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Western Digital undisputed King of disks, vanquishing Seagate, after Hitachi GST buy
Western Digital is now the undisputed disk drive champion of the world, after acquiring Hitachi GST and reaching nearly 50% market share. News | 09 Mar 2011
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Sectors – Storage news from Seagate, Isilon and StorageCraft
Seagate has debuted 1TB enterprise 2.5” drives, while StorageCraft has launched a flood relief effort News | 17 Jan 2011
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Film, Television and Radio School seeks 200TB
The Australian Film, Television and Radio School is looking for 200 TB of storage to help its students create digital media, improve backup and create an archive. News | 20 Dec 2010
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How to use Symantec NetBackup OpenStorage for disk-to-disk backup and recovery
Enterprise Storage Group Analyst Lauren Whitehouse explains how to use Symantec 's Veritas NetBackup OpenStorage option for disk-to-disk data backup and recovery. News | 04 Aug 2009
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Importer dumps tape for Acronis backup
Australasian Merchandisers has abandoned tape backup in favour of disk-based systems and server snapshots. News | 30 Mar 2009
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Law firm ditches tape for the cloud
Law firm Middletons has given up on tape and instead adopted a cloud storage provider for its archival needs. News | 16 Feb 2009
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Australian Catholic University plans realtime disk backup over the WAN
AARNet's gigabit speed network will make it possible for the Australian Catholic University to use realtime disk-to-disk backup. News | 20 Nov 2008
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Making the move from tape backup to disk backup
The industry is moving from tape-based backup to disk-based protection. Here's how to plan your own transition to the brave new world! News | 19 Aug 2008
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Tape vs. disk: how to calculate the cheapest option
Tape vs. disk is about more than dollars. Here's how to make your choice based on the value of your data, rather than the value of equipment. News | 28 Apr 2008
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Vista Service Pack One to boost new drive type
The forthcoming update to Windows Vista will give prominence to a new, hybrid, hard drive that mixes flash and electromagnetic recording in a single device. News | 24 Jan 2008
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Mean time between failure vs. load/unload cycles
Mean time between failure, the traditional metric used to predict the life of a disk drive, is being challenged by counts of load/unload cycles and annualized failure rates. Tip
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How to beat Bit Rot
Hard disks are marketed as supremely reliable and often quote mean times between failure (MTBF) in the hundreds of thousands of hours. But while drives keep on keeping on, it is still possible to lose data thanks to a phenomenon called Bit Rot. Learn... Tip
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Pros and cons of disk-to-disk backup
Some of the characteristics of disk-to-disk can make it a poor choice for your only form of backup. Tip
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Western Digital undisputed King of disks, vanquishing Seagate, after Hitachi GST buy
Western Digital is now the undisputed disk drive champion of the world, after acquiring Hitachi GST and reaching nearly 50% market share. News
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Sectors – Storage news from Seagate, Isilon and StorageCraft
Seagate has debuted 1TB enterprise 2.5” drives, while StorageCraft has launched a flood relief effort News
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Film, Television and Radio School seeks 200TB
The Australian Film, Television and Radio School is looking for 200 TB of storage to help its students create digital media, improve backup and create an archive. News
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Mean time between failure vs. load/unload cycles
Mean time between failure, the traditional metric used to predict the life of a disk drive, is being challenged by counts of load/unload cycles and annualized failure rates. Tip
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How to beat Bit Rot
Hard disks are marketed as supremely reliable and often quote mean times between failure (MTBF) in the hundreds of thousands of hours. But while drives keep on keeping on, it is still possible to lose data thanks to a phenomenon called Bit Rot. Learn... Tip
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How to use Symantec NetBackup OpenStorage for disk-to-disk backup and recovery
Enterprise Storage Group Analyst Lauren Whitehouse explains how to use Symantec 's Veritas NetBackup OpenStorage option for disk-to-disk data backup and recovery. News
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Importer dumps tape for Acronis backup
Australasian Merchandisers has abandoned tape backup in favour of disk-based systems and server snapshots. News
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Law firm ditches tape for the cloud
Law firm Middletons has given up on tape and instead adopted a cloud storage provider for its archival needs. News
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Australian Catholic University plans realtime disk backup over the WAN
AARNet's gigabit speed network will make it possible for the Australian Catholic University to use realtime disk-to-disk backup. News
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Making the move from tape backup to disk backup
The industry is moving from tape-based backup to disk-based protection. Here's how to plan your own transition to the brave new world! News
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