Whether you have a Windows- or OS X-based laptop, one glaring flaw in either genre (and in laptops in general) is the capacity of the hard drive. A year ago, it became possible
Toshiba has come up with a type of self-encrypting hard drive (SED) that can automatically wipe data if it is removed from a paired computer by an attacker.Available in capacities up to 640GB,
Published on: April 14th, 2011 John E. Dunn @itbusinessca
What do you do with your old PCs? You can donate it to a charitable group, or sell it or you can turn it into a lampshade. Whatever you decide, security experts advise
Published on: April 14th, 2011 Nestor Arellano @itbusinessca
Compact and light enough to easily fit in a backpack or briefcase, Western Digital's My Book Studio external hard drive is a cute little bugger. Designed to resemble a book, the 6.5-inch tall
Solid-state drives are all the rage. Since SSDs have no moving parts, they're more rugged and shock-resistant than standard hard drives--which makes them perfect for laptops that get bumped around a bit. They
Sooner or later, nearly every Mac user encounters a hard disk problem. Because the hard drive stores the data that enables your Mac to run, such problems can cause your Mac to misbehave
Published on: December 21st, 2009 Joe Kissell @itbusinessca
Capitalizing on the buzz around green IT, Seagate and Western Digital have released new "green" hard drives designed to use less power (in part by spinning more slowly than the latest generation of
Published on: July 23rd, 2009 Rich Ericson @itbusinessca
A New York computer forensics firm has found that 40 per cent of the hard disk drives it recently purchased in bulk orders on eBay contained personal, private and sensitive information – everything
Published on: February 11th, 2009 Lucas Mearian and Sharon Fisher @itbusinessca
A number of hard drive manufacturers have banded together to promote the use of hybrid technology.Hitachi, Seagate, Samsung, Toshiba, Fujitsu and Western Digital have formed the Hybrid Storage Alliance to illustrate how hybrid
Published on: February 8th, 2007 Vawn Himmelsbach @itbusinessca
