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Seagates predicts continued HDD shortage due to Thailand floods

Seagate Technology announced yesterday that supply of hard disk drives (HDDs) this year will continue to fall short of demand, leading large customers to look to long-term agreements to ensure supply after devastating floods in Thailand.
Laptop users offered simple full-disk encryption upgrade

Security company ST Electronics has shown a new hard drive enclosure that can be used to upgrade a laptop running any operating system to full-disk encryption without the need for drivers or BIOS modifications.
Seagate completes purchase of Samsung HDD business

Seagate Technology has completed the acquisition of Samsung Electonics' hard disk drive (HDD) business, after it recently received approval for the deal in Australia, China, and from the European Commission.
Seagate and Western Digital slash hard drive warranty periods

Seagate and Western Digital are cutting back on hard drive warranties, in some instances from five years to one, in order to save money or redirect it to product development.
Hitach GST apes Seagate, starts shipping their very first 4TB hard drive

Hitachi Global Storage Technologies (Hitachi GST) said Monday it began shipments of its first 4TB, 3.5-inch hard drive, targeted at the PC market, three months after rival Seagate launched its own version.
Western Digital resume some HDD production in Thailand

Western Digital has resumed the partial production of hard drives in Thailand, but also warned that some of its operations were still under water from the severe floods that hit the country starting late July.
Seagate revamps 'SSD killer' hard drive by adding more flash

Seagate has announced the next version of its Momentus XT ?hybrid? hard drive, a design that pairs a traditional spinning hard disk with a large cache of flash memory as a way of boosting performance without the expense of a full-blown SSD drive.
Western Digital gets approval to take over Hitachi HDD business

Western Digital will be allowed to take over Hitachi?s hard disk drive business, but only if it sells off a 3.5-inch hard disk drive production plant.
Thailand floods hard-drive shortage makes small PC makers hike prices

The hard-drive shortage caused by flooding in Thailand is forcing small PC makers to increase their prices in order to stem losses.
Seagate kills 5400 rpm desktop drives, all Barracudas now 7200 rpm

Seagate announced that it's bumping the platter rotation speed in all of its Barracuda hard drives from 5400 rpm to 7200 rpm.

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The best tools for PC maintenance

Most people, even IT pros who spend their lives maintaining corporate computing infrastructure, are so busy with life, families, work and the rest that they tend to leave periodic home PC maintenance tasks at the bottom of a long list of things that never get done.
Solid state drives fail as much as traditional disks

Solid state drives (SSD) appear to be as unreliable as traditional hard disks. In fact, they're marginally less reliable: Taken as an average across models, 2.05 percent of SSDs got returned as non-functioning, compared to 1.94 percent of hard disks.
Delorean Time Machine Hard Drive: Seagate goes Back to the Future

Attention all Back To The Future fans: If you're in the market for a new hard drive, then the folks over at Flash Rods have something just for you. Flash Rods latest, known as the Delorean Time Machine Hard Drive, contains a 500GB Seagate drive within the chassis of the much-loved Delorean from the Back To The Future trilogy.
Macbook Air could foretell death of hard drives

Apple's decision to use SSD technology rather than a hard drive in the new Macbook Air - and Steve Jobs' pronouncement that it represents the future of notebooks - could hasten the replacement of traditional drives with NAND flash technology.
Hitachi vs Seagate vs Western Digital: Hard drive makers talk up new storage tech

In a reflection of the hard-fought battle among hard drive makers to get ahead of rivals, Hitachi, Seagate and Western Digital this week talked up storage innovations, including a Hitachi drive that combines an optical platter with Micron's densest NAND flash memory and advanced hard drives from Western Digital and Seagate that hold up to 3TB of data.
A simple guide to RAID

What is RAID, why do you need it, and what are all those mode numbers that are constantly bandied about? RAID stands for "redundant array of independent disks," and you may or may not need it depending on your data-storage requirements.
In Depth: SATA 6 Gbits/sec

Those of us in the business of keeping an eye on new technologies wonder why the buzz about SATA 6Gbit/sec. (a.k.a. Serial ATA Revision 3) hasn't been louder than it is.
Office in a bag: Basic 'musts' for the digital nomad

Like humanity's original nomads, today's denizens of the open road must carry everything they need to make up a digital office into your shoulder bag or backpack.
Intel's new Core i7 and Core i5 processors explained

Intel's two new Core i7 CPUs (860 and 870) are mid-range counterparts to its top-of-the-line Core i7 900-series chips, and initial tests (using Intel's new DP55KG motherboard) indicate their performance follows suit. Our early tests also show the new entry-level Core i5 750 is the one to watch when it comes to best bang for your buck.
The downside of the cloud

Cloud technology is being much talked about - particularly as a storage option. But what if there are problems, how do you cope. It's important to have your strategy in place before you commit.

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