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IFD-iV Flash Drives Masquerade as ATA
Hard Drives
IFD-iV Flash Drives Masquerade as ATA
Hard Drives
07/15/2004 08:59 AM
For embedded computing
hackers, mass storage (like hard drives) is often the most frustrating
piece of the puzzle, as the fragile and power-hungry spin of the hard
drive is usually the last non-solid-state part in the whole
deployment. And while most engineers will just use a Compact Flash
card, sometimes the only option is an ATA (hard drive) connection;
that's where the IFD-iV flash memory parts from IO Data Device
Corporation come in. Basically just flash memory drives, the defining
feature of the IFD-iVs (besides fairly rugged operating
specifications) is that they use the standard ATA connection of a hard
drive, meaning they can be deployed in place of hard drives when
necessary. Models up to 2GB in capacity will be available for around
$2,100 -- maybe we'll just deal with the fragile hard drives
instead.
Read - Flash memory
ATA hard drive [TechJapan]
Update: Reader Tom Lee brings up a much cheaper option for
hackers on a budget (after the jump.)
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 PMNow 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]
Hottest Hard Drives
Hottest Hard Drives
03/20/2003 01:05 PMIn 20 years, the hard disk drive has progressed from an IBM PC luxury
add-on to an indispensable part of any computer, and finally to a
component so inexpensive it can be upgraded on impulse. What are
today's hottest hard drives, and what is on the horizon for this vital
technology?
Next-Generation Hard Drives
Next-Generation Hard Drives
11/07/2003 11:04 AMDefragment All Hard Drives
Defragment All Hard Drives
09/20/2004 01:00 PMGrim times for hard drives
Grim times for hard drives
05/28/2004 06:14 AMZDNet UK May 28 2004 9:49AM GMT
Tiny Hard Drives Need New Plug
Tiny Hard Drives Need New Plug
09/09/2004 04:59 PMPortable consumer electronics and handhelds need a smaller more
efficient interface for hard drives, so Intel and others are working
to define a new spec, CE-ATA.
Hitachi to bring 1TB hard drives soon
Hitachi to bring 1TB hard drives soon
04/05/2005 04:32 AMNew Hard Drives to Expand DVR Capacity
(AP)
New Hard Drives to Expand DVR Capacity
(AP)
04/28/2004 08:10 PMAP - The power of the U.S. cable and satellite TV industries rests on
the 85 million households they count as subscribers. But the influence
of Hollywood, which controls the entertainment flow, is even more
formidable.
External FireWire Hard Drives
External FireWire Hard Drives
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USB External Hard Drive
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200 Gig Hard-Drives on sale at CompUSA
200 Gig Hard-Drives on sale at CompUSA
10/28/2003 11:07 PMThere are a few good things about being on travel I have a chance to
spend a little extra time...
Hard Drives the unsung Hero
Hard Drives the unsung Hero
05/27/2004 12:28 PMI had to smile today. Sitting on my shelf of memorabilia is a 65
meg RLL Hard-drive that I payed $465.00 for back in the mid 80's. I
was the top dog on the block and all of my buddies and I marveled at
how we would every fill it up. Little did I know that in 1993 I would
layout $1056.00 for a 1.6 Gig drive.
I have been kicking myself in the butt every since. But luckily the
days of over-priced hard-drives are long gone. The history of the
Hard-Drive is an amazing one. [CNet]
New Technology for More Spacious Hard
Drives
New Technology for More Spacious Hard
Drives
03/20/2003 01:05 PMAn old adage in the computer industry holds that you can never be too
rich or have too
much space on your hard drive. That may be difficult to believe now,
considering that
the hard drives in many personal computers sold today can now store
the digital
equivalent of several complete sets of encyclopedias. And leave plenty
of room to spare.
New Hard Drives to Expand DVR Capacity
New Hard Drives to Expand DVR Capacity
04/28/2004 09:30 PMSan Jose Mercury News Apr 29 2004 1:42AM GMT
Other News: WiFi Hard Drives
Other News: WiFi Hard Drives
04/12/2004 10:04 AMHooking up hard drives to wireless networks may shortly become easier.
Green Tea Good for Hard Drives
Green Tea Good for Hard Drives
04/29/2004 05:00 AMThe same tannins in green tea that cause stains to form on your mugs
and teapots could save the hard-drive manufacturing industry some
serious dough, says a team of researchers. By Amit Asaravala.
