How to REALLY erase a hard drive
You may already know that “deleting” a file does nothing of the sort. But did you know that your disk drive has a built-in system for the secure erasure of data? No? Then read on.
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4.5.2007 How to REALLY erase a hard drive
You may already know that “deleting” a file does nothing of the sort. But did you know that your disk drive has a built-in system for the secure erasure of data? No? Then read on.
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18.6.2007 How to REALLY erase a hard drive 2
A new version of HDerase.exe has been released Go direct to
UCSD’s Center for Magnetic Recording Research website to download version 3.2.
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19.6.2007 Free Hard Drive Virtualization for Windows - SteadyState 2.5
Whether you manage computers in a school computer lab or an Internet cafe, a library, or even in your home, Windows SteadyState helps make it easy for you to keep your computers running the way you want them to, no matter who uses them.
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13.6.2008 Hard drive price war coming
According to reports, we may witness a price war in the hard drive business industry. At least this is what Seagate Technology CEO Bill Watkins said on Wednesday. Seagate is currently the world's largest hard drive manufacturer and competes with such companies as Western Digital, Hitachi, Samsung and Toshiba.
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13.8.2006 Seagate Confirms 1TB Hard Drive
Seagate has confirmed to the folks over at DailyTech, that they plan to launch a 1TB (Terabyte) hard drive sometime in the first half of 2007.
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5.1.2007 Hitachi Ships 1TB Hard Disk Drive
Hitachi Global Storage Technologies (Hitachi GST) has started to ship its 1TB hard disk drives (HDDs) introduced early this year commercially. But the hard drive that represents a milestone in desktop data storage costs a little less than two times higher compared to slightly less capacious one, which makes it not very affordable.
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6.4.2007 Hitachi aiming for 5TB hard drive by 2010
Solid-state disks may be eating into the territory of traditional hard drives, particularly in laptops, but that doesn't mean spinning platters are on their last legs – particularly not at Hitachi.
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3.7.2008 Free Gadget: Hard Drive Diagnosis Software
Is there any funny sound generated when your hard drive is in operation? Here I am introducing a free application that can be used to diagnose your hard drive problem.
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27.7.2008 Microsoft eases hard drive capacity restriction for netbooks
Microsoft has officially eased the restriction of the standard specification for netbooks using the Windows XP operation system by increasing the allowable hard drive capacity from 80GB to 160GB, according to sources in the channel.
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3.9.2008 Western Digital launches world's first 2TB Hard Drive
Western Digital haven't officially launched their brand-new WD20EADS 2TB Western Digital Caviar Green HDD, however it is already available for purchase at Australia's Mwave online store.
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27.1.2009 Download Hard Drive Powerwash to Remove Unused Clutter Files in Windows System
Previously we mentioned about BitFinder that can scan for duplicated files to conserve your hard disk space, but if you are looking for some freeware that can do more than that, then this tiny utility may fit your need.
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29.9.2009 Microsoft Addresses Xbox 360 100 GB Hard Drive Rumor
Following yesterday's report on a supposed 100 GB Hard Drive for the Xbox 360 being announced at the Korean X06, we contacted Microsoft to confirm the existence of such accessory.
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22.10.2006 88% of corporate PCs sport minimum Windows 7 hardware
A new study conducted by Softchoice has found that 88 percent of corporate PCs would currently be able to run Windows 7, compared to the 50 percent that could run Windows Vista prior to its release.
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19.10.2009 Vista Minimum Requirements Unrealistic
A white paper published this morning by hardware analysis firm iSuppli.
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8.12.2006 Microsoft Redefines "Vista Capable" as Minimum Experience
Lawsuit may have forced Microsoft to change what it means to be Vista Capable.
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9.4.2007 Windows 7 Will Consume Less Disk Space than Vista
Microsoft promises to optimize the amount of disk space that Windows 7 will consume in comparison to Windows Vista.
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20.11.2008 How To: Reduce Disk Space Used By Windows Vista System Restore
So you just bought a new notebook with Windows Vista and a roomy 120GB hard drive. But after using it for just a couple of days, you notice that you’ve only got about 90GB free.
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24.4.2007 Minimum System Requirements? Just Feed 8 GB (!) of RAM into Vista SP1 and then Watch it Fly
Want to talk performance in a comparison between Windows Vista Service Pack 1 and Windows XP Service Pack 3?
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1.12.2007 Bill Gates wants to go to space
The world's richest man Bill Gates is considering a possible flight into space, a Russian cosmonaut said from International Space Station Wednesday, citing Gates' colleague, current space tourist Charles Simonyi.
