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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
Read more...Space Shuttle Columbia hard drive data recovered
Think that all the talk of the dangers of improperly disposing of corporate hard drives is just scaremongering? Let this be a lesson to you on the robustness of current data recovery technology.
Read more...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
Read more...Lenovo IdeaPad U110 released
Last week, we introduced you to Lenovo's MacBook Air alternative alternative, the IdeaPad U100. Lo and behold, the
Read more...SPOTLIGHT: Seagate sells 1 billion drives
If Seagate had a sign outside of their corporate headquarters, it might read "Over 1 billion storage drives served". The company announced this week that it is the first to have shipped 1 billion
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
Read more...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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