Hard Drive warranties reduced from Seagate and Western Digital Seagate and Western Digital are drastically cutting the length of the warranties on many of their hard drives, leaving buyers with less protection if the products fail. Seagate is reducing warranties to as short as one year, while...
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40% of the world’s hard drive production under water in Thailand
Due to severe flooding in Thailand, many computer manufacturers are expecting to be out of hard drives within 2 weeks and have severe shortages for the next 6 months. As a result, hard drive prices have gone up 200% – 300% in the last 2 weeks and...
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Keep Your Data Safe – Wipe Your Data
Seven years ago, author and security pioneer Simson Garfinkel conducted a study of data he found on second-hand hard drives. He bought the hard drive from an old ATM machine on eBay and it still had the information on 827 bank account PINs. Another drive he purchased...
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