FRAMINGHAM, Mass. -- The world's prodigious appetite for digital storage capacity continues to fuel hard disk drive HDD demand and revenue. Worldwide HDD shipments are expected to grow in 2008, even in the face of economic uncertainty in the United States, and increase at a compound annual growth rate of...
Business Ethics Begins on Your Hard DriveBusiness Ethics Begins on Your Hard DriveAnswering “no and those who do should not be in the C suite” comes with a bitter pill. I was guilty in the past. Some from my own doing and some from my employer who provided...
Come on, fess up. Is all of that software on your home computer legal (as in, you purchased it instead of copying the version your foolish friend just bought)? Apparently it's not just you. According to the 2007 State Piracy Study by the Business Software Alliance BSA,...
DiskAid is a freeware utility that allows you to use your iPhone (or iPod touch) as a portable hard drive. All you do is install the program (it's available for both Windows and Mac), then connect your device. DiskAid automatically detects it and provides a familiar tree-like interface for creating...
As Rick has mentioned before, one of the best ways to free up space on your hard drive is to get a birds-eye view of all the stuff you've got on there and then bulk delete the stuff you've got no use for (say, temporary internet files). Â I tried out...
There are a couple of awesome deals I want to let you know about, both of which seem to be pretty legit. First, Mozy—one of my favorite easy data backup tools—is offering 25% off its one and two-year unlimited backup plans, meaning that you will only have to shell...
SEOUL, South Korea -- Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., a worldwide leader in digital consumer electronics and information technology, today announced its one terabyte EcoGreen F1 hard drive with low power features. Samsung's new eco-friendly drive can be adopted as an external hard drive as well as an internal drive for...
Ever wonder what's eating all the space on your hard drive? Maybe you've got mammoth video files tucked away in places you've forgotten. Xinorbis provides a detailed analysis of the contents of local drives, network drives, and even individual directories. It can show not only what files occupy the most...
LAS VEGAS -- Samsung Electronics Ltd., a worldwide leader in digital consumer electronics and information technology, today announced that it is shipping Compact Flash card-sized hard disk drives HDD for use in mobile consumer devices. Initially available in 30GB and 40GB models, Samsung's Spinpoint A1 hard disks offer significantly higher...
SAN JOSE, Calif. -- Addonics Technologies made swapping hard drives a snap when it today announced its Snap-In SATA Mobile Rack, a removable hard drive system that allows easy hot swapping of 3.5-inch SATA hard drives.
Emptying your recycling bin doesn't completely erase files that you don't want other people to get a hold of. In fact, despite what your repairman might say, it's not that hard to reconstitute "deleted" documents. So if you're planning to throw away your hard drive (or if you're worried about...
FRAMINGHAM, Mass. -- By 2011, the hard disk drive HDD industry will more than quadruple the total HDD capacity shipped in 2006 to meet the growing storage requirements of an expanding digital universe, according to IDC. Worldwide HDD unit shipments will increase to 675 million units in 2011, while revenue...
Antec, Inc., the leading global brand of high-performance computer components for the PC upgrade and Do-It-Yourself markets, has launched MX-1 as part of its VERIS Media Components line. MX-1 is a high-performance portable hard drive enclosure with advanced active cooling and ultra-quiet operation.
If your notebook is more than a year or two old, chances are good it has a smallish hard drive -- one that's probably getting pretty full right about now. Sure, you could upgrade to a larger hard drive, but that involves time and money. A better solution (one that...
AsiaInfo Services 08-29-2007 Great Wall Tech Said to Acquire One Hard Disk Giant SHENZHEN, Aug 29, 2007 SinoCast via COMTEX -- Great Wall Technology Company Ltd. (SEHK: 0074) is predicted to acquire Seagate Technology or Western Digital, the AsiaInfo...