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Toshiba launches 256GB SSD with MLC: Toshiba announced today an addition to its line-up of NAND-flash-based solid state drives, a new 256GB SSD, and the launch of a series of small-sized Flash Modules for Netbooks, UMPCs and other mobile applications. The new drives will be showcased at the CEATEC in Makuhari, Japan, from...; Tags: Ultramobile PC, Speed, Toshiba Corp., Ultramobile PCs (UMPCs), Serial ATA, Tablets, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Emerging Technologies, Storage, Andrew Nusca; Blog posts 2008-09-26
Air Transport Company Enhances Collaboration With Synchronized Solution: With offices spread throughout Europe and North America, SATA faced challenges maintaining its geographically dispersed IT infrastructure. Network connections were often slow and unreliable due to the low throughput of dedicated lines - ranging from 128 to 1,024 KiloBytes per second KBps - that supported the systems. Off late, SATA...; Tags: Microsoft Corp., Serial ATA, Groupware, Collaboration, Storage, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Software; Case studies 2008-08-21
(Eight excellent PC upgrade ideas): Eight excellent PC upgrade ideasThree Samsum Spinpoint HD's in raid configurationThree Samsum Spinpoint HD's in raid configuration is supported by many motherboards.Go for it. If a disk crashes you can replace it rapidly without data loss.VelociRaptor the fastest desktop HD?My one year old 300GB Seagate ST3300555SS SAS drive is faster:...; Tags: Desktops, Serial ATA, SAS Institute, VelociRaptor, PC Upgrade, PC, desktop; Discussion threads 2008-08-01
Emergency Boot CD (iso): Emergency Boot CD is a CD-ROM for booting PC and recovering data in emergency situations. EBCD contains file manager, which is able to backup your data from IDE, SCSI, and SATA fixed disks to USB Flash, FireWire removable devices, or other fixed disks; and restore them when necessary. EBCD includes...; Tags: Disk, PC, CD, PrimeExpert Software, EBCD, Microsoft Windows, Serial ATA, FireWire, Operating Systems, Software, Storage, Hardware, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology; Software downloads 2008-07-31
Sub-$600 general purpose PC, complete with Blu-ray support: One thing that's become clear to me from comments and emails that I receive is that readers want me to strike a balance between high-end stuff and the more affordable lower-end solutions. Today I'm going to outline a high-quality yet affordable PC that's up to the job of handling Blu-ray....; Tags: Video Card, PC, CPU, Blu-ray, RAM, Desktops, Media Center PCs, Serial ATA, Memory, Hardware, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Storage, Semiconductors, Components, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes; Blog posts 2008-07-29

My Sunday Afternoon: Fun with VMWare ESX 3i: My Sunday Afternoon: Fun with VMWare ESX 3iI dove deep dude ...... and in Table 11 came to 'iSCSI with Broadcom GB NIC'. Might give that a try before buying a RAID card.How about an expo from you/Robin H. on iSCSI? Some free offerings out there for iSCSI targets these...; Tags: IP storage, Storage area networks (SAN), Network technology, SATA Chipset, VMware Inc., iSCSI, Serial ATA, RAID, VMWare ESX, ESX, storage; Discussion threads 2008-07-28
World's fastest Blu-ray recorder outruns Blu-ray media?: Buffalo just announced the world's fastest Blu-ray recorder capable of burning through your data at an 8x clip. The problem? BDA-approved media maxes out at 6x assuming you can find one. That's a funny bit of math, no? Available in Japan...; Tags: Recorder, Media, Blu-ray, BDA-approved Media, Advertising & Promotion, Serial ATA, Marketing, Storage, Hardware, Andrew Nusca; Blog posts 2008-07-24
MSI Wind notebook hits stores, promptly sells out?: The much-delayed MSI Wind has finally started to ship -- well, sort of. Pre-orders for the mini machine have started to ship, supposedly. Newegg, Fry's, Buy.com and others are supposed to stock the 10-inch device, but they have either already sold out or are keeping mum...; Tags: Notebook, Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition, Machine, MSI Wind, Microsoft Windows XP, Serial ATA, Chipsets, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software, Storage, Hardware, Semiconductors, Components, Andrew Nusca; Blog posts 2008-07-09
Acer announces $499 home theater-friendly mini PC: If your geek tendencies have ever desired to shoehorn a computer into your home theater, now's the time to give in. Acer introduced the Aspire X1200 this morning, which for $450 includes on-board NVIDIA GeForce 8200 graphics, an AMD Athlon (remember those?) X2 2850e processor and, thankfully,...; Tags: Acer Inc., mini-PC, Serial ATA, Home Entertainment, Digital Video, Processors, Storage, Hardware, Personal Technology, Semiconductors, Components, Andrew Nusca; Blog posts 2008-07-08
HP StorageWorks MSA2000sa Configuration: Best Practices White Paper: The MSA2000sa is a direct attach 3 Gb SAS connected 2U Storage Area Network SAN solution designed for small to medium size deployments or remote locations. It comes in two models - a basic single-controller model for low initial cost with the ability to upgrade later and a model with...; Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., HP StorageWorks, SAS Institute, Model, Best Practice, MSA2000sa, Serial ATA, Storage, Hardware; White papers 2008-07-01
