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Verity manual hard drive destroyer (Gallery: How to destroy your hard drive)

Verity manual hard drive destroyer (Gallery: How to destroy your hard drive)If I had a hammer......I'd save my money and use it instead.

Tags: hard drive, Verity Inc., Gallery

Discussion threads 2008-07-21

Engineering the 10 TB notebook drive

Engineering the 10 TB notebook driveEvery 2 years?"Disk capacities double about every 2 years"It's possible you're right but I just got my 300 GB drive because prices dropped when the 500 GB drive came out about 6 months later a 1 TB drive came out. That was over a span...

Tags: Network-attached storage (NAS), Storage management, TB notebook, disk, SATA II, GB Drive, platter, storage, NAS, hard drive, EIDE, notebook

Discussion threads 2007-09-27

Hasso Plattner's design philosophy: No 'artsy fartsy'

Hasso Plattner's design philosophy: No 'artsy fartsy'What? Bad to say about Apple design?Wow - I never thought a "design guru" would say something bad about Apple. I think their hardware design is elegant, but their OS is too artsy fartsy. Just surprised to see a design person...

Tags: Platter, Hasso Plattner

Discussion threads 2007-05-09

Erasing hard drives

Erasing hard drivesYou've forgot oneAsk the guy from Blendtec whether he's willing to blend it for you ha haThe possibilities are endless . . .skeet-shooting either the drives themselves or the platters alonerailroad tracks (too big? just the platters, then)etching (crafting stores sell etching cream or liquid -- the platters,...

Tags: OPEN SOURCE, hard drive, platter, Erasing Hard drive, Physical Destruction

Discussion threads 2007-05-03

Company accused of selling fake antispyware settles suit

Company accused of selling fake antispyware settles suitAnybody remember...years and years ago I remember some guy sellling software which suppposedly repositioned data across the platters of your hard drive, evenly spreading the 1s and 0s. The purported benefit was that it was possible that all the data could potentially...

Tags: Spyware, Spyware, adware & malware, platter, anti-spyware

Discussion threads 2006-12-05

Numark PT-01

Listen to your records anywhere, anytime with the sweet, little Numark PT-01 portable turntable. This battery-operated turntable has a built-in speaker and carrying handle; plus, it's feathery light. Excellent output options and even pitch and tone control make this an A-list product for any vinyl junkie. And since it...

Tags: Numark PT-01, Numark, battery

Product reviews 2006-06-30

Carbon nanotubes could allow for huge increases in storage

Hard drive manufacturer Seagate has submitted a patent application that uses carbon nanotubes technology which could allow for a ten-fold increase in hard drive capacity.The nanotubes slowly leak a vapor lubricant – but that is just part of the plan. Seagate's patent describes how this technology could be...

Tags: platter, Seagate Technology LLC, nanotube

Blog posts 2006-06-30

Skeletons on your hard drive

Skeletons on your hard driveWhat about low-level formatting?Would a low level format, if the drive permits, where all the sectors undergo a basic formatting, clean the drive sufficiently for normal consumers? I seriously doubt it would stop NSA from recovering the former data. Also, would perfoming multiple low level formats...

Tags: Operating systems, platter, Apple Mac OS X, Apple Mac OS, hard drive, aluminum, Apple Macintosh

Discussion threads 2005-04-20

Additional Resources

Pure Vinyl 3.0PR4 (Mac)

A suite of audio applications designed specifically for the high quality digital transcription and playback of vinyl LP records. Pure Vinyl is intended for professional or technically-oriented audio enthusiasts, who own high-end equipment, and who want to create, edit and play back the highest possible quality vinyl...

Tags: Audio, Apple Macintosh, Transcription

Software downloads 2009-11-25

AVADirect Nano Cube

AVADirect's $2,266 Nano Cube tries to take on Shuttle's XPC H7 5800 at its own small form factor game. Both systems come with smaller-than-normal SFF cases, and each requires sacrifices, even more than with a standard SFF PC, in exchange for its tiny dimensions. Therein lies our problem with this...

