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A slowdown in the ability to continually wring more performance out of existing technologies will change the face of the hard drive and the IT industry in general. That's the word from Richie Lary, one of the storage industry's leading technologists who this week discussed storage and data center trends with a roomful of storage administrators and CIOs at Nth Generation's Summer 2006 Technology Symposium, held this week in Anaheim, Calif.
We present the Top 11 reasons the next 'Survivor' should not be held in a data center. Plus, the do-it-yourself Grokbot and the really personal computer.
These four external desktop hard drives by Iomega, Maxtor, and Western Digital offer over 750 Gbytes of storage for both PCs and Macs.
With Vista at least seven months away, we'll all be using Windows XP for some time to come. Here's our all-time favorite Win XP hacks, tips, tricks, and fixes.
Storage Strikes A Chord At CES
Why buy a ho-hum off-the-rack computer when you can cherry-pick components to create a truly superior PC? Find out which products made the grade as we put together this year's screamer.
Vendors Roll Out New Removable Hard Drives, data backup, archiving, storage
Seagate claims its 2.5-inch Savvio hard drives triple the data density in your storage rack. Can something so small really do such a big job?
If you've got several networked systems trying to access your multimedia files, Iomega's new StorCenter may be the answer.
Offer value-minded gamers an affordable but solid system today that can be upgraded tomorrow.
Vista's optimized caching features turn flash drives, flash cards, and new hybrid hard drives into booster rockets for OS performance.
Cheap disks and smoking bandwidth have changed the face of backup. In tandem with evolving technologies like de-duplication and more efficient use of VTLs, backup is hot. We explore new approaches to data archiving that won't bust your budget.
One-touch external hard drives let you save data with a minimum investment of time. IOGear, Maxtor and Seagate each have their own backup solution. Find out which one's button you should be pressing!
Sometimes you just have to wipe everything and start from scratch -- and a good recovery app will make sure it takes hours rather than weeks. Here are some of the best.
Less than two weeks after rival Hitachi unveiled a monster 300GB hard drive for enterprises, Fujitsu has fired off a retort by introducing its own line of hard drives that max out at the magic 300GB number.