by Robin Harris | Thursday, November 15, 2007 | Disk, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
I wrote about my testing of notebook disk drive power usage on ZDnet yesterday (see How much does a flash disk increase battery life?). I pulled the 160 GB WD Scorpio out of my MacBook and ran it on wall power through a Kill-a-watt meter to better understand power...
by Robin Harris | Tuesday, November 13, 2007 | Disk, Security & Public Policy |
The China syndrome pt. II According to Engadget some Maxtor-branded Seagate drives shipped with a handy little virus: . . . drives produced by a company sub-contract manufacturer located in China were reportedly sent out with the Virus.Win32.AutoRun.ah program already...
by Robin Harris | Monday, October 1, 2007 | Disk |
They bought IBM’s business, not the brand Things aren’t good when an unsourced report claims Hitachi is selling its loss-making disk and the stock rises 7% in the biggest 1 day percentage gain in 4 years. Hitachi denied it. Sounds like the bankers are...
by Robin Harris | Monday, September 24, 2007 | Disk, Future Tech, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
The tension was real The disk guys acknowledged that flash has killed the sub-1.8″ drive market. Will 1.8″ drives be next? The flash guys acknowledged that they have a huge economic problem: heavy seasonality of demand. Consumer demand drives a Q4 peak in...
by Robin Harris | Wednesday, September 19, 2007 | Disk, Information Management |
I was surprised at how many ZDnet readers reacted with disbelief to my recent Storage Bits series on data corruption (see How data gets lost, 50 ways to lose your data and How Microsoft puts your data at risk), claiming it had never happened to them. Then I thought...
by Robin Harris | Monday, September 17, 2007 | Disk, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
I’m attending the IDEMA show this week at the Santa Clara Convention Center this Wednesday and Thursday. Flash news Flash technology and its integration into disks and application devices are a big topic this year. I’ve noted here and on Storage Bits that...
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