What Is The Secret To Efficient Hard Disk Drives?
Posted by Stephen in Enterprise storage, Everything, Terabyte home on 25. Aug, 2009 | View Comments
Hard disk drives, like the engines in our cars, have been massively upgraded over the last two decades. Although massive IOPS and horsepower get all the headlines, energy-efficient designs deserve a look as well. Manufacturers have recently introduced some new tricks to coax out a little more performance and capacity from a lot less energy, [...]
WD’s 1 TB Laptop Drive? Not Quite!
Posted by Stephen in Computer history, Enterprise storage, Gestalt IT, Terabyte home on 27. Jul, 2009 | View Comments
Western Digital announced this morning the world’s first “1 TB mobile hard drive!” But although the news is great for storage-hungry folks looking for a portable external drive, it doesn’t quite mark a sea change in the storage industry since this drive cannot be used in (most) laptops.
Seagate Surpasses 500 GB In 2.5 Inches
Posted by Stephen in Computer history, Terabyte home on 23. Jun, 2009 | View Comments
The race to ship a 500 GB mobile hard disk drive unit was heated last year. Hitachi was first to announce a fat 12.5 mm drive in January, but Samsung and Western Digital fought a pitched battle through the second half of the year to produce serious volume in a the slim 9.5 mm 2-platter [...]
Handy Gadget: USB to IDE/SATA Adapter
Posted by Stephen in Apple, Everything, Terabyte home on 16. Mar, 2009 | View Comments
I imagine every home computer hacker one day finds they have one too many hard drives to deal with. Maybe you are migrating to a new system or installing a new OS. Or maybe you’re upgrading the disk in your new Mac Mini. Whatever the reason, a universal way to connect any hard drive to [...]
Friday Fun With Hard Drives
Posted by Stephen in Apple, Computer history, Enterprise storage, Personal, Terabyte home, Virtual Storage on 17. Oct, 2008 | View Comments
Let’s end this terrifying week on a positive note by exploring the many fun things you can do with old dead hard drives.
LED Display Clock
First up is this LED display/clock. It consists of a series of colored LED lights which flash on and off below a slot cut in the hard drive platter. The perceptual illusion [...]
Western Digital + Fujitsu = More Competition for Seagate and Hitachi
Posted by Stephen in Enterprise storage, Terabyte home on 02. Oct, 2008 | View Comments
Western Digital may purchase Fujitsu’s hard disk drive development and manufacturing assets, getting closer to market-leader, Seagate, with greater manufacturing capacity and access to the laptop OEM market
