Western Digital has revealed it is shipping its Scorpio Blue 9.5 mm mobile hard drive with 1 TB capacity, designed for mainstream notebook computers. The new rugged, 2.5-inch hard drive featuring data protection utilises 500 GB-per-platter areal density and offers total storage capacity of 1TB. WD said the drive’s power consumption is low at 1.4W , making it suited for notebook computers and other portable devices that require extended battery life and cool, ultra quiet operation. The company has integrated the new hard drive with SecurePark that parks the recording heads off the disk surface during spin up, spin down,  [ Read More ]

Do you back up your data? Nearly half of small businesses have learned the hard way why regular data backups are crucial, yet many still fail to backup critical data, or they cut corners to save a buck and find out it can be much more expensive to be cheap.

Silicon Power has announced the launch of 1TB portable hard drives in their Diamond D10 and Stream S20 product lines. With a 2.5-inch form factor and USB 3.0 high speed transfer interface, this is their latest addition following on from the 320GB, 500GB, 640GB and 750GB models present earlier. The SP Stream series emphasizes on its race car inspired appearance, while the Diamond series is luxury themed with its classic checkered design. Besides power save mode, an LED indicator light is present on the drives, to help identify power on or data transfer status. The “SP Widget toolkit” featuring seven  [ Read More ]

Carbonite, one of the major players in the online backup solution space, has announced the availability of Carbonite Business for small- and medium-sized businesses (SMBs). The new Carbonite Business service (available in regular and premier editions) addresses the budgets, backup requirements, security, and accessibility needs of SMBs. Carbonite’s small business backup solutions are designed to accommodate small offices with multiple computers as well as large offices that require server backup. Carbonite Business backs up an unlimited number of computers for a flat fee of $229 per year, with 250GB of storage included. Carbonite Business Premier backs up an unlimited number  [ Read More ]

You may recall some controversy last week regarding whether the hard drive in Apple’s updated Time Capsule can really be considered “server-grade,” as Apple has claimed. According to a source at Western Digital, the hard drive does indeed meet the server-grade requirements, at least as far as Apple has defined them. The doubts about Time Capsule’s robustness arose after a Time Capsule teardown at French tech site Macbidouille revealed a Western Digital Caviar Green EARS20 drive inside Apple’s router/network storage hybrid device. You’ll find the EARS20 listed among Western Digital’s standard consumer-grade hard drives, and neither a model spec sheet  [ Read More ]