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Apple offers extended warranty for defective Time Capsules

It is valid for three years from date of purchase. Between February and June 2008, sold off equipment from unexpectedly or not start at all. Affected customers can contact an Apple Store or an authorized service partner.

Apple has acknowledged a technical problem with his backup solution Time Capsule. Affected customers, the company offers as part of an extended warranty, which covers a period of three years from date of purchase, a free repair or replacement.

According to a support notification, it happens that the power goes off unexpectedly, or can not boot. The problem occurs with models that have a serial number from the range between XX807XXXXXX and XX814XXXXXX and were sold worldwide from February to June 2008th The serial number readers can find on the bottom.

Depending on where Apple offers different ways to secure the damaged in a Time Capsule device data. In Germany, data can be "moved by an Apple Store or an Apple Authorized Service Provider (AASP), from the Time Capsule question on a replacement-Time-Capsule", says the support message.

Customers who paid by virtue of the recently discovered bug in the past for the repair or replacement device, with Apple to request the refund.

Due to a technical problem, Apple has for the warranty extended from February to June 2008 units sold its Time Capsule backup solution to three years (Image: Apple).

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OCZ announces 3.5-inch SSDs with up to 1 TB of storage

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OCZ Technologies has expanded its portfolio to include an SSD 3.5-inch model with a capacity of 120 GB to 1 TB. The SATA-II drives the Colossus-Series work with MLC memory cells, 128 MB cache and two controllers Indilinx ThinkPad X200 battery.

The SSDs provide Manufacturer’s read and write speeds of up to 260 MByte / s. The sustained write rate should not exceed 220 MB / sec. Access time is less than 0.1 milliseconds. RAID support is also on board.

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Pricing and availability of the Colossus Series OCZ has not made any claims. Some online retailers list the new releases but already: the entry-level model with 120 GB of memory costs about 500 € on the Internet, the 1-TB-3200 € variant proud hp pavilion dv9000 battery. The warranty is three years.

The Colossus SSDs are available with 120, 250, 500 and 1000 GB of memory (OCZ picture: thinkpad r50 battery).

Verbatim brings external 1.8-inch hard drive with 250 GB of memory

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Verbatim has launched a portable 1.8-inch hard drive with 250 GB of storage capacity on the market. The "Pocket Drive" called model measures 9 times 6.4 times 1.4 cm and weighs 85 grams It is connected via USB 2.0 with the computer dell latitude e6400 battery.

The plug-and-play appliance is compatible with Windows 2000, XP, Vista and 7 and Mac OS X version 10.1. Are powered directly through the USB connection, so no external power supply is needed. A blue LED light on the front displays the data transfer dell latitude e6500 battery.

Verbatim sells the hard drive now for 125 €. In the package, the program Dmailer Backup, which allows a backup with encryption. In addition, a technology developed by Verbatim synchronization software is included lenovo 3000 c100 battery. The warranty is two years.

The 250-gigabyte hard drive from Verbatim is now available for 125 € (picture: Verbatim canon bp-422 battery).

IBM researchers demonstrate magnetic tape storage density forty times B

With the newly developed technologies and tape cartridge in the future, an LTO format holds up to 35 terabytes of uncompressed data. This corresponds approximately to the 44-times the capacity of today’s LTO tapes of the fourth generation. The researchers believe not, however, that the possibilities are exhausted with it. "This demonstration is an important step towards the development of tape storage with a recording density of 100 billion bits per square inch," said Evangelos Eleftheriou, head of the storage technology research at IBM Research in Zurich.

"The tape technology to their cost advantage over disk storage and flash can continue to maintain and continue to allow affordable and robust data protection," said Cindy Grossman, vice president for IBM’s tape storage and archiving systems. This is particularly true for the remaining uses of magnetic tape, such as securing large amounts of data that would not regularly required, such as data and video archives, backup files and backup copies as part of disaster management or legal compliance.

In terms of cost per gigabyte tapes are in long-term storage of data, IBM said in a fifth to one tenth of current hard disk storage. Another advantage is that unlike continually rotating disk tape cartridges require no power when not accessed.

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IBM researchers demonstrate magnetic tape storage density forty times A

In a demonstration, they reached 29.5 billion bits per square inch. Based on these tape storage systems with 35 terabytes per tape cartridge will be developed. Application is the long-term storage of large amounts of data.

Researchers at IBM Research in Zurich have written in collaboration with Fujifilm on an advanced test tape 29.5 gigabits per square inch. That is almost forty times as much as is achieved with current products. They wanted to occupy so that one of the oldest technologies for data storage offers the potential for further capacity increases and not long had its days.

To achieve the record-storage density, improved the IBM researchers together with Fuji for three years the doubly coated on barium ferrite magnetic particles of the Japanese-based company. Due to the precise positioning of the read / write heads can also 25 times more data tracks on the same 0.5-inch-wide tape can be accommodated. A more precise identification of the individual bits also allows the 50-percent increase in linear recording density. In addition, a novel friction read / write head is necessary.

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