Labs look beyond today's hard drives
Labs look beyond today's hard drives
07/21/2004 09:37 AMZDNet Jul 21 2004 2:09PM GMT
A new handshake for mini hard drives?
A new handshake for mini hard drives?
09/09/2004 06:09 PMIntel, Hitachi, Toshiba and others propose CE-ATA, a new interface for
miniature hard drives used in consumer electronics.
Toshiba's new tiny hard drives
Toshiba's new tiny hard drives
12/15/2003 11:35 AMToshiba's new hard drives are the size of a nickel and can store over
a gigabyte of data.
The 0.85 inch diameter disk is believed to be the world's smallest
hard disk drive that can store about 2 or 3 gigabytes worth of
information, company spokeswoman Midori Suzuki said Monday.
Link
(
via Werblog)
FBI Picks Up Some Novelty Hard Drives
FBI Picks Up Some Novelty Hard Drives
07/23/2004 03:08 PMWith all of the security problems in Los Alamos these days, apparently
secrecy is no joking matter. The Black Hole Surplus Store and Museum
apparently had some hard drives behind the counter with "secret"
labels on them. They're not for sale, but are really just there to
generate conversation with tourists. The FBI apparently
wasn't particularly thrilled with this explanation and have
confiscated the hard drive which the owner of the surplus store
insists was a joke. Who knows what goes through some
people's minds, but does it really seem likely that someone
walking out of Los Alamos with classified info is going to
hand it over to the local surplus store?
FireWire Hard Drives and The Future of
the TBU
FireWire Hard Drives and The Future of
the TBU
06/12/2004 06:49 PM
I bought
a FireWire hard drive enclosure the other day, and I'm awfully happy
with it. It cost about $45 and I filled it with an old 40GB hard
drive I had lying around. It works beautifully — plug it into a
FireWire port and you get a G: drive.
It makes me wonder what'll happen to the venerable tape backup unit
(TBU). I have a TBU on my server, but it's old, slow, cranky, and
only holds 20GB. Furthermore, 20GB tapes are like, $30 while hard
drives are running less than a dollar per gigabyte these days.
Right now, I can think of no reason why I would use my TBU for
anything anymore. Am I missing something? I imagine that tapes are
physically pretty durable, certainly more so than a hard drive, but is
there anything else?
I'm using this portable hard drive for off-site backups. Once a
week, I'll bring the drive in, copy the latest backups onto it, and
take it home where it will sit on my bookshelf for a week until I
bring it in again to refresh the backups.
FireWire hard drives, incidentally, are fast as lightning. I have
a small
RAID Tower which runs via FireWire. You'd never know it wasn't an
internal SCSI drive. In fact, I installed a very CPU- and
I/O-intensive server process on it once and it ran beautifully.
Again, the simplicity is amazing — plug it in and you get an F:
drive, end of story.
I'm so impressed with the utility of these things that I'd go so
far as call them mandatory equipment for your PC. The enclosure will
cost you $45. I found a 40GB Maxtor drive on Froogle for $32. I bought a
FireWire card and cable on eBay last year for $15. That's $92 for
40GB of removable storage that you can throw in a fanny pack —
tough to beat.
On my next PC, I'm going to physically separate the operating
system from my data files. I'll keep all my data on an external
FireWire unit, and only keep the OS and program files on the internal
IDE unit. I'd love for my PC to be essentially disposable. If I have
a problem, just pave and reload it knowing that all my data files are
safe and secure a few feet away on the external unit. Perversely, I
may mirror them on the internal drive just for redundancy.
For the record, I bought the Metal Gear Box from
NewEgg. It was rock simple to get running — find a hard drive,
physically screw it into the unit, plug it two cables, then plug it
into the PC.
I'm not thrilled with look of the thing — it's all brushed
aluminum and black metal grating. (Kind of makes me feel like a
40-year-old man driving around in a lowered Civic with a big wing on
the back.) Additionally, when you put it down, there's no padding or
rubber stops, so it kind of clanks against the desk, which makes me a
little nervous.
Anyway, the theory is valid. External hard drives: good.
FireWire: great. Go get one.
