Serial ATA in Mini Format: 2.5" Disk Drive from Fujitsu. serial ata in mini format. Although the rollout of Serial ATA seems to be dragging its proverbial feet, Fujitsu is pressing ahead: their current line of 2.5" disk drives is available as a Serial ATA version. Fujitsu has now jumped on the Serial ATA wagon - not with products for the desktop market, but with their new 2.5" hard disks for laptops. By way of comparison, we looked at a number of laptop hard disks. ...

Mobile and Attractive: External Hard Disks from Maxtor and Seagate. mobile and attractive. Home and office PC users have never had it so good: modern hard disks can now hold up to 300 GB - plenty big enough for most of us. However, to gain the ultimate in flexible data storage you need more than a large hard disk, because repeatedly installing and swapping a hard disk between PCs is not a sensible solution either for the drive itself or for the user. There are external hard disk cases on the market fitted with necessary USB and/or FireWire interfaces, but the more convenient option is to choose a complete external hard drive system such as those on offer from the disk drive manufacturers. Both are based on standard hard disks, and include a very elegant case together with features that you won't find on a DIY solution. ...

Saving Your Data After a Head Crash: An Inside Look at a Disk Recovery Service. saving your data after a head crash. You've read about how unreliable storage media is, but like failing to floss your teeth every day, even the best of us sometimes neglect to do the necessary and don't regularly back up our hard disks. If such a scenario were to occur, then all the data stored exclusively on a hard disk would most likely be unrecoverable. For example, if the hard disk's electronic system is the only thing that is defective, then the drive can still be saved by way of a replacement. When one of our editor's laptop hard disk crashed, we put his precious data in the hands of CBL Data Recovery in Kaiserslautern, Germany....

The Upgradeware HD25-I/IS. a hard disk in a pci slot. Upgradeware offers a curious option for accommodating a 2.5" hard disk. Upgradeware doesn't put an extra hard disk controller on the board. This is because not only are the connecting contacts for 2.5" hard disks smaller than the pins for normal 3.5" desktop models, the drive's power is also supplied by the connectors. Upgradeware quotes prices of $25 for the UltraATA variation and $35 for the version with a converter so the hard disk can be used on an SATA system. (2.5" hard disks with an SATA interface are not supported.) As a result, both versions are more expensive than corresponding 3.5" and 2.5" adapters....

It's interesting to observe that many vendors continue to chase RAM-like applications for their drives, despite ever-increasing hard disk sizes. Hard disks in desktop PCs are mostly big enough to meet users' needs, but despite ample amounts of this fixed storage, a workable solution for transporting large amounts of data has yet to emerge. Today, storing digital data permanently on hard disks is no longer enough for most users. Writable DVD is another option, since data stored on DVD is safe from harm or loss due to disk crashes or corruption, assuming that the plastic disk is handled with proper care. Smaller hard disks have the potential to provide a solution that addresses the limitations of the preceding storage methods, by pairing the capacity and convenience of a hard disk with greater portability....

If you need to back up a few dozen gigabytes of your home directory, or you need to do video editing with a lot of disk access on large files, then you might wonder if an external USB 2.0 or FireWire attached drive would be a better choice. That's the approach taken by the LaCie Ethernet Disk mini. Typically, this means you'll plug the device into your network and then use the USB port to share an additional disk, a USB thumb-drive or a printer. As I opened up the box I found a heavy-duty aluminum case with attractive, industrial-type styling that is typical of the other LaCie disks I've used....

Round-Up: Comparison Testing of 22 Hard Disk Drives. round. The result is a familiar look and feel for a new product category round-up: hard disks.. As a result, hard disks have nearly doubled their capabilities over the last few years, in contrast to the performance of CPUs and systems as a whole. Maxtor, Seagate and WD also offer external disk drives, ready to hook up to PCs using USB or Firewire ports. Hard disk tests are nothing new for THG, but what's been missing until now has been a general round-up of the models available in today's market....

Record-Making Hard Disk: 750 GB Caviar Posts 95 MB/s. record making hard disk uk. The storage marketplace has grown noticeably faster than have markets for other PC components in the past few years, primarily because hard disks are being used in more and more devices. Nevertheless, the subject of hard disks is often described as odious or boring, because big capacity targets have already been attained, and not much new has come along in many months. In short, it looks like there’s major movement in the hard disk market once again Now, it’s vertical and extends into the surface of the disk platter itself....