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Dec
20
Internet Safety Tips for Teens
It's a wild world out there, and it can be especially dangerous for teens who are not yet equipped with the life experience necessary to protect themselves from the unknown. The Internet is no exception, as it presents a multitude of risky situations to teenagers from the seeming safety of "virtual" reality. What many teenagers don't realize is ...
Dec
20
5 Tips for Effectively Backing Up Your Hard Drive
If you are not backing up your computer's hard drive, then you should be - and the statistics say so. Eight percent of hard drives fail at some point or another, and you could easily be that one out of twelve. Most likely (and this is my experience), that hard drive failure will occur right when you need ...
Dec
19
Western Digital and Seagate to reduce hard drive warranties in 2012
Seagate and Western Digital are reducing hard drive warranties for hard drives shipped next year.
Now is the time to buy hard drives to get your warranties locked in.
The Western Digital Scorpio Blue, Green and Caviar Blue will be available with only a two year warranty rather than the current three year warranty. WD will however allow you to have ...
Dec
13
4 Terabyte Hard Drives Announced by Hitachi
Hitachi has announced pricing and availability for their 4 terabyte internal and external hard drives. The 4TB Hitachi Deskstar 5K4000 requires special software so that Windows, Apple and Linux can see it correctly. I hope the software doesn't provide an overlay to make the systems see the hard drive because I remember how painful that was. The drive is a ...
Nov
23
Your Hitachi Hard Drive is now a Western Digital
Hitachi and Western Digital will soon be one company. The European Union regulators have given a conditional green light to Western Digital's plans to buy Hitachi's storage division for $4.3 billion. Western Digital is the second largest hard drive manufacturer and Hitachi is the third largest manufacturer of hard drives in the world. Seems like all of the hard drive ...
