Taiwan's Acer Inc expects fourth quarter sales to fall as much as 10 percent from the previous three months and will raise prices as flooding in Thailand disrupts supplies of hard disk drives for PCs. Full story
Asia's PC makers, already grappling with the prospect of subdued year-end holiday season consumer demand, are faced with a likely further slowdown in the lunar new year sales season as Thailand's floods cut the supply of hard disk drives. Full story
A group of computer scientists has developed software that can hide sensitive data on a hard drive without encrypting it, an advancement that could provide security professionals with a valuable tool to thwart data breaches and keep important files safe. Full story
Few things in life can create as much frustration or panic as a dying hard drive. Just consider what's stored on the typical home computer -- tax and financial records, thousands of photos, that huge project for your child’s history class and other irreplaceable documents. Full story
Eventually, everyone replaces computer equipment. No matter how the equipment is disposed of – giving or selling it to another user, recycling parts, or sending it to the electronic junk yard – any device that holds data (hard drives, USB flash drives, CDs, disks) needs to be given special considera Full story
Iosafe claims that their hard drives can survive abuse, such as shotgun blasts, underwater dunks, and crushing. At CES 2011 in Las Vegas, Wilson Rothman took a shot at the rugged drives to see how they performed.
