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Your backup drive needs a backup plan: Three ways to safeguard the data
Files on your backup drive may be as vulnerable as those on your PC, unless you take some important precautions.News
OCZ lives, debuting new SSDs with Toshiba’s backing
OCZ has begun life as a Toshiba storage subsidiary, with a new 480GB SSD.News
Three-year, 27,000 drive study reveals the most reliable hard drive makers
Who makes the most reliable hard drives? Backblaze's vast server farms may hold the answer.News
SSD prices face uncertain future in 2014
Technology advances fail to budge SSD buyers from trying to paying as little as they can for the most storage possible. But SSD pricing for 2014 is uncertain. Here's why.News
Shopping for last-minute tech gifts? Here’s our one stop guide
We've put our recommendations for best laptops, printers, scanners, and more in one convenient place.News
You live on your laptop. You need these accessories.
A comfy stand, a nice case, and other essentials that make your mobile life easier.News
Toshiba offers to buy failed SSD maker OCZ
Toshiba has offered to buy the assets of OCZ Technology, a solid-state drive manufacturer on the verge of bankruptcy.News
WD’s Black2 SSD/HDD combo drive promises to solve the capacity-versus-speed storage conundrum
Laptop users can now have SSD speed and HDD capacity in a single 9mm packageNews
25,000-drive study shines a light on how long hard drives actually last
After tracking 25,000 hard drives for 4 years, BackBlaze has some answers about the lifespan of hard drives—answers that involve bathtubs.News
New supercomputer uses SSDs as alternative to DRAM, hard drives
A new supercomputer being deployed this month in the U.S. is using solid-state drive storage as an alternative to DRAM and hard drives, which could help speed up internal data transfers.News
Western Digital’s HGST fills hard drives with helium to inflate storage capabilities
Hermetically sealed helium helps hard drives run cooler, sip less power, and fit more storage into the same space.News
Transporter network storage device cuts cost with bring-your-own-drive option
The new Transporter Sync provides all the features of the original, but you bring your own hard drive.News
Hadoop, Web 2.0 get a path to tape for cheap long-term storage
Spectra Logic's BlackPearl appliance is designed to easily move big data into tape libraries.News
Western Digital’s ‘My Cloud’ drive transforms your PC into a personal Dropbox
WD has done connected hard drives before, but My Cloud is all about simplicity.
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Seagate, TDK show off HAMR tech designed to jam more data into hard drives
Seagate Technology will demonstrate HAMR, a technology it's counting on to fit more data onto hard disk drives, at the Ceatec show this week.News
Red Hat continues to burnish Storage Server
Nearly two years after the purchase of Gluster, Red Hat continues to polish the scale-out storage software for enterprises, making it more compatible with cloud services and Microsoft enterprise software.
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Seagate to offer hard-drive failure insurance
Seagate announced plans Monday to offer data recovery and drive-replacement services for all its hard drives, provided the consumer pays an insurance fee up front.News
SSDs still maturing, new memory tech still 10 years away
Solid-state drive adoption will continue to grow and it will be more than 10 years before it is ultimately replaced by a new memory technology, experts said.News
Samsung sees vertical NAND boosting flash acceptance
3D V-NAND, a new technology for packing more data into flash chips, will dramatically increase the number of PCs and enterprise storage systems that use flash in the next decade, a Samsung Electronics executive said Tuesday.News
Business flash arrays pack in more storage with denser media
New NAND flash components fit more data into the same space, which reduces power consumption and per-gigabyte cost. The catch: Flash gets slower and more error-prone when it gets that denseNews
Samsung unveils super duper high-speed 1TB SSDs
Samsung Electronics will offer a range of faster SSD drives for consumers from next month, including a zippy new 1TB drive meant for everyday use.
