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Article | 5/06/2013 Seagate releases third-generation hybrid drives for the mainstream

Seagate has ushered in the third generation of its hybrid solid state hard drives at Computex, showing off a slim, 7mm notebook model, as well as a de...

Article | 3/06/2013 Seagate to tempt tablet and Ultrabook makers with 5mm thick hard drive

Seagate has just announced a thinner and lighter 2.5in hard drive that it hopes will find its way not only into slimmer Ultrabook computers, but also ...

Article | 9/05/2013 APC Messiest Office competition winners announced

From the look of the entries that we received for our Messiest Office competition, it seems many of us still have a deep desire to hoard every little ...

Article | 23/04/2013 Western Digital rolls out ultra-slim 5mm Ultrabook drives

The drive towards dirt-cheap Ultrabooks is getting a big boost with the release of Western Digital's new ultra-slim spinning hard drive, a barely ther...

Article | 4/03/2013 Seagate to halt production of 7200rpm laptop hard drives

When it comes time to buy your next high-performance laptop, chances are good that it will feature a solid state drive (SSD). But what if you'd prefer...

Article | 3/12/2012 Brooklyn Nets, Boston Celtics disagree...over the cloud

When the Brooklyn Nets traveled to Boston to play the Celtics last week, it became apparent that the two organizations disagreed about something - the...

Article | 13/11/2012 In Pictures: The 10 most powerful supercomputers on the planet

The latest Top500 list details the world's mightiest silicon

Article | 5/11/2012 In Pictures: 8 real-world Big Data deployments

The amount of data in the world doubles every 18 months. Here's a look at eight real-world big data deployments in a variety of industries.

Article | 23/10/2012 Apple announces hybrid drive technology in Macs

Apple announced it will be including hybrid drive technology in its new iMac and Mac mini desktops, which will offer flash-like performance with up to...

Article | 22/10/2012 Hybrid hard drives: How they work and why they matter

An SSD can read and write data many times faster than the best mechanical hard drive. On the downside, flash memory is many times more expensive than ...

Article | 11/09/2012 Synology Showcase winners announced

The winners of PC World's Synology Showcase competition have been announced. Three lucky readers have been selected by Synology to test out a Synology...

Article | 10/09/2012 Western Digital releases samples of its thinnest hybrid drive for Ultrabooks

Western Digital announced what it said is the industry's thinnest hybrid drive for Ultrabooks, a 5mm-thick model that has 500GB capacity.

Article | 6/09/2012 WD launches new portable hard drives for Windows PCs, Macs

Western Digital subsidiary WD recently unveiled two sleek, thin 500GB portable external hard drives for Mac and Windows PC users. The two new drives, ...

Article | 31/08/2012 How to put your movies on your media server

I have a huge movie collection. It used to all be on VHS tapes, then I moved to DVDs, and now I'm slowly moving to Blu-Ray. That's all well and good, ...

Article | 27/08/2012 Catch of the Day's Technothon: cheap tech

Daily deals website Catch of the Day is running its Technothon until midday today, with low prices on a wide range of technology products.

Article | 22/08/2012 Rackspace to open Sydney data centre in late 2012

Global cloud computing and hosting company Rackspace will soon open its first Australian data centre, in the Sydney suburb of Erskine Park. The invest...

Article | 15/06/2012 Hybrid drives already passe, as SSD sales skyrocket

Hybrid drives, which combine NAND flash with spinning disk, are selling like molasses compared to SSDs and SSDs with cache, according to IHS iSuppli. ...

Article | 8/06/2012 Toshiba touts industry's densest SSDs, doubles performance

Toshiba Storage Products today announced a new line-up of solid-state drives (SSDs) using the industry's smallest lithography process to date -- 19 na...

Article | 4/06/2012 HP releases 100TB/hr backup system

HP today announced new deduplication solutions for its StoreOnce Backup product line, including the B6200, that enable 100TB/hr backup performance. ...

Article | 4/06/2012 Toshiba says new SSDs have double performance, densest memory

Toshiba today announced a new line of solid-state drives that use 19-nanometer process technology, the smallest circuitry to date.