Whether you’re out of hard drive space or just want to tidy up, here’s a quick, easy and free way to deep six files lurking inside Apple’s Panther, Tiger, Leopard and even Snow Leopard operating systemsWhether you’re out of hard drive space or just want to tidy up, here’s a quick,... more
The first USB 3.0 controller was just recently certified, and now there’s a speedy external hard drive to go with it. Freecom has announced their “Hard Drive XS 3.0” as the first to support the new USB SuperSpeed standard.
A-DATA is now shipping the industry's first ever waterproof and shock resistant portable HDD! I'm not sure how wise it is to be saying that you have a super strong hard disk drive that is designed specifically for students, road warriors, and sports enthusiastic in a shock resistant enclosure.
Seagate today announced it has begun shipping what it claims is the "world's fastest, largest-capacity mainstream desktop hard drive" dubbed the Barracuda XT. While the Barracuda XT isn't the first 2TB hard drive to sport a 7200RPM spindle speed, it is the first one to feature a SATA 6Gb/s interface.
OCZ Technology today unveiled the Z-Drive, a PCI-Express Solid State Drive (SSD) designed to meet the stringent demands of enterprise computing clients. Unlike other solutions, the Z-Drive provides a cost-effective formula of performance, reliability, and upkeep for enterprise customers and their applications which require the benefits of solid state drive technology, but have previously been hesitant to adopt competing products due to the sheer cost of implementation.
Why on earth you'd want to do this is completely beyond me but anyways it seems someone had some spare time and a couple of hard drives spare and decided he really needed an iPod speaker dock:
"We know what you're thinking, why would you ever turn two decent hard disk drives into tinny speakers when it's much more logical to use them as storage and buying cheap speakers instead...
but if you're the kind of mad scientist who likes to see doohickeys function outside their intended use, or have friends who'd be really impressed or amused, you might want to consider recreating this classy speaker set complete with transparent glass case and the requisite blue lights. All the instructions lie beyond the read link, and if you're not quite convinced, we think the video after the break is likely to change your opinion for the better."Why on earth you'd want to do this is completely beyond me but anyways it seems... more
Verbatim, a name we mostly come across when looking for blank DVDs, has announced its new line of InSight portable USB hard drives. The storage devices are diminutive (weighing less than 6 ounces, measuring 6-inches in length), are being billed as "sleek" and "durable" with their fetching "piano black" finish (and who are we to disagree?), and are available in capacities of 320GB or 500GB.
But the attention grabber here is the Always On display, which is -- you guessed it -- always on, displaying the drive name and available free space, even when disconnected from the computer. Available now for
$119.99 for the 320GB
or $149.99 for the 500GB.Verbatim, a name we mostly come across when looking for blank DVDs, has announced its... more
Have you ever looked at your computer’s hard drive as it was humming away and wondered, “Gee, wouldn’t it be swell to know what was going on inside there?” Well wonder no more! Thanks to the steadfast determination of amateur producers Reginald Louisne and Richard Mosesso, this video will explain, in detail, all the major parts and components of a Windows Millennium Edition hard drive. So don’t risk taking apart your own computer, only to realize that a hammer isn’t a proper tool for the job! Simply watch, learn, and enjoy!Have you ever looked at your computer’s hard drive as it was humming away and... more
Western Digital was the first company to release a 2TB 3.5 inch hard drive, but it looks like Hitachi has done it better. The company is introducing their 2TB Deskstar 7K2000 which runs at a nice 7200 RPM (WD only could do 5400 RPM).Western Digital was the first company to release a 2TB 3.5 inch hard drive, but it... more
A computer or a laptop is one of the electrical appliances that eats up a considerable amount of energy. This may increase your electricity bill and cause a financial burden. Below are nine powerful tips that may help to lessen the energy consumption and at the same time, reduce the money you spend on electricity.A computer or a laptop is one of the electrical appliances that eats up a considerable... more
These are proven tips that will help to accelerate your computer’s speed and cut down on your aggravationThese are proven tips that will help to accelerate your computer’s speed and cut... more
Despite the pre-order box for Naughty Dog’s Uncharted 2: Among Thieves advertising a mandatory install – almost 2GB in size – a twitter by the studio’s Co-president, Christophe Balestra, has confirmed otherwise.
A tweet on the developers twitter also confirms this, saying: “We can confirm there is NO mandatory installation for Uncharted 2.”Despite the pre-order box for Naughty Dog’s Uncharted 2: Among Thieves advertising a... more
Hard drive failures are always a nuisance — if not a disaster — especially when the backups have gone missing or were never made. Whether it’s your own oversight or that of a panicked user, at some point you’ll probably attempt to retrieve files from a damaged hard drive. In this IT Dojo video, I’ll show you how the Zero Assumption Recovery (ZAR) tool can help you find and restore recoverable files from a failed hard drive.Hard drive failures are always a nuisance — if not a disaster — especially when... more
Dell SB has 1TB Western Digital Caviar Green Serial ATA (OEM) desktop hard drive w/ 32MB cache for $77 - 10% off coupon XTHR0RQRXJHQ12 = $69 with free shipping. Lowest on Google Products including shipping is $88.Dell SB has 1TB Western Digital Caviar Green Serial ATA (OEM) desktop hard drive w/... more
"Jon spent $250 on a Western Digital VelociRaptor but what he received from Best Buy was a Quantum Fireball, a discontinued hard drive that hasn't been sold for nine years. Best Buy, of course, took no responsibility for the odd swap, and said that Western Digital must have accidentally sold a competitor's discontinued drive. Western Digital, of course, said that a Best Buy employee stole Jon's hard drive. We've seen this happen before with Best Buy, and Jon has made it clear that he knows how to bite back..."
