La capacità degli hard disk è in continua crescita, a fronte delle sempre maggiori esigenze in termini di storage portate dai contenuti digitali quali foto e filmati, mentre sul fronte velocità nulla si era più mosso dall'introduzione dello standard SATA 3 Gbps. La ve...

Dopo aver presentato la Compact Flash più veloce mai realizzata (433x), Pretec ha superato sé stessa, portando al CeBIT il primo sample di Flash Memory accreditata di una velocità pari a 666x. Disponibile esclusivamente in forma statica, per il momento (era possibile vederla die...

CrystalDiskInfo controlla la salute di hd, compresi quelli esterni usb o fireware, e ssd; fornisce resconti ed allarmi che possono essere attivati ed impostati dall’utente. L’applicazione è in grado di mostrare informazioni generali quali firmware, numero di serie, funzioni speciali, di...

In the Windows 7 beta, the Windows Experience Index of Primary Hard disk is rated lower than Windows Vista. This is not possible as the Windows Experience Index (WEI) is up to 7.9 in Windows 7 and its 5.9 in Windows Vista. Maybe this is a small bug or something in the beta version and I hope it will...

You really have to read this article: Judge upholds efforts to compel individual to decrypt drive in child pornography case The accused had sought Fifth Amendment protections against self-incrimination http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9128920&...

That’s what a 10MB hard disk, that’s so obsolete in the modern world would have cost you thirty years back. How expensive is that? Enough that you can buy the latest MacBook Pro, an iPhone, HTC’s G2 and a few more gadgets in the present world if I am not wrong. And it makes me shiv...

Filed under: Industry Seagate Technology (NYSE: STX) and Western Digital Corp. (NYSE: WDC) are the two top dogs in the hard drive business. While Seagate's merger with competitor Maxtor years ago should have helped quash Western Digital further, the latter has stayed strong and today has a share pri...

Image via CrunchBase This week I bought a new 500GB hard drive for my Macbook and experienced how easy and quick it is to clone your old smaller hard drive into what is a gigantic hard drive for a laptop in an incredibly short amount of time. The HUGE difference between Macs and Windows machines is ...

Every Sunday, I perform a set of jobs on all my computers. They help optimize the system, save hard disk space, increase security and privacy, etc.   Clean: Using CCleaner, I clean the PCs including all the browser caches and various other application caches. (Read my introduction to CCleaner here....

It all happened so quietly, so unexpectedly. It began as flickering, something one dismisses as a quirk.The next quirk was that the photographs I use as my screen saver disappeared--utterly.When I next booted up, they'd returned. And then on Monday came the belligerence. The disk simply didn't want ...