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  • Next-Gen 7,200 RPM Notebook Hard Drives
    August 28, 2008 – 12:20 PM
    Next-Gen 7,200 RPM Notebook Hard Drives Hitachi, Samsung, Seagate and Western Digital send their latest high-performance notebook drives into battle, fighting for the ultimate balance between performance and efficiency.
  • WD's 750 GB Hard Disk Sets New Records
    July 6, 2007 – 8:11 AM
    WD's 750 GB Hard Disk Sets New Records Can the new Western Digital Caviar WD7500 match the company's Raptor in performance? And, what technical advances does it offer?
  • Two Hard Drive Coolers Compared
    September 9, 2008 – 2:40 AM
    Two Hard Drive Coolers Compared The Vigor iSurf II Hard Drive Cooler battles Sytrin's HD Cooler to see which works better. Both take similar approaches to cooling your HDD. They both work, but which is worth the price?
  • Smart Hard Drives: Seagate Barracuda 7200.7 and Western Digital WD740 Raptor
    January 23, 2004 – 12:03 PM
    The serial ATA interface is enhanced with a feature from SCSI: Native Command Queuing. Seagate's 7200.7 is the only native SATA interface commercially available, while Western Digital intends to accommodate the low-end server market with its new 74 GB Raptor.
  • CES 2007: Hybrid hard drives promoted through industry alliance
    January 4, 2007 – 1:53 PM
    CES 2007: Hybrid hard drives promoted through industry alliance Pre CES 2007 coverage - Four of the world's five largest hard drive manufacturers have come together to form the hybrid storage alliance - an effort to create more visibility for mass storage devices that combine traditional hard drives with flash memory technology.
  • Hard Drives Instead of Tapes? 70 TB Backup RAID at the University of Tübingen
    April 25, 2003 – 1:01 PM in CeBIT
    While backing up data may be a minor chore for many, backing up vast quantities of data is a major operation. At the very top of the food chain, you generally have complex tape systems operated with automated robots. However, Dr. Koch Computertechnik AG has developed a cheaper, yet very flexible solution for the University of Tübingen: 70 TB backup capacity on standard IDE hard drives.
  • A New RAM Hard Drive from HyperOs
    December 5, 2005 – 6:58 AM in Build Your Own
    A New RAM Hard Drive from HyperOs Gigabyte will not rest on its laurels for long as the first vendor to offer a working hard drive composed of DRAM memory modules if Britain-based HyperOs Systems has its way. We scrutinize the company's 16 GB, DDR solid state hard drive and see how its performance holds up against Gigabyte's i-RAM.
  • New IDE Hard Drives at 20 GB per Platter: Fujitsu MPG3409 and Western Digital WD400
    January 2, 2001 – 12:04 PM in Business
    Both Fujitsu and WD are releasing their latest generation drives. Will they be able to beat the strong competition from the prestige brands IBM and Maxtor?
  • SATA Hard Drive with a Kick: Western Digital's Raptor Put to the Test
    May 1, 2003 – 1:01 PM
    Although it only serves up a meager 36 GB, it offers a lot more than you'd normally expect from an IDE hard disk drive. The Raptor, alias WD360 is a new hard disk drive that is attracting considerable attention to itself due to two major new features: it spins at 10,000 rpm and comes complete with Serial ATA. The highlight: it's supposed to be good enough to stand up against SCSI in the lower and middle server segment. Our test demonstrates whether this really stacks up.
  • A Look Into The Hard Drive's Future
    September 3, 2008 – 2:30 AM
    A Look Into The Hard Drive's Future What will the hard drive be like in the coming years? We looked at all the manufacturers, products and market segments, and visited a Hitachi technology seminar to look at how the firm intends to reach an amazing 50 TB capacity by the next decade.
  • 14-Way SSD Hard Drive Roundup
    August 18, 2008 – 12:30 AM in Buyer's Guides
    14-Way SSD Hard Drive Roundup Having found a number of SSDs that don’t deliver on their efficiency promises, we decided to put 14 different drives to the test. Here is the latest roundup - dominated by a single product.
  • Hybrid hard drives: Can Samsung and Microsoft invent a new market for 2007?
    March 17, 2006 – 6:34 PM
    Hybrid hard drives: Can Samsung and Microsoft invent a new market for 2007? For about a year, Samsung Semiconductor and Microsoft have been leading the development of hybrid hard drives, with the potential of improving system performance by orders of magnitude. Samsung, the Flash memory market leader, could have a new industry all to itself. But would a mandate from Microsoft for hybrid HDD inclusion in Premium Vista computers help or hurt the company?
  • Trusted Computing platform, DRM coming to hard drives
    February 15, 2006 – 7:36 PM
    Trusted Computing platform, DRM coming to hard drives This week's announcement of the publication of a Trusted Platform Module implementation that enables TPM functionality to be shifted to hard disk drives, creates an intriguing scenario. Hard drive manufacturers may get involved in driving a single standard for DRM functionality, to which Microsoft and others may actually find themselves succumbing.
  • Fastest IDE Hard Drive Ever: IBM Deskstar 75GXP
    August 21, 2000 – 1:03 PM in Business
    IBM is not only shipping the largest capacity IDE drives, but also the fastest one. Whilst the capacity crown will soon change hands from IBM to Maxtor, the DTLA should stay the fastest drive for the next few months.
  • The Best in Enterprise Hard Drives
    April 2, 2007 – 7:24 AM
    The Best in Enterprise Hard Drives We put 13 SAS and SCSI hard drives to the ultimate test. And we also launch our new Enterprise HDD Charts!

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