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Not-So-Clean Hard Drives For Sale
Not-So-Clean Hard Drives For Sale
06/08/2004 11:40 PMSlashdot Jun 9 2004 4:16AM GMT
Image drives fate of flash memory cards
Image drives fate of flash memory cards
01/16/2004 10:56 AMThe fate of the removable flash memory market has been and will
continue to be tied to digital cameras and cell phones, which have
taken off and are expected to grow.
Product Wirelessly Connects Hard Drives
Product Wirelessly Connects Hard Drives
06/17/2004 11:39 AMAP via Daily Press Jun 17 2004 4:04PM GMT
Serial ATA for Mini Hard Drives Planned
Serial ATA for Mini Hard Drives Planned
09/11/2004 09:24 AMPanther glitch erases some hard drives
Panther glitch erases some hard drives
10/30/2003 08:16 PMA problem is causing some of those who install the new version of Mac
OS X to lose the data stored on their external hard drives.
Panther problem eats some hard drives
Panther problem eats some hard drives
10/31/2003 03:50 AMZDNet UK Oct 31 2003 3:25AM ET
Toshiba delays 1.8-inch hard drives
Toshiba delays 1.8-inch hard drives
08/05/2004 01:52 PM"Late summer, early fall" now means "fourth quarter." Which means
"late in the fourth quarter."
Will Cell Phones Have Hard Drives? (PC
World)
Will Cell Phones Have Hard Drives? (PC
World)
04/28/2004 01:16 PMPC World - Cost, size, and power consumption may delay the technology.
New Lubricant Leads To Faster Hard
Drives
New Lubricant Leads To Faster Hard
Drives
08/29/2004 05:39 PMFujitsu announces new enterprise hard
drives
Fujitsu announces new enterprise hard
drives
03/08/2004 11:18 PMThe company's announcement comes about a week after rival Hitachi
Global Storage Technologies became the first drive maker to announce a
300GB, 10,000-rpm drive.
Seagate to use 'perpendicular'
technology for hard drives
Seagate to use 'perpendicular'
technology for hard drives
04/15/2005 12:39 AMComputerworld Apr 15 2005 4:02AM GMT
Tiny hard drives get bigger capacities
at CES
Tiny hard drives get bigger capacities
at CES
01/05/2005 02:09 PMSeagate and Hitachi are boosting storage capacities on their miniature
drives and improving efficiency, which will translate into improved
portable media players.
Coming soon: External SATA hard drives
Coming soon: External SATA hard drives
01/10/2004 12:27 AMExternal hard drives offer easy and practical storage, but they aren't
as speedy as the internal models - yet. Vendors working on a new
technical specification say that the first fast, new models of
external drives could ship by midyear.
Notes and Tips: Huge Hard Drives
Notes and Tips: Huge Hard Drives
02/16/2004 12:04 PMA query Friday brought some interesting information about monstrously
large hard-drive storage systems.
Seagate Announces New 1-Inch 5GB Hard
Drives for Q3
Seagate Announces New 1-Inch 5GB Hard
Drives for Q3
06/09/2004 12:33 PMHard drive vendor Seagate has announced plans to ship a 1-inch hard
drive in 2.5 and 5GB varieties in the 3rd quarter, one for embedded
use (like for use in portable media players like the iPod mini or
Creative MuVo) and in a CF form-factor (for cameras and what not).
Currently, Hitachi Global Storage Technologies, maker of the
MicroDrive (and Apple's supplier) holds the size:capacity title --
expect them to turn up the heat with a larger drive size as soon as
they can.
Read [InfoWorld]
Seagate to Market Mini Hard Drives (AP)
Seagate to Market Mini Hard Drives (AP)
06/13/2004 04:56 PMAP - Eyeing consumers' voracious appetite for digital media storage,
Seagate Technology LLC will soon have a slew of new products to
capitalize on the booming demand for mini hard drives.
A Geek Newbie review of ATA Hard-Drives
A Geek Newbie review of ATA Hard-Drives
11/10/2003 11:39 PMSome of you are well aware the speed advantage of ATA hard-drives.
Many people have new computers with ATA compliant...
Seagate to Market Mini Hard Drives
Seagate to Market Mini Hard Drives
06/13/2004 06:34 PMAP via Newsday Jun 13 2004 10:08PM GMT
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