Neowin News Feed for: Disk

QNAP TS-451+ Review: The do-everything NAS device

Christopher White — Wed, 01 Jun 2016 14:16:01 +0000

If you're in the market for a NAS device, should you put the QNAP TS-451+ on your shortlist? We explore not only performance, but features such as an integrated HDMI port, to see how it stacks up. Read more...

Neowin Holiday Giveaway: Thecus 5550 NAS [Update with Winner]

Christopher White — Mon, 24 Nov 2014 13:36:01 +0000

'Tis the season for giving, and here at Neowin, we want to share the Holiday cheer with all of our readers, so will be doing giveaways for the rest of the year. First up: The Thecus N5550 NAS! Read more...

Synology releases the energy efficient DS413 NAS device

Christopher White — Tue, 18 Sep 2012 13:33:30 +0000

Synology announces the DS413, the latest in their line of high quality NAS devices. This box has hardware encryption, consumes only four watts of power in hibernation mode, and supports hot swapping. Read more...

CrystalDiskInfo 4.0.3

Razvan Serea — Sun, 25 Sep 2011 09:59:03 +0000

CrystalDiskInfo is a HDD health monitoring utility. It displays basic HDD information, monitors S.M.A.R.T. values and disk temperature. It will also display the S.M.A.R.T data as a list so you can Read more...

AML Free Disk Defrag 2.0.30

Razvan Serea — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 19:52:47 +0000

Disk Defrag will speed up your computer by optimizing file system. It can defragment files, consolidate free space and move system files to the faster part of the disk. Read more...

EASEUS Partition Master 9.0 Home Edition

Steven Parker — Sun, 07 Aug 2011 11:14:27 +0000

As Partition Magic alternative, EASEUS Partition Master Home Edition is a FREE ALL-IN-ONE partition solution and disk management utility. It allows you to extend partition (especially for system drive), manage disk space easily, settle low... Read more...

Auslogics Disk Defrag 3.1.4.110

Steven Parker — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 08:49:20 +0000

Auslogics Disk Defrag is a compact and fast defragmentation tool that supports both FAT 16/32, and NTFS file systems. It’s supplied with advanced disk optimization techniques, which will remedy your system sluggishness... Read more...

Quicksys Disk Defrag 1.16 BETA

Wed, 19 Aug 2009 15:09:03 +0000

Quicksys Disk Defrag is a free disk defragmenter and optimizer for Windows. It is a simple, lightweight disk defragmenter that defrags all the hard drives on your system Ã¢€" including USB removable drives - and... Read more...

Synology Disk Station DS-409+ NAS review

Julio Franco — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 09:13:32 +0000

Over the past few years I have taken particular interest in network-attached storage, or NAS for short. As sharing large amounts of data from a standard desktop computer became problematic, the move to NAS just... Read more...

Abaiko Disk Space Monitor 2.40

Wed, 24 Dec 2008 18:40:42 +0000

The simple, but still useful tool Abaiko Disk Space Monitor will keep you informed about the amount of free space on your disks. The news that there is not enough space on the disk will... Read more...

Engineering Windows 7 : Disk Space

Chakkaradeep Chandran — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 06:34:01 +0000

Windows disk space consumption has trended larger over time. While not desirable, the degree to which it's been allowed is due in large part to ever-increasing hard drive capacity, combined with a customer need and... Read more...

Western Digital launches world's fastest SATA disk

Mon, 21 Apr 2008 13:13:42 +0000

Overclockers and gamers, prepare to meet your next hard drive: the 300GB VelociRaptor from Western Digital. Said to be 35% faster than previous WD Raptors, the 10,000 RPM drive features a 3Gbps SATA interface, 16MB... Read more...

Auslogics Disk Defrag 1.4.11.275

Thu, 17 Jan 2008 13:59:42 +0000

Auslogics Disk Defrag is a compact, manual defragmentation tool that supports FAT 16, FAT 32, and NTFS (with compressed and encrypted files). For the individual user, Disk Defrag is more than adequate for the job... Read more...

Auslogics Disk Defrag 1.4.11.267

Thu, 03 Jan 2008 04:28:11 +0000

Auslogics Disk Defrag 1.4.10.252

Razvan Serea — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 11:32:44 +0000

Seagate settles suit over disk capacity

Sat, 03 Nov 2007 16:22:15 +0000

Seagate Technology has agreed to reimburse 5% of the purchase price to people who bought Seagate hard drives in the United States between March 22, 2001, and December 31, 2005 plus pay up to $1.79... Read more...

Nintendo: No Hard Disk Drive for Wii

Fri, 02 Nov 2007 18:27:19 +0000

Nintendo has announced that it has no plans to offer a Wii hard disk drive as the company believes that it is simply not needed by customers. The console currently has compatibility with old games... Read more...

Auslogics Disk Defrag 1.4.10.248

Razvan Serea — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 17:04:05 +0000

Disk technology takes Nobel Prize

Tue, 09 Oct 2007 14:34:35 +0000

French scientist Albert Fert and Peter Grunberg of Germany have won the 2007 Nobel Prize in physics after discovering the phenomenon of "giant magnetoresistance" (GMR), in which weak magnetic changes give rise to big differences... Read more...