Western Digital VelociRaptor - Plenty of bark, not enough bite: Western Digital has revamped the Raptor line of 10,000RPM high-performance hard drives by unleashing the VelociRaptor. But does the performance boost justify the cost? by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes; Tags: Performance, Western Digital Corp., VelociRaptor, Serial ATA, Performance Management, RAID, Storage, Hardware, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes; Blog posts 2008-06-20
Making Use of Virtual Tape in a D2D2T Environment: A Virtual Tape Library enables a centralized, shared backup and recovery facility for the midsized data center. Combined with tape, in an integrated D2D2T environment, a VTL also becomes an integral component in an archival architecture. By connecting a VTL to a SAN, a single VTL appliance can serve as...; Tags: Data Center, Virtual Tape Library, Data Centers, Storage, Serial ATA, Hardware, Data Management; White papers 2008-05-28
Intel to use Centrino 2 ('Montevina') to push solid-state drives: According to unnamed sources talking to DigiTimes, Intel will use the Centrino 2 platform (code-named 'Montevina') to push solid-state drives SSDs into mainstream products. Initial shipments of Intel High Performance SSDs will come in two versions – Client X25-M and Client X18-M – the former having a physical size...; Tags: Hard Drive, Intel Centrino, Intel Corp., SSD, Serial ATA, Storage, Processors, Hardware, Semiconductors, Components, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes; Blog posts 2008-05-23
High-end disks dead in 2 years: Dave Donatelli, a senior exec at EMC - the largest data storage vendor - predicted that high-end flash drives will replace high-end hard drives in 2 years. Is this the beginning of the end for disk drives? What is a high-end hard drive? Unlike the...; Tags: Notebook, Disk, USB Flash Drive, Chip, PC Board, Notebook Disk, Serial ATA, Storage, Hardware, Robin Harris; Blog posts 2008-05-20
6 Gbit drives coming: 6 Gbit drives comingAll this high speed interface is limited...by the transfer rate internally in the drive. This improves burst rates only and data that can be cached in the drives buffers. It does nothing for extended read/write function that are larger than the drives buffers.RE: 6 Gbit drives...; Tags: GBit, Serial ATA; Discussion threads 2008-05-14
6 Gbit drives coming: Chip vendor PMC-Sierra and Seagate announced that they've . . . achieved interoperability between PMC-Sierra's end-to-end 6Gb/s SAS chipset and Seagate's early development 6Gb/s SAS Hard Disk Drives HDDs. This successful demonstration of 6Gb/s Serial Attached SCSI SAS interoperability provides server and storage system equipment...; Tags: Disk, PMC-Sierra Inc., Serial Attached SCSI, Seagate Technology LLC, Serial ATA, Chipsets, Storage, Hardware, Semiconductors, Components, Robin Harris; Blog posts 2008-05-13
The 31 Days of the Dragon contest starts today, win an HP laptop valued at over $5,000: While the giveaway I am going to talk about doesn't relate to a mobile device, my fellow MobileTechRoundup podcast co-hosts are a part of the contest and I think it is such a MAJOR contest that my readers here would enjoy entering for a chance to win. Today is the...; Tags: Contest, Hewlett-Packard Co., Corel Corp., Laptop Computer, RSS, Serial ATA, Tools & Techniques, Advertising & Promotion, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Notebooks, Internet, Storage, Hardware, Management, Marketing, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software, Notebooks & Tablets, Matthew Miller; Blog posts 2008-05-02
Apple beefs up iMac line: Apple on Monday updated its iMac lineup with the latest Intel Core 2 Duo processors and NVIDIA GeForce graphics. Among the tweaks to the iMac line: The iMac has 2GB of memory standard on most models and offers a 3.06 GHz Intel processor on the 24-inch iMac...; Tags: built-In, Apple iMac, Apple Inc., Intel Core 2 Duo, Serial ATA, Desktops, Wi-Fi, Processors, Wireless, Storage, Hardware, Semiconductors, Components, Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2008-04-28
Western Digital VelociRaptor hard drive: Western Digital have started shipping the company's fastest drive yet - the VelociRaptor. The VelociRaptor, model WD3000GLFS, is a 10,000RPM, 300GB drive. It differs from the existing Raptor models not only in the capacity (the largest Raptor has only 150GB of storage) but also in fact that...; Tags: Hard Drive, Western Digital Corp., Serial ATA, Games, Notebooks, Retail, Storage, Hardware, Personal Technology, Notebooks & Tablets, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes; Blog posts 2008-04-22
Icon Remover (exe): Some new USB devices such as ADSL cable modems, SATA HDD drives, ZIP Drives, External CDROMs are hotplug devices. A hotplug device means that you can remove the device any time without switching off the computer. If you want to remove the device, click the Safely Remove Hardware icon in...; Tags: Device, SafelyRemove, Serial ATA, Modems, Cable, DSL, Broadband Internet, Network Technology, Storage, Hardware, Components, Telecommunications, Personal Technology, Networking; Software downloads 2008-04-10