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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

Intel X-25M solid-state drive (80GB)

Intel's X-25M solid-state hard drive represents a major leap forward for the solid-state drive category. While we've heard about the benefits of solid-state hard drives for years--faster access and boot times, improved battery life--Intel's drive raises expectations for the category as a whole. You will most definitely have to...

Tags: Intel Corp., Intel X-25M, SSD, hard drive

Product reviews 2008-10-08

Our second Linux laptop has a real keyboard

Our second Linux laptop has a real keyboardXandros lite is OK ...For the average user the Xandros Lite OS is fine, but it does have some shortcomings:1) Asus for some reason has a ram limit compiled into the kernel of 1GB. The machine has a max limit of 2GB, but...

Tags: Keyboards, Notebooks, Desktops, Processors, laptop computer, ASUS, real keyboard, kernel, Linux laptop, Xandros, Intel Celeron, distro, keyboard, Linux

Discussion threads 2008-10-03

A moment of lucidity

A moment of lucidityFor some clarificationDennisInteresting points, but I'm here to dispel some of your suggestions. In this following post, I've clearly articulated how I do --and do not-- use social media for research activities.http://tinyurl.com/5wy68zIt would be great if you could first read this post before suggesting I only...

Tags: lucidity, social media, Facebook

Discussion threads 2008-09-16

News to know: Windows 7 Beta; Google; $2,000 PC; Gates & Seinfeld; iTunes 8 fix

Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Ryan Naraine: Secunia launches pay-as-you-go exploit shop Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: The $2,000 build-it-yourself gaming/video editing/photo editing PC Gallery: The $2,000 build-it-yourself gaming/video editing/photo...

Tags: Google Inc., Microsoft Windows 7, PC, Apple Inc., Video, Beta, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes, Apple iTunes, Corporate Communications, Microsoft Windows, Wiki, Marketing, Operating Systems, Software, Online Communications, David Grober

Blog posts 2008-09-12

2 platter, 500GB, 2.5" drive

Western Digital is announcing - and commencing volume shipments of - their first 2.5" 500 GB drive. Hey, didn't Hitachi and Samsung get there first? Not really. The 12.5mm Hitachi drive was too big to fit in most notebooks. Samsung's 9.5mm drive fits -...

Tags: Hitachi Ltd., Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., Head, WD, MSRP, Notebooks, Storage, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Robin Harris

Blog posts 2008-09-12

The Technological and Economic impact of a New Cold War

The Technological and Economic impact of a New Cold WarPrivate space transportationInterestingly, the weakening US-Russian relationship may end up being very good for the US private space industry. Even before the latest souring of relations, NASA made contingency plans to limit dependency on Soyuz and avoid relying on the Russian...

Tags: Commercial Orbital Transportation Services program, NASA, COTS, Soyuz, Economic Impact, SpaceX, cargo

Discussion threads 2008-09-01

Geek Sheet: A Tweaker's Guide to Solid State Drives (SSDs) and Linux

Is 20th century conventional Winchester multi-platter, multi-head random-access disk technology too quaint for you? Want to run your PC or server on storage devices that consume far less energy than the traditional alternatives? Want a portable or mobile storage unit that will never fail due to G-forces or "crashing?". Looking...

Tags: Linux, Disk, File System, Solid State Disk, Kernel, Mandrake, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2008-07-25

Western Digital VelociRaptor - Plenty of bark, not enough bite

Western Digital VelociRaptor - Plenty of bark, not enough biteI definitely want onenot sure I can justify the price. I saw the 750GB WD drives at Fry's for 109.00 on sale. What's the fastest 750Gb I wonder?I want one and i will tell you why.Gaming.When playing a game, you need...

Tags: Games, Western Digital VelociRaptor, Western Digital Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-06-20

Podcast: Fujitsu thinks solid-state drive benefits are more hype than reality (for now)

Solid-state drives are all the rage, but are they worth the significant premium (sometimes $1,000) over machines with convention drives? Current solid-state drives use either NAND Flash memory or SDRAM and contain no moving parts. Proponents tout several benefits of solid-state drives over conventional platter drives--faster startup, shorter seek times,...

Tags: Fujitsu Ltd., Bill Detwiler, Podcasts, Benefits, Internet, Human Resources

Download resources 2008-06-18

Solid State Drives: Samsung may accelerate adoption just in time for Xmas

Solid State Drives: Samsung may accelerate adoption just in time for XmasI am certain...The cost will drop and the reliablility will accelerate for this technology. Can't wait to buy one to replace my clickety old notebook platter.Sounds great, but what will it cost????RE: Solid State Drives: Samsung may accelerate adoption...

Tags: Quality, adoption just-in-time, solid state disk, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., JIT, Xmas

Discussion threads 2008-05-26

Jail time for anti-copyright pirate?

Jail time for anti-copyright pirate?Why not a death penalty?Only 5 years in prison and only $250k in fines. That's so lame...Can't complainIf you're going to play the civil disobedience game, expect to pay full price for the privilege.Jail time is what thieves deserve ...Why should we feel sorry for a...

Tags: illegal copy, Jail Time, piracy

Discussion threads 2008-05-23

OOXML backwards compatibility led Microsoft to ODF

OOXML backwards compatibility led Microsoft to ODFIf they can't even support it themselveshow the heck do they expect other applications to support it?even M$ can't implement OOXMLwhile some people are cheerleading this bloated and broken standard.I expect to see M$ droping support for OOXML in the next office 'for technical...

Tags: OpenDocument Format (ODF), OpenDocument Format, Microsoft Corp., Office Open XML, Microsoft Office, OOXML backwards compatibility

Discussion threads 2008-05-22