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EMC Makes Iomega Relevant Again

January 7, 2009 By Stephen 4 Comments

Pity poor old Iomega. The company responsible for hot products like the Zip drive and coulda-beens like the Clik drive was stumbling in the early part of this decade, unable to distinguish itself from all of the other providers of commodity external storage devices for consumers. Although the company had built the Zip into a viable floppy drive successor, USB "thumb drives" … [Read more...] about EMC Makes Iomega Relevant Again

Specialized Desktop Hard Drives

August 6, 2007 By Stephen 2 Comments

I will begin my overview of the specialized hard drive market with the ubiquitous desktop disk drive. While just about any drive could be used in a desktop computer, the class is generally defined by what it lacks - compact size, power efficiency, exotic interfaces, special drive features, and high performance are all generally not required. My survey did reveal a … [Read more...] about Specialized Desktop Hard Drives

Specialized Hard Drives: Worth the Effort?

August 3, 2007 By Stephen 2 Comments

Lately, there has been a lot of buzz in the enterprise storage arena about whether so-called "enterprise drives" are really any better than plain-Jane hard drives in Enterprise applications. This came to a head with the controversial findings of Google and CMU, but it's been simmering under the covers everywhere from TiVo communities to gamers. I've normally been loathe to … [Read more...] about Specialized Hard Drives: Worth the Effort?

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