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What Is the Best Way to Expand Your Storage? Into the life of every Macintosh user there comes this day: you need more storage. The hard drive that once seemed […]

As workstations and PCs continue to advance, opening up new applications like transaction processing and data redundancy, the need for significantly higher-capacity data storage becomes more evident. Stepping in to […]

IF WINDOWS AND ITS APPLICATIONS ARE ABOUT TO BURST THE SEAMS OF YOUR HARD DISK, SEW UP A SOLUTION WITH ONE OF THESE 150MB TO 250MB DRIVES. Even in the […]

Systems integrators' demands for capacity, data compression, transfer rates and interchangeability lead to digital audio tape. Here's why. More and more systems integrators turn today to digital audio tape (DAT) […]

We all lose data on our computer systems at one time or another. Many failure mechanisms exist, from water damage caused by flash floods or clumsy plant watering to overheating […]

Technical sin is not without its own peculiarities. Of course, one attraction to sin is the delicious anticipation of being caught. But in technical sin, not only do you rarely […]

It's hard to believe we all once deliberated over whether or not to spring for a CD-ROM drive. Today it's a no-brainer. An optical drive- or, more precisely, some variation […]

Desktops ABS AMD Web Special Priced just under $1,000, the ABS AMD Web Special is an incredible bargain. Not only do you get a fast 900MHz Athlon processor, 128MB of […]

Hard disk capacity: there has been little change in the average hard disk sizes over the past few months in deskstop PCs while notebook storage is slowly […]

From 3-megapixel digital cameras to behemoth hard drives to fast home- networking solutions running over conventional phone lines, the past year has witnessed stunning innovations in hardware. Take inkjet printers, […]

A backup a day keeps the headaches away The most pernicious threat to your PC's data isn't a dead hard drive, a rogue virus or a stray bolt of lightning. […]

A major part of personal computing concerns the transfer of information from one place to another. The ubiquitous floppy disk handled this famously for many years both in 5.25in and […]

(Part 3 of 3) This is the third part of a three-part series focusing on how HDI can significantly improve the electrical performance of electronics, and how it solves a […]

The past two weeks delivered a few firsts for server storage. There was the first 18G-byte drive to hit the market in quantity from IBM, Seagate Technology, Inc.'s announcement that […]

Let's face it, school computers are public property. Students, teachers, and administrators vie for computer resources to write reports, surf the Web, check e-mail, and navigate CD-ROMs. While in the […]

Picking the right set of storage products for your systems can be an exasperating process. There are so many vendors, and so little time to sort out the information. Any […]

Here's how to get a little more power out of Apple's first low-cost Mac. The Mac Classic was Apple's first response to the demand for a low-cost Macintosh. With its […]

The most disappointing aspect of IBM's recent mainframe storage announcement is that it has not provided leading edge customers with a new high performance disk drive. There has now been […]

In November of 1987, when Storage Technology Corp. began exploring the idea of bringing redundant arrays of inexpensive disks (RAID) to the IBM-compatible large disk storage market, chairman and chief […]

The current lineup of HSC and DSSI storage offerings from DEC significantly narrows the differences between these two storage architectures. In particular, system managers at many VAX sites are expected […]

Sure, Shecom's $259 40GB Ikebana USB 2.0 Slimline Hard Drive is eminently pocketable, but you could just as easily toss it in a backpack without a worry. Measuring less than […]

WHAT MATTERS: If you work mostly in standard office programs, nearly any drive will do. But speed counts for multimedia authoring. THE STUNNING CAPACITY of today's hard drives--which doubles every […]

The Iomega Zip drive, which got its start in 1995 for portable storage of up to 100M, now can handle 750M in a $180 version for the Universal Serial Bus […]

With the popularity of the FireLite portable hard drives, the USB 2.0 version couldn't be here at a better time. In stock and shipping now, the FireLite USB 2.0 is […]

* A hard disk is the lowest-bandwidth component in your system. So, it's also the component that you should choose most carefully when building a new system. However, you have […]

