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TMS wins flash bragging crown with 100TB monster

The biggest, baddest flash clustered drive on the market has been launched by Texas Memory Systems, the 100TB RamSan-6200.

This monster offers more than 5 million sustained I/Os per second and 60GB/sec of sustained bandwith. Individual read and write I/O performance isn’t revealed.

These are huge numbers, achieved by a scale-out approach of clustering twenty RamSan-620 flash SSDs [...]

Head shop rolls out disk size roadmap

By January 2010 we should be seeing 620GB 2.5-inch and 2.5TB 3.5-inch hard disk drives, according to head manufacturer TDK Corporation.

A presentation to financial analysts, including Stifel Nicolaus’ Aaron Rakers, contained a roadmap for hard disk drive (HDD) read/write heads which TDK manufactures for some HDD suppliers. The current highest density read/write heads it is mass [...]

Hitachi GST joins 2TB Club

The 2TB hard drive club just got its third member, with Hitachi GSTjoining Western Digital and Seagate. Pretty soon desktop PC cred willdemand a 2TB spinner.The 7200rpm Deskstar 7K2000 3.5-inch drive a 32MB cache and a3Gbit/s SATA II link to its host PC. There are five platters, whichmeans Hitachi GST has not achieved the 500GB/platter areal [...]

Fujitsu sold to Toshiba

Fujitsu has agreed to sell its hard disk drive (HDD) business to Toshiba, according to reports.

Ranked number six worldwide by iSuppli, Fujitsu’s HDD business is loss-making, and Western Digital (number 2) was a rumoured buyer before Toshiba emerged. The global HDD industry is seeing a contraction in demand due to the deepening recession. Both Seagate (number [...]

Hard drive firmware repair

Because of the complexity of the hard disk drive technology and manufacturing, there is a very strict requirement for producing hard disk drive; therefore the number of hard disk drive manufacturers was restricted. We can see for now there are Seagate, WD, Hitachi/IBM, Samsung, Fujitsu, and Toshiba. And the limited number of hard disk drive manufacturers [...]

Recover data from WD1600JS hard drive

Hello,

I’ve read quite a few success stories on these forums so i thought I might have a go at recovering my data.

My psu blew up recently, and I found it has burnt out my WD1600JS PCB. I will be getting a closely matching board I’d like to try to use as a donor.

Dead PCB:
MDL: [...]

firmware “hacking”

Sometimes an unofficial new or modified version of firmware is created by third parties to provide new features or unlock hidden functionality. Examples include Rockbox for digital audio players, CHDK for Canon digital cameras, and OpenWRT for wireless routers, region free firmware for DVD-drives, which are not region free with the official firmware, as well as [...]

SEAGATE ST3300831A PCB swap question

I have a friend Seagate Barracuda 7200.8 ST3300831a 300Gb firmware: 3.03 and I know I need a PCB swap, but that firmware is impossible to come by I got a harddrive with firmware 3.01 but it just makes clicking nosises… does that mean it’s not spinning up?

Eum.. my dad keeps telling me it’s possible to [...]

OneWorld Data Recovery

OneWorld Data Recovery offers data recovery service that specializes in recovering data from hard disk, RAID drives, laptops or notebooks and personal computers.OneWorld Data Recovery has offered data recovery for years, we are uniquely qualified to offer recovery services for data losses caused by power surges/outages, static electricity, lightning strikes, fires, floods, other natural disasters, viruses, [...]

HD Doctor Suite for Maxtor

1.About HDD Maxtor
Here you can check the version of your program. Compared it with the latest version listed on our
website, you can know whether you need an upgrade or not.
2. Load HDD Management
The Load Management menu is to load the HDD resources information on to the program,
including HDD model, the SA map, the beginning and ending [...]