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Vulnerabilities noted for several models of Seagate external drives, patch offered

If you’re using a Seagate external hard drive, you may want to be aware of both the security risks present on the drive as well as the patch that was just released to fix the vulnerability. A series of vulnerabilities primarily affect owners of Seagate Wireless Plus Mobile Storage, Seagate Wireless Mobile Storage, and LaCie […]

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Apple begins shipping Thunderbolt-equipped displays to customer base

This had to come eventually. Per MacRumors, Apple’s new 27-inch Thunderbolt Display to its retail stores and resellers this week, while individual pre-orders are said to have shipping estimates of Sept. 15. The new displays are arriving this week and will be available for purchase “very soon.” Meanwhile, Electronista noted that it has heard of […]

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Initial tests show promising Thunderbolt speeds, ability to boot off new port

A newly published series of test results from the cool cats at AnandTech shows Apple’s newly adopted Thunderbolt technology blows FireWire 800 out of the water with data transfer speeds to an external RAID system at 700MB/s. After the release of Appleā€™s Thunderbolt cable on Tuesday, early impressions have begun to surface on the Web. […]

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How-To: Work Around Continuous External Hard Drive Spinning

As spiffy as Mac OS X’s 10.5 Time Machine feature can be, a number of users have noticed that their external hard drives continue to spin even when they have stopped using the drive, which has brought about the question as to whether the drive was being accessed by another, unauthorized application or because of […]