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Can I use magnetic particle to wipe hard drives
2008-10-01 16:41:00 Will my AC DC electromagnet completely wipe all the data from a hard drives? Also will the hard drive be completely disabled? Just seems like this would be lot easier than shredding 50 drives. Branson
Demil BQ CPUs, Computers & Hard Drives AUCTION
2008-06-27 11:26:00 6774 - Demil BQ CPUs & Hard Drives @ Tucson, AZExample lotLOT (2000) APPRX PENTIUM III AND PENTIUM IV DESKTOP COMPUTERS, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO DELL, GATEWAY, IBM, MICRON, C... more from scrapmetalprices...
The low prices of hard drives
2008-06-03 01:40:00 It’s been a while since I last shopped for a hard disk drive (like 2 years?), so I was thoroughly shocked to discover just how low their prices have fallen since then. What’s more, the storage capacities on even the lowest priced models are beginning to reach into the technological stratosphere. I remember way back when ...
By: RickRouse.com
Use Partitioned Hard Drives Logically
2008-06-02 09:27:00 As far as making sure that you do not overload your primary hard drive with assorted programs and files you need, if you have a partitioned your hard disk, try to use them. This saves you a lot of problems especially if you talk about speed when you use your computer. Just like us, a ...
Make Sure your Hard Drive is Detected
2008-05-30 15:44:00 Most computers today are easier to configure. Unlike in the olden days, the need to go into the BIOS to be able to make sure that all peripherals are properly detected is no longer a common practice. Computer peripherals today are mostly plug and play thus leaving lesser rooms for potential need to manually override ...
Iomega upgrades eGo hard drives to 1TB
2008-05-29 20:06:00 Iomega announced today a 1TB upgrade to its line of eGo portable hard drives. This larger storage capacity drive prices at around $270. These new 1TB “Super eGo” external hard drives are 3.5-inch drives which store up to 4 million photos, 18,500 hours of music or 1,500 hours of video. Three color options are available and ...
By: SlipperyBrick
USB Dock Accepts Hard Drives, Memory Cards, Everything
2008-05-28 17:40:00 USB Dock Accepts Hard Drives, Memory Cards, EverythingWhen we brought news of the Stage Rack, a dock for raw SATA hard drives, you were pleased. But where the Stage Rack only offered only a lone USB connection and compatibility with 2.5' and 3.5' SATA drives, Brando's take on the same concept is a lot more accommodating, and costs only a few bucks more.As well as being able to slot a bare hard drive straight in, the Multi-Function Dock is also a four slot card reader (for just about any format going) and a two-port USB hub. It even has an eSATA-out port, so you could wire this directly into the nervous system of your computer, or maybe the back of your own brain.In common with the Stage Rack, the dock requires you to pay a ridiculous $25 shipping charge, bring the price up to $80. But for its utility, and for the fact that this will de-clutter your embarrassingly messy desk, it might be worth it.(Via Gadget Lab.)
What Computer Specs Do You Fancy?
2008-05-28 13:34:00 As far as buying the right computer desktop for you is concerned, you will certainly take your sweet time figuring out what you want in it. Apparently this stems from the fact that a lot of potential hardware setup can be done and to get the ideal one, you have to ask yourself what you ...
Buying a Computer with What You Need
2008-05-26 13:01:00 One thing you will hate if you are no longer updated with latest trends in technology would be the latest hardware that you will need just when you want to upgrade your unit into a latest one. New motherboard and new processors in the market, who knows which fits into which. One thing about processors ...
Iomega eGo portable Hard Drives
2008-05-24 00:00:00 The Iomega eGo portable Hard Drives looks simply stylish, the Leather eGi Hard Drive on the left while the Camo eGo Hard Drive on the right. Both are 2.5-inch, USB-powered drives offer 250GB of storage, are compatible with Mac OS X and Windows, and feature DropGuard technology. Both employs the ...
By: 2dayblog
WD's new external hard drives: More data that takes less space on the go
2008-05-22 16:39:00 WD's My Passport Studio series might be the most compact 2.5" external hard drive to date. (Credit: WD) I recently reviewed the OWC Mercury and SimpleTech’s Signature Mini external hard drives. I liked the OWC Mercury for its versatility in connections and its top-of-the-market storage …
Protect Your Computer from Power Surges
2008-05-19 13:55:00 Normally, computers would come with the standard uninterruptible power supply (UPS) and voltage regulator to safeguard the energy and current that flows into the computer. It is during power failures that a person must watch out for their computer. Automatic voltage regulators will safeguard your computer but during storms when lightning strikes, if you are ...
