Smarter than your average bearer of data
Subject: Storage | October 14, 2005 - 05:49 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
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Kingston's 1GB U3 DataTraveler gives you a password protected way to bring your info with you. It offers far more than most would expect from a thumbdrive, read what all you get at the Tech Zone.
"With the launch of the U3 DataTraveler, Kingston has open up a whole new world of smart drive computing whereby any PC user moving between various locations and Windows 2000 SP4 or XP-based syste
Bigger drives with bigger cache
Subject: Storage | October 11, 2005 - 03:49 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
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Seagate's newest drive line, the 7200.9 is fully SATA 2.5 compliant, and comes in many flavours. They run from 40GB up to 500GB, with caches from 2MB up to 16MB! They are significantly hardier when it comes to bumps and bruises and also run quieter. Read the full story at Anandtech.
"Today, Seagate officially announces the joining of the 7200.7 and 7200.8 drives with its 7200.9 line of hard disk drives.
4 Gigs of Lightning Fast Storage
Subject: Storage | October 5, 2005 - 06:26 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
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The Gigabyte i-RAM, as reviewed by Hardware Zone, is a card that holds up to 4 gigs of RAM, and has a battery onboard, so data stored on the RAM will stay, even if it is moved from one computer to another, for about 16 hours. It utilizes SATA to transfer data, and it does it at an almost unbeleivable speed. See how it compares to one of the fastest SATA drives around.
"The new Gigabyte i-RAM is a device that uses DDR memory for storage while emulating itself as a SATA
A backup solution for now, and probably the next few years
Subject: Storage | October 3, 2005 - 02:00 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
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Techware Labs reviews the Anthology Solutions' Yellow Machine P400T Terabyte Storage Appliance. Not only is it big and yellow, it supports RAID 0,1,1+0 & 5. It has a built in 8 port LAN switch and NAT router, SPI firewall, auto backup, and many more features. The 8Mb cache is pretty impressive too!
"This review will be taking a look at Anthology Solutions' Yellow Machine P400T Terabyte Storage Appliance. That's right, a terabyte storage appliance.
Gigabyte Launches i-RAM Solid State Storage
Subject: Storage | September 28, 2005 - 02:04 PM | Ryan Shrout
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Well the technology that we first saw at Computex this past June looks like it is finally going to make it to the market.
Taipei, Taiwan September 28th, 2005 — GIGABYTE TECHNOLOGY, a leading manufacturer of motherboards, VGA cards and other computing hardware solutions, has launched GIGABYTE i-RAM, the world's fastest storage device available to digital graphics designers and PC enthusiasts.
Size Matters - Quick explanation of compression
Subject: Storage | September 28, 2005 - 11:43 AM | Jeremy Hellstrom
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The guys at HardwareHell talk about file compresssion, and what exactly happens when you use it. If you're curious about what you use Huffman coding for, give it a read.
"Modern compression is the technology used today by computers in order to pass data from place to place using less data then it would take to simply transfer these data as they are. Compression is quite common these days and is used transparently in many computer systems.
500 Gb of ... storage
Subject: Storage | September 27, 2005 - 11:46 AM | Jeremy Hellstrom
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16Mb cache and 500 Gb in size, the Hitachi Deskstar T7K500 Hard Drive reviewed by Xtreme Resources is one fast drive, that you'll take a while filling up.
"The capacity of hard disk drives grows daily, along with their speed. I still remember the first hard disk drives in the systems I first saw, drives that their capacity was merely 1/10th of the RS-MMC I hold right now, which is smaller than my fingertip.
Gigabyte i-RAM Review
Subject: Storage | July 26, 2005 - 02:05 PM | Ryan Shrout
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Anandtech has an article online today that looks at the Gigabyte i-RAM device that I showed you at Computex this past June.
The other issue with solid state storage is that DRAM is volatile, meaning that as soon as power is removed from the drive, all of your data would be lost.
Western Digital Releases 16MB Cache Caviar
Subject: Storage | May 23, 2005 - 06:03 PM | Ryan Shrout
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While at E3 I met up with the folks at Western Digital to discuss their future plans for the enthusiast market. They were obviously very happy about the success of the Raptor drive in the market and were looking on towards the next step in their high-RPM drives. Perhaps we'll see some higher capacities soon?
In other news that we can discuss, WD announced a 16MB cache part to compete against Maxtor's drives that have been out for a few months re
Blu-Ray DVD's Hit 100 GB
Subject: Storage | May 19, 2005 - 05:24 PM | Chuck Smith
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TDK has unveiled a 100 GB Blu-Ray disc at a Tokyo exibition this week. TDK has achieved this higher capacity by making this a four layer disc that can record data at 72Mbps (bits per second), double the 36Mbps rate for current Blu-Ray Discs. More can be read at The Register and at Macworld
The beast holds up to 100GB of data.
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