Seagate aiming to be a data storage leader in SA
American data storage firm Seagate aims to be the market leader in supplying memory to South Africa's booming data centre industry, expected to be valued at R16.15 billion by 2031.
The company is focusing on providing HDD technologies to boost...
Goodbye hard drives
2028 will be the last year in which hard disk drives (HDDs) are sold, according to Pure Storage's vice president of research and development in the customer engineering unit, Shawn Rosemarin.
Rosemarin told tech publication Blocks and Files that he believes hard drives will...
Microsoft wants to put an end to mechanical hard drives in PCs
Microsoft is pushing computer manufacturers to drop hard disk drives (HDDs) as the primary built-in storage in pre-built Windows 11 PCs, Tom's Hardware reports.
The publication has seen a recent Trendfocus executive brief that...
I had an HP Pavilion 360X convertible laptop running on Windows 10. It was a great laptop/notebook. I say it was because it recently just stopped working. I am trying to repurpose it's hard drive into a multimedia drive as it had lots of movies and music. My question is, if I get the 2'5...
so I bought a Samsung evo 120gb ssd from a bloke. I need to clone it before I do the swop out of the hdd but the laptop doesn't detect it. it gives the 'unrecognized usb device error'. its not the dock since I popped in a harddrive to backup some data. when I put in the ssd I hear the pop the...
Western Digital profit beats on better-than-expected margins
Western Digital Corp, the world’s No.1 hard-disk drive maker, reported a stronger-than-expected quarterly profit as it sold more higher-margin products to businesses and consumers.
I bought a Sony HD-EG5 500GB HDD, i tried to connect this to my PC and the PC would not pick it up. same goes for my Mecer Media Player - the media player picks up other hard drives but not this Sony. I tried it on my laptop and there it is being picked up and works fine.
why would this be so...