hard drives
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This Windows 10 ‘Drive Optimisation’ Bug Could Harm Your Drive
The latest Windows 10 update appears to be running the automatic hard drive optimisation process more often than it needs to. While this is a necessary part of a hard drive’s upkeep, and letting Windows run the TRIM command on your SSD never hurts, excessively defragmenting the drive is generally unnecessary and can affect an…
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Factory Automation Doesn’t Mean No Jobs, It Means New Jobs
When governments opine about the loss of manufacturing jobs and talk about bringing those jobs back, they are really romanticising “the good old days”. Manufacturing today isn’t about hundreds or thousands of workers standing at production lines. It’s about skilled technicians, automation and being data-driven. I spoke with Seagate’s Jeff Nygaard about the new wave…
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The Best Free Data Recovery Tools [2017]
Have you ever accidentally deleted a file, a folder or formatted an entire partition? It happens to the best of us, but all hope is not lost. There are a whole lot of free data recovery and undelete utilities available online, though it can be just as hard to tell which ones will actually work…
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Lessons From A Hard Drive Factory
I’m a sucker for a good factory tour. I recently had the opportunity to visit two of Seagate’s facilities in Singapore. Woodlands is a plant where Seagate manufactures hard drives while Shugart, named for the company’s founder, was focused on testing drives. I thought I knew a bit about storage but those tours were an…