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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
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
By Reuben Lee on 11 September 2006
With so many different models available and tons of unfamiliar specifications to consider, finding the right DVD recorder can be quite overwhelming, even for the more savvy shopper.
Find out how at Seven tips on buying a DVD recorder
From a weblog by Tom Coates
Comments: For Mac newbies, and long-time Mac users who aren’t exactly the techie sort.
Find out how at plasticbag.org
Comments: A good general FAQ page answering questions on video/digital video/photo storage and transfers. Useful for when you’re trying to figure out what to do prevent loss of old videos and photos.
Learn more at Tomorrow Digital FAQ
Portable hard drives from Apricorn, Logitech, and Microsoft use both fingerprint recognition and data encryption technologies.
Agam Shah, IDG News Service
Friday, 22 June 2007
Fingerprint readers have been offered as PC peripherals since the late 1980s, but have never caught on, says Jim Wayman, a biometrics expert. That didn’t sway Apricorn Inc. from releasing Aegis Bio, a new portable biometric hard drive that accesses encrypted data after validating a fingerprint.
Find out about this at Keeping Data Secure with Biometrics
By Farihan Bahrin (8/7/2004 )
Storage products are built for the purpose of safekeeping data: Media forms like CD recordables and hard disks are robust and durable to ensure that information stored on them remains readable, and that data integrity is preserved. But considering that no storage media is indestructible, how long will information stored remain safe before it finally succumbs to the inevitable effects of time?
Read more at Media Life Expectancy
Kevin Spiess - Tuesday, June 19th, 2007 | 12:49PM (PST)
The gigabyte… Rest In Peace.
Don’t get too used to using GB’s to describe hard drive sizes — the end is in sight for desktop hard drives offering less than 1 terabyte of space.
Find out more at Seagate and Samsung start shipping 1TB hard disks
Comment: Brief, concise, sweet. The reasons in point form.
The reasons, at Why partition a disc drive