Venezuela: Hard-Drive Diplomacy
2008-05-19 04:42:00 Evidence of Venezuela’s support for terrorism could carry Hugo Chávez to the pariah status he deserves. THE CONFIRMATION by an international forensics team that laptops and hard drives captured by Colombia originated in a camp of FARC terrorists ought to open a new era in relations between the democratic world and Hugo Chávez’s Venezuelan government. Whether ...
By: 1913 Intel
Bigger Files, Bigger Hard Drives
2008-05-15 10:46:00 Some years ago, you would think that having a 40 gigabyte hard drive would be more than enough. Documents, spreadsheets and a couple of images could be stored with plenty to spare. But it seems that all of this has changed today. We are now in an age where videos and audio files are a ...
Plextor StorX PX-NAS500L And PX-NAS1000L Hard Drives
2008-05-11 00:45:00 Plextor has a new couple of NAS drives for network storage, the StorX PX-NAS500L and PX-NAS1000L which offers 500GB and 1TB capacity respectively. Each drives features gigabit LAN port, one-touch USB backup button, pair of USB 2.0 port, and ability to operate over GigaLAN networks. Both of drives will be available from early June 2008 ...
By: Today Gadgets
Open Hard Drives In a New Window On Clicking On Them
2008-05-07 13:41:00 A user can set this option using Open Each Folder In Its Own Window. Under File menu >> Tools >> Folder Options in General, but Virus overrides this setting.Here is the solution . Please restart your computer after applying the solution to see the result.Note : If non of the solutions here work , that means your comp is still infected with that virus and it resets the setting back. Use a good anti virus to remove the virus first.First Method:1. Open Start >> Run and type regsvr32 /i shell32.dll2. Press ok3. You will see a message DllRegisterServer and DllInstall in shell32.dll succeeded4. That?s itSecond Method:1. Open Start >> Run and type regedit2. Navigate to HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT/Directory/She-ll3. Double click the default key type none and press ok.4. Now navigate to HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT/Drive/Shell.5-. Double click the default key type none and press ok.Third Method:If you don?t want to play with the registry ,you can run the following command instead atRun Prompt: ( Open Start >> Run ...
By: Techskill4all
Hard Drives Open In a New Window On Clicking On Them
2008-05-06 15:33:00 One of our readers reported, when ever he double clicks on any of the drive to open, it opens automatically in new window. A user can set this option using Open Each Folder In Its Own Window. Under File menu >> Tools >> Folder Options in General, but Virus overrides this setting. Here is the solution . Please restart your computer after applying the solution to see the result. Note : If non... To read this full article, other contents, and more, visit www.techx.co.nr
By: Tech Guru
Hard Drives Don't Open On Double Click Or Right Click Open / Explore
2008-05-06 11:16:00 Many of my friends had a problem that when they try to open there hard drives like "C:" by double clicking them or selecting Open / Explore from right click menu , a "Open With" window pops up or the drives fail to open by displaying a error message . This is caused due to a virus and even if the virus is removed by an anti virus the problem persists. Here, I'm posting a solution for the same.... To read this full article, other contents, and more, visit www.techx.co.nr
By: Tech Guru
External Hard Drives Buyer's Guide
2008-05-03 13:01:00 External Hard Drives Buyer's GuideWe assess 25 of the hottest external hard disk drives from Cavalry, Iomega, LaCie, Maxtor, Seagate, Western Digital, and more.http://www.informationweek-.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?art-icleID=207401334&cid=RSSf..-.
ASUS Gets Really Official With 17-inch G70 Gaming Laptop
2008-05-03 03:14:00 During the hurricane that was CES, ASUS managed to get in a word just long enough to make mention of a forthcoming G70 laptop. Now that the storm has passed, it’s dishing out a full list of details to get gamers’ mouths watering. The 17-inch behemoth features quite the vivid motif, and crammed within you’ll ...
By: Gadgets Are Us
Dell Unleashes The Pricey XPS 730 And 730 H2C Gaming Rigs
2008-05-01 16:33:00 Apparently Dell is busting out the big, expensive guns with its new gaming rig, the XPS 730 and 730 H2C. The previously outed system is quite serious, utilizing NVIDIA’s nForce 790i Ultra SLI chipset, a wide variety of Intel CPUs (ranging from the Core 2 Duo up to the Core 2 Duo Extreme), support for ...
