Tag: hard disc
Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 hard drives: Epic Fail
Hard drives crash from time to time, that’s a fact, but it seems that one particular type of Seagate drive is failing en masse, according to online accounts from annoyed customers.
The Barracuda 7200.11 1TB drive fails at boot time with a firmware error that locks the drive and makes in inoperable. Laughably, when the unit is returned, Seagate replaces it with the same model. The Register also suggests that you could pay Seagate twice by using its i365 company to recover the data before replacing the unit.
LaCie intros LaCinema Rugged: portable multimedia-friendly hard drive
LaCie, well-known for its rugged portable hard drives, has just launched a new range: the LaCinema Rugged.
As the name would suggest, these portable hard drives are designed for carrying around your multimedia files — movies, photos, and music — and can connect directly to a high definition television via HDMI or composite video port…
Canon announces two new high definition camcorders: HG20 and HG21
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Canon has announced two successors to its HG10 camcorder: the HG20 and HG21.
These hard disc based high definition camcorders feature up to 120GB of storage (triple that of the HG10, translating to 45 hours of high-def recording using AVCHD), a dual recording system allowing users to record to removable SDHC memory cards as well as the internal hard drive, plus an improved user interface, 12x optical zoom Canon HD video lens, DIGIC DV II processing, instant autofocus, and lower power consumption…
Dell adds SanDisk flash drives to Latitude notebooks as hard drive alternative
Dell has announced that it will be offering its Latitude D420 ultra-mobile and D620 ATG semi-rugged notebook computers with SanDisk 1.8-inch 32GB solid state (Flash) drives instead of a hard drive.
Dell is committed to offering them across the next generation of its Latitude notebooks as they are more reliable, offer increased performance, and are quieter.
Brits have £16bn worth of digital media stored on hard drives
A new study from Orange shows that collectively, us Brits have around £16 billion worth of digital media and software stored on our computer hard drives. That includes music, photos, movies, games and other software. That figure translates into an…
Review: Seagate 5GB Pocket hard drive
The propaganda Portable storage devices might not be the most glamorous entries in the technology market, but they can be extremely practical and even more so now that prices are dropping almost as fast as the memory capacity is…
Lindy launch external hard drive enclosure styled a la Mac Mini
Lindy have launched a new external hard disc drive case that is sized and styled like Apple's Mac Mini (when I first saw it I thought it included the hard drive, but alas, it's just a Mac Mini lookalike casing)…
