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  • Blu-ray spec finalised, licensing underway

    7 January 2006, 11:50

    The Blu-ray Disc Association (BDA) has announced that the Blu-ray disc specification has been finalised, paving the way for makers to jump forward with news of Blu-Ray products

  • Seeing clearly with the Raptor X HDD

    6 January 2006, 16:05

    Window mods in hard drives have been reserved for the most daring (and often foolish) of modders. Mod no more, however, as Western Digital's latest Raptor comes with its own ...

  • Pioneer USA promises Blu-ray Disc writer in Q1

    3 January 2006, 13:35

    Pioneer USA is promising a Q1 2006 launch for its first PC Blu-ray Disc writer, the BDR-101A, a model that also reads and writes to conventional DVDs

  • Thecus N2050 - 1TB of storage plus eSATA DAS

    2 January 2006, 11:14

    Thecus continue to expand their N series of storage devices with a new model surfacing this month, the N2050. So what's this one got?

  • Review: Ultra Portable Disk Enclosures

    23 December 2005, 14:01

    The 3.5" Portable Disk Enclosure proved itself a product that works as advertised, but there are alternatives out there that perform as well and have a better build quality. However, ...

  • Seagate acquires Maxtor

    21 December 2005, 11:47

    Following on from reports earlier this morning, Seagate and Maxtor have issued a joint press release confirming that Seagate will be acquiring Maxtor.

  • Supermicro ships clever SAS chassis

    15 December 2005, 20:02

    Uber-server component manufacturer Supermicro has made available its latest SAS chassis, featuring SES2.

  • Flash Wars: Sandisk strikes back

    12 December 2005, 20:59

    A virtually silent war is being waged between Sandisk and a number of other memory manufacturers, and it's been going on since 2001.

  • Corsair expands flash drive lineup

    21 November 2005, 19:45

    Drives hit 4GiB

  • SCAN recalls Kingston USB drives

    9 November 2005, 16:59

    UK retailer SCAN is recalling certain Kingston USB flash drives amidst issues with counterfeit stock in the supply chain.

  • DVD burners all round

    17 October 2005, 07:56

    In the Taiwanese Market, sales of DVD burners has surpassed those of DVD-ROM/CDRW combo drives.

  • Broadcom offers full hand with serial-attached SCSI RAID on PCI Express

    13 October 2005, 19:06

    At this week's Storage Expo show at London Olympia, Broadcom has been demonstrating a RAID solution it reckons lots of rivals are talking about but none can yet show, never ...

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  • Seagate takes it to half a terabyte

    10 October 2005, 19:12

    Seagate's new range of Barracuda desktop hard drives delivers up to 500GB of storage capacity

  • Ensuring you don't need data recovery

    27 September 2005, 13:41

    Data recovery company Disklabs has provided HEXUS with some top tips for avoiding the need for professional data recovery, and what to do if things do go a little... wrong.

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  • Sex, Lies and Hard-Drives

    16 September 2005, 00:00

    Disklabs' Simon Steggles shares with HEXUS an interesting tale of old hard drives giving up a lot of, potentially costly, secrets.

  • IDF August 2005 :: Photos - Storage solutions

    5 September 2005, 00:00

    Servers need storage, so we move on with the photo tour and look at the storage solutions on show at IDF.

  • New SATA cables - Latch on!

    1 September 2005, 00:00

    One of the complaints users had about SATA when it first launched, was the connectors. Yes, the new cable design was great for airflow and plugging the connectors in was ...

  • Review: Synology Disk Station DS-101g+

    31 August 2005, 00:00

    At the time of writing, the Disk Station DS-101g+ is available at around the £200 mark. You'll have to supply your own SATA hard drive, but prices are forever dropping ...

  • Gigabytes and Gibibytes

    23 August 2005, 00:00

    If you've used a computer for any duration of time you'll have come across the terms “kilobyte, megabyte, gigabyte” and so on. Then there's “kilobit, megabit and gigabit” to add ...

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  • What is Data Recovery?

    9 August 2005, 00:00

    Data Recovery is the process of retrieval of inaccessible or corrupt data from digital media that has become damaged or has been corrupted in some way. Data Recovery can be ...

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  • Gigabytes and Gibibytes - What you need to know

    5 August 2005, 00:00

    You might have seen Rys and I use the terms GiB, MiB and KiB around HEXUS in recent months, when talking about memory or data sizes. If you've hung around ...

  • PATA vs. SATA

    28 July 2005, 00:00

    Serial ATA is the next evolutionary stage in the development of magnetic storage media, it differs from PATA not only in the speeds attainable (150MiB/s to 600MiB/s as opposed to ...

  • RAID explained

    28 July 2005, 00:00

    RAID stands for Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks and is used for a number of reasons including improving performance and reliability of your data storage. RAID, which can be implemented ...

  • A third of businesses vulnerable to backup hacking

    26 July 2005, 00:00

    Ever-resourceful hackers are looking towards new means of retriving data from businesses, exploiting security holes in backup software to gain access to a company's most sensitive data.

  • Review: The joys of redundancy: XFX's Revo 64

    20 July 2005, 00:00

    If you need high data rates and really don't need the hassle of downtime thanks to a dead hard drive, RAID is your answer. If you want efficient usage of ...

  • Review: Thecus N4100 IP Storage Appliance

    18 July 2005, 00:00

    If you're looking for a new means of storing and protecting the vast amount of data you have somehow managed to acquire, then ask yourself whether an IP storage solution ...

  • Computex 2005: Germproof DVD media you can safely lick

    31 May 2005, 00:00

    For all of you out there currently sucking on or licking a DVD disk you've burned yourself, STOP. The media you just removed from your face was not safe for ...

  • Serial ATA - technology backgrounder

    19 February 2005, 00:00

    Serial ATA is rapidly taking over from parallel ATA in desktop PCs. James Morris explains why we need this new hard-disk connection

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  • Review: Icy Box IB-350U-BL

    26 July 2004, 00:00

    In the giant sea of new, affordable external hard disk enclosures, the Icy Box stands out due to its appearance and ease of use. Recommended if you\'re in the market ...

  • Review: USB-PenDrive.co.uk 32MB USB Bar

    9 May 2004, 00:00

    The 32MB Bar isn\'t going back, unless they send me a 256MB version, perfect for all the extra things I\'d like a bootable USB key to do. I can\'t really ...

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  • Review: External Disk Roundup

    28 February 2004, 00:00

    There\'s something for everyone in the four disks on test, I\'m just more tempted to add other disk to an ATX chassis, rather than hang it externally. Like everything, you\'ll ...

  • Review: CyberDrive CW099D 52X CDRW

    13 March 2003, 00:00

    Quite simply the fastest way to burn a CD on the PC at the present time, 52X drives are the pinnacle and CyberDrive have themselves a contender.

  • Review: Seagate ST380023AS Hard Drive

    30 December 2002, 00:00

    Seagate have produced an excellent hard disk drive at the high quality end of the market place which should be very well received. I for one will be very sorry ...