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Seagate unveils 1.5 Terabyte desktop drive

Seagate has unveiled a 1.5 Terabyte 3.5-inch hard disk for the desktop earlier this week. Meant for the mainstream market, the Barracuda 7200.11 represents the eleventh generation of Seagate's... Read more...

Google looking to shift some servers over to SSD

Plans are afoot over at Google to shift some of its servers over to SSD-based storage. The motivation has to do with lower electrical consumption compared with that of traditional Winchester (or

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Stamping out domain tasting

The sharp increase in speculation over domain names is causing a backlash. As every CIO knows, a company's domain name is a treasure, but havoc can be caused by typo-squatters--those who create and... Read more...

Phoenix Technologies enables remote drive security

Phoenix Technologies has announced that it will bring its "FailSafe" tech to Fujitsu's new Full Disk Encryption (FDE) 2.5" 7200RPM SATA hard drive. FailSafe allows IT admins to remotely track,

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Hard Disk Crusher is serious about security

How serious are you about making sure that the secure data stored on your business' hard drives stays out of the wrong hands? Given the recent rash of corporate laptop thefts that we've seen in

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Lawyers miss the boat on eDiscovery

With all this talk about eDiscovery and so many companies pushing tools to protect or gain access to key digital information, you would think that lawyers would get it. Experts say that lawyers... Read more...

WD Velociraptor is fastest drive ever

What's faster than a Raptor? A Velociraptor, apparently. Western Digital has gone and bested their existing Raptor line of speedy drives by unleashing the Velciraptor, a drive that they

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Lenovo IdeaPad U110 is X300 alternative

2.5″ disks to become standard in 2009?

The old, reliable 3.5" hard drive has been with us for years. 15 years, to be exact. So when someone prophesizes that a new storage standard is going to take over inside of a year, you've got to

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Wipe your hard drive

There are many steps to take to protect your data. One of them is to make sure your hard drive is cleaned before reusing. And remember it is important to use the technology that can sanitize... Read more...