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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

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Tags: Intel   Servers   SSD   HDD   hard drive   Google   SSDs   Storage  

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.

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Tags: Storage   Seagate   Data Recovery  

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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Lenovo IdeaPad U110 released

Last week, we introduced you to Lenovo's MacBook Air alternative alternative, the IdeaPad U100. Lo and behold, the

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Tags: lenovo   Laptops   MacBook   footprint   Intel   Storage  

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

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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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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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Protect data at all costs

It's so important to protect your data that you cannot skimp on making your storage systems as airtight as you can, according to users at ComputerWorld's Storage Networking World conference last Read more...