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The impact of heavy use and high temperatures on hard disk drive failure may be overstated, says a report by three Google engineers.

Find out more at Hard disk test surprises Google

Sunnyvale, CA, July 2, 2007 — 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 launched its new travel-ready and world’s highest capacity 2.5” External Hard Disk Drive (HDD) for the U.S. market.

Read more at Fujitsu - Highest capacity 2.5″ External HDD

12 July 2007

David Berlind

Samsung is one of a handful of hard drive manufacturers left in the world and it was showing off three new offerings (some not even in the market yet). Going from biggest to smallest (the same order I follow in the above video coverage of the drives), Samsung is now out with a $399 1 terabyte hard drive.
Samsung’s latest hard drive offerings

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Robin Harris
10 Jul 2007

Vendors and large users won’t tell us who makes the best hard drives. So I decided to figure it for myself. Surprising findings: Over all quality is up. Western Digital is doing much better. Seagate/Maxtor has work to do.

Read more at Who makes the best hard drives?

Despite mocking note, BotVoice.A’s “brainless vandalism” can be spread only through p-to-p networks or storage devices

By Robert McMillan, IDG News Service
July 05, 2007

A newly identified malicious program not only messes up its victims’ computers, it taunts them too. The program, called the BotVoice.A Trojan was first spotted by security vendor Panda Software last week. It is a Trojan horse program, which the victim must download first. But once installed, it gets nasty.

Read more at Talking Trojan says ‘bye bye’ to victims’ data

Eric Lai
Computerworld

Updated: 09 Jul 2007

The official launch of 11g is set for next Wednesday, July 11, in a New York City ceremony overseen by Oracle president Charles Philips.

Publicly, Oracle has for the most part avoided specifics, saying that 11g will offer improvements in high availability, performance, scalability, and manageability.

Tidbits it has revealed include free migration and management tools that will let administrators oversee non-Oracle databases at the same time they manage their Oracle ones. Oracle has also said that 11g will have new compression technology that could potentially reduce customers’ storage demands by two-thirds, the ability to store unstructured data faster than traditional file systems, and better partitioning.

Read more at: Will Oracle Database 11g rope in customers?

Robin Harris
July 5th, 2007

What is the primary determinant of drive life? I’ve read the latest research and talked to insiders. There are so many variables that the best answer is just . . . luck. Why is that? Is there anything you can do?

Read this article at Disk drive life depends on… luck

Wed Jul 4, 2007 10:28PM EDT

By Baker Li and Rhee So-eui

TAIPEI/SEOUL (Reuters) - A new generation of super-thin, power-sipping displays is making its way to the market, stretching battery lives to new limits and perhaps one day posing a challenge to heavier, energy-gobbling LCDs.

Read more about this at New generation of lighter displays

By Robin Harris, Special to ZDNet Asia
05 July 2007

Flash drives only look like disks. In fact, nothing works the way you’d think. Flash is really different from magnetic recording, and those differences have a big impact on flash drive performance. How well vendors manage flash oddities has a huge impact on performance and even drive lifespan.

Find out more at Five things you never knew about flash drives

GARDEN CITY, NY, January 8, 2007 – TDK exhibited its latest Blu-ray Disc innovations, breakthrough media storage solutions and award-winning packaging at the 2007 International CES, at the Las Vegas Convention Center, January 8–11, 2007 (TDK booth #N215). The company is highlighting its remarkable 200GB blue laser disc technology, the most advanced optical media ever developed.

Read more at tdk.com: 200GB Blu-ray disc