Archive for August, 2010

Seagate And Samsung Announce Agreement To Jointly Develop Controller Technology For SSDs

Thursday, August 12th, 2010

August 12, 2010 – Seagate Technology and Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., announced that they have entered into a joint development and licensing agreement.

Glossary of Western Digital Hard Disk Drive (Letter J,K,L)

Wednesday, August 11th, 2010

jumper An electrically-conductive component placed over pairs of pins extending from the circuit board on the hard drive jumper block to connect them electronically. Jumper placement is one method of designating a hard drive as Master or Slave.

Data Recovery Training Courses

Monday, August 9th, 2010

Though the hard disk drive just crashed, the data might not be lost.

File Recovery Tool Precautions

Friday, August 6th, 2010

Are you searching for a file recovery tool before protecting your data?

Glossary of Western Digital Hard Disk Drive (Letter I)

Thursday, August 5th, 2010

I/O Input/Output. An operation, program, or device that that transfers data to or from a computer or other device

Glossary of Western Digital Hard Disk Drive (Letter H)

Monday, August 2nd, 2010

half-duplex A communication protocol that permits transmission in both directions but in only one direction at a time. hard drive An electromechanical device for information storage and retrieval, incorporating one or more rotating disks on which data is magnetically recorded, stored, and read

Glossary of Western Digital Hard Disk Drive (Letter G)

Monday, August 2nd, 2010

GB Gigabyte. WD defines a gigabyte as 1,000,000,000 (one billion) bytes or 1000 (one thousand) megabytes. GMR Giant magnetoresistive