'80 Mbytes of storage for under $12k!' and other ad favorites through the years
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We've collected some of the most entertaining advertisements that have appeared in Computerworld since 1967. As part of our 40th anniversary celebration, we're having so much fun looking through old issues that we thought we should share.
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Company hopes increased storage will boost its format's fortunes.
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The Disk Mini is available in capacities from 80- to 250GB and connects via USB.
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The Barracuda 7200.11 will sell for $399. Rival Hitachi released its version of the drive for the same price in April.
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Toshiba has announced a new and improved 40Gb and 80Gb version of its small hard drive found in the Apple iPod. Toshiba claims the new drives are the world&#39;s first hard disk drives based on perpendicular recording
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Drives in PCs and media centres from 2005
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New hard drive-based digital audio player features 20GB of storage.
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First, thanks for the great comments on yesterday's post about Apple and the hard disk of my MacBook. People were universally positive and helpful, and I can say I really learned some really important things as a result of the discussion. First, the cost of the data on the hard disk swamps the value of the value of the disk and even the value of the computer. There was source code on the computer, and other information, which if it fell into the wrong hands, could cause some serious problems for me. I have no agreement with Apple that covers the security or privacy of the data. As far as I know they think they own the contents of the disk as well as the disk itself. The experience I had with them actually makes me think they probably do feel its theirs. This from a company that takes the security of its own private information very seriously, they seem to have almost no regard for the security of its customers' information. You have no control over when a hard disk will crash, or any foreknowledge of when it's even likely to crash. So there's no way to protect against this kind of security issue. And that's what it is. What kind of sense does it make to invest in firewalls, and of what value is Apple's claim that Macs are inherently more secure, when all the data on one of my computers is now completely out of my control forever? I'm not so concerned about the privacy issues, but I could imagine that other people might be. And if identity thieves are not aware of this backdoor way to get access to private information, how long before they are? Security experts always warn us that obscurity is not a good strategy for security. So what to do?  Basically I've given up on trying to get Apple to do the right thing and give me my disk back. Some people at the Emeryville store are well-itentioned, and are just naive about the problems that can come when you trust people with all your data. Others just don't care. Either way it seems unlikely that I'm going to get it back, and even if I do, it's been out of my control for too long.  I'm going to go through the tedious job of changing the passwords on all my sensitive online accounts. That was overdue anyway. And next time a laptop blows its hard disk, I'm either going to replace it myself and shred the old disk, the same way I'd shred any sensitive documents before throwing them out, or just throw away the whole computer. I know this isn't green, but there seems to be no other course that's anything close to secure. And always be aware that you could lose a laptop, or it could be stolen. So far it seems that this is not yet an identity theft concern, but you can't be sure, and it won't be long before it is.  Thanks again for all the good info, advice and vibe.
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Virtualised SAN and NAS bid for your storage grid
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At Fry's this afternoon, where I bought two 500GB Firewire drives. Which it turns out I needed because after I got home all three external drives attached to my desktop were reported as damaged beyond repair by the new Mac OS. Coincidence? Lucky that I had exactly the hardware I needed to dig out of the mess? Who knows!
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New TagmaStore plays well with rivals' arrays to keep watch over 32 petabytes of data.
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New service offers 2GB of storage and a copy of Outlook 2003.
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120GB per 1.8in platter Toshiba has taken the wraps off a new hard drive recording technology it claims will dramatically increase the capacity of the 1.8in drives used in portable media players like Apple's newly announced iPod Classic.â¦
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The JVC Everio GZ-MC100 ($1199.95) and GZ-MC200 ($1299.95) will use 4GB Microdrive cards, which are removable hard drives measuring 1.5 inches square, but will also support standard CompactFlash and Secure Digital media.
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Western Digtial's latest external drive tops out at one terabyte. In Gear Factor.
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One-inch Microdrive capacity will jump to up to 10GB.
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Toshiba Storage Device Division today introduced new 80GB and 160GB 1.8-inch hard disks--the same size disk drives as are used in the iPod classic.