The fan is the first venture into consumer products for Versa Drives, a Indian manufacturer of alternating-current drives.
Although the problem of people downloading confidential information and walking out of the door with it is not new, said Martin Allen, UK managing director of PointSec, the greater capacity of current drives is making the problem potentially much worse.
Fujitsu looks to be doing its part to fulfill our ever-increasing appetite for data storage, recently unveiling a new technology that it says will allow for hard drives with far greater capacity than current drives while still keeping the physical size down.
Next week at Comdex, Verbatim will roll out the 4420, which the company claims is the first CD-RW drive that offers 4X write on both CD-R and CD-RW media. (Current drives are limited to 2X write speeds for CD-RW.) The drive reads CD-ROMs, CD-R, and CD-RW media at 20X.
By first splitting the molecules into very small lines and then using an equally rare nanoimprinting technology to put them into circular tracks, HGST can create platters with a 10 nanometer-wide bit pattern that's twice as dense as current hard drives.
One of the main challenges in reducing the thickness of current 7mm hard disk drives by almost 30% without compromising on its performance and stability is its spindle motor design.
The company claims that performance of the new drive and media should improve a bit on the current batch of Zip drives (except for the faster Zip Plus drive, which is being discontinued).
For more information on Iomega's complete line of portable hard drives, including current pricing, please go to www.iomega.com.
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The current state of our economy drives home the hard truth that living beyond our means has caught up to us.
It is new investment, net private investment over and above that required to maintain the current stock of capital that drives the economy forward.
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Will the current shortage of hard disk drives, the result of the recent severe flooding in Thailand, lead to a glut of PC chip inventory?
The tiered design of hybrid hard drives, compared to current dual-drive solutions, also provides a redundancy benefit for users.
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"It drives value to the current generation of Blackberry devices and RIM may introduce video when it launches the next system, " Graeme Neill, deputy editor of Mobile Today magazine.
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If you're not about to sell off your current stable of external USB hard drives just to experience the wonders of Clickfree backups, you're staring your solution right in the face.
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Evercore Partners analyst Kirk Materne this afternoon trimmed his EPS estimates for Microsoft for the next couple of quarters to reflect the current shortage of hard-disk drives that has resulted from the recent Thai floods, plus lower gross margin assumptions to reflect increased investment in services and online and a greater revenue contribution from the entertainment and devices segment.
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But random erase is becoming more common, and is, for example, available in the current generation of Hewlett-Packard CD-RW drives.
The gasoline engine drives the front wheels, but it also sends some current to the batteries.
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With industry-wide challenges in scaling current areal density technologies, this new platform allows HGST to design seven-platter drives in a standard 3.5-inch form factor that will cost-effectively extend the capacity and cost-per-gigabyte curve for many product generations to come.
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According to Fujitsu, the end result will be drives with a capacity ten times greater than what's possible using current hard drive technologies, though there's unfortunately no indication when the average user will actually be able to slot one of these magical drives into their PC.
Not according to a new econometric study that concludes no more than 20% of existing coal generation is likely to switch over to gas, even if the Environmental Protection Agency drives up the cost of coal generation and gas prices stay at their current, low rates indefinitely.
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When the Zip drive first hit the market, PC hard drives that held about one to four gigabytes--in contrast to the current standards of 40 to 80 gigabytes--were fairly common.
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