The often overlooked hard drive
Subject: Storage | April 24, 2007 - 03:12 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
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"While often overlooked, the hard drive plays an important role in the system's overall capacity and performance which can
be vital in ensuring a smooth-running, glitch-free experience. If data bogs down at the hard drive, you won't have a chance
in Zanzibar to experience the full power of your system, no matter how much processing power you're packing.
Hard drives can differ in capacity and performance.
A Terrabyte in RAID 0
Subject: Storage | April 19, 2007 - 02:49 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
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AnandTech re-reviews the Hitachi DeskStar 7K1000, this time with a pair set up in RAID 0. They find very little difference between the real application performance of this drive in single or RAID 0, nor can it keep up with the Raptors. However, if you are looking for nice looking benchmark scores, you definitely want the RAID.
Intel Unveils Quad-Core Storage Server
Subject: Storage | April 16, 2007 - 05:18 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
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STORAGE NETWORKING WORLD, San Diego, April 16, 2007 — Intel Corporation today announced the industry's first 2U, 12 drive, integrated quad-core storage server: the Intel Storage Server SSR212MC2. This hardware platform enables a new price/performance class for the small- and medium-sized business (SMB) market.
OCZs' 3-in-1 SD
Subject: Storage | April 12, 2007 - 03:15 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
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Phoronix has posted a review of the new 3 in 1 SD memory card, the Trifecta. Not only does it work as a normal SD card as well as a microSD card, it will also plug into a USB port, so you don't even need a card reader. Find out how well they implemented the USB compatibility in the full review.
Format War 2
Subject: Storage | April 2, 2007 - 02:26 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
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Betamax is dead, VHS victorious. Now we have a new battle begin fought between Blu-ray and HD-DVD. [H]ard|OCP takes a look at their recent battles, and tries to figure out who loses and why. Blu-ray holds more on a disk, but 50GBs isn't really much space for HD programming, but it does beat the 30GB of a dual sided HD-DVD. They carry on to look at which format studios are supporting, as that will probably the largest influence.
OCZ Enhances their Flash Lineup with the Remarkably Versatile Trifecta Card
Subject: Storage | March 27, 2007 - 11:07 AM | Jeremy Hellstrom
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Sunnyvale, CA—March 26, 2007—OCZ Technology Group, Inc., a worldwide
leader in innovative, ultra-high performance and high reliability
memory, today released the most innovative Secure Digital™ memory
solution on the market, the new OCZ Trifecta SD card series. This
unique combination of microSD™, SD and a USB key in one unit creates a
new way of sharing files between your mobile phone, MP3 player, digital
camera, and PC.
PCIe RAID card
Subject: Storage | March 22, 2007 - 06:18 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
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Now that most motherboards come with built in RAID capabilities, the once ubiquitous RAID controller card seems to have died out.
Terabyte storage for the desktop
Subject: Storage | March 20, 2007 - 01:30 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
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Hitachi has won the race to get terabyte storage to the desktop with their 7K1000. With 200 GB platters (as opposed to trying to get 250GB ones to work), the seek times are a little slower at 8.5 ms/14ms Silent. It doesn't slow it down too much, in fact it is pretty quick, but slower on the large files. Read on at AnandTech to see the future of large scale home storage.
Super Talent Announces SATA Solid State Disk Drives
Subject: Storage | March 14, 2007 - 03:13 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
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San Jose, California — February 14, 2007 -- Super Talent Technology, a leading manufacturer of DRAM memory modules and flash products, today announced a full range of Solid State Disk (SSD) drives with an industry standard Serial ATA interface.
The blue light at the end of the tunnel
Subject: Storage | March 9, 2007 - 03:13 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
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The Tech Zone expounds on the benefits of Blu-Ray and why it is here to stay. It isn't just a look at how quickly the encryption was broken, and the extra usage that gave people, but also the use it is put to. Most consumers don't want to think about buying an external hard drive to do their backups on, they burn it to CD or DVD. With the growing size of every file and the growing number of files the average user has, Blu-Ray may be the perfect answer.
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