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Here are five ways to avoid PC disasters. If you do only four of them, you’re courting danger. Security Step One is a Full Backup.

1. Back Up Your Software
2. Make an Emergency Disk
3. Defrag Your Hard Drive
4. Block the Bad Guys
5. Another Networking Fix

Learn more at Five Steps to Protecting Your System

HP today announced its continued leadership in several key segments of the server and storage market in Asia Pacific (inc. Japan) in first calendar quarter 2007. According to IDC, HP maintained the No.1 position in x86 server shipments in CYQ1, 2007 for the 20th consecutive quarter…

Read more at HP again No. 1

Singapore, July 18, 2007 – Springboard Research today announced that is has released its latest Webcast detailing the “Top Ten Trends in Enterprise IT” that technology vendors can expect to see in the next 12 to 18 months.

The predictions (in-depth coverage of each prediction is provided in the Webcast) are:

1. Consumer technology will influence Enterprise IT

2. Web 2.0 hype to continue

3. Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) to become broadly accepted

For further information, go to Springboard Research: Top 10 Trends

The cost of upgrading to Windows Vista is forcing more organizations to evaluate alternatives including Apple Macs and Linux for the desktop.

Half of silicon.com’s 12-strong CIO Jury IT user panel said the Vista factor is likely to lead to an increase in Macs on the desktop in the corporate computing environment.

Read more at Will Vista cause a switch to Macs, Linux?

Looking for BIGGER storage?

The good: Four connection options: USB 2.0, FW400, FW800, and serial/RS-232; front-mounted LCD advises you of the status of the drive; supports several RAID arrays; supports a variety of file systems; drives are hot-swappable.

For the Bad and further info: LaCie Biggest FW800  

This article uses pricing trends, technology trends and unique market analysis insights to show that users and oems may be able to reliably predict which storage devices will be most cost effective depending where you are on the future history curve.

Learn more at Flash memory versus HDD

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

Comment: Contents of article do not reflect our views. But we thought there was some interest value in this!  

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?