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Western Digital and Seagate lower their revenue expectations for the current quarter

Western Digital and Seagate Technology announced their expectations for the current quarter ending September 30. Both companies lowered their estimations on sales and shipments due to lack of demand in global market. Western Digital and Seagate are the suppliers of hard disc drives to PC makers and also sell the storage products as standalone sells. […]

Ultrabooks: The concept in its nascent stages is already diminishing – Part 1

It was until Consumer Electronics Show 2012 that the ultrabooks meant a super slim laptop incorporating a feather weight existence, with optical drive and an SSD storage device. However, the event showcased a slew of new laptops that had none of these features and still were marketed as Ultrabooks, example Samsung Series 5 Ultra. This […]

Ultrabooks: The concept in its nascent stages is already diminishing – Part 2

But both Intel and PC makers have released a number of new laptops with the Ultrabook moniker attached to them, that the users have ended up confused which one is an ultrabook and which one is just laptop. After the release of Macbook Air by Apple in 2007, the concept was to introduce Windows-based laptops […]

Ultrabooks: The concept in its nascent stages is already diminishing – Part 3

However, the likes of Series 5 and Envy 14 Spectre have diluted the concept of the moniker with thicker and heavier notebooks. In addition, the optical drives and platter-based hard drives have made the customer more confused than facilitated. Remember the time Intel launched the Centrino series of circuits. Centrino name meant that a laptop […]

How To: What is the difference between a hard drive and a solid-state drive and how to replace them? – Part 1

Your computer working slow, there is a solution to take the speed to dazzling scales. Though the solution that I am going to lay out in front you is not an inexpensive one, but it is worth every penny of your spending. Most of the computer, laptops and desktops, that are available in the market […]

How To: What is the difference between a hard drive and a solid-state drive and how to replace them? – Part 2

There are two types of storage devices in every computer. One that stores the bits and bytes in the binary form and then there are chips and sticks that store the data, temporarily, to change, manipulate or run it. The former one are called hard drives and the latter ones are called Internal Memory or […]

How To: What is the difference between a hard drive and a solid-state drive and how to replace them? – Part 3

The platter is a magnetic disc akin to a CD or DVD and stores the data in magnetic cells called Data Tracks that can be modified or deleted. The head is the steward that serves the purpose of storing, accessing or deleting the data from the tracks. The spindle rotates the disc in dazzling speeds […]

How To: What is the difference between a hard drive and a solid-state drive and how to replace them? – Part 4

There are chips used in SSDs akin to flash drives that store the data at fixed positions. The circuit, for a layman, is a grid of lines in longitude and latitude. Every intersection has a spot to store an address and data. The index stores the data address just like older versions and upon the […]

How To: What is the difference between a hard drive and a solid-state drive and how to replace them? – Part 5

In order to replace the hard drive you need to attach the SSD to your computer, be it a laptop or a desktop. The SATA-to-USB cable would do the trick. Attach the SATA-plug end to namesake port on the SSD and insert the USB-end into the USB port of your computer, however, it has to […]

How To: What is the difference between a hard drive and a solid-state drive and how to replace them? – Part 6

5. You will only see this screen if the SSD is not empty, which it might not be since sometimes new SSDs come preformatted. In this case you want to choose to delete the partition on the destination drive, then click Next. This will erase all the content (if any) on the SSD. 6. Acronis […]

How To: What is the difference between a hard drive and a solid-state drive and how to replace them? – Part 7

Bring the new SSD and put it in place of the older one. Normally, the traditional HDDs and new SSDs have the same foot print and width but if they have a difference in dimensions, there are covers available in the market to nestle the SSDs inside to fix them up in place of HDDs. […]

Table Salt revolutionizes the data storage industry

Scientists based in Singapore brought a revolution in the data storage industry, bringing to the shores a new technology. The storage capacity can now be sextupled with the help of a simple household item, table salt. The method is the brainchild of months of research by a group of scientists from Agency of Science, Technology […]

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