Tags: DVD, Consumer electronics, Games, Shuttle XPC, SFF, small form factor, Cube, Shuttle, Nano, DVD burner, PC, Nvidia GeForce, NVidia Corp., AVADirect, game

Product reviews 2009-11-04

A word of warning on hard disk recovery by swapping logic boards

Freezing it?"Popping it into a sealed plastic bag and freezing it for a few hours."Pardon my ignorance - what does this do to help?Except in this case, the problem is almostcertainly fried electronics because of the method in which the drive failed.Strange. Hu?I can't say how it works, but I...

Tags: logic board, hard drive, hard-disk recovery, Cooling

Discussion threads 2009-10-21

What does 6 Gbit SATA mean to you?

RE: What does 6 Gbit SATA mean to you?The transfer speed will remain meaningless until SATA 10k and 15k RPM speeds become the norm. The speed of the data retrieval from the platters is the biggest factor in drive performance. The disk drive is and will remain the...

Tags: Performance management, Main Memory, OS/driver, Gbit SATA, disk

Discussion threads 2009-09-21

Could Google Fast Flip get kids reading news again?

"I'm a big fan of Google"Really, Chris? You're a big fan of Google? I had no idea!Seriously, though, does your school district know that you are now working full time for Google?Hard to believehe actually works for a school district given his blogs. I didn't think any...

Tags: school district, Google Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-09-15

Western Digital debuts 2TB, 7200RPM enterprise-class hard drives

Western Digital on Tuesday announced that it is now shipping 2TB, 7200RPM enterprise-class desktop hard drives with WD's 500 gigabytes-per-platter technology. The company's family of Caviar Black drives (pictured, below) is intended for gaming, high-performance desktop systems and workstations; while the 2TB WD...

Tags: Hard Drive, Performance, Positioning, High-performance, Western Digital Corp., Branding, Leadership, Performance Management, Processors, Marketing, Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2009-09-01

Generation Y: Technology wasters, spendthrifts and abusers

Excuse me, but I've seen many ADULTS do things like thisSo it's not really a comment on any generation, but just a class of people..... a big class of people at that, who are 'hard' on technology.This is the main reason why things have to be made to a higher...

Tags: Generation Y

Discussion threads 2009-08-26

Comcast rakes in the dough; Continues to poach voice customers

Comcast rakes in the dough; Continues to poach voice customersWhy, just Why?Why would anyone willingly subject themselves to becoming Comcast customers? Where I live even DSL is not available so my only choice is Comcast and they are terrible, their customer service is terrible, their installers are unreliable and they...

Tags: INTERNET, Cable, Network technology, TVs, Broadband Internet, comcast, Comcast Corp., voice customer

Discussion threads 2009-08-06

Hitachi now shipping 'world's first' 2TB, 7200RPM hard drive

Hitachi announced on Thursday that it is now shipping the "world's first two terabyte, 7200 RPM hard disk drive," the Deskstar 7K2000. The new 2TB Deskstar is a fourth-generation device that uses Hitachi's five-platter design with relaxed bit density...

Tags: Hard Drive, Hitachi Ltd., 2TB Deskstar, 7K1000.C, Storage, Hardware, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2009-08-06

Samsung Spinpoint F3 HDD offers 1TB; 500GB per platter

Samsung Spinpoint F3 HDD offers 1TB; 500GB per platterThat's a review?Looks more like a marketing blurb. Where's the technical info? Yeh great so it runs at 7200rpm, so do heaps of other 1Tb drives. What about read / write speeds? Sound levels? Mtbf? Power consumption? Looks like i'll have to...

Tags: Samsung Spinpoint F3 HDD, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., hard drive

Discussion threads 2009-07-30

News to know: Windows 7 RTM review; Microsoft-Yahoo; SAP; Sprint

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Ed Bott: Windows 7 first look: More than just "Vista, fixed" Gallery: Windows 7 RTM...

Tags: Yahoo! Inc., SAP AG, Microsoft Corp., Sprint Communications, Microsoft Windows 7, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Microsoft Windows, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Operating Systems, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-07-30

Samsung Spinpoint F3 HDD offers 1TB; 500GB per platter

Samsung on Wednesday announced a new line-up of high-density hard drives for high-end computing environments, the Spinpoint F3. The new drives operate at 7200RPM with capacities of up to 1 terabyte, thanks to fitting 500GB on each platter: ...

Tags: Hard Drive, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., Spinpoint F3, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2009-07-29