Blade Watch (Free subscription) | 21 hours ago
Lenovo blog I’m totally finished with spinning drives on my ThinkPads. At least if I have anything to say about it. I was fortunate enough to be able to swap to a solid state hard disk drive in my ThinkPad this week. I had always derided the 64GB capacity as too small, but when the opportunity presented [...]
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Disk Redactor 1.2 Build 180 A disk wipe utility that makes it impossible to restore deleted files Disk Redactor is a WIPE utility, that prevent restoration of the old ( deleted ) files at your disks. All free space at your hard disk will be wiped from an old information. This is necessary because the delete function does not clear the space where deleted file is located and just mark the entry in...
Gizmodo UK (Free subscription) | 11 hours ago
The world's largest maker of hard disk drives, Seagate, is finally planning to get into the solid state disk (SSD) drive market next year. It might seem surprising that it's not already got an SSD offering but then the market for SSDs is still very small, regardless of potential. The company will start with commercial SSDs for large enterprises next year, followed by consumer products later on. With...
TechConnect Magazine (Free subscription) | 22 hours ago
CPU & Motherboard - DFI LanParty JR P45-T2RS Motherboard @ CPU3D Storage - Seagate FreeAgent GO 500GB and Dock Evaluation @ PlanetX64 - 500 GB Hard Disk Drive Round-Up @ Hardware Secrets - Western Digital 300 GB VelociRaptor Serial ATA Hard Drive @ Tech ARP Graphics cards - Sapphire Toxic HD 4850 512MB GDDR3 Graphics Card @ X-bit labs - Power Color HD 4870 @ Techware Labs Enclosures & PSUs - Kingwin...
Gizmodo (Free subscription) | yesterday
Seagate has decided to enter the solid-state disk (SSD) market in 2009, starting the company's switch from hard disk drives (HDD). Their first target: corporate America. Once they've got the cubicle...
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The new O&O Defrag 11 Professional Edition activates the hidden performance of your computer. O&O Defrag optimizes your hard disk and effectively and securely packs file fragments back together. O&O Defrag 11 includes an array of functions that a really good defragmentation software should offer, ranging from a fully automated defragmentation function to an expert settings option.
DistroWatch.com: News (Free subscription) | yesterday
Patrick Verner has announced the availability of the first release candidate for Parted Magic 3.1, a minimalist live CD featuring a hard disk partitioning utility and other hard disk management tools: "Parted Magic 3.1 is more of a new feature release than a bug-fix release. We added G4L....
Il Bloggatore (Free subscription) | 10/10/2008
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the INQUIRER (Free subscription) | 10/10/2008
Sylvie Barak the Inquirer , Friday 10 October 2008. 18:30:00 The tide is high NOT ONLY WILL Seagate make the move to Solid State Drives (SSDs) in 2009, it may also make them its core business, replacing rotational hard disks as the company’s bestsellers. Speaking to CNET, Seagate’s senior manager of market development, Rich Vignes, noted that the first step was to persuade people...
PJC Journal (Free subscription) | 10/10/2008
the UK Ministry of Defence appears to have lost Yet Another Unencrypted Hard Disk With Over a Million Sensitive Personal Data Records on it. The fact the EDS are involved again, and the amount of data involved, We wonder if any of this data has been handed over or sold to the various Private Military Contractor companies who recruit former UK military service personnel.
Significant Figures (Free subscription) | 10/10/2008
Today, a portable hard-disk with personal data on 100,000 members of the British Armed Forces was mislaid or stolen (they don’t yet know) from government contractor EDS. The same company lost data on prison staff in September, previously records of…
The Suzette (Free subscription) | 10/10/2008
Whew! Finally my laptop is fully functional again, although I spent 4 hours fixing the loose ends till 9pm last night. The helpdesk is not very helpful. (hmm… why are they called ‘helpdesk’?) They just reformatted the harddisk, installed the OS and basic stuff. Everything else I had to do myself. [...]
Andrew Ferrier's Blog (Free subscription) | 10/10/2008
My work Thinkpad (a T61) was becoming a little crufty, so I decided to reinstall it from scratch. Here are a few lessons I learnt along the way: Making a hot copy of your entire drive onto a USB hard disk with VMWare Converter beforehand is a great idea. This basically means you have your entire [...]
ZDNet UK Highlights (Free subscription) | 10/10/2008
The IT contractor has lost a hard disk containing Ministry of Defence data from its facility in Hampshire
The Economist (Free subscription) | 10/10/2008
How much paper does an American office worker generate? THE notion of the “paperless office” was first mooted in the 1960s, when it seemed that computers and hard disks would do away with the need to print out everything in triplicate. What actually happened was that global consumption of office paper more than doubled in the last two decades of the 20th century, as digital technology made printing...
