Western Digital offers a line of 2.5” drives made specifically for HTPCs, PVRs, surveillance video and digital signs. These drives use a 3 Gb/s interface, 32 MB cache and range in size from 160GB to 500GB. If you are looking for a 2.5” drive for your HTPC then the WD AV-25 line is for you.
There have been lots of discussions, rumours, musings and occasional panic around advanced format hard drives and Windows Home Server. Microsoft have issued a KB article talking about it.
Toshiba have just announced a new a new Wipe technology for their self encrypting disk drives that can security erase your data when powered-down or removed.
I believe that every office worker has fantasised about a reality in which they are the hero and their boss, the villain. Arguably, these scenarios play out every day, but perhaps not in the way that our imaginations, or Box Knight, depict.