Auslogics Disk Defrag 1.4.9.245

Razvan Serea — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 07:25:09 +0000

Auslogics Disk Defrag 1.3.7.235

Razvan Serea — Sun, 26 Aug 2007 17:49:21 +0000

Auslogics Disk Defrag 1.2.6.228

Razvan Serea — Thu, 16 Aug 2007 17:07:02 +0000

Samsung Quietly Ships 1TB Hard Disk Drive

Mon, 11 Jun 2007 19:55:08 +0000

Samsung Electronics has quietly started to ship 1TB storage solutions that use much more advanced media that any other products from competitors. Samsung's SpinPoint F1 HDDs use just three 334GB platters, a record in both... Read more...

Western Digital Reveals 750GB Hard Disk Drive

Wed, 06 Jun 2007 19:40:45 +0000

Western Digital, the world's second largest maker of hard disk drives, has began shipping 750GB HDDs, currently the largest capacity that the company offers. Along with a 750GB capacity, WD's Caviar SE16 GL188 offers a... Read more...

Auslogics Disk Defrag 1.1.5.225

Razvan Serea — Tue, 05 Jun 2007 20:30:27 +0000

Auslogics Disk Defrag 1.1.4.217

Razvan Serea — Sun, 13 May 2007 16:53:45 +0000

Auslogics Disk Defrag 1.1.4.215

Razvan Serea — Thu, 19 Apr 2007 12:34:45 +0000

Flash Disk Alert 1.00

Tue, 10 Apr 2007 16:12:20 +0000

FlashDiskAlert acts as a warning signal when flash USB disks are still connected to your PC when you log off, restart or shutdown. Removable devices, such as USB flash disks, are currently so common that... Read more...

Hitachi Ships 1TB Hard Disk Drive

Thu, 05 Apr 2007 21:26:16 +0000

Hitachi Global Storage Technologies has started to ship its 1TB hard disk drives which were commercially introduced early this year. Hitachi's Deskstar 7K1000 HDS721010KLA330 model features five 200GB platters and ten heads, has a 7200RPM... Read more...

Auslogics Disk Defrag 1.1.3.212

Razvan Serea — Fri, 30 Mar 2007 14:53:05 +0000

Blu-ray Disk Sales Ahead Of HD DVD

Wed, 07 Mar 2007 02:29:18 +0000

Recent figures from market researcher Nielsen VideoScan are confirming previous reports that Blu-ray is currently beating HD DVD in the high definition war. Sales of Blu-ray movies have accounted for more than 60% of the... Read more...

Hard disk test 'surprises' Google

Mon, 19 Feb 2007 17:49:45 +0000

Three Google engineers (Eduardo Pinheiro, Wolf-Dietrich Weber and Luiz Andre Barroso) put a report together that examined 100,000 commercial hard drives, ranging from 80GB to 400GB in capacity from a wide variety of manufacturers and... Read more...

Auslogics Disk Defrag 1.1.2.208

Razvan Serea — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 08:47:23 +0000

Disk drive's future not too flash

Thu, 08 Jun 2006 09:22:58 +0000

Rotational storage cannot keep up with the new kids on the block - flash memory. For years people have forecast the demise of rotational storage. The argument is that the price-performance of faster solid-state memory... Read more...

Microsoft: Bitlocker key to safe disk disposal

Michael Stanclift — Wed, 26 Apr 2006 21:03:32 +0000

Microsoft claims that businesses planning to use Vista together with its Bitlocker hard drive encryption technology will have an easy and safe way to dispose of their hard disks. The software giant said on Tuesday... Read more...

Samsung Announces 32GB Flash Disk

Tue, 21 Mar 2006 17:36:42 +0000

Samsung has announced a 32GB solid state disk designed to completely replace traditional hard disks inside mobile computers. The disk features read and write speeds around twice as fast as current 1.8" hard drives... Read more...

Seagate Announces 12GB Micro Hard Disk

Thu, 16 Feb 2006 17:23:37 +0000

Seagate has announced a new 1-inch 12GB hard disk that is substantially smaller and faster than its current top of the line 8GB model. The ST1.3 series 12GB disk is 23 percent smaller, has... Read more...

Hitachi Unveils 8GB Miniature Hard Disk

Mon, 05 Sep 2005 17:10:00 +0000

Hitachi Global Storage Technologies recently introduced a miniature 8GB hard disk drive that it believes with be all the rage in light, portable storage. The new drive, known as "Mikey" or Microdrive 3K8, is... Read more...

Dekart Private Disk Multifactor v.1.22

Steven Parker — Fri, 24 Jun 2005 08:53:18 +0000

Thanks Irky for this submission. Dekart Private Disk Multifactor: powerful, reliable and fast disk encryption software. Private Disk easily protects confidential information by creating virtual encrypted partitions (drive letters). The encrypted information can be... Read more...

Company claims holographic disk breakthrough

Thu, 21 Apr 2005 15:48:22 +0000

InPhase Technologies reckons it can squeeze 200 gigabits on a single square inch of optical disk. This company showed off its holographic prototype at the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) convention in Las Vegas this... Read more...