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Bye-bye hard drive, hello flash

January 4, 2006 Hard drives take up a lot of room and eat a lot of battery power. Flash memory could soon offer an alternative for notebooks. TAGS: NAND, Micron Technology Inc., NAND flash, flash memory, transistor, memory chip, notebook computer, hard drive, Samsung Electronics, camera, memory, cell phone, battery, video

The hard drive at 50

September 11, 2006 Hard drives have come a long way since debuting 50 years ago this week. Do they still have room to shrink? TAGS: margin, font, IBM Corp., hard drive

Here comes the terabyte hard drive

January 5, 2007 With a terabyte drive, consumers can store 250,000 MP3 songs, enough for two solid years of listening without a single repeat. Photos: Hitachi's terabyte drive TAGS: terabyte, Hitachi Ltd., gigabit, drive maker, capacity, Seagate Technology, hard drive, MP3, photograph, video

Deal of the day: Seagate 300GB hard drive for $99.99

January 10, 2006 With $30 in instant savings and $60 in rebates, CompUSA is selling this hard drive for nearly half-price. TAGS: CompUSA Inc., hard drive

Skeletons on your hard drive

April 20, 2005 It's a tough task to clean every scrap of information--including sensitive data--off discarded PC drives, experts say. TAGS: encryption technology, expert, hard drive, eBay Inc., operating system, PC

A divide over the future of hard drives

August 23, 2006 Room temperatures should derail the current line of disk drive development soon, so changes are coming. TAGS: grain, drive maker, Hitachi Ltd., disk drive, Seagate Technology, hard drive

Terabyte drive to debut later this year

August 14, 2006 Desktop hard drives holding 1 terabyte of storage will appear in 2006 and be incorporated into PCs and home servers. TAGS: terabyte, Hitachi Ltd., Seagate Technology, hard drive, TV, PC

Coming soon: The 8-terabyte desktop

February 28, 2006 Eight terabytes of data storage? That's like 8,000 pick-up trucks filled with books. But VoodooPC says you'll like it. TAGS: PC company, home entertainment, 64-bit, Microsoft Windows Vista, hard drive, Microsoft Corp., PC, video, operating system

Face recognition comes to photo albums

March 14, 2006 Riya is a new search technology that will let you find pictures of Mom on your hard drive using text and images. TAGS: Munjal Shah, facial recognition, PC Forum, security camera, sample, match, photo album, photograph, Florida, face, picture, camera, hard drive

Coming soon: Movies on flash memory cards

March 3, 2008 Distributing movies on the Internet isn't the only game in town. Flash is better, says a new Irish start-up. TAGS: kiosk, flash memory, movies, movie, retailer, memory card, DVD, U.S., hard drive, video

More firms endorse smaller hard drives

April 27, 2005 Hewlett-Packard, which boasted in March of its early transition to smaller, 2.5 inch-wide hard drives, lures new partners to the effort. TAGS: Hitachi Ltd., HP, hard drive

Seagate ships hard drives with encryption

March 12, 2007 ASI will be the first to sell a laptop with Seagate's hard drive with built-in encryption technology. TAGS: Seagate Technology, encryption, reseller, Intel Core 2 Duo, laptop computer, hard drive, brand

Does new hard drive foreshadow 100GB iPod?

December 5, 2006 Toshiba's 100GB 1.8-inch hard drives will begin shipping next year, which could lead to larger storage capacity for Apple's music device. Photo: Toshiba's little hard drive TAGS: Toshiba, Apple Computer, Apple iPod, hard drive

Mini drive survives school of hard knocks

December 14, 2004 Miniature hard drives will be everywhere at CES. At least one will come with new features to cushion it from blows. TAGS: Cornice Inc., Consumer Electronics Show, Hitachi Ltd., flash memory, Toshiba, Samsung Electronics, hard drive, battery

Samsung hybrid hard drive works while it sleeps

April 25, 2005 The typical hard drive spins constantly. But by buffering a drive with flash memory, it can sleep most of the time. TAGS: Spansion Inc., flash memory, NAND, Samsung Electronics, notebook computer, hard drive, battery, Microsoft Corp., Intel

Western Digital to enter minidrive arena

January 20, 2005 Hard drive maker plans to start shipping a one-inch product in the second quarter. TAGS: Western Digital, hard drive

Seagate drive joins 400GB club

November 17, 2004 The Barracuda 7200.8 series packs more data on the hard-drive platters. TAGS: Seagate Technology, hard drive, PC

Linux tool speeds up computer forensics for cops

March 6, 2008 Australian students build Linux-based tool that allows investigators to collect forensic data without compromising its integrity. TAGS: integrity, police, Linux, operating system, hard drive

SanDisk rolls out flash hard drives for laptops

January 4, 2007 Unlike traditional hard drives, flash memory drives do not contain moving parts, making them less prone to breaking down. TAGS: SanDisk Corp., NAND, flash memory, NAND flash, aerospace, USB flash drive, notebook computer, notebook company, capacity, hard drive, laptop computer, Microsoft Windows

Al Shugart, hard-drive pioneer, dies at 76

December 13, 2006 The founder of hard-drive maker Seagate was one of the pioneers, and one of the regular guys, of the tech industry. TAGS: Bill Watkins, Seagate Technology, dog, hard drive
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