Items tagged with disk
When was the last time you defragged your hard drive? Me neither. Diskeeper Corporation has included automated defragmentation functionality in its latest version of its system maintenance software: Diskeeper 2007. The technology, dubbed InvisiTasking, allows system maintenance to run...
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SanDisk Introduces World's Largest Capacity Flash Memory MP3 Player - The 8GB Sansa e280 For $249.99 MSRP New Model Now Holds Up To 10GB of Music With Optional 2GB microSD Card; SanDisk Also Announces Price Reductions On Current 2, 4 And 6GB Sansa MP3 Models As Retailers Get Ready for the Holiday Season MILPITAS, CA - Aug. 21, 2006 - SanDisk(R)...
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There is a great article available at MSNBC regarding the 50th anniversary of IBM's RAMAC (Random Access Method of Accounting and Control); the ancestor to today's hard drives. It's amazing to see how much progress we've made in 50 years. Today's largest single desktop hard drives offer roughly 150,000 times the capacity,...
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ExtremeTech takes on Seagate's big, bad bodacious 750Giger... Seagate delivers a monster 750GB hard drive, the new Barracuda 7200.10. Seagate's new drive may be just the thing for media junkies, but how do you back up three-quarters of a terabyte?...
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In the market for a new 2.5-Inch Hard Drive? The folks over at X-Bit labs as put together a lengthy review of quite a few different drives. So who's got the best performing drive? Western Digital? Samsung maybe? Try Seagate. "Today we would like to continue testing high-capacity 2.5-inch hard disk drives and within...
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Fujitsu said it's going to launch desktop personal computers equipped with Blu-ray disk drives in June in Japan, becoming the first company to release PCs compatible with the next-generation optical disks. The announcement comes one day after Toshiba Corp. unveiled a plan to launch in...
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Fujitsu to Showcase Industry Leading Hard Disk Drive Technology at Storage Networking World Spring 2006 SUNNYVALE, Calif. -- Fujitsu Computer Products of America, Inc., one of the world's leading suppliers of innovative computer products including hard disk drives, peripherals and biometric security solutions, today...
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Other than increased speed and capacity, Hard Drive's have undergone few changes in their evolution over the years. This could be changing though. Today BTXFormFactor.com covers the technology behind perpendicular Hard Drive's, and delves into other future storage technology such holographic storage techniques....
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Users may soon see flash-based disks in laptops and other mobile computers after Samsung announced that it has started offering a 32GB drive to customers. The South Korean technology company showed off its solid-state disk (SSD), a flash-memory based replacement for hard-disk drives, at the...
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AT CES, PQI and TwinMOS showed off their latest offerings including U3 flash disks. U3 flash disk technology allows for users to take their personal programs and run them on any PC. PQI's model comes with McAfee AV preinstalled in sizes of 512MB, 1GB and 2GB. TwinMOS will offer 1 and 2 GB models with no word on preinstalled...
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Sunbeamtech Theta TP-101 Fan Controller @ Bigbruin.com: "Sunbeamtech has offered the typical fan controller (rheobus) in a variety of styles in the past, but the software based Theta TP-101 is much different. Instead of using knobs to mechanically vary resistance, a Windows interface is used to automate this...
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Hey everyone. As a reminder for all of you, the demo for F.E.A.R. will be released tomorrow. I'm just hoping my 6800GT can provide and decent ride. Enjoy the news, goodnight all. NVIDIA GeForce 7800GTX 1.0-7675 Preview @ Phoronix "Today, is a rather special day for GeForce 7800GTX Linux owners as we can finally expect some new drivers...
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Good morning all. It looks like this week has shaped up to be quite a busy one. The hardware news has been developing all week long and today is no different. There's good stuff going on, so let's get down to business: VIA Reveals Details of Next Generation C5J Esther Processor Core With...
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