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15.4.2007 1000GB of space for Email at mailnation.net
MailNation Solutions developed after years of exhaustive competition in the Emailing industry. Small email companies have come and go, while large email companies such as Gmail (R), Hotmail (R), and Yahoo! Mail (R) have dominated. Privacy policies with major companies are weak, reliability remains questioned, and features are lacking.
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Bill Gates Headed For Space, Says Cosmonaut
Rumor revealed during live interview on Russian TV, based on a report from a former Microsoft engineer aboard the International Space Station.
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12.4.2007 Kernel Memory Space Analyzer Version 8.1 and guide
Microsoft Support Professionals Toolkit for Windows. The Kernel Memory Space Analyzer is a tool to help expert debugging engineers analyze Windows crash dump files.
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31.8.2006 Improved Disk Defragmenter in Windows 7 with Status Report and Free Space & Parallel Concurrent Defrag Support
Windows operating system comes with a built-in basic Disk Defragmenter, that can perform disk defragmentation process properly, which is performed to increase read and write access speed by rearranging files stored on a disk to occupy contiguous storage locations, minimizing disk read travel time and maximizing transfer rate.
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2.8.2009 Windows Vista Testing: The School of Hard Knocks
Some time this month, if Microsoft sticks to schedule, the company will deliver its latest test build of Windows Vista to hundreds of thousands of testers. Seems like a perfect time to contemplate how well Microsoft's Vista beta/Community Technology Preview (CTP) program is going.
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4.4.2006 How to install Windows 7 on a virtual hard disk - VHD
If You want to test Windows 7, without impacting your current installation of Windows XP or Vista on your desktop? A possible solution is: Boot from VHD.
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19.6.2009 New Windows Vista Test Drive Website
"The Windows Vista Business test drive allows you to try this latest operating system from Microsoft..."
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6.1.2007 Test drive the new Windows Live suite
You’ve probably already read about some changes we’re making to Windows Live, and have seen some of your services change over the past few weeks. Starting later today, you'll be able to test out the new suite of Windows Live software at http://get.live.com/wl/all.
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5.9.2007 Windows Live Onecare beta ate my hard disk
A BRIT who downloaded Microsoft's Windows Live OneCare beta is claiming it ate his hard disk. The beta expired and he couldn't buy a licence.
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4.12.2006 Microsoft may offer Windows 7 on thumb drive for netbooks
Microsoft has shown Windows 7 running on netbooks even since it first introduced the operating system, however, helping consumers getting it on there may prove a bit tricky.
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27.6.2009Western Digital announces 1TB 2.5" Hard-drive
Earlier today, Western Digital announced two additions to their hard-drive range, including a 1 terabyte (1024 Gigabytes) 2.5" Laptop Hard-disk drive
and a 750 GB 2.5" Laptop Hard-disk drive. Western digital was able to expand mobile hard disk space to 1 TB and 750 GB by "A slight increase in
overall drive height has driven storage capacity for 2.5-inch form factor drives upwards to a realm once thought to be impossible. " The hard disks
are also claimed to be "whisper silent", and to run very quietly, even during heavy operations.
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28.07.2009Reclaim Your Hard Drive Space the Easy Way
How many times have you run out of space on your C: drive and wondered… where did all my free space go? If you are tech savvy you'll probably
open up your CCleaner shortcut and
clean out the temp files, but where has the rest gone?
The answer is a great little freeware utility called DriveSpacio that
helps you find out where all that free space has gone, similar to the more well known
WinDirStat utility. The
benefit of using this one is that it integrates directly into the Explorer shell and has a lot more reports.
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10.09.2008Seagate Ships 160GB Laptop
Drive
Hard drive uses perpendicular
recording technology to boost
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17.01.2006Microsoft readies hard drive only Xbox 360 games
Microsoft announced yesterday
that it would soon allow MMO
developers to require hard
drive space when playing games
on Xbox 360 despite the
console maker's previous
denial of such claims.
"Feel free
to require 30GB for your game
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that's just going to
make your potential audience a
lot smaller," a Microsoft
representative told a group
of developers while
speaking at GameFest in
Seattle this week.
Effective
immediately, Microsoft will
not restrict the amount of
hard drive space MMO game
developers can use. It is
unclear if non-MMO games will
be allowed to require hard
drives when playing future
games on 360.
