unless you consider hard drives to be disposable (not a bad policy, given current failure rates), you'll probably be interested in hearing that hard drive manufacturer Seagate has upped to warranty period for all of its consumer hard drives to five years. Over the last couple of years, most major hard disk manufacturers had quietly changed their warranty period to one year (most were at a three year warranty before that), in spite of (or because of) an increasingly poor record of drive life-cycles. It has since become almost a joke to presume that any hard drive will last longer than a couple of years without failure; an interesting proposition, considering that the average computer user still keeps all of their data on a single drive.

Of course, just because a drive has a five year warranty doesn't mean the drive will last that long. You should still back up like a good Computer Scout. But in the worst case, at least you'll be able to get a replacement drive while you're tearing up over years of lost pornography.

Read - Seagate Warranties Jump to Five Years [Yahoo]
Read - Seagate Authorized Retailers [Seagate]

Hitachi plans 500GB hard disk, largest
ever

Hitachi plans 500GB hard disk, largest
ever 01/05/2005 06:58 PM
Hitachi Ltd. said yesterday that it is seeking to push the limits of data storage with smaller stamp-size disks for handheld gadgets and vastly higher-capacity drives that can store up to a half-terabyte of data.

IVDR removable hard disk drives to
finally appear

IVDR removable hard disk drives to
finally appear 04/12/2004 06:00 PM
LONDON - A removable hard disk drive system first unveiled more than two years ago will see its commercial launch later this month. IO Data Device Inc., a Tokyo-based manufacturer of computer peripherals, will put on sale a drive and disk based on the IVDR (Information Versatile Disk for Removable usage) standard in late-April, it said Monday.

Hard disk storage from EMC imitates tape
backup

Hard disk storage from EMC imitates tape
backup 04/09/2004 04:13 PM
Tape backup is slow and cumbersome. Hard disks are cheap and fast. EMC makes a "disk library" to masquerade as a tape device.

Toshiba develops 100GB hard disk for
notebooks

Toshiba develops 100GB hard disk for
notebooks 04/22/2004 09:21 AM
Toshiba Corp. has developed a hard disk drive for notebook computers that can hold 100GB of data. The company expects to begin selling it later this year, it said Thursday.

CES: Seagate to launch CF form-factor
hard-disk

CES: Seagate to launch CF form-factor
hard-disk 01/05/2005 01:43 PM
Seagate Technologies LLC will begin offering a Compact Flash (CF) card form-factor hard-disk drive from February this year, the company said at the International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, on Tuesday.
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New: Disk Jockey laptop drive adapters

New: Disk Jockey laptop drive adapters 08/04/2004 10:02 AM
Diskology released two laptop adapters, Fred and Steve, which allow the attachment of 2.5" laptop IDE hard drives to the company's Disk Jockey hardware diagnostic and disk copy tool.

Disk Jockey adds laptop adapters

Disk Jockey adds laptop adapters 08/03/2004 09:26 AM
Diskology Inc.'s Disk Jockey is a hardware device that functions as a disk cloning and diagnostic tool; it works with both Mac and PC-formatted disks. On Tuesday Diskology added adapters that enable the Disk Jockey to transfer and copy data from the 2.5-inch hard drives commonly used in laptops. Diskology offers the adapters in two formats: "Steve," a complete device that lets users plug in a 2.5-inch drive to the Disk Jockey, and "Fred," a more do-it-yourself kit. They're priced at US$35 and $10 respectively; the Disk Jockey costs $329.

Former women's world champion Zhu Chen
of China lost to laptop computer 'Star
of Unisplendour' here on Tuesday

Former women's world champion Zhu Chen
of China lost to laptop computer 'Star
of Unisplendour' here on Tuesday 06/09/2004 02:55 AM
Xinhua News Agency Jun 9 2004 6:58AM GMT

Serial Adapters

Serial Adapters 12/11/2002 08:09 AM
There's a converter that allows iPAQ accessories to work with the HTC PPC Phone Edition devices, it's been around for...

Car adapters keep iPod rocking

Car adapters keep iPod rocking 01/06/2005 02:42 PM
One device, from Clarion, lets drivers control their iPods using a 7-inch touch screen monitor.

IBM Recalls Notebook Adapters

IBM Recalls Notebook Adapters 09/02/2004 10:49 PM
The company is recalling about 553,000 notebook computer adapters sold worldwide because they can overheat and pose fire and shock hazards, IBM and the government say.

10Gb Ethernet adapters available for Mac
OS X

10Gb Ethernet adapters available for Mac
OS X 05/11/2004 05:52 PM
Small Tree Communications has announced support for the new Intel PRO/10GbE SR Server Adapters for Mac OS X...

Other News: iPod Car Adapters

Other News: iPod Car Adapters 01/04/2005 01:38 PM
iPod car stereo systems ramping up....

Mini AC adapters & other deals

Mini AC adapters & other deals 12/11/2003 08:30 PM
MacResQ Mini AC Adapter for PowerBook G4 & White iBook Normally $59.99, take $10 off with Q-Pon code "SNOMN"

MacResQ Mini AC Adapter, PowerBook G3 (all), iBook (clamshell), 3400, 2400, 1400, Duo: Normally $59.99, take $10 off with Q-Pon code "LIGHTS"

Exp. 12/18

More deals inside including drive enclosures, and G4 systems.

