Retrodata data recovery firm is reporting a critical manufacturing defect in some revisions of Seagate drives that shipped with Macbooks. The faulty drives were manufactured in China and contain firmware revision 7.01. You can find the revision under System Profiler > Serial-ATA. Apple has been contacted and is investigating the issue. I bet we are […]
Hauling an external hard drive around can be risky. Really, the same could be said of flash drives. This is especially true if that drive contains sensitive personal information. Well, Sarotech has come out with a nice looking drive that utilizes fingerprint recognition to ensure that your data doesn’t get stolen - even if your […]
Can you say “Ooops!” Maxtor recently sent out a bulletin saying that their Basic Personal Storage 3200 Drives may have shipped with a virus. It seems that a contractor in China must have put viruses on the drives. The virus tries to find passwords to online games and push them back to […]
Intel quotes a statistic, and I believe it, that by 2009 the average consumer will have 1 terabyte of digital data in their home. That’s due to the explosive growth of digital cameras, mp3 players, cell phones, etc. Anything that can be converted to digital media has or is going to be converted. […]
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NAND storage is making a real push into enterprise and consumer markets. Fusion IO is an interesting company that is aiming that type of technology at the SAN, or storage area network, space. A SAN is a “specialized network that enables fast, reliable access among servers and external or independent storage resources.” (Source: NetworkWorld) The […]