The UK's leading source for Hardware and Games reviews

Home

Tech

Modding

Gaming

Forum

25 articles tagged as data

Halo: Reach PC Review

Halo Reach is a solid PC port and remains a decent shooter, although it has dated more than we expected.

December 6, 2019 | 21:00

Gigabyte GeForce RTX 2080 Super Gaming OC Review

Triple-fan cooler, mild overclock, basic RGB - worth it over Founders?

December 4, 2019 | 12:00

bit-tech Mod of the Year 2019 in Association with Corsair - Nominate your Favourite Mods!

Who do you think deserves the crown for 2019?

December 4, 2019 | 09:00

Backblaze releases hard drive reliability data

Complete stats for 41,000 drives.

February 5, 2015 | 12:31

European roaming charges reduced from today

New EU limits will mean maximum 20p a minute or 45cents per MB.

July 1, 2013 | 14:55

Bit-tech survey results

We asked you what you thought of bit-tech, and here is what you told us

March 20, 2012 | 07:42

Western Digital adds SATA 6Gbps to all VelociRaptors

Adds SATA 6Gbps support and 32MB cache to cheaper models to increase performance.

July 26, 2011 | 12:06

Google: Cloud data location isn't important

Google security expert says firms shouldn't worry about where their data is stored.

June 10, 2011 | 13:40

Bayeux Tapestry tech specs calculated

2.429MB recorded in ten years, at a write-speed of 2.16 bytes per hour.

March 28, 2011 | 12:30

We stored 295 exabytes of data by 2007, says study

The journal Science has calculated the total amount of data stored by 2007.

February 14, 2011 | 11:41

Windows 7 64-bit most used OS

Valve's new Steam hardware survey has Win 7 64-bit as the most popular OS.

August 4, 2010 | 13:51

Kingston DataTraveler 300 256GB USB Review

A simple USB key with 256GB of storage? Crickey! You can carry around the equivalent of 54 DVDs on a piece of plastic half the size of your finger, and it even includes privacy software too - but with a low write speed and high price, has Kingston crammed in more than it can chew?

August 2, 2009 | 12:30

Oracle adds data integrity to Linux

Database specialist Oracle has teamed up with storage specialist Emulex to donate open-source code for detection of "silent data corruption" to Linux.

December 4, 2008 | 09:05

MI6 camera sold on eBay

A camera previously belonging to the Intelligence Services and containing top secret photographs and documentation regarding MI6 field agents was sold on eBay.

October 1, 2008 | 13:52

Firefox sets world record

The Mozilla Foundation has officially announced the results of the Firefox Download Day - a Guinness World Record for most downloads of a software product in 24 hours.

July 4, 2008 | 08:17

Mozilla considers tracking Firefox browsing habits

Mozilla CEO John Lilly has revealed that the Firefox developer is considering tracking users' browsing habits on a voluntary basis.

May 20, 2008 | 12:19

The Secrets of PC Memory: Part 3

In the third part of our detailed investigation into memory technology, our resident expert, Ryan J. Leng, dives into memory generations and detail its revolutionary, then evolutionary technical break-throughs that lead us up to today's systems.

February 8, 2008 | 08:03

Ship-based data centres are go

Stealth-mode start-up International Data Security has a novel idea to solve the growing cost of real estate for data centre use: converted cargo vessels.

January 10, 2008 | 12:50

Windows Home Server trashes files

Using a Windows Home Server-based appliance to store your precious data? Better make sure those backups work, as Microsoft has spotted a rather critical glitch.

December 28, 2007 | 10:09

IVY to visualise external data

We've seen "usage monitors" on external drives before, but a student has come up with a novel way to show exactly what type of files are being stored, in colour, using an OLED screen.

December 18, 2007 | 13:49

Built-in Vista probing tools exposed

If you thought Windows Genuine Advantage was your biggest concern after installing Windows Vista, you might want to think again after reading this.

July 3, 2007 | 10:33

MySpace to share sex offender details

MySpace has agreed to hand over the details of known convicted sex offenders that have signed up to the service.

May 22, 2007 | 11:55

Google works to privatise data

Google released a statement late Wednesday that it is taking further steps to protect the privacy of its users. It sounds like "Do no evil" is alive and well...

March 15, 2007 | 11:23

NVIDIA releases new 680i BIOS - fixes problems?

There have been some well-documented and widely experienced problems with NVIDIA's nForce 680i SLI reference motherboard. The company claims that the latest BIOS revision fixes the problems that many end users have had. Hopefully it fixes ours, too...

December 19, 2006 | 18:29

AOL apologises for released search data

AOL apologises for releasing peoples search query data but is it too little too late after detailed reports are published of the sinister things people search for?

August 8, 2006 | 13:21