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palmOne Turns to Hitachi Microdrive for "Spice of Life"

With the introduction of the LifeDrive mobile manager from palmOne, Inc., there is a new choice in a mobile computing device that fulfills both the quest for success and the zest for life. The LifeDrive mobile manager satisfies the needs of a growing, mobile population that wants access to greater...

Tags: Mobile, Hitachi Ltd., Palm Inc., Microdrive, LifeDrive Mobile Manager, Advertising & Promotion, Storage, Marketing, Hardware

Case studies

Microdrive raises PDAs' corporate cachet

IBM's 1-GB Microdrive is about to burst onto the scene, bringing with it a whole host of new multimedia applications, not to mention the potential for a 1-GB PDA. While this news may not affect your company's storage management plans yet, it will.By Francis Chu, eWeekIBM's 1-GB Microdrive is poised...

Tags: PDAs, CNET, IBM Corp., microdrive, storage, PDA

Technical articles 2002-01-28

New releases at PC Expo

Hal Glatzer reports from PC Expo on the latest, greatest products in the hard disk drive market.If new, higher-capacity hard disk drives are on your budgetary wish list this year, drives with storage exceeding 30 gigabytes GB are worth a look. They're on display this week at PC Expo.Quantum Corp....

Tags: Hal Glatzer, microdrive, internal data transfer, Mbps, data transfer, IBM Corp., PC Expo, Atlas 10K, Atlas, maximum internal data transfer, disk, disk drive, hard drive, Quantum Corp.

Technical articles 1999-06-23

Additional Resources

Flobo Digital Photo Recovery (exe)

Flobo Digital Photo Recovery is a data recovery tool for various flash cards (SmartMedia, CompactFlash, Memory Stick, MicroDrive, xD Picture Card Flash Card, PC Card, Multimedia Card, Secure Digital Card) and digital camera memory. It can effectively recover corrupted or lost data from formatted, damaged, unreadable or defective storage media.

Tags: Data Recovery, Recovery, Digital Photograph, Digital Camera, Photograph, Flobo Digital Photo Recovery, Digital Photography, Digital Cameras, Memory, Storage Management, Databases, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, Storage, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management

Software downloads 2006-04-07

Drop Proofing a Hard Disk Drive

Designing a hand held device, like a PDA, cell phone or MP3 player with a hard disk drive requires designing in some kind of drop protection. Until now, that protection usually consisted of some foam isolation, and/or some plastic suspension that "Gives" when the unit hits a hard surface thus...

Tags: Hard Drive, Disk Drive, Hitachi Ltd., Storage, Hardware

White papers 2005-08-01

The Femto Slider in Hitachi Hard Disk Drives

The tremendous revolution in hard disk drive storage technology over the past half century has been led by miniaturization of every component in the system. That trend continues with the introduction of the 'Femto' slider, which represents a key advancement in magnetic recording technology. The implementation of the femto slider...

Tags: Hard Drive, Disk, Disk Drive, Hitachi Ltd., Storage, Hardware

White papers 2005-08-01

TestDisk & PhotoRec (OS X) (bz2)

TestDisk is a powerful data recovery utility. It was primarily designed to help recover lost partitions and/or make non-booting disks bootable again when these symptoms are caused by faulty software, certain types of viruses or human error such as accidentally erasing your Partition Table. PhotoRec is file data recovery software...

Tags: Data Recovery, Apple Mac OS X, CG Security, TestDisk, PhotoRec, Storage Management, Databases, Storage, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management

Software downloads 2006-03-09

TestDisk & PhotoRec (zip)

TestDisk is a powerful data recovery utility. It was primarily designed to help recover lost partitions and/or make non-booting disks bootable again when these symptoms are caused by faulty software, certain types of viruses or human error such as accidentally erasing your Partition Table. PhotoRec is file data recovery software...

Tags: Data Recovery, CG Security, TestDisk, PhotoRec, Storage Management, Databases, Storage, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management

Software downloads 2008-03-14

Digital Photo Recovery (exe)

Digital Photo Recovery is a digital image recovery program designed for media recovery. The software will recover lost, deleted, and formatted digital photos, audio and video files from fixed or removable media such as CompactFlash, Memory Stick, miniSD, MultiMediaCard MMC, SD Card, SmartMedia, xD Picture Card, MicroDrive, FlashCard, PC Card,...

Tags: Recovery, Digital Photograph, Photograph, Digital Photo Recovery, Digital Cameras, Digital Photography, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology

Software downloads 2004-03-30

MediaRecover Image Recovery Mac (tar)

MediaRecover is an image, file, and multimedia recovery program for Mac. The program recovers lost, deleted, corrupt digital images from removable media used in digital cameras, PDA's, cellular phones, etc. Common media types supported by the program are: SmartMedia, CompactFlash, Memory Stick, MicroDrive, xD Picture Card, Multimedia Card, Secure Digital...

