TECHNOLOGY SITES

Companies Web site Comments CD Speed 2000 (USA) http://www.cdspeed2000.com/ Tests of CD-ROM, DVD-ROM drives and CD-R media CNET (USA) http://computers.cnet.com/hardware/1,10121,0-1097-402-0,00.html Comparison of tape drive specs and prices DCI Database for Computer & Industry (Germany) http://www.pc-disk.de/ Specs of all hard disk drives and controllers DiskTrend (USA) http://www.disktrend.com/dtbooks.htm All the books on storage EMC (USA) http://www.emc.com/ir/basics/ Dictionary of storage terms HowStuffWorks, Inc. http://www.howstuffworks.com/hard-disk.htm How hard disks work? PC Guide http://www.pcguide.com/ref/hdd/index-c.html Information and history on hard disk drives Philips Licensing (The Netherlands) http://www.licensing.philips.com/ Royalties to manufacture CD/DVD drives/media Pricescan http://www.pricescan.com/home_computers.asp To find the cheapest storage devices Pricewatch http://www.pricewatch.com/ To find the cheapest storage devices SNIA http://www.snia.org/dictionary An excellent dictionary of storage networking term SPEC http://www.spec.org/ Benchmark of NAS subsystems StorageNewsletter http://www.storagenewsletter.com/base/Abbreviations.htm Abbrevations used in storage technology StorageReview http://www.storagereview.com/ Tests of all the more recent hard disk drives University of California San Diego (USA) http://isic.ucsd.edu/papers/sloanprop98.shtml Projects on the globalization of HDD manufacturing