Neowin News Feed for: Disks

Azure Ephemeral OS Disks now support SSDs for faster VM boots and higher reliability

Paul Hill — Tue, 15 Jul 2025 08:20:02 +0000

Microsoft has made SSDs available for its Azure Ephemeral OS Disks giving customers faster VM boots and higher reliability. Read more...

Review of the Thecus N7710-G, a 7-bay NAS device with 10 Gigabit speed

Christopher White — Wed, 11 Feb 2015 09:08:01 +0000

Need more storage orr prefer to run with RAID-6 for extra protection? If so, the Thecus N7710-G might be the device for you. In this review, we'll see how the N7710-G compares to its competitors. Read more...

Windows 7 to add native support for Virtual Hard Disks

Sun, 25 May 2008 16:06:23 +0000

Out of what little we know of the next version of Windows, this feature might just be the most interesting yet. A team at Microsoft is hiring developers to work on adding native support in... Read more...

PC World stops stocking Floppy Disks

Thu, 01 Feb 2007 06:31:08 +0000

PC World, Britain's largest chain of computer superstores, will not reorder any more floppy disks after the current 10,000 are sold. With 155 stores across Britain and nearly 50 more elsewhere in Europe, spokesman Hamish... Read more...

More Disks Lost at Los Alamos, Again!

Fri, 16 Jul 2004 17:34:17 +0000

Losing track of secrets is getting to be a nasty habit at the United States' leading nuclear weapons lab. For the third time in just eight months, classified disks have been reported missing at Los... Read more...

Detailed information found on 2nd hand hard disks

Wed, 09 Jun 2004 08:43:23 +0000

Clearly it isn't difficult to get old information off second hand harddisks; with the price of hard drives so low it would seem far more sensible to ship 2nd hand PC's with new hard drives... Read more...

O&O Software finds patient files on used hard disks

Daniel Fleshbourne — Wed, 14 Apr 2004 17:12:29 +0000

The results of a study by O&O, published today, show that there are still serious problems with both private and business users' handling of secure data deletion and the resultant data protection issues. For example,... Read more...

IBM issues fix for ThinkPad hard disks

Fri, 19 Mar 2004 20:16:08 +0000

IBM has quietly issued a patch to fix a problem with Hitachi hard disks on some of its ThinkPad models. The patch is for several models that use a particular 60GB Hitachi hard... Read more...

Seagate spins 10k rpm disks

Daniel Fleshbourne — Wed, 18 Feb 2004 11:12:37 +0000

Seagate announced a new range of 10,000rpm hard discs, called Savvio, at the Intel Developers' Forum (IDF) yesterday. The new range is based on a 2.5 inch form factor. The drives have a 40 per... Read more...

Windows XP SP1a Floppy Install disks

Tom Warren — Wed, 30 Apr 2003 00:14:18 +0000

Thanks to James from ieXbeta for the heads up The Windows XP startup disk allows computers without a bootable CD-ROM to perform a new installation of the operating system. The Windows XP... Read more...

IBM Introduces New Hard Disks

Fri, 16 Nov 2001 08:43:46 +0000

Ripped from Windows 2000 Mag . IBM introduced three new hard disks in its Deskstar and Travelstar product lines. According to IBM, its new Deskstar 120GXP offers 120GB capacity with the industry's... Read more...