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Mac News Briefs: Western Digital Revamps Mac Drives

Hard drive manufacturer Western Digital unveiled redesigns for its My Passport for Mac and My Book for Mac hard drives. The My Passport portable drive is now about 20 percent smaller than the previous My Passport. The My Book features a slimmer design, and the Morse-code cutouts that were used as air vents have been replaced.

Both [...]

New critical update for Data Compass is available!

Today (September 29, 2009) SalvationDATA has a critical update for Data Compass released. This critical update has had the built-in algorithm for extracting data from HDD with severe bad sectors improved.

With the capacity of HDD and the user data volume increasing rapidly nowadays, based on our investigation and customer feedback, the most important need for data [...]

Western Digital introduces smaller, higher capacity My Passport drives

In addition to launching a duo of new My Book desktop storage solutions, Western Digital has unveiled a trio of new My Passport portable drives.

The My Passport Essential, My Passport Essential SE and My Passport for Mac, all arrive today in a form factor that’s approximately 20 per cent smaller than the previous generation.

 

The My Passport [...]

Balancing act for servers that flash the cache

Multiple flash locations in the server-storage stack are upsettingbalanced I/O conventions and making overall system design much moredifficult.Designing and implementing server-to-storage systems is going tobecome very much harder, because existing assumptions about server andstorage I/Os per second (IOPS) handling are being swept aside.Virtualised, multi-core, cache-enhanced servers can digest and generatedata faster than many hard drive storage [...]

Faster Barracuda escapes from Seagate

Seagate is launching the first 6Gbit/s 2TB drive, the Barracuda XT, and altering the Barracuda naming convention at the same time.

Seagate’s Barracuda XT features a 2TB capacity

Instead of the ‘Barracuda 7200.11′ and ’7200.12′, with the suffix signifying the 11th and 12th generations of a drive spinning at 7200rpm, the new drives will be the mainstream ‘Barracuda [...]

Seagate sweeps in self-encryption

Seagate has extended its range of encrypting drives to cover all its enterprise products.The Self-Encrypting Drive (SED) option is now available across theSavvio 15K.2, Savvio 10K.3, Constellation and Cheetah 15K.7 productranges. These drives should work with users’ encryptioninfrastructures. Seagate says Intel and LSI are now shipping local keymanagement and 6Gbit/s SAS products. These have TCG-based (TrustedComputing [...]

Seagate Barracuda XT 2TB SATA III HDD With 6Gb/s Unveiled

Seagate announced that it is first to ship a SATA III desktop hard-drive with the Seagate Barracuda XT 2TB SATA III HDD (ST32000641AS).

The Seagate Barracuda XT is a 7200RPM HDD featuring 2TB of storage capacity and the new blazing fast Serial ATA (SATA) 6Gbcond interface. Of course to leverage the new speeds you need a new [...]

Seagate Launches SATA-600 Hard Disk

Seagate has launched the world’s first SATA-600 hard disk targeted to desktop, Barracuda XT (ST32000641AS). This new 2 TB disk makes use of four 500 GB platters, works at 7200 RPM, supports NCQ technology, has 64 MB of buffer, average time seek of 4.16 ms and is backward compatible with SATA-150 and SATA-300 standards. By using [...]

Seagate’s new 2TB Barracuda XT boasts 6Gbps support

Much like Western Digital with its energy-efficient Green series, mainstream Blue series and high-performance/enthusiast oriented Black series desktop HDDs, Seagate now has a three-tier arrangement in place with their latest high-performance XT series of drives shipping to distributors as of today. Seagate also has the existing Barracuda LP series drives for low-power users and of [...]

AppleXsoft announces release of AppleXsoft Data Recovery Professional

New York, United States – September. 14, 2009 — AppleXsoft, a leading developer of data recovery products & services today announced the immediate availability of their latest software- AppleXsoft Data Recovery Professional, a complete data recovery solution to enabling both IT professionals and novice users to easily recover data from deleted, formatted, damaged, or corrupted [...]