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The hard drive you were waiting for
The title would not have been misleading 2 – 3 decades ago a time where 10MB hard drives cost more than a fully loaded Macbook Pro now. At $3398 the hard dive sports a whooping 10MB of storage, 64KB of cache memory and a seek time of 70ms.
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Iotek’s “ezSECU ez850” has a touch screen only thing it’s a Hard Drive!
With all latest gizmos turning to touchscreen it’s natural that intense stuff like Hard Drives get that way. This Korean made external hard drive supports only 2.5-inch SATA drives, is an substitute to fingerprint recognition and other security technologies used increasingly to protect external storage devices. The touch screen serves as a digital combination lock…
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Evolution of memory – 1GB 20 years ago and 1GB now
The above pic shows a 20 year old IBM hard drive which looks more like a car’s radiator and weighs around 32kgs and next to it is a 1GB SD card. Source
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Golden Disk – a fresh gold wave in the sea of hard drives
This wave of Gold looks so soothing yet so classy. And it’s hard to believe that it’s actually an external hard drive device. Coming from LaCie, this Golden Disk is the creation of an industrial designer Ora-Ito. Offering up to 500GB of storage, the silhouette of this device has been inspired by flowing golden liquid.…
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Toshiba announces 320GB hard drive for laptops – Industry’s largest for now
Move over Fujitsu, Toshiba is here with the new 2.5-inch hard disk drives (HDD) that employ the company’s latest advances in HDD technology. The new drives include the MK3252GSX, which achieves an industry-leading capacity of 320GB, and the MK2049GSY, which improves performance with a 7,200rpm rotational speed. Toshiba will mass produce the drives in turn,…
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100 times faster hard drives using laser to write data
Current hard drives which use magnets to write and read binary data are hitting a speed block and if computers are to become faster they will require a different and faster data transfer medium. Researchers at Radboud University Nijmegen in the Netherlands have used laser light to write data to a magnetic hard drive at…
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Iomega eGo portable hard drive USB 2.0
When on the go, you need an extremely dependable and durable hard drive that promises not to buckle under the pressure of travel trails. The Iomega eGo Portable Hard Drive USB 2.0 sports a Patent Pending DropGuard feature that can withstand the toughest of travel environments. With the 160GB capacity you can load up to…
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Maxtor Hard Drive Dominos
Remember the Tekserve ad which used $60,000 worth of iPods as Dominos. Here we have Maxtor hard drives repeating the act which amount to a total of 22 Terabytes ($18,400) worth of hard drives. (Video after the jump)
