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Corsair Debuts Padlock 2 Secure Flash Drive
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The Corsair Flash Padlock 2 is perfect for transporting and protecting your sensitive business or personal information. With built-in 256-bit hardware data encryption, and access limited by a PIN, you can rest assured your information is safe from unintentional viewing. Built with the same ruggedized rubber housing found on the Corsair Flash Voyager family for durability, your data is protected from the elements as well.
Sensitive Data Found on Second-Hand Hard Drives
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Perhaps most surprising was the discovery of a disk bought on eBay that revealed details of test launch procedures for the THAAD (Terminal High Altitude Area Defense) ground to air missile defense system, used to shoot down Scud missiles in Iraq. The disk also contained security policies, blueprints of facilities and employee information.
Companies Die, But Data, Hard Drives Live On
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In many cases, computers need to be stored and ready for potential use long after the company has dissolved. A network of federal and state laws require data to be maintained for a specific amount of time. The Civil Rights Act of 1964 requires companies to keep employee data for one year. Likewise, employment data has a web of laws.
Calculating a Use Case for SSDs
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There is a process to follow to ensure that an investment in solid-state disks is useful and will pay for itself quickly
By George Crump, February 24, 2009, 1:30 PM
Solid-state disks (SSDs) are an investment that requires serious forethought and a deeper understanding of your storage architecture. How does an IT manager know when to invest in SSDs, and how can he feel confident that the investment is going to pay off? These questions are becoming more relevant as the cost of SSDs has continued to decline over the past few years. This decline has increased the number of application workload scenarios that would be well suited to SSDs.
WD Intros 2TB Green Hard Drive
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The Western Digital Caviar Green consumes 7.4 watts in read/write mode and 4 watts at idle.
By Antone Gonsalves, InformationWeek, January 29, 2009, 11:15 AM
Western Digital Corp. (NYSE: WDC) on Tuesday introduced a 2-TB hard drive to its environmentally friendly Caviar Green product line.
WD believes many consumers are ready for such a large capacity drive to store video, pictures, audio, and other files in their expanding media libraries. Quoting market intelligence firm Trend Focus, the hard-drive maker claims about 10% of 3.5-inch drives sold today are at the 1-TB level or higher.
Seagate to fix troublesome Barracudas
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Seagate has promised customers that it will soon issue fixes for faulty firmware that is causing several models of its hard drives to freeze.
The models due for a fix are the Barracuda 7200.11, DiamondMax 22 and the SV35, said company spokesman Ian D. O’Leary.
On Friday, Seagate posted new firmware for the Barracuda ES.2, another model also affected by the problems.
Seagate jams 2TB into single hard drive
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Seagate Technology has launched its first 2TB enterprise-class disk drive as part of a new family of near-line SAS and SATA drives.
The new Constellation 2.5 inch and Constellation ES 3.5-inch drives come in Serial-Attached SCSI (SAS) 6Gbits/sec or Serial ATA (SATA) 3Gbits/sec models and include a feature that allows them to shut down when not in use to save power.
Western Digital was the first to release a 2TB drive , but it was a SATA drive aimed at desktop and external storage applications.
Fujitsu to end hard-disk head production
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By Martyn Williams
January 26, 2009 (IDG News Service) Fujitsu Ltd. plans to end production of read/write heads for hard disk drives as part of a wider review of its HDD business, it said today.
The company will exit the head business at the end of March. The move will affect about 360 employees at its factory in Nagano, Japan, who will be reassigned to other operations within the Fujitsu group, the company said in a statement.
Coming soon: Full-disk encryption for all computer drives
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