For the full story, and how Jon plans to get back at Best Buy click on the link at the top."Jon spent $250 on a Western Digital VelociRaptor but what he received from Best Buy... more
USB Hard Drive enclosures are now pretty cheap items compared to what they used to cost a few years ago when they became popular. For less than twenty bucks shipped, you can use one to store your old hard drive in.
Basically these devices allow you to put your old PC hard drive in it and still access your files through a USB connection. They are very useful when upgrading from an older PC to a newer one. It allows you access your files and data without setting up a network between the old PC and the new one or without having to install the second hard drive into the new system.
As a technician that has performed PC repair and data recovery for customers' systems, I find this an essential tool for any technician. Especially if the customers system has a broken optical drive. I can put all my tools and diagnostic software on the hard drive in the enclosure and access it through any USB port on the PC I'm working on. With a large enough hard drive, I can copy all the essential files from their PC onto the hard drive or even a full copy of their entire hard drive. Then I can reformat and reinstall their operating system for them, and when I am finished, copy back all of their original files for them. This is much faster than burning off a stack of DVDs or CDs, especially if their PC is having trouble with it's CD rom or operating system.
A new feature that some of the latest Wireless Routers are using is called “Network Attached Storage”. The wireless router will have a USB port on it. You can then use a USB Enclosure with your hard drive in it, and attach it to the wireless router's USB port. Now, any PC on your local network can access those files without your PC being turned on.
PROS – Gain quick access to your hard drive's data files on any PC or device with a USB port.
CONS – It is a separate device that requires a USB cable and an AC adapter to power itself.USB Hard Drive enclosures are now pretty cheap items compared to what they used to... more
The files were discovered when Brian D. Hindson, 40, of Carmel, Ind., sold an Apple iMac computer on eBay for $90 to Jackie McSwain, of the Smyre community in Gastonia in March 2006.
For a period of 10 years, Hindson hid video cameras in locker rooms at Kokomo High School, where he was the head coach of the swimming and diving teams, according to the Justice Department. He would secretly videotape teenage female swimmers while they undressed, according to the release.
The computer arrived St. Patrick's Day 2006 while McSwain was celebrating the holiday in Savannah, Ga. Her son, Micah, 23, took it out of the shipping box.
"I was just plugging it up to see if it worked," Micah said during a February interview with the Gazette. "He definitely didn't clear his hard drive good enough. Smart guy."The files were discovered when Brian D. Hindson, 40, of Carmel, Ind., sold an Apple... more
San Jose (CA) – Hitachi renovated its 3.5” hard drive family and now offers the second-generation 1 TB drive, which does not offer more capacity or speed, but comes with effective power saving features that may allow storage farms to run these 3.5” drives at 2.5” power consumption rates.
On the surface, there is not much new about Hitachi’s new 3.5” 7K1000.B drive. In fact, the main difference to spot right away is the fact that the storage density has been increased substantially and Hitachi GST has joined the leading 3.5” vendors: Instead of five 200 GB disks, the new drive has three 333 GB disks. Hitachi representatives told TG Daily that the 5-disk model will continue to be available through 2009, but the 3-disk version will ramp quickly and replace the old drives.
What makes the new 7200 rpm drive interesting is not its performance or capacity (which theoretically could hit 1.6 TB in 5-disk models), but its power consumption.
Compared to the 8.4 watts the first-gen drive consumed in idle-mode, the B-model checks in at only 5.2 watts. And if power consumption is the primary concern of the user (such as data storage facilities), the drive supports a “reduced power idle state”: The disk rotation speed can be dropped via HDD commands to less than 5000 rpm, which will take the idle power consumption down to 2.4 watts That is close to 2.5” territory (about 2 – 2.2 watts) and could make these drives an interesting option for any environment that does not depend on maximum data transfer rates.
The price of the terabyte drive is substantially lower than what we paid last year. Hitachi said that the 7K1000.B is offered at $239.99 MSRP, which means that you should expect street prices not too far away from the $200 mark. The price is about in line with the competition: Samsung’s 1 TB drive, for example, is currently sold in a price range of $159 to $265, according to Pricegrabber.com.
Hitachi also offers an enterprise version of the 7K1000.B. For an extra $40, the E7K1000 comes with a larger (32 MB) buffer a higher reliability rating 1.2 million hour MTBF (there is no MTBF rating on the 7K1000.B) as well as a 5-year warranty instead of the 3-year warranty on the 7K1000.B. San Jose (CA) – Hitachi renovated its 3.5” hard drive family and now offers the... more
It's taken four and a half years, but the data recovery specialists charged with extracting data from a cracked, charred 400MB Seagate drive aboard the ill-fated Space Shuttle Columbia have done their duty, retrieving 99% of the information written to the disk. The Columbia burned up on re-entry on Feb. 1, 2003, over Louisiana and Texas. Computerworld reports that the drive was found in a dry lakebed and handed to a team at Kroll Ontrack about six months after the tragedy, but the successful recovery has only just come to light. So, you ask, what was on the drive that was so important?
Computerworld reports that the shuttle mission included conducting atmospheric tests.
One of those tests was an experiment for the National Institute of Standards and Technology to determine how xenon gas flows in a zero gravity environment.It's taken four and a half years, but the data recovery specialists charged with... more
