The First Compter With a Hard Disk Drive
IBM introduced the 305 RAMAC computer on September 13th, 1956, which was the first computer to include a disk drive named the IBM 350 Disk File. Prior to this magnetic computer storage had consisted of core memory, tape, and drums.
"The alternative cloning tool" for OSx86
Clonetool is a Hard Disk Cloner utility that runs in the Command line. Clonetool’s primary function is to clone a booted Mac OS X system and copy itself to another Volume on another disk drive. This can be used to fer a system
Geek to Live: Visualize your hard drive usage
Of course, if you keep getting that "low disk space" message, it might be time to pony up a few bucks and get yourself a new hard drive. Here's how to install a new internal hard drive on your computer. Lastly, to avoid regular disk
Primary hard disk drive 0 not found
Primary hard disk drive 0 not found. Crap. This is going to be a long, long day. And to top that off, my iMac (which I’m currently on) is making some funny noises. Crap. Technorati Tags: dell, imac, microsoft
Creative ways to recycle a floppy disk
If you’re similar with the Microsoft Windows installation process you will have seen this message numerous times, and if you have had the pleasure of having to use it to install a SATA drive, then you will realise you NEED a floppy disk
Toshiba builds 100GB iPod-sized Disk Drive
PC World reports that Toshiba has developed a 1.8-inch 100GB hard drive, Adding a 25% jump over current storage, the new drive is sized perfectly to fit Production should begin next month and the drive itself will be shown at
Disk drive going south
I have a Maxtor disk, 250G. I actually can't recall what is on it. Its in a Firewire external housing. When I plug it in and try to use it, it goes "ka-click" about once a second until it finally gives up. Is there any hope for it
Stream Everything, But BYOHD
The Mvix Wireless HD Media Center is chock a block with features: It's a hard disk drive enclosure that requires you to BYOHD (bring your own hard drive), accepting any standard IDE internal drive. But what it offers isn't just
The Hard Disk Drive, Fifty Years That Have Changed the World We
The disk drive was critical to IBM’s success but it was the Personal Computer that really put the disk drive on the map. The PC forced the miniaturization of the device and large scale manufacturing that achieved economies of scale
times change
The entire capacity of that 1985 disk drive is insufficient to store the single MP3 file of Neil Young's "Down by the River." -- Steven Levy, The Perfect Thing. (I composed this on my Treo, cutting and pasting from the e-book I was
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