ALL THE DRIVES IN THIS REVIEW USE EITHER the SCSI or E-IDE interface. Despite the many revisions to their specifications, both have been around for over a decade. In that […]

ALTHOUGH SCSI DRIVES ARE PERCEIVED TO be slightly more tricky to install than E-IDE devices, there's one particular area in which the reverse is true. Capacities of SCSI drives are […]

AS MENTIONED IN THE SIDEBAR ON FUTURE technologies (see page 84), the 16 hard disk drives reviewed here represent incredible advances in mechanical engineering. However, there are other drives on […]

MOORE'S 'LAW', WHICH STATES THAT processor power doubles approximately every 18 months, is widely held up as an example of just how quickly the IT industry develops new products. Yet […]

THE INCREDIBLE I/O MACHINE In the past, when VAXcluster users started seeing system performance run down as their I/O load ran up, there was little they could do except add […]

Maximum Has A Mean, Lean Kind of WORM How hard is it to install a write-once optical drive? And what is it like to have virtually unlimited archiving capacity? Along […]

Digital data storage has eliminated several shelf-miles of dusty printed records, but now our disks and drives runneth over. What are some practical solutions for schools? It's amazing how valuable […]

Roy, Utah-Iomega Corporation has recalled approximately 60,000 power supply units (PSUs) provided by Cortech Systems and included with certain Iomega external Jaz 2GB drives and remanufactured Jaz 1GB drives. The […]

Buy Big: Don't skimp on capacity--extra gigabytes often add relatively little to the cost. Prices for internal IDE drives now hover close to 3 cents per megabyte for 4GB and […]

Choosing a Strategy: Decide the minimum capacity per disk or cartridge you'll require, but don't ignore higher-capacity drives within your budget and whether your system can accomodate an internal (that […]

Most organizations store information four ways: online on hard drives, nearline in libraries or jukeboxes, and offline either on removable disks and tapes, or on paper or microfiche. Each offers […]

Choosing a Strategy: Decide the minimum capacity per disk or cartridge you'll require, but don't ignore higher-capacity drives within your budget and whether your system can accomodate an internal (that […]

In olden times, it was perfectly acceptable to walk with a swagger if you had just upgraded your PC's hard drive from 5 to 10 megabytes (MB). This was a […]

Iomega Zip drives are an increasingly popular removable storage medium. Using $15 disks that are only slightly larger and thicker than a 1.44MB floppy disk, Zip drives store about 100MB […]

Toshiba T6600 series computers -- because of their large hard drives -- are incompatible with Windows NT and freeze after users load the operating system. The problem is due to […]

Adaptec Inc.'s introduction of a local bus-based disk controller promising integrated drive electronics (IDE) transfer rates of as fast as 20MB per second (MBps) doesn't mean that users can expect […]

Two Vendors Choose More-Rugged Glass Platters Over Traditional Aluminum The need to run memory-hungry graphical user interface (GUI) software on notebook PCs is spurring new innovations and heating up competition […]

Unfortunately, for the large installed base of 386s, performance often gets bogged down within Windows' demanding GUI. Fortunately, there is a solution. Perceptive Solutions' winSTOR is a plug-and-play IDE controller […]

First, the good news. The power of Digital VAX and RISC system processors has increased dramatically in recent years. Now, the bad news. Heavy demands are placed on your most […]

Disk drives Product: ProDrive ELS range Supplier: Quantum Tel: (0344) 780144 The ProDrive ELS range consists of four capacities of 3.5-inch hard disk drives, from 42Mb to 170Mb. Each uses […]

S N A P S H O T Pinnacle PMO-650 This rewritable optical drive is easily the fastest we've ever tested, although it's still far more pricey than a comparable […]

If you want the fastest access to stored data with leadership price/performance. Digital's ESE50 Solid State Disk has it. Boasting an access time of 0.25 milliseconds, the ESE50 provides lightning […]

As a systems integrator, you're one of a hungry breed continually driving the demand for PC hard disk storage beyond current capacity. It was once considered marvelous that the original […]