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Barracuda LP: Seagate's High-Performance, Low-Power Desktop Hard Drive Arrives Just in Time For Earth Day

Your slow-spinning hard drive won't perform well, right? Well, Seagate's new Barracuda LP hard drive turns that old adage on its head. The desktop hard drive, that Seagate claims is the highest-performing low-power hard drive ...READ»

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Toshiba Announces Massive Notebook Hard Drives

This week Toshiba's [OTC:TOSBF] storage division announced the notebook industry's first 400GB hard disk, upping the ante in the increasing format war between traditional hard drives and solid state drives, which store their data on ...READ»

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Special Report: What's Up With Solid State Hard Drives?

It seems like every new drool-worthy notebook these days -- from the MacBook Air to the VooDoo Envy -- is sporting solid state hard drives instead of traditional hard drives. If you don't know the particulars of what solid state ...READ»

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Sony Announces 18.4-inch Notebook

For those power users who need incredible screen real estate and a big chunk of hard drive space -- video and photo professionals, here's looking at you -- the new Sony [SNE] Type A and AW Vaio laptops might be a tempting option. ...READ»

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The End of the Hard Drive? Flash Memory Price Dropping

The hard drive's reign as king of desktop data storage may be ending, at least according to Samsung. Those spinning platters will be overtaken by solid-state technology within two years for one simple reason: price.Hard drive ...READ»

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Reinvented Hard Drive May Be Faster Than Solid-State

The era of the hard drive appears to be coming to an end, with the swift rise of solid-state storage that brings with it lower power consumption and higher speeds. But wait: British scientists have just reinvented the hard drive ...READ»

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Adventures in PC-Land

In which Jeff, our hero, learns everything you'll need to know about buying a new computer -- a classic tale of boy meets PC, boy loses PC, and, well, read and find out.READ»

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Apple's New MacBook Air: The End of the Conventional Hard Drive?

Apple introduced the latest version of the MacBook Air today, and it's a feat of miniaturization. Steve Jobs described it as "what would happen if a MacBook and an iPad hooked up." Perhaps most intriguingly, the new MacBook Air ...READ»

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Computer File Recovery

Computer File Recovery Best PracticesREAD»

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What You Need To Know About Portable Hard Drives

This should be wonderful thing to hear since one needs to spend hours formatting the external hard drive to make it usable without it. Again, the software has even made it possible for other electronic devices to be connected and ...READ»

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Why Integrated Solid-State Drives Will Make PCs Faster, Better

Solid-state drives are slowly taking over the PC data storage market--and for good reasons, with their reduced power requirement, resistance to knocks and potentially faster access times than regular hard drives. And the next step in ...READ»

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Tour of Seagate's Drive Factory in China

[video_twistage 1]We are proud to have Seagate as our sponsor. They make all of these videos and trips around the world possible, so we thought "Why not go and see how a hard drive is built?" Here's the result where we visit Seagate's ...READ»

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Backup Plan

Backing up your business's data might not seem as important as making sales, but without a proper strategy, you risk losing much more than sales if your data is compromised or lost.READ»

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Tsunami Relief

Could your PC prevent the next global disaster?READ»

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CPR Attacks Computer Viruses

CPR does more than repair cell phones and electronic devices these days. READ»

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How To Satisfy An Audience - Every Time

Put together the hardware and software kit you'll need to guarantee knock-their-socks-off presentations.READ»

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Pack Light, Stay Connected

The Fast Company guide to travel and technology: How to fly in style and keep in touch.READ»

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Asus Debuts Yet Another Eee PC

Perhaps a little drunk on the wild success of its Eee PC notebook, Asus [TPE:2357] is releasing yet another iteration of the much-loved little machine called the Eee OC 904 HD. News junkies will recall that Asus announced more ...READ»

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A Head For Detail

Gordon Bell feeds every piece of his life into a surrogate brain, and soon the rest of us will be able to do the same. But does perfect memory make you smarter, or just drive you nuts?READ»

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Seeing New Seagate FreeAgent Hard Drives

Brian Dexheimer, division president of Seagate's consumer solutions, shows me Seagate's new FreeAgent hard drives, being announced Tuesday in New York. These drives, are thin, quiet, colorful, and high capacity.READ»

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Asus Cranks Out More Laptops, Some Scented

They may not be Eee PCs, but rest assured, Asus [TPE:2357] has once again created a good product with an incredibly stupid ancillary trait. This time it's not the name, but the... smell. Yes, the F6 line of laptops, which is new ...READ»

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Pogoplug: A Better Way to Connect Your Hard Drive to the Internet Cloud

Finally, it's easy to connect your hard drive to the Internet cloud and do something fun, sexy, and extremely useful with it.READ»

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IBM's Silicon Valley R&D Lab

They are inventing new kinds of storage devices and developed the first hard drive. IBM. But only a few lucky ones get inside IBM's Almaden Research Center. Here we get you in and you talk with Mark Dean, PhD, IBM Fellow and vice ...READ»

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The Solid State Revolution

The death of moving parts means your stocking will be stuffed with smaller,faster, stronger -- and quieter -- gadgets. READ»