A 750GB Powerhouse
Western Digital might have been late to the party, but their 750GB Caviar SE16 hard drive means business. With performance nearly up to the Raptor X and 5x the capacity, might this drive interest you??
Pushing the quiet button
Subject: Storage | August 30, 2007 - 02:22 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
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The Tech Report reviewed Hitachi's Deskstar 7K1000 terabyte HDD earlier this month, and liked the performance, but not the noise when the drive was seeking. It turns out that they had disabled Hitachi's Automatic Acoustic Management, which is supposed to limit the noise produced. Head over to find out how well it works, and what performance costs you can expect to see from enabling it.
Intel to Respond to Request for Additional Information in Creation of New Flash Memory Company
Subject: Storage | August 30, 2007 - 11:16 AM | Jeremy Hellstrom
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SANTA CLARA, Calif., Aug. 30, 2007 - Intel Corporation today announced it has received a request for additional information from the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) in connection with the agency's regulatory review of the proposed transaction with STMicroelectronics and certain affiliates of Francisco Partners to form a private, independent semiconductor company that will design, develop and manufacture non-volatile memory products.
Storage on the go
Subject: Storage | August 28, 2007 - 02:59 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
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The Cirago Smart Mobile Storage System sports a Compact Flash, XD and SD card readers, as well as USB, and contains a standard 2.5" drive, making it very handy. OCC did notice 2 troubling problems with this otherwise perfect mobile storage device ... it only supports FAT 16/32, and the LCD is very hard to read.
Storage sandwich
Subject: Storage | August 23, 2007 - 03:36 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
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The Future of Things has had a look at Mempile's TeraDisc technology, a big yellow DVD that may soon obsolete the 2 DVD formats currently fighting for supremacy. They use their laser to create 200 virtual layers, five microns apart, each containing approximately 5 GB of data. Their test also show about a 50 year lifespan for data on the disk, but it is a shame about the colour.
Big storage in a small box
Subject: Storage | August 20, 2007 - 02:28 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
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Overclockers Club reviewed the Seagate FreeAgent Pro 750GB external HDD. Offering a huge amount of storage, the entire unit is comparable in size to a pair of CD jewel cases, which means you won't be giving up a lot of desk space for electronic storage, leaving you room for piles of papers and USB beverage coolers, etc ... An included adapter makes sure you can still use this device if you don't have eSata or other less common interfaces.
There is a premium on those last 250GB
Subject: Storage | August 14, 2007 - 12:14 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
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The Tech Report is rather impressed by their receiving an actual SATA terabyte drive, Hitachi's Deskstar 7K1000. In terms of size, it is unique, unfortunately it's performance is not. While it can out perform drives that have been on the market for a year or more, it has difficulty with the new generation of 750 GB drives that the competition offers. There is also the fact that that extra 250GB costs you about $150, but if you need 1000GB of storage on a single SATA drive, <
I'm a Survivor!
Corsair has two flash drives for you to consider today: one that can get run over by cars and the other that requires a PIN number for security! If you are looking for something different in the world of flash drives, you'll want to check this out!
Now that's optical storage
Subject: Storage | August 9, 2007 - 06:24 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
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How does femtosecond seek times on a hard drive sound? It may not actually hit those speeds anytime soon, but switching to using polarized light to flip bits on a hard drive is certainly going to increase HDD speeds by a lot. Read how they did what was previously thought impossible at Physics World.
WD finally expands their storage lineup
Subject: Storage | August 3, 2007 - 04:42 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
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Fans of Western Digital finally have a model that can be used for serious storage, the WD7500AAKS 750GB SATA HDD. As shown in HotHardware's review, their first foray into perpendicular storage is a huge success. They've combined that new technology with their Caviar series to provide a drive that leaves their competitors in the dust.
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