Seagate to Control 40-Percent of HDD Market By Douglas Perry published 4 May 11 Following the acquisition of Samsung's HDD unit, Seagate will be holding about 40% of the global hard drive disk market, according to IHS iSuppli.
WD Crams Two 3 TB Drives into One My Book By Kevin Parrish published 18 March 11 WD's new My Book external drive features 6 TB and four ways to connect.
WD Acquires Hitachi GST for $4.3 Billion By Kevin Parrish published 7 March 11 WD has acquired Hitachi GST for $3.5 billion in cash and $750 million in stock.
Study: Nearly Impossible to Delete Data on SSDs By Kevin Parrish published 24 February 11 Researchers have discovered that many SSDs don't erase all the stored physical data.
Core i7-2600K Overclocked: Speed Meets Efficiency By Patrick Schmid and Achim Roos published 1 February 11 Most of Intel's Core i5 and i7 CPUs lock out overclocking enthusiasts, which we hate. But the K-series chips win us back over with insane scalability. Would you believe that cranking the dial on performance doesn't necessarily tank overall efficiency?
Three 7200 RPM Notebook Hard Drives For 2011 By Patrick Schmid and Achim Roos published 27 January 11 Hard drives aren’t dead yet! And they won’t die out anytime soon. The latest 2.5” drives for notebooks deliver relatively high performance and ample storage for little money.
WD Ships 750 GB 7200RPM HDD for Notebooks By Kevin Parrish published 5 January 11 The 750 GB WD Scorpio Black for notebooks is now available for $149.00.
Build It: Half-Height Gaming PCs For The Living Room By Don Woligroski published 22 December 10 PowerColor’s half-height Radeon HD 5750 launched a quest to build a tiny gaming PC. But things didn't work out the way we planned. We ended up building two half-height machines capable of cranking out playable frame rates, and put them both to the test.
System Builder Marathon, December 2010: Value, Compared By Thomas Soderstrom published 20 December 10 New benchmarks, new test methods, and new hardware mark exciting updates to this month’s System Builder Marathon. Today, we cover the most exciting part of all: the value competition. Remember, we're giving all three systems away, so enter to win them!
System Builder Marathon, December 2010: $1000 PC By Don Woligroski published 14 December 10 Although we were afraid of the results, this time around we decided to try something new, forgoing the Core i5 in favor of a dual-core Core i3 CPU in our build. Can the higher clock rate compensate for the loss of two physical cores in our $1000 system?
Tom's Hardware's 2010 Gift Guide: Part 1, For System Builders By Bestofmedia Team published 8 December 10 Welcome to Part 1 of Tom's Hardware's 2010 Holiday Gift Guide. This first installment is geared toward system builders planning to pool some Christmas cash to build a new performance- or value-oriented system. We have something for everyone this year.
HDD Giants Sued Over Patent Violations By Rico Mossesgeld published 18 November 10 All (well some) of your hard disk technology are belong to us.
WD's New Network Media Center Offers 1TB HDD By Kevin Parrish published 28 October 10 This "media hub" can only be purchased locally at Best Buy.
Business Storage: A Look At The 3.5" To 2.5" Transition By Patrick Schmid published 23 October 10 There is more than one way to skin a cat. Several hard drive vendors have created transitional products to simplify the transition from 3.5" disks to more compact 2.5" devices in SMB-class servers. We cover three different options you can use.
WD's 3TB Internal HDD Comes with PCI-e Card By Kevin Parrish published 19 October 10 Although Windows 7 and Vista can support capacities over 2.19 TB, a special PCI Express card will be bundled with the new 3 TB and 2.5 TB hard drives to overcome the hardware hurdle.
WD: 1TB of Digital Content Per House By 2014 By Kevin Parrish published 14 October 10 Hard drives may still be the primary storage solution for digital media in the future.
Gaming Across Three Screens: GTX 460, GTX 480, And Quad-SLI By Thomas Soderstrom published 12 October 10 Display spanning is quickly becoming the high-mark for serious gaming machines of all budgets, with more powerful cards allowing higher resolutions. Yet, as panel resolutions higher than 1080p become harder to find, do we really need more than two cards?