An estimated 20% of 360
owners don't own a hard
drive, which is optional for
those only wanting to purchase
the Core model...
winbeta.org - 15.08.2007
Toshiba to Deliver 200GB
Laptop Drive
Toshiba has announced a new
2.5-inch hard drive for
notebook computers that boasts
200GB of storage space on only
two disk platters thanks to
new perpendicular recording
technology. The company
expects to begin mass
producing the Serial ATA
drive, which spins at 4,200
RPM, in August...
betanews.com - 06.06.2006
Seagate release their first 2TB SATA 3.0 hard disk
Seagate have introduced their first hard drive which supports the new SATA 3.0 specification. The Barracuda XT is the Seagate's first drive to use
the new interface, which has a theoretical bandwidth of 6GB/s - double that of the SATA 2.0 (3GB/s) specification. The drive offers 2TB of storage
space, using four platters, according to Seagate (via Techspot). The 7200RPM drive has a sustained data rate of 138MB/s – the fastest speed
achieved by a 7200RPM drive, Seagate claims. The 64MB cache provides "screaming burst rate speeds and improve overall performance," according to
their website.
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neowin.net - 22.09.2009
100GB Hard Drive for Xbox Coming
Microsoft announced in Korea
Thursday that it plans to
deliver a 100-gigabyte hard
drive add-on for the Xbox 360.
The current premium version of
the console comes with a 20GB
hard drive. The news came at
the company's X06 conference,
but no specific timetable was
set...
betanews.com - 19.10.2006
Engineering Windows 7 : Disk Space
Windows disk space consumption has trended larger over time. While not desirable, the degree to which it's been allowed is due in large part to
ever-increasing hard drive capacity, combined with a customer need and engineering focus that focused heavily on recover ability, data protection,
increasing breadth of device support, and demand for innovative new features. However, the proliferation of Solid State Drives (SSDs) has challenged
this trend, and is pushing Windows 7 to consider disk "footprint" in a much more thoughtful way and take that into account for Windows 7.
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neowin.net - 21.11.2008
Using Windows Vistas Complete PC Backup - A Guide
A week ago, my hard drive started making an odd clicking noise, and, after a call to Dell support, it was clear the damn thing was going to die on me,
fast. Dell sent me a new drive, free under my warranty, lickety-split, and last night my job was to move everything over to the new hard drive.
Since I run Windows Vista Ultimate, I can use the very nice Complete PC Backup feature to move my files over to the new hard drive,
and I did. Overall, it worked out nicely. You can also use this feature if you bought a new bigger hard drive and want to move everything over to
it.
Heres how it goes...
winbeta.org - 02.09.2007
Video Camera Sports Hard Drive
Toshiba's GigaShot V10
records for four hours with
help of 4GB hard drive...
pcworld.com - 05.10.2005
Tip: make your PDC 2008 USB hard drive a bootable Windows 7 install disk
Long Zheng: If you're one of eight thousand people lucky enough to attend PDC 2008 last week and receive
the ultra-cool 160GB portable hard drive with "the goods" then I have some
extra good news for you, your hard drive can also become a bootable Windows 7 install disk. The best part is that you don't even have to delete any
of the existing files on the drive since there's about 90GB free of the 160GB drive.
winbeta.org - 03.11.2008
Unreal Tournament 3 System Requirements
Epic has announced the minimum and recommended system requirements for the PC version of Unreal Tournament 3. From the early days when Epic first
showed the Unreal Engine 3 Tim Sweeney had always maintained that the game would run on SM 2.0 cards. We've come a long way but this has remained
true.
Minimum System RequirementsWindows XP SP2 or Windows Vista
2.0+ GHZ Single Core Processor
512 Mbytes of System RAM
NVIDIA 6200+ or ATI Radeon 9600+ Video Card
8 GB of Free Hard Drive Space
Recommended System
Requirements2.4+ GHZ Dual Core Processor
1 GBytes of System RAM
NVIDIA 7800GTX+ or ATI x1300+ Video Card
Unreal Tournament 3 is on track to be released this November. The PS3 version is less certain, while Epic hopes to have that version out by the
year's end they've cautioned that it may slip into early 2008. There is a Xbox 360 version announced but it will arrive later than the PS3
version.
winbeta.org - 04.10.2007
Hitachi aiming for 5TB hard drive by 2010
Hitachi has announced plans to have a commercial 3.5-inch hard drive on the market that can hold 5TB. They hope for this to be available by 2010.
Hard drive specialist Hitachi Global Storage Technologies is continuing to push HDDs to the limit, with a strong emphasis on increasing
capacity and with a clear goal in mind.
The space will be achieved using 'current perpendicular-to-the-plane giant
magnetoresistance', or in short, CPP-GMR.