U.S. Robotics' New Wireless Adapters

U.S. Robotics' New Wireless Adapters 04/12/2004 07:25 AM
JOEL JOHNSON -- A couple new products launched from U.S. Robotics this week, and while they aren't exactly ground breaking, it makes me happy to know that U.S. Robotics is shipping products again (I'm an old fan from the 1200 baud days). Both are 802.11g adapters, the first a USB...

New: SeriTek SATA host adapters

New: SeriTek SATA host adapters 04/19/2005 12:19 PM
FirmTek released two Serial ATA host adapters, the SeriTek/1V4 with four internal ports and the SeriTek/1VE4 with four hot-swappable external ports.

External Audio Adapters: Thinking
Outside the Box

External Audio Adapters: Thinking
Outside the Box 09/24/2004 01:25 AM
Roundup: Today we bring together six external audio solutions designed for four different purposes--music listening, audio production, home theater, and gaming. They all have one thing in common: They live outside your PC.

WiebeTech offers new Combo Adapters

WiebeTech offers new Combo Adapters 03/29/2005 09:10 AM
WiebeTech LLC on Tuesday introduced new Combo Adapters, designed to work with WiebeTech's ComboDock. The two devices let IT personnel, forensic investigators, techs and others mount a wide variety of hard drives on their computers.

New: WiebeTech CardBus and PCI FireWire
800 adapters

New: WiebeTech CardBus and PCI FireWire
800 adapters 09/17/2004 10:16 AM
WiebeTech released a FireWire 800/400 CardBus host adapter and a FireWire 800/400 PCI host adapter, each with two 9-pin FireWire 800 ports and one 6-pin FireWire 400 port.

MetaMatrix Chooses Librados Adapters

MetaMatrix Chooses Librados Adapters 06/11/2004 03:46 AM
Award Winning Software Vendor Embeds Librados Adapters to Integrate With Enterprise Applications [PRWEB Jun 11, 2004]

Adapters, converters keep travelers
plugging away

Adapters, converters keep travelers
plugging away 05/27/2004 04:43 AM
Baltimore Sun May 27 2004 8:39AM GMT

Sun to Distribute iWay Adapters for
Integration

Sun to Distribute iWay Adapters for
Integration 05/25/2004 07:08 PM
Sun will distribute the adapters to integrate its systems with other environments; iWay president says packaged integrator processes will be key in the future.

IBM Recalls Notebook Computer Adapters

IBM Recalls Notebook Computer Adapters 09/02/2004 03:45 PM
AP via Los Angeles Times Sep 2 2004 7:22PM GMT

Overhauled Dell adapters ship again

Overhauled Dell adapters ship again 07/20/2004 12:38 PM
Maker of power adapters for Dell notebooks wraps up redesign of units to avoid potential electric shocks and starts delivering them for sale.

IBM recalls 500,000 melting notebook
adapters

IBM recalls 500,000 melting notebook
adapters 09/03/2004 04:34 AM
Fire in the hole

Bluetooth adapters set standard for
Windows CE

Bluetooth adapters set standard for
Windows CE 05/05/2004 05:35 AM
Electronics Talk May 5 2004 10:20AM GMT

IBM recalls notebook power adapters

IBM recalls notebook power adapters 09/02/2004 11:02 PM
SAN FRANCISCO - IBM Corp. is recalling power adapters that shipped with certain models of its ThinkPad notebooks sold between January 1999 and August 2000.

Dell recalls portable power adapters

Dell recalls portable power adapters 07/05/2004 06:19 AM
Computer Weekly Jul 5 2004 10:12AM GMT

HP unveils first multi-function
networking adapters

HP unveils first multi-function
networking adapters 03/17/2005 03:42 AM
Computer Weekly Mar 15 2005 12:27PM GMT

Difusi offers discounted Bluetooth
adapters

Difusi offers discounted Bluetooth
adapters 05/11/2004 10:38 AM
Difusi Corp. on Tuesday began offering its own brand of Bluetooth USB adapters. Developed around the Bluetooth 1.1.2 specification, Difusi fully guarantees the adapters will work with Bluetooth Qualified Apple peripherals. The retail price for the product is US$34.95, but they are being sold for a limited time for $16.95.

Dell to replace 38,000 portable power
adapters

Dell to replace 38,000 portable power
adapters 07/02/2004 04:33 PM
The Dell Combination Auto/Air Adapters were sold between December 2003 and May 2004 as an accessory with Latitude and Inspiron notebooks.

Dell to replace portable power adapters

Dell to replace portable power adapters 07/02/2004 04:39 PM
Dell Inc. is recalling about 38,000 power adapters sold worldwide that can cause an electrical shock if they are used with power cords from third-party manufacturers, a company spokesman said.

Roku's SoundBridge digital audio
adapters

Roku's SoundBridge digital audio
adapters 01/03/2004 08:49 PM
Just received a tip that Roku, the maker of the HD1000 high-definition digital media adapter, plans to introduce a couple of nicely designed digital audio...

IBM Recalls Notebook Power Adapters
(NewsFactor)

IBM Recalls Notebook Power Adapters
(NewsFactor) 09/03/2004 02:36 PM
NewsFactor - IBM (NYSE: IBM) is recalling some 553,000 power adapters used with the company's ThinkPad laptop computers sold worldwide between January 1999 and August 2000.

News: WiebeTech offers new Combo
Adapters

News: WiebeTech offers new Combo
Adapters 03/30/2005 05:42 PM
WiebeTech LLC on Tuesday introduced new Combo Adapters, designed to work with WiebeTech's ComboDock. The two devices let IT personnel, forensic investigators, techs and others mount a wide variety of hard drives on their computers.

VIA offers hard disk data scrub code

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