Samsung plans to demonstrate prototype flash-and-hard-disk hybrids next week at WinHEC, aiming to improve start/resume times and extend laptop battery life. Samsung Electronics has found another use for all that flash memory it's manufacturing: packing...
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Microsoft's revenue rose 13 percent to $10.9 billion in the third quarter to end-March 2006 from the same period a year earlier on the back of a surge in demand for newly released products, especially...
Processors are incredibly fast, RAM is rocketing its way through our games, and videocards pack more punch than ever. With all these screamingly fast system components available, often the hard drive is neglected. It's a...
The NCSoft homepage for Auto Assault brings news that the long awaited and highly plugged by yours truly car combat MMORPG that will own everything ever, Auto Assault has gone gold. Celebrations begin immediately. ...
Samsung Toshiba have announced that their PC drives will be ready for launch in March. The company stated that the backwards compatible drive will read both DVD and CD formats as well as Blu-Ray. Richard...
Drivemanufacturer Seagate Technology has begun shipping its new Momentus®2.5 inch perpendicular storage drives for laptops that were debuted at CES earlier this month. Inthe past, typical hard drives have stored data in a horizontal fashion...
Windows Vista will no longer support DVD-ROM drives that do not handle region coding in hardware(RPC1 drives) - thus preventing playback of DVDs that are region/CSSencoded with those drives. Not a big problem, as RPC1...
The latest Japanese sales charts, including the week of the Xbox 360's launch in that country, show the Nintendo DS scoring big thanks to releases such as Mario Kart DS. In the week covered...
Taiwanese firm AOpen has plans to introduce its first line of internal and external PC-based Blu-ray optical drives to the Middle East by the end of November. Compared to present dual-layer DVD writers,...
According to local press, forged Maxtor MaXLine II hard disk drives have been making their way into the Japanese market. Alleged fakes feature a 320GB capacity while Maxtor only produces 250GB and 300GB varieties...
Technology startup U3 on Monday is expected to announce the availability of USB drives based on its smart computing platform, which allows applications to run directly off USB drives, independent of other storage devices. Smart...
No more long waits for your PC to wake up. Longer laptop battery life. Data that survives a drop. These are the promises of solid-state-memory disks (SSDs), which use flash memory to supplement or replace...
Have you ever had a laptop stolen? How about a cell phone? Did either contain any sensitive data? With mobile devices becoming more and more common each day, the risk for theft...
Microsoft's Xbox 360 is set to use hard drive technology from storage specialist Seagate, with the company announcing that its new LD25 2.5" discs are to be used as the removable drives for the console....
Maxtor has announced that it will begin shipping 500GB ATA/133 and Serial ATA hard drives in the third quarter of this year. The half-terabyte drives will spin at 7,200RPM and be available across Maxtor's QuickView,...
DVD Burners have had a long way growing towards maturity, and after reviewing these three heavy hitters, I have to say the technology has almost been perfected. Not only these will support both kinds of...
A video game fan upset over a failed disc drive in his Xbox video game console has sued Microsoft Corp. on behalf of all Xbox owners across the United States.. The suit, filed in Los...
Advanced Micro Devices, one of the world's leading makers of central processing units, has patented a technology that would allow the chipmaker to use so-called Peltier cooler with its future microprocessors for better heat dissipation...
Mobile hard drives--partly because of their smaller, 2.5-inch size and their need to conserve notebook PC power--have always lagged behind 3.5-inch desktop models in performance and capacity. But a new generation of higher-performance, power-thrifty models...
Iomega has begun shipping its FireWire REV drives. These drives offer up to 90GB of storage. Along with being eight times faster than tape drives it costs less (somewhere around half the price...
Hoping to draw users to its storage devices Seagate today now offers a 5 year warranty for hard drives. The average hard drive warranty is around two to three years. How long till...
The tech giant Microsoft is getting ready to launch its own online music service. Microsoft isn't going to follow the same format as Apple's Online Music Store. Instead its online service will be...
Another classic case of a big oops for an e-tailer today. Ubid.com listed several Western Digital hard drives incorrectly causing a mass amount of orders and angry and puzzled consumers. At one point a 160GB...
External hard drives offer easy and practical storage, but they aren't as speedy as the internal models - yet. Vendors working on a new technical specification say that the first fast, new models of external...
In what it claims to be an industry first, Fujitsu has unveiled a series of hard drives for notebooks based on the Serial ATA specification, speeding up data transfer and simplifying connectivity. Fujitsu has announced...
Lite-On IT, Taiwan's largest producer of optical disc drives, anticipates delivering one million DVD drives in the first quarter of next year, according to Michael Gong, the company's general manager for the optical disc business....
It's a hard-drive industry mantra: Each succeeding generation must be faster and fit more data into less space. But while performance gains have been modest recently, areal density (gigabytes per square inch) continues to grow....
Expect double-layer, almost double-capacity DVD+R drives and media to hit the stores next April, members of the DVD+RW alliance say. The technology, co-developed by drive maker Philips, and media specialists Verbatim and Mitsubishi Kagaku, adds...
A problem is causing some of those who install the new version of Mac OS X to lose the data that's stored on their external hard drives. Apple Computer said the glitch...
This update addresses the "Problems When Your Computer with Multiple ATA Drives Enters the S1 Power State" issue in Windows XP, and is discussed in Microsoft Knowledge Base Article 812415. Download now for your computer...
Addonics launches its Serial ATA product lineup this week, including a conversion adapter that makes existing parallel ATA (commonly called IDE) and ATAPI drives compatible with the new standard. The $35 converter--available next...
A WORKING VERSION OF a 30GB Blu-Ray CDR was shown at CeBIT this year. We missed this ourselves, but luckily CDR-Info had its eyes peeled a bit better than ours. "Plasmon, a...
PC World's tests RAID technology...Once reserved for servers and high-end workstations, RAID technology for linking multiple hard drives is gaining favor with PC users looking to improve performance affordably. Tests by PC World show they're...
More than half of Sony Electronics' recently released rewritable DVD drives can't record to low-quality media, the consumer-electronics giant confirmed Wednesday, but the company has made a fix available. Owners of Sony's latest DVD...
An overheating problem among drives used with new high-speed discs can destroy both the unit and the medium, manufacturer Pioneer is trying hard to avoid saying. Using soon to be available 4X discs for DVD-R...
Thanks youm0nt...The company's Ultrastar 146Z10 hard drive incorporates anti-vibration technology that IBM calls "rotational vibration safeguard"--technology designed to improve the performance of increasingly denser and faster hard drives. Drives are made up...
The company announced this week a new storage technology, called iBoot, that lets PCs and servers use computer networking to designate remote disk drives as their primary repository for data, instead of relying on internal...
Thanks CheekyMonkey An Israeli software firm has discovered a flaw in Netscape and Mozilla software that allows code hidden in a Web page to read files from the user's PC. The bug...
Hewlett-Packard announced on Monday two new DVD+RW drives that aim to address one of the major criticisms of the DVD rewritable and recordable formats: compatibility. DVD+RW is one of several formats competing...
Huge Systems, which manufactures Ultra 160 RAID 0/3 Storage Solutions for real-time SDTV and HDTV applications, has sliced prices on its Mac compatible HugeMediaVault MAX and DUALMAX product lines. Most of the...
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