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Intel and Micron Sample Industry's First 50 Nanometer NAND Flash Memory Devices
Subject: Storage | July 25, 2006 - 03:13 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
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BOISE, Idaho, and SANTA CLARA, Calif.,
July 25, 2006 — Demonstrating their commitment to move quickly up the
technology leadership curve, Micron Technology, Inc., and Intel
Corporation today announced they are sampling the industry's first NAND
flash memory built on industry-leading 50 nanometer (nm) process
technology. The samples were manufactured through IM Flash
Technologies, a joint development and manufacturing venture from Micron
and Intel.
If you haven't met NTFS, now would be the time
Subject: Storage | July 25, 2006 - 12:07 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
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If all you know about NTFS is that you like FAT32 better for some reason, get over to OCMODSHOP to familiarize yourself with it. Up until now, you have had a choice, but Vista wants NTFS, and nothing but.
Buffalo flashes the world with its enormous stick
Subject: Storage | July 18, 2006 - 12:14 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
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The Buffalo RUF2-S4G-BS 4GB USB drive is impressive. Not only in terms of capacity, but also the fact that it isn't really that much larger than other USB drives. Plus it beat the OCZ Rally for read and write speeds, with 30.0 MB/s read and 26.9 MB/s write. Read more at Overclockers Online.
A flash of inspiration may extend your laptop's battery life
Subject: Storage | July 13, 2006 - 02:38 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
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The Tech Report takes a look at Super Talent's upcoming flash based 2.5" laptop disk drive. With 3 sizes (4, 8 and 16 GBs), it won't hold huge amounts of data but certainly enough to be useful. With no moving parts, the power drain is in the neighbourhood of 10% of a normal drive's requirements, this will extend your notebooks battery.
Intel Expands Channel Offerings With Customizable Storage System
Subject: Storage | July 12, 2006 - 05:11 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
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SANTA CLARA, Calif., July 11, 2006 — Targeting the ongoing growth of data and need for availability and protection of storage, Intel Corporation today announced a new storage server hardware platform that can be customized for small- and medium-sized businesses (SMBs).
Born to RAID
Subject: Storage | July 6, 2006 - 12:18 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
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The Western Digital Caviar RAID Edition is up for review at TweakTown. It comes in various sizes between 100-500 Gb, has a 8.7ms seek time, and is designed to be run in RAID 0. Find out if it gets a benefit, and if running it as a single drive might not be a good idea.
Storage Area Networks versus Network Attached Storage
Subject: Storage | June 29, 2006 - 06:09 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
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Drop by Extremetech for a look at the Hammer Z-box, a 1 Terrabyte storage solution. Along the way they will explain NAS and SAN and what unique features each has.
Try testing the warranty on this one!
Subject: Storage | June 26, 2006 - 03:06 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
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The Inquirer found a bullet-proof USB drive! I can only imagine the fun the product testers had while determining if a keychain sized USB drive could be made to be bullet-proof. Go out and buy one to test for yourself.
Burnin the Blu-ray way
Subject: Storage | June 22, 2006 - 12:14 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
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ExtremeTech managed to find a real, live Blu-ray DVD burner, the Pioneer BDR-101A. Drop by and find out just how long it takes to burn 25GBs onto a DVD, and if you feel like paying the ~$1,000 to get one for yourself.
Get to know your SATA interface
Subject: Storage | June 19, 2006 - 05:57 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
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Drop by PC Mechanic to get an overview of the Serial ATA interface. Everything from how it differs from it's predecessor, PATA, and why case modders are so in love with it.
It's cheaper without the installed sunroof
Subject: Storage | June 15, 2006 - 02:01 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
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The Raptor WD1500 ADFD drive still is not cheap, at ~$250 for a 150Gig drive. As The Tech Report discovered though, with the new firmware on these newer models, they can actually out-perform the earlier windowed models.
Backup to external hard drives the easy way
Subject: Storage | June 9, 2006 - 03:09 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
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Bjorn3D reviews the Eksitdata Easy ATA and Easy SATA USB adaptors. Plug in a SATA drive on the fly for backup, or reboot to attach a PATA drive, with no external enclosure. Cheap and easy to use, though will notice a speed decrease when transferring over USB to SATA.
Not all SD cards are the same
Subject: Storage | May 22, 2006 - 04:53 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
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BCC Hardware compares Crucial's 2GB SD flash card with ones from Soultek and Transcend. Shouldn't your digital camera deserve the best memory you can get it?
Network Attached Storage for the little guy
Subject: Storage | May 17, 2006 - 06:32 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
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Think Computers introduces a handy little box from IOGear, the BOSS 120GB home/office network srever appliance. For around $300, you can get one, and set up your own file server in about 10 minutes.
Better than it was before. Better, stronger, faster.
Subject: Storage | May 5, 2006 - 01:35 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
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The new Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 750 GB is an impressive beast, and Big Bruin has it on the test bench. At about $500, it costs less than a dollar a gigabyte, and it is significantly faster than it's predecessor.
"Seagate really does have the Steve Austin of hard drives on their hands with the Barracuda 7200.10, as it really is better, stronger, faster. One thing the 6 Million Dollar Man didn't have going for him was being "bigger", which is obviously something the 7200.10 does have.
Thinking big
Subject: Storage | April 19, 2006 - 07:17 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
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Maybe 400 or 500GB hard drives sound big now, but it wasn't too long ago that a 4GB harddrive was huge. Drop by Tech Spot to see the newest storage drives from Seagate and Western Digital.
Think Speedy Gonzales with storage space
Subject: Storage | April 13, 2006 - 03:20 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
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It's tiny, about the size and thickness of a quarter, fast from it's USB2.0 and dual channel transfers, and holds 512MB, 1GB or 2GB. Check out OCZ's Mini-Kart series at Laptop Lifestyle.
Taking EZ DUB for a test spin
Subject: Storage | April 6, 2006 - 04:06 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
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Techware Labs tries out the newest drive from Lite-On, the EZ-DUB. Essentially it is postioned to be the easiest way to copy a CD or DVD, simply put a disk in the external drive, press a button ... wait ... remove disk and replace with blank disk ... wait again, and you are done.
8GB of storage for your favorite shutterbug
Subject: Storage | April 3, 2006 - 02:45 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
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Futurelooks reviews an 8 gigabyte compact flash compatible photo storage micro hard drive from Seagate Technologies. This card would seem to be the current record holder for biggest commercially available flash card, and there is no way you could fill it in just one sitting. If you know someone with 4 or 5 small flash cards for their camera, then you may know what to get them the next time they deserve a present.
"Sitting in a beautiful brand new plastic blister package was an 8 gigabyte compact flash
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Seagate provides you with some space
Subject: Storage | March 30, 2006 - 02:39 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
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The Seagate NL35 comes in 3 sizes, 250, 400 and 500GBs. XYZ Computing grabbed the 400GB SATA version and took it for a spin. As the drive was designed for enterprise applications, it makes perfect sense as a storage drive, the MTBF is 1 million hours and an error recovery control.
If you are more interested in speed than size, then check out Ryan's review of the WD Raptor X 150GB SATA drive.
