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If you have a bunch of floppy disk drives lying around, do what this guy did - create the Star Wars Imperial March theme from it. Sure, it looks easy. Or you could just enjoy this video.

Box.net, a provider of cloud-based storage and file-sharing for businesses, has raised $18.7 million in financing from seven unidentified investors.

Amazon pitches Cloud Drive to consumers as online music storage to stream MP3s, but it can do a lot more than than, at 60 percent the cost of S3.

After losing out to HP in a bidding war for thin-provisioning specialist 3Par, Dell is trying again with a SAN vendor whose best feature is granular control and efficient storage of data.

Last year, Intel surprised everyone by unveiling Light Peak as an incredibly high-speed connectivity technology that could handle multiple functions. Now, it looks like Light Peak might hit mass market alongside Intel's other next-generation connectivity option, USB 3.0, which could change the game of what next year's PCs may offer.

Ten, twenty years ago bring your data from one place to another was fairly easy. Today, it's still easy but you've got some choices about how you want to do it - use the cloud or spend a few bucks on a flash drive that fits on your keyring?

A company called Imation Corp. today unveiled a $449.99 product called the Pro WX Wireless USB hard drive.

Earlier this week, HP announced that it signed a definitive agreement to acquire LeftHand Networks, a provider of storage virtualization and iSCSI storage area network (SAN) solutions. This is a big deal, because LeftHand Networks has more than 11,000 installations across 3,000 different customers. Another iSCSI vendor, DataCore is looking to capitalize on uncertainty among resellers.

In last week's post we saw how to shrink a disk volume using the SHRINK subcommand of the DISKPART command. Today we'll look at another use for this command.