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Seagate Accidentally Shipped 1,800 Trojan-Horse Tainted Drives

Roughly 1,800 external drives manufactured by Seagate were infected with a Trojan horse virus that sent personal information back to China, according to the Taipei Times. The disk drives, sold at retail in Taiwan, were presumably messed with when they were in the possession of one of Seagate's Chinese subcontractors. The situation has been locked down, but it certainly puts a new spin on security fears, and Seagate itself has got to be pretty freaked out. All we have at the moment is a statement: "All products leaving the factory are now cleared of the virus." [Reuters]

11:06 AM on Tue Nov 13 2007
By Wilson Rothman
3,519 views, 8 comments

Latest by bucho54: "The situation has been locked down, but it certainly puts a new spin on security fears, and Seagate itself has got to be pretty freaked out." This isn't really a "new spin on security fears". I work in a company more »

apple

Leopard Disk Utility Format Issue Screws With Time Machine (But There's An Easy Fix)

The bad news is, we have discovered a Leopard-related issue that may very well throw a monkey wrench into your Time Machine. Anyone trying to use Time Machine with a previously PC-formatted drive could be at risk. The good news is, there is an easy—albeit none-too-obvious—fix. Here's the dilly-o: More »

Feature

12:00 AM on Tue Oct 30 2007
By Wilson Rothman
68,113 views, 44 comments

gadgets

Toshiba 200GB Portable Is About Capacity, Not Speed

There has been a ridiculous amount of news this past week about portable hard drives of the 2.5-inch variety. OWC introduced a 160GB 7200rpm portable. Samsung did one better announcing a 200GB 7200rpm 2.5-inch drive, but that was a tease: It would initially only be available to enterprise customers. More »

11:00 AM on Mon Apr 16 2007
By www.gizmodo.com
1,436 views, 10 comments

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200 Gigabytes of Perpendicular Love, Samsung Style

Seems like just yesterday when the world was all excited about OWC's packaging of a 2.5-in. 160GB 7200rpm drive Seagate Momentus drive with perpendicular recording capability. No time to enjoy that view: Samsung just upped the stakes with a 2.5-inch perpendicular-recording drive of its own. Capacity? 200GB. The company says the SpinPoint MP1 with SATA interface is currently only for enterprise customers; you folks at home will have to settle for the SpinPoint M5 Series, with single-disk options ranging from 60GB to 160GB, out in mid April, followed by a dual-disk 250GB config due later on.–Wilson Rothman More »

11:46 AM on Wed Apr 11 2007
By www.gizmodo.com
2,297 views, 4 comments

Latest by bgplpshep: @MrZuka If I read it correctly, the Toshiba is a 4500RPM drive and the Samsung is a 7200RPM drive. more »