Prior to January’s MacWorld convention, Apple released several news bulletins.  One of which is that Steve Jobs will not be attending as the keynote speaker.  The other one is that the succeeding releases of Apple MacBooks and iBooks will no longer support Firewire connectors.
Both news are significant, but for ordinary users, the latter one has [...]

A while back, I helped a friend buy a computer.  It had a small form-factor, but quite competitive with the price point and features.  But mainly, I suggested the brand because of the warranty.  The company had a standard two year warranty on parts and one year warranty on labor.
I didn’t put much bearing into [...]

Sony has always prided itself in innovation and with sticking with a technology even if they’re the only one in the niche.  This persistency is clearly seen in the AIT-5 SDX-1100 tape drive.  The server market has always been dependent on large capacity tape drives and the AIT-5 is no exception.  Built upon the AIT-4 [...]

No, I don’t use the floppy disk anymore.  At least not in the way I used floppy disks before.  I’ve gone through different incarnations of floppy disks before and I could not imagine how “flimsy” the data was during those days.
First time I used a floppy disk, it was 8-inches and was for a TRS [...]

A while back, there was a point in time when Iomega storage devices were the backup media of choice for desktops, small office and home office environments.  Now that it’s an EMC company, it’s again becoming more aggressive in the backup media and data storage market for personal use, small office and home office.
Iomega recently [...]

I have two computers at home, both with DVD burners, and everyone in my family has their own USB thumb drives (either a 2GB or a 4GB drive), and all of this storage space sometimes seems to be not enough.  With the cameras, mp3s, and CD-audio files as well as all those downloads, the free [...]

The USB flash drive has become the de facto standard for mobile data transfer.  The flash drive has effectively taken the place of the floppy disk.  One floppy disk function which the flash drive has not addressed (or at least users are not aware of it) is to use it to boot a computer.
For most [...]

If you’re like me who’s wired to the internet or the corporate LAN all the time, it might come as a shock that you’re computer is no longer the hardware you’re supposed to have.  It’s just a conduit, or worse, you can think of it as just the viewing end.
 
The computer is now the browser.
 
A [...]

I’ve been using PCs for more than 25 years and in all those years I’ve learned that a hard disk crash happens when it happens.  You might have an idea that it’s impending but you can never be really sure.
There are several ways to make sure that your data survives a hard disk crash.  A [...]

I have no idea what I’ll do with 1.0TB, as I don’t store movies on my computer.  I’m still a DVD disk as source and backup kind of guy.  But there are terabyte hard disks out there and two of the most cost-effective are from Seagate and Samsung.
As hard disks go, the Seagate Barracuda ST31500341AS [...]