A snap shot look at analogue and digital storage devices

Posted by John Lampard on Wednesday, 27 January, 2010 to the technology subset

An infographic tracking the growing capacity of data and media storage devices from vinyl records, photo albums, and floppy discs, to iPods and hard drives.

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The best way to erase a hard drive: destroy it

Posted by John Lampard on Thursday, 18 December, 2008 to the technology subset

Reformatting a hard drive is next to useless when it comes to erasing the data stored on it. And even files that have previously been deleted can still be recovered if someone knows what they are doing.
While there are a number of applications that claim to effectively and completely “clean” a hard drive, the [...]

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