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Solid-State Storage Appliances Make Good Business Sense

vink — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 22:16:36 +0000

That is the title a certain storage vendor gave a press release that arrived in my mailbox today. Regular readers might have noticed that I tend to take press releases with a grain of salt; but this one was a real gem. I won’t give the name of the company that sent it here, [...] Related posts:

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How heavy is your data?

vink — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 21:06:12 +0000

PC Pro received a funny question: "does a hard drive become heavier if there's more data on it?"... [...] No related posts.

Fun hard drive destruction methods

vink — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 14:24:32 +0000

PC Pro has posted ten fun ways to dispose of old hard drives. The top three:

3. Burning the disk with a welding torch 2. Cutting it to pieces with an angle grinder 1. Smashing it with a hammer.

But the hammer might not be the best solution: as you can see in the [...] No related posts.