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Magnetic bacteria 'factory workers of the future'

Certain strains of bacteria can pull magnetic materials out of their backside, so to speak. And scientists at Ames Laboratory want to imitate it in an effort to make smaller memory or medical devices.

15/04/2008 09:52 AM

Intel to launch 160GB SSD drive this year

Intel has confirmed plans to launch solid state drives (SSD) this week at the Intel Developer Forum in Shanghai, and claimed SSDs will beat their hard disk drive equivalents on failure rates.

03/04/2008 03:05 PM

Apple Time Capsule allows wireless backups

Apple Time Capsule allows wireless backups

Apple CEO Steve Jobs announced a back-up device called Time Capsule at Macworld in San Francisco on Tuesday, which automates the Time Machine backup application in Mac OS X Leopard.

16/01/2008 11:42 AM

Netgear ReadyNAS Duo: bittorrent media streamer

Netgear ReadyNAS Duo: bittorrent media streamer

As NAS heats up in the consumer market, devices get smarter and easier to use. Netgear's latest has a comprehensive set of features set to excite.

08/01/2008 07:19 PM

Toshiba ready for 2008 in a solid state

Japanese memory chip manufacturer Toshiba announced yesterday that it will be showcasing a 128 GB NAND-flash-based solid-state drive (SSD) at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas in early January.

12/12/2007 12:12 PM

Price drops ahead for solid state drives

Solid-state drives are still going to be somewhat hard to find and expensive in 2008, but mass production, cheaper flash memory, and tech advances will start to change that in 2009 and 2010.

03/12/2007 08:41 AM

Australians miss out on Seagate kilobyte refunds

Although a discrepancy between the traditional and modern definitions of kilobyte has led to Seagate Technology offering a rebate on their hard drives, a Seagate representative has confirmed that Australians will not be eligible for the refund.

31/10/2007 10:34 AM

To advance drives, Hitachi changes the head

Hitachi's giant magneto-resistive head will have perpendicular current and will allow the company to increase the density of drives.

16/10/2007 09:40 AM

Seagate announces first 1TB drive

Seagate Technology is serving up its first 1-terabyte hard drive. The company announced today that it will offer a retail hard drive, beginning in the third quarter of this year.

26/06/2007 05:31 PM

Kingston flash hard drives, DDR3 on the way

Kingston Technology expects to bring a flash hard drive to market by early 2008.

18/05/2007 12:14 PM

CES 2007: From folks who brough you instant film and instant cameras....

CES 2007: From folks who brough you instant film and instant cameras....

Polaroid popped up on our radar again, this time introducing a handy photo backup device.

11/01/2007 12:19 PM

BitTorrent lands new hardware deals

Company's peer-to-peer technology will be included in routers and storage devices, bolstering BitTorrent's credibility.

24/10/2006 11:04 AM

A divide over the future of hard drives

Heat or dots? The question is dividing the hard drive industry as it prepares for a major product overhaul.

24/08/2006 01:44 PM

One-terabyte drive to debut later this year

Desktop hard drives holding one terabyte of storage will appear in 2006 and be incorporated into PCs and home servers.

15/08/2006 02:10 PM

Verbatim fires blanks, nudges Blu-ray ahead

Verbatim today announced the immediate availability of blank BD-R and BD-RW Blu-ray media, joining TDK and Sony as the three manufacturers shipping blank Blu-ray discs to Australia at this point in time. In contrast, HD-DVD blanks are still yet to arrive.

09/08/2006 05:22 PM

Reliability of USB flash drives questioned

According to a report released by data recovery specialist Payam Data Recovery, cases of faulty USB flash drives are on the rise, growing at an even faster rate than unit sales themselves.

07/06/2006 02:24 PM

Seagate boosts drives to 750GB

Seagate has pushed one step closer to the terabyte hard drive with a new 3.5-inch drive that holds up to 750 gigabytes.

26/04/2006 12:02 PM

Can a new hard drive meet the flash challenge?

Hard-drive manufacturers are contemplating a new-size hard drive to counter the challenge presented by flash memory.

05/04/2006 01:08 PM

Networked storage heads for homes

Storage companies are betting a technology once reserved for businesses will appeal to consumers dealing with large files shared by multiple PCs and a need for data protection.

22/03/2006 01:06 PM

Hewlett-Packard to support both next-gen DVD formats

HP won't be taking sides in the format battle between HD-DVD and Blu-Ray and has now pledged its support for both standards.

02/03/2006 05:12 PM

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