By: Gadgets Are Us
Alienware ?Fastest Ever? 17-Inch Area-51 M17x Gaming Notebook On Sale Right
2008-04-30 01:19:00 Alienware’s latest community effort is AlienNetwork, a “digital channel” which debuted today. To kick off the show with a bang, they revealed that their “fastest ever” 17-inch Area-51 m17x gaming notebook shown back in November is launching today at 5PM (right now, give or take). Versus the m15x, it’s got a higher res 1920×1200 screen, ...
By: Gadgets Are Us
Seagate Ships 1Billion Hard Drives
2008-04-23 12:30:00 Seagate has become the first manufacturer to ship one billion hard drives in just 30 years. In recent years, worldwide shipments of hard drives has soared ? a statistic that?s not surprising considering the advent of portable digital media players and rising demand for laptops, which are typically replaced much sooner than traditional desktop PCs, as well as online data storage.According to research firm Gartner, 500 million hard drives were shipped last year, which represented a 15.3% increase over 2006. By comparison, in 1990, hard drive manufacturers shipped less than 30 million units in total.Quote Seagate shipped its first drive in 1979 ? the ST506 that could store just 5 MB of data. According to the company, it weighted 5 pounds and cost a whopping $1,500. Since that time, Seagate has shipped the equivalent of 79 million terabytes of storage space. Current desktop computer drives boast capacities of 1 terabyte, while laptop drives have reached the 500 GB mark.The company says ...
By: Tech World
New Western Digital Hard Drives Push Speed Limit
2008-04-22 06:56:00 With the industry heading towards Solid State Drives as the storage medium of the future, Western Digital announced today a new line of hard drives, called the Velociraptor. A 2.5" drive that runs cool and fast. Could the Velociraptor buck the trend? Technorati Tags: Computers Gadgets Innovation Products Technology
By: InventorSpot.com
WD unveils very fast SATA hard drive
2008-04-21 19:57:00 Western Digital (WD) unveiled today what it is calling the world’s fastest SATA hard drive. It is known as the WD VelociRaptor and you can expect it to cost you around $300 when it hits retail. The WD VelociRaptor hard drive is a 2.5-inch, 300 GB model which WD says is 35 percent faster then the ...
By: SlipperyBrick
OWC Reveals 500GB Mercury On-The-Go Portable HDD
2008-04-19 01:51:00 OWC’s Mercury On-The-Go family of pocket-lovin’ hard drives has been around for quite some time, but the group is getting an all new leader courtesy of the recently announced 500GB edition. Packing a half-terabyte of space on a 5,400RPM, 8MB of cache drive, the unit even includes FireWire 800, FireWire 400 and USB 2.0 to ...
By: Gadgets Are Us
Failing hard drives.
2008-04-15 06:22:00 As it turns out I have some failing hard drives (woohoo), I guess that’s what I deserve for pushing so much data on to them constantly. I’m not very surprised at this surprisingly after reading so many reviews for hard drives you kinda come to accept that these type of things always happen an that ...
By: Ravs.us
Seagate?s fourth generation of Momentus notebook drives: 5400.4 250GB 2.5 H
2008-04-13 12:25:00 This is the fourth generation of Seagate?s Momentus notebook drives, the 5400.4 250GB 2.5 HDD has slightly higher performance than the Western Digital and Hitachi drives, this is the only thing that stands out about the drive. The bump in performance from it should be enough to sway you more towards this hard drive over ...
By: Product Reviews
Seagate launches the Cheetah Drives with Self-Encrypting Hard Drives for Se
2008-04-11 03:05:00 Seagate Technology today introduced a new breed of hard drive, the Cheetah ® 15K.6 FDE (Full Disk Encryption) disc drive family, the world?s first self-encrypting hard drives for mission-critical servers and storage arrays. As part of the award-winning Cheetah family, the industry-standard in performance and reliability in data centers, the new Cheetah 15K.6 FDE hard ...
Buffalo drops 1TB into your palm
2008-04-10 22:35:00 The folks over at Buffalo Technology want to put a massive amount of storage in the palm of your hand - 1TB to be specific. The computer equipment manufacturer is accomplishing this task through the release of its LinkStation Mini (LS-WS1.0TGL/R1), priced at around $700. The Buffalo LinkStation Mini delivers 1TB of storage to you via ...
By: SlipperyBrick
Western Digital My Passport Essential External Portable Hard Drives Get New
2008-04-09 15:57:00 Following on from the increasing trend to offer peripherals in all manner of colours, and hot on the heels of even the likes of Microsoft embracing the idea that colour choice is indeed a selling point, Western Digital have announced a new range of colour schemes for their My Passport Essential 320GB, 250GB, 160GB and 120GB external portable hard drives.