CPP-GMR pushes data density above 1TB per square inch, a long-awaited threshold that promises
drives many times larger than those available today.
neowin.net - 03.07.2008
WD Ships 320GB Laptop Hard Drive
Filling the growing demand for larger mobile storage options, Western Digital announced Wednesday it has begun shipping a 320GB 2.5-inch hard drive
for laptops and portable devices. The drive features a Serial ATA interface with transfer speeds of 3Gb per second...
betanews.com - 31.10.2007
Hitachi GST announces first 7,200RPM 2TB hard drive
Its fun to think that ten years ago the biggest hard drive available was 73 gigabytes. However with the constant and near unstoppable push to solid
state drives, hard disk manufacturers must continue to press on. Fast forward to today and Hitachi Global Storage Technologies becomes just the first
vendor to announce a 2TB 7,200RPM desktop hard drive. Hitachi is not the first hard drive manufacturer to reach 2TB, Western Digital did that earlier
this year, but the first 2TB drives were limited to a read/write of 5,400RPM. Seagate hit 5,900 RPM earlier this year as well, but again these new
drives will have a distinct speed advantage.
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neowin.net - 07.08.2009
The Hard Drive Factor
While often overlooked, the
hard drive plays an important
role in the system's overall
capacity and performance which
can be vital in ensuring a
smooth-running, glitch-free
experience. If data bogs down
at the hard drive, you won't
have a chance in Zanzibar to
experience the full power of
your system, no matter how
much processing power you're
packing.
Hard
drives can differ in capacity
and performance. Over the last
several years, advancements in
technology have pushed the
envelope in these two these
areas and an understanding of
each will help you chose the
best hard drive for your
needs.
neowin.net - 24.04.2007
Windows Vista System Requirements Released
Microsoft has updated its Get
Ready Web site to include
the minimum system
requirements to run Windows
Vista. A Windows Vista Capable
PC must include at least a CPU
running at 800MHz, 512 MB of
RAM, a DirectX 9 graphics card
capable of at least 800x600, a
CD-ROM drive and a 20 GB HDD
with at least 15 GB free for
the install. Of course,
systems with bare minimum
specifications will be unable
to run Vista in the Aero
interface.
In order
a PC to be certified as
"Windows Vista Premium
Ready," it must have at least
a 1 GHz CPU, 1 GB of RAM, a
DirectX 9 graphics with a WDDM
driver, 128 MB of graphics
memory, Pixel Shader 2.0,
DVD-ROM drive, a sound card,
internet access and 40 GB of
hard drive capacity with 15 GB
free space. For Windows XP,
users who did not meet the
minimal requirements for XP
Home (300 MHz, 128 MB) were
still able to install and run
the operating system, albeit
rather slowly. It remains to
be seen if Windows Vista will
allow installs on machines
lesser than minimal
specification.
neowin.net - 21.12.2006
Targa intros Raptor-60 laptop with three hard drives
Those looking to ditch their
desktop without giving up a
scrap of hard drive space now
have another over-stuffed
laptop to consider, with Targa
http://home.businesswire.com/p
ortal/site/home/index.jsp?ndmV
iewId=news_view&ndmConfigId=10
00001&newsId=20070531005260&ne
wsLang=en>introducing a newly
upgraded version of its
already high-end Raptor-60
laptop. Near the top of the
laptop's selling points is
its three SATA hard drives,
which can be configured in
your choice of JBOD, or RAID
0, 1 or 5 configurations,
giving you a total of 750GB of
hard drive space.
The
laptop's no slouch when it
comes to the rest of its specs
either, packing a 17-inch
widescreen display, Intel's
965 chipset, your choice of
Core 2 Duo or Core 2 Extreme
processors, up to 2GB of RAM,
dual Nvidia GeForce Go 7950
graphics cards, and an
optional Blu-ray drive, among
other features.
Of
course, all that doesn't
exactly come cheap, with the
various upgrades easily
pushing the laptop towards the
$5,000 mark, although you can
cut that in half by opting for
the lowest-end options across
the board.
winbeta.org - 31.05.2007
TSA Loses Hard Drive With Employee Data
The Transportation Security
Administration admitted over
the weekend that it had lost a
hard drive containing data on
approximately 100,000
employees...
betanews.com - 07.05.2007
Seagate Barracuda hard drives plagued by failures
Numerous complaints are being reported from customers who own the 1.5TB Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 hard drive at the Seagate's online support
forum. The hard drive seems to just freeze during data transfers. Kabatek, Brown and Kellner LLP, a consumer law firm, is considering a lawsuit
against Seagate because of the high failure rates of the Barracuda 7100.11. Seagate, the world's largest Hard drive maker released the 3.5-inch
internal drive, Barracuda 7200.11 in July 2008. The hard drive offers 1.5TB of capacity on four platters and uses a SATA 3GB/sec interface, delivering
a sustained data rate of up to 120MB/sec.
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neowin.net - 18.01.2009
