Users frustrated with Seagate's next-gen hybrid drive

17 febrero 2011

Users complained that Seagate's Momentus XT hybrid drive, which combines SSD with a hard drive, has major problems with its spindown feature, which saves power by pausing the spinning disk. One user said his drive spun up and down 3,200 times in two

Intel's mini-SATA SSD packs a performance wallop

16 febrero 2011

Intel's Solid-State Drive 310 Series is one quarter the size of a credit card and can be used in handhelds as a primary drive or in laptops, netbooks or PCs as a secondary boot drive. Diminutive in size, it offers respectable storage and perfo

Update: Draft IEEE standard would speed video uploads on mobile devices

16 febrero 2011

A new industry group has proposed a standard that would use storage on a mobile device to preemptively download content in order to alleviate network bottlenecks and the resulting rebuffering

Scientists calculate total data stored to date: 295+ exabytes

15 febrero 2011

Scientists at the University of California released a report showing that as of 2007, the world had stored 295 exabytes of data, and that data storage has grown 23% annually sinc

Seagate has shipped 1 million-plus self-encrypting drives

15 febrero 2011

Seagate announced that it has sold more than a million SEDs through six manufacturers, and that its family of Cheetah, Constellation and Savvio SEDs and the Momentus SED have secured FIPS 140-2 certifi

Draft standard would alleviate rebuffering on mobile devices

15 febrero 2011

A new industry group has proposed a standard that would use storage on a mobile device to preemptively download content in order to alleviate network bottlenecks and the resulting rebuffering