Tags: Multimedia, Apple Macintosh, Recovery, MediaRECOVER, Memory, Digital Photography, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, Personal Technology

Software downloads 2005-04-29

(Photos: Making the first disk drive)

More factsThe facts were interesting as were the pictures, but I felt confused by how some were presented. My first search to clarify some of them in my own mind turned up a great resource at IBM http://www-03.ibm.com/ibm/history/index.htmland specfic to the IBM 3330 referenced by the last picture http://www-03.ibm.com/ibm/history/exhibits/storage/storage_PH3330.htmlThe...

Tags: IBM Corp., RAMAC, ibm ramac 305 605, disk, techr@..., hardware, disk drive, photograph

Discussion threads 2006-09-12

DiskInternals Flash Recovery (zip)

It is a flash memory file recovery tool that every digital camera owner should have handy. Essentially, this program is a first aid kit for digital photographers and comes to the rescue at the exact moment when it's needed. Unfortunately, photos are often accidentally deleted or lost due to hardware...

Tags: Recovery, Photograph, Camera, Flash Memory, News, DiskInternals Flash Recovery, Memory, Digital Photography, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, Personal Technology

Software downloads 2006-02-06

CompuApps OnBelay (gz)

OnBelay can back up, duplicate, recover files, and format Cards from many types of flash media that have been lost due to system or battery failure, format or deletion or corruption caused by hardware or software malfunction. OnBelay software can recover data from Digital film cards such as CompactFlash, SmartMedia,...

Tags: SmartMedia, CompuApps, Memory, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components

Software downloads 2006-07-20

Maximize your Windows CE storage space with these three tips

If you support Windows CE devices, you've probably had end users who have filled their handhelds' memory with megabytes of useless info. Here are three tips you can share with these individuals to help keep their handhelds clean and running smoothly.The 16 or 32 MB of RAM, standard on many...

Tags: Handhelds, David Williams, Microsoft Windows CE, Microsoft Windows, Windows CE Device, storage

Technical articles 2001-05-31

VaioSoft Recovery Manager (exe)

Recovery Manager can backup, duplicate, recover files, & format cards from many types of flash media that have been lost due to system or battery failure, format or deletion or corruption caused by hardware or software malfunction. Recovery Manager software can recover data from Digital film cards such as CompactFlash,...

Tags: Software, Recovery, SD Card, Memory, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components

Software downloads 2005-09-16

PDA memory storage basics

PDAs can be great productivity tools. But when their batteries run down, you lose whatever data hasn't yet been synced to the desktop. To remedy this problem, PDA makers now include slots for nonvolatile flash memory in their products.One of the advantages of Palm PDAs is that they are RAM-based...

Tags: PDAs, Handhelds, Memory, Michael Jackman, PDA, storage, Handera

Technical articles 2002-04-09

MSconfig.sys for windows 2000

Is there any command file which provide same funtionality in windows 2000 as does by msconfig.sys in windows xp.When I did this for my home computer years ago i believe I used the msconfig.exe from Windows 98 SE. I think you can also use the one from ME and...

Tags: kamran-saleem@..., Run, StartUp, system startup, windows

Q&A 2005-01-21

Flashy IOGEAR Memory Bank flash card reader revs up file transfer rates

CompactFlash cards help many users store large amounts of data on PDAs and other portable devices. The problem is getting that data transferred to a PC quickly. James McPherson reviews a new IOGEAR device that promises to up the transfer rate sevenfold.Compact memory formats are the direct result of the...

Tags: Memory, bank, James McPherson, Memory Bank, USB

Technical articles 2002-06-06

Optical camera--Digital film

Acouple years ago I sam an article in the PopularScience magazine that showed a device that looked like a roll of 35mm film but had a CCDwindow that stuck out into the shutter area of a 35mm camera. What a deal I thought, I can keepthe optical advantages of...

Tags: 35MM, camera, Canon Inc., CCD window, digitaL, digital body, digital camera optical cmaeras, mjd420nova, Nikon Corp., off-topic

Discussion threads 2005-08-15

Containing the nonvolatile memory explosion

Memory cards, such as CompactFlash, are everywhere. They're not even strictly memory cards anymore but device interfaces. In this Daily Drill Down, James McPherson gives an overview of the technology to help you decide on a standard for your company.Because of the widespread use of digital cameras, PDAs, laptops, and...

Tags: Memory, James McPherson, CompactFlash, flash memory, Type 1, MMC

Technical articles 2000-10-06