Storage

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  Micron’s microscopic NVMe SSD packs 2TB of lightning-quick storage

  This super cute SSD still packs 2TB of capacity and NVMe 4.0 capability

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  ​New, colourful LaCie Rugged Thunderbolt USB-C was designed by Neil Poulton

  The new LaCie Rugged Thunderbolt USB-C was designed by Neil Poulton, an award-winning Scottish product designer. It’s nice to see a rugged portable hard drive with function and form.

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  WD will make a record-breaking 14TB hard drive available next year

  Western Digital has developed a monstrous 14TB hard drive that is now shipping for testing to customers.

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  Google, IBM, and others team up to hasten data transfers in computers

  The OpenCAPI Consortium and Gen-Z are announcing new ports and protocols that will give computers faster memory, storage, and processors.

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  Seagate drops the world's largest tiny hard drive

  Seagate pushes the 2.5-inch drive needle all the way to 5TB.

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  Installing a SSD in a MacBook Air

  The MacBook Air has won over a large number of Apple laptop users. But in order to offer such extreme portability, the MacBook Air comes with a few tradeoffs. One of those tradeoffs is with the flash storage — it's fast, but it's expensive, and...

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  Top 5 online backup services

  At DCA we regularly deal with people who come to us for data recovery. We have a pretty good track record at salvaging important files; however, in many instances of catastrophic damage to the hard drive, there is no means of recovery. This can leave...

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  Open source FreeOTFE encrypts disks handily

  FreeOTFE may sound like a political bumper sticker, but it stands for "Free On The Fly Encryption." The "Free" part is self-explanatory; "On The Fly Encryption" refers to the encrypting/decrypting of data as it is written to or read from your hard di...

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  How to pick NAS for any business

  Network-attached storage (NAS) can make your business easier to run and more efficient in multiple ways.

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  Flash Drive 101: Copying files, removing viruses

  The other day, my wife asked me how to copy a PowerPoint presentation to a flash drive so she could take it with her to school. I was a little shocked. My very own wife doesn't know how to do this? I've failed as a husband!

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  Western Digital vs Seagate: we take a look at the two storage giants

  When it comes to storage, Western Digital and Seagate are the brands to beat but there's rarely a clear winner between the two.

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  Editors' Choice Awards 2017, Part Five - Computers

  There weren’t many big game-changing surprises, but there were a lot of awesome notebooks, storage and networking products in 2017. Here are our picks for the best.

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  Roving Rachel does Seagate in Singapore

  ​For those who have wondered where I had gotten to, or why I hadn't been posting much (read: at all) there's a reasonable explanation. A few months ago I made the decision to run away from the circus that is yachting and gallivanting around St. Barts...

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  The network matters for storage innovation

  Enterprise customers face real problems every day with their storage infrastructure. They need to keep their businesses up and running non-stop and meet demands from customers, while managing growth and protecting their digital assets from malicious ...

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  Everything you need to know about NVMe

  As SSDs become more common, you'll also hear more about Non-Volatile Memory Express, a.k.a. NVM Express, or more commonly--NVMe. NVMe is a communications interface/protocol developed specially for SSDs by a consortium of vendors including Intel, Sams...

Whitepapers about storage

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  Grow your analytics maturity

  This paper explains why, with big data, it’s not about the type, amount or speed of data, but rather what we do with that data and the speed at which we do it. • Business intelligence reports and dashboards simply won’t give you with the level of detail and agility you need • Analytics can help gain a competitive advantage, but developing analytics maturity will help sustain that • This paper walks through each step of the analytics maturity journey, providing insights into the capabilities and tools to consider

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  Continous application availability with EMC VPLEX

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  EMC Asia Pacific and Japan- The business value of data protection

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  Assessing the business value of EMC backup and recovery