WD goes ?Elite? with portable USB hard drives
2008-03-26 00:33:00 Western Digital (WD) today kicked out some new portable USB hard drives which look good and are easy to carry. They are known as the My Passport Elite Portable USB Drives and are available in two sizes: 250 GB (around $170) and 320 GB (around $200). WD’s My Passport Elite drives connect to a USB port ...
By: SlipperyBrick
Samsung Hard Drives: Worth buying?
2008-03-25 02:08:00 I have to really let out a wail. Forgive me, but such a rant is sorely needed. Let me just remind everyone and the folk’s over there at Samsung that they can always contact or e-mail yours truly to air their respective side. Don’t ever purchase Samsung IDE ATA or PATA drives! It was pretty ...
Fujitsu?s new 320GB notebook HDD spins at 7200 RPM
2008-03-24 12:46:00 A notebook hard drive sporting 320GB isn?t a new capacity and there are larger notebook drives available right now. However, what is interesting about the new 320GB Fujitsu MHZ2 BJ series notebook drive is that it spins at 7200 RPM. Typically when a notebook hard drive gets into higher capacities it has to slow down to ...
By: SlipperyBrick
Western Digital Caviar SE16 640GB Harddrive
2008-03-22 20:22:00 Western Digital has released its Caviar family HDD based on the 320 GB-per-platter technology, the WD Caviar SE16 640 GB 3.5-inch hard drives. The WD Caviar SE16 SATA and EIDE drives are certified for Windows Vista and are top performers on the Windows Vista Experience Index. The latest generation of WD Caviar SE16 drives employs ...
By: Gadgets Are Us
White House trashes computer hard drives
2008-03-22 17:21:00 Uhh, this is a little strange, to say the least: Older White House computer hard drives have been destroyed, the White House disclosed to a federal court Friday in a controversy over millions of possibly missing e-mails from 2003 to 2005. The White House revealed new information about how it handles its computers in an effort to persuade a federal magistrate it would be fruitless to undertake an e-mail recovery plan that the court proposed. “When workstations are at the end of their lifecycle and retired … the hard drives are generally sent offsite to another government entity for physical destruction,” the White House said in a sworn declaration filed with U.S. Magistrate Judge John Facciola. The White House claims it does not know of any missing emails and that they are “looking into the matter” (I guess that’s kinda like when Scott Peterson was out looking for his missing wife that he had already murdered, huh? Just put on a show to try and ...
By: Too Progressive
WD Ships 640-Gbyte Hard Drives
2008-03-20 03:50:00 Storage provider Western Digital is set to begin shipping 640-Gbyte 3.5-inch hard drives, known as the WD Caviar SE16.The new high-capacity drives are based on the 320GB-per-platter technology the company introduced in January.The new platform was designed for cool and quieter computing. Western Digital is rolling out the new technology across its product lines, including desktop, enterprise, and external hard drives.The drives are targeted toward users of data-intensive applications, thanks to "performance with their extreme areal density, 3GB-per-second transfer rate, and Native Command Queuing (NCQ)," according to the company."The 640GB capacity point will be an important one for our desktop customers, and WD is leading high-volume shipments to the channel and OEM customers," said the general manager and vice president of the company's desktop business unit, Don Bennett, in a statement. "Two-platter hard drives have always been the perfect balance of value, capacity and performa...
Buffalo Turbocharges USB Hard Drives
2008-03-19 08:36:00 USB hard drives are mostly slow and drain too much CPU resources. Yet, they sell like hot cakes as they offer both true portability and universal compatibility. No Tags
32 and 64GB SATA II SSDs announced by OCZ: No price or dates though
2008-03-13 12:02:00 OCZ have just announced their 32 and 64GB SATA II SSDs which is the good news, the bad news is they forgot to tell us the prices and release dates. Anyway the OCZ SATA II drive works great with the performance of high-end notebooks for example and are apparently brilliant for energy-efficient mobile computing. The 32GB ...
By: Product Reviews
Seagate Ships Its Cheetah 15k.6 Hard Drives
2008-03-11 13:31:00 Seagate announced it would begin shipping its new Cheetah 15K.6 hard drive this month. Designed for the world’s most demanding enterprise storage e1 Vote(s)
By: JeQQ it
Intel to bring SSD drives to the consumer: 80 and 160GB by Q2
2008-03-11 12:17:00 One of the biggest advancements when it comes to computer storage has to be the SSD drives; the likes of Samsung, SanDisk and Toshiba dominate the market. Well it now seems that Intel what a piece of the action and plan to bring the solid-state drives to the consumer. Intel hopes to bring 80 to 160GB ...
