Storage World

Samsung Terabyte Drive HD103UJ

Performance scores are one thing, but we are equally impressed by Samsung's technical accomplishment in achieving the highest areal density to date on its new series of SpinPoint F1 drives. And at the top of the heap sits the SpinPoint F1, the company’s long-awaited drive that reaches an areal density of an astonishing 334GB per platter. That's right. The Samsung SpinPoint F1 sports a three-platter array, much to the likely embarrassment of its competitors in the high-capacity storage a...

Chip giants unite for Flash replacement

A joint venture between two of the world's largest chip firms plans to release a new alternative to Flash memory this year. Numonyx, formed from the memory units of Intel and STMicroelectronics to commercialize phase-change memory, was created to commercialize Phase Change Memory (PCM), which is said to combine the read speed of NOR Flash and write speed of NAND. PCM memory also degrades far more slowly than Flash memory and requires no erase cycle. Phase-change memory works by using ti...

IBM Races To Create Faster Storage

The continuing evolution of processors tends to spark impressive innovation in other component areas, because no manufacturer wants its technology to be a data bottleneck in new systems. As such, the storage arena has made significant progress in recent years, particularly with solid-state drives, and now IBM is pushing that technology even farther. IBM has released details on a solid-state storage technology dubbed racetrack, named after the technology's penchant for racing data around a tra...

Free Backup and Sync Software for Your Storage

Allway Sync Sync files between your PC and an external drive, filtering by folder, file name, or file type. The program displays warnings about questionable files before syncing. Link: www.allwaysync.com DriveImage XML Make an image of your entire hard drive for backup and restore purposes. Link: www.runtime.org FolderShare Install the utility on multiple computers, create an online account where you identify each computer, and pick folders to synchronize. Up-to-date data becomes a...