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How to stretch the life of your SSD storage
No one likes a bricked SSD. You can reduce wear and tear and wring out every last write cycle—just don't treat it like a traditional hard drive.News
EMC bets on flash storage with ScaleIO buy
Boosting its portfolio of solid state storage technologies, EMC is acquiring ScaleIO, a purveyor of storage management software, for an undisclosed amount of cash.News
Western Digital to acquire sTec to expand in enterprise SSDs
Western Digital plans to acquire sTec to boost its presence in the market for enterprise solid-state drives.News
HP adds purpose-built all-flash array to 3Par lineup
Hewlett-Packard will extend its 3Par enterprise storage line into flash-only territory this week, promising to combine higher speed with familiar software.News
Intel shows ‘world’s fastest thumb drive’
Intel is showing off what it called the "world's fastest thumb drive," which uses Thunderbolt technology to provide breakthrough data transfer speeds compared to flash drives that plug into USB ports.News
Connected Data announces Transporter 2.0
The manufacturer of the Transporter personal cloud-based storage device has announced a major software update.News
Toshiba external hard drive doubles as an online file server
Toshiba is set to launch a portable USB hard drive that comes with PC or Mac software that can turn it into an Internet-accessible file server.News
Western Digital rolls out ultra-slim 5mm Ultrabook drives
If you want the thinnest of Ultrabooks but don't need a costly SSD, WD's new thin and slim 5mm hard drives—in standard and hybrid varieties—can save you both space and dough.Updated
Seagate to halt production of 7200-rpm laptop hard drives
Seagate has tasted the need for high-performance speed and now plans to discontinue 7200-rpm laptop hard drives in favor of faster hybrid and solid state drives.News
Buffalo sets February launch date for ‘world’s fastest’ external PC hard drive
Buffalo Technology has set the end of this month as the launch date for its DriveStation DDR external hard disk enclosure, which uses a 1GB DRAM cache to achieve what Buffalo says is the world's fastest transfer speed.News
Western Digital acquires Arkeia to boost SMB storage offering
Western Digital has acquired data protection company Arkeia Software as it looks to address growing storage demands among small and medium-size companies.
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Seagate launches Wireless Plus and Central networked drives
Seagate launches Wireless Plus and Central networked drives.News
Imation buys solid-state storage vendor Nexsan
Imation, a storage and data security company, has acquired Nexsan, a vendor of disk-based storage systems, in a deal worth about US$120 million, the company announced.News
Samsung buys SSD caching vendor Nvelo
Nvelo's Dataplex software is designed for caching data in SSDs to improve the speed of retrieval in devices that use either HDDs or SSDs for their main storage.News
Western Digital boosts Black hard drive capacity to 4TB
WD announced that with its new 4TB Black drive, consumers can now get a 4TB performance-based internal hard drive for desktop computers.News
10 essential ingredients of a killer Windows 8 business PC
To get the most out of Windows 8, you need hardware designed to take full advantage of the unique capabilities the new OS has to offer.News
The periodic table of tech
All of your tech gear starts with science. Check out this list to see which elements contribute to popular products.News
Western Digital’s 5mm hybrid drives pave way for slimmer Ultrabooks
The hybrid drives have a capacity of 500 GB, and use “tiered storage” to try to mimic the performance of solid state drives.News
Five Thunderbolt Devices for Lightning-Fast Data Transfers
Looking to add some speed to your rig's storage gear? Thunderbolt is ready to take you to new heights.News
Microsoft Touts Win8’s Ability to Detect, Fix Hard Disk Problems
Microsoft has revamped the way Windows 8 monitors hard disk operations and detects problems in an effort to make the diagnostic and repair process less intrusive…News
Google Drive vs. Microsoft SkyDrive: 4 Reasons Google Wins Out
Comparing the two services, Google Drive emerged as the winner. Here are four reasons why.News
Intel Aims for 100 Thunderbolt Devices by Year End
About 100 peripherals based on the Thunderbolt connector technology will become available by the end of the year, a big jump from a fraction of the devices…News
Western Digital Puts 2TB of Storage in Palm of Your Hand for $250
New external Passport drives offer plenty of room for space-hogging media or PC backup.News
FTC to Require Western Digital to Sell off Assets in Acquisition
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission will require Western Digital to sell off assets used to manufacture desktop hard drives to a competitor as a condition of its…News
Select the Right Storage for Your Custom-Made PC
Every computer needs a hard drive to store programs and data, and maybe an optical drive for playing movies. And solid-state drives are a great addition that will improve performance. Here are our choices for the best drives.News
Hard-Drive Shortage Hit Servers in Q4
The growth in worldwide server shipments was slower than expected during the fourth quarter due to a shortage in the supply of hard drives, and the trend will continue into the first quarter this year, Gartner said in a study released on Thursday.News
Order to Decrypt Laptop Does Not Violate Defendant’s Fifth Amendment, Judge Rules
Federal judge denies defendant's claim that turning over the contents of her laptop's hard drive violates her Fifth Amendment rights against self-incrimination.News