By: Product Reviews
Seagate Ships its Cheetah® 15K.6 Hard Drives for the World's Most ... -
2008-03-10 14:53:00 Seagate Ships its Cheetah® 15K.6 Hard Drives for the World's Most ...Al-Bawaba, Jordan -- 5 hours agoDesigned for the world?s most demanding enterprise storage environments, the Cheetah 15K.6 drive is Seagate?s highest-performance hard drive ever in a ...
1WD Leads Market In Shipping Highest Hard Drives
2008-03-07 13:19:00 WD announced that it is now shipping in volume its WD Caviar family of 3.5-inch hard drives based on 320 GB-per-platter technology, the same industry1 Vote(s)
By: JeQQ it
Why I’m done with portable hard drives
2008-03-03 16:38:00 The World Is My Office – SANTA BARBARA, CALIF. — I’ve owned six portable USB hard drives over the past 10 years, and all six of them have failed unrecoverably. Is it just me, or is there a wider problem out there? These portable drives of mine were all big-brand drives. They’ve failed on three operating systems (Windows 95, XP and Vista) and always in the same fashion ... read more
Why I'm done with portable hard drives [Digg]
2008-03-03 15:59:00 I've owned six portable USB hard drives over the past 10 years, and all six of them have failed unrecoverably. Is it just me, or is there a wider problem out there?
USB Pocket Hard Drives and Network Storage: is this the end of DVD?s and CD
2008-02-28 15:52:00 It seems as if people are now starting to question why we need optical drives in laptops, this question has arisen since the launch of the Apple MacBook Air as it does not come with one. The thing is Apple decided not to put an optical drive in so they could save space while keeping ...
By: Product Reviews
Do you miss a CD/DVD Drive from Apple MacBook Air?
2008-02-28 15:36:00 The Apple MacBook Air without a doubt is a great laptop for people who are on the move, as it is so thin and light, making it easy if you travel a lot. This full size notebook only weighs 3 pounds that is just a little over a UMPC which has a much smaller screen. The ...
By: Product Reviews
Hitachi?s 2.5-inch 320GB Travelstar 5K320 vs Fujitsu 500GB laptop hard driv
2008-02-26 15:40:00 This is Hitachi’s 2.5-inch 320GB Travelstar 5K320 hard drive which features optional Bulk Data Encryption (BDE) technology and a 3Gb/s data transfer rate, 4th generation PMR head technology, an improved actuator latch, only uses 1.8-watts of power when reading/writing and altitude-sensing Thermal Fly-height Control. Now that?s all pretty cool, but it?s dwarfed by Fujitsu?s 500GB MHZ2 ...
By: Product Reviews
RAM Dumping to Hack Encrypted Hard Drives
2008-02-25 21:22:00 I read a blog post from Wired last Friday about a Princeton University experiment where they were able to hack into encrypted laptops by dumping the encryption key from RAM on the target computer. I was going to write about it today, and input my two cents, but my buddy Karl over at Ask The Admin beat me to it. So as not to do double work, I will re-post what he had to say on it, then proceed with my two cents. Before I do though, I wanted to point out that the Princeton experiment was conducted on machines protected by Bitlocker, FileVault, Truecrypt and DM-Crypt. Here is what Karl had to say:Have you seen this video yet? Even my mom has seen it but how many of you are actually using disk encryption? Really that many??What kind of illegal or illicit shit are you into?And you think your data warrants a torrent of hackers going after YOUR lappie?No we kid, we kid, of course AtA is all about privacy and protecting that (no matter if you are a shaddy admin or the pot dealer across the...
By: Bauer-Power
Computer Hard Drives - Hard Drive Problems and Symptoms
2008-02-13 18:55:00 Is your hard drive acting up? Do you fear the loss of data, downtime, and possible loss of revenue this could bring? Let?s take a look at diagnosing hard drive problems, and what the symptoms are.The surest sign of a major problem is this: when you write data to the disk, and retrieve it later, errors pop up. It might take the form of small amounts of data going missing, or being turned into gibberish. If this happens in more than one program, disk failure looms in the very near future.Some users ?cure? this problem by reformatting the drive, then re-installing the OS and all programs. Unfortunately, this doesn?t correct the root cause of the trouble, and it will only be a matter of time before it pops up again, perhaps fatally.Strange noises, particularly high pitched squeaks, are often attributed to the hard drive. In the majority of cases, these squeaks aren?t coming from the drive, but from a case fan, or power supply fan.Listen closely with one of the side panels removed to zer... |
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