Seagate continues to rapidly expand their channel for data recovery services.  Previously in 14,000 stores…now adds another 1,400 through Staples.  Interestingly, it seems that all recovery is done in house at Staples stores.  I doubt this highly. Most likely a problem hard drive is sent off to a central location for recovery.

Great article on how to easily install a new hard drive.

As pricing comes down for online data backup, adoption rates have risen. Mozy and Carbonite both offer unlimted storage for about $50/yr. That is a great rate! Mozy currently has about 350,000 customers, Carbonite over 100,000. The only downside is that data takes a long time to upload. As a second or third option it is hard to beat.

“The strategies will be implemented from next year and they aim to be the leader of the market by 2010.”

This would put Samsung at #3 behind Canon at 20 million and Sony at 16 digital cameras sold.

Article can be found here.

Great article on the burgeoning SSD (solid state hard drive) market. The newly released Mtron 32gb drive can hit a maximum write speed of 71mb/s!  Easily ahead of a top-of-the-line SATA hard drive.

“The SSD is the fastest storage medium available and not soon to be beaten by anything on the horizon. “