hard drives

LinuxBSDos.com: "A step-by-step guide on how to dual-boot Ubuntu 11.10 and Windows 7 on a computer with two hard drives."

The whirring hard drives that once occupied entire university labs held but a fraction of the data we carry in our pockets every day — and that’s only 50 years of progress.

Today, as we move further into the cloud, and witness the latest and greatest pocket media devices, we thought it fitting to take a look back at how far we’ve come on our quest to store as much information in as little space as possible.

Linux.com: "Whether you are upgrading components for a system refresh, selling an old laptop on Craigslist, or recycling your desktop PC, there comes a time when you have to wipe a storage device in preparation for giving it to someone else."

Linux Magazine: "This month we have been testing a new kernel patch named bcache that takes SSDs and uses them as a cache for block devices (with the typical device being hard drives).

This article wraps up the testing with an investigation of the throughput of large files and summarizes all the testing to date"

SSDs can offer big speed improvements over hard drives—assuming you know what to do with them. Here's how to get the most bang for your storage buck.

The inventive $200 Antec DF-85 case is loaded with fans, room to work, and ways to hot-swap hard drives and SSDs.

TechRadar: "Since the arrival of consumer digital cameras, hard drives have been filling up with images of every social occasion, no matter how boring."

One of the fastest hard drives on the market is now available at up to twice the capacity.

The high-capacity drives are intended for use in laptops and other products that need energy efficient storage.

If you're still using Windows XP, you may be in for trouble in 2011, when all hard drives must move from 512-byte to 4KB sectors.