(1) See USB drive and external drive. (2) A disk or disk cartridge that is inserted into the drive for reading and writing and removed when not required. CD, DVD and Blu-ray discs are optical examples ...

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Tokyo – IO Data Device Inc. has released the first product meeting specifications set by the iVDR Hard Disk Drive Consortium (www.ivdr.org). Initially available in the Japanese market, the 20-Gbyte ...

TOKYO — The proposed use of a removable hard drive to exchange data — the concept promoted by the iVDR Hard Disk Drive Consortium for the past two years — is moving forward with the planned release of ...

One new appliance is Idealstor&'s FrankeNAS, which is a disk-to-disk storage and backup device that takes backup tape out of the equation. The device uses hard disks both in a RAID array and in a ...

A consortium of companies developing a removable hard-disk system for consumer use called the Information Versatile Disk for Removable usage (iVDR) plans to unveil a prototype 1.8-in. drive with a ...

TOKYO — Eight companies, including some of the biggest names in Japan’s electronics industry, have formed a consortium to promote and license a new removable hard disk system for use in PCs and ...

Iomega on Tuesday unveiled USB 2.0 and ATAPI versions of its new 70-Gbyte REV removable hard disks, which double the capacity of its current 35-Gbyte models, said Tom Kampfer, president and COO of the ...

SAN JOSE, Calif. and DORTMUND, Germany, March 20, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Overland-Tandberg™, a brand of Sphere 3D Corp. (NASDAQ:ANY) and a leading provider of data management, backup and storage ...

These days, cheap removable storage is no problem. USB sticks are virtually free at moderate capacity and not unreasonable, even at relatively large sizes. They are rugged, work across platforms, and ...

Here is a free and open-source tool to write a raw disk image file to a removable device (say USB or flash drive). The tool is named Win32 Disk Imager. It can come in handy when you want to create a ...

The primary computer storage medium until the turn of the century when solid state drives began replacing them. Hard disks emerged in corporate datacenters in the late 1960s and began to flourish in ...