SAMSUNG Mass Producing Industry’s First 1.8-inch, 64GB SSD for Laptops

Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., the world leader in advanced semiconductor technology, announced that it has begun mass producing 1.8-inch solid state drives at 64GB - the highest density SSD available today for mobile computing applications.
“We see sharply increasing interest in SSDs among OEMs worldwide amid a growing push to launch premium SSD-based notebooks, particularly in [...]

Infected Seagate Hard Drives - Chinese subcontractors blamed for trojan horses

Investigators say the tainted Maxtor portable hard disc, made by Seagate, uploads information saved on the computer automatically to Web sites in Beijing

A shipment of Maxtor external HDDs, produced in Thailand by US-based Seagate and sold in Taiwan, has been found to be infected with Autorun trojans designed to gather sensitive data from machines connected [...]

Laptop Hard Drive Recovery

To avoid paying a lot of money and saving yourself from trouble of losing all your important data, backing up your local files once a week is recommended. Back up your files using CD-RW or DVD-RW or you can backup your files online.But if the worse has happened and you have already lost your files [...]

Over 50% of All Notebooks to have Flash Storage by 2010

More than half of new notebooks to use Flash drives by Q4 2009,
shouts the headline on market watcher iSuppli’s latest missive, before admitting soon after that, actually, it’s counting not just solid-state drives but also regular HDDs with integrated Flash cache and separate caches like Intel’s Turbo Memory module.
Still, it shows that non-volatile storage chips [...]