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A word of warning on hard disk recovery by swapping logic boards

Freezing it?"Popping it into a sealed plastic bag and freezing it for a few hours."Pardon my ignorance - what does this do to help?Except in this case, the problem is almostcertainly fried electronics because of the method in which the drive failed.Strange. Hu?I can't say how it works, but I...

Tags: logic board, hard drive, hard-disk recovery, Cooling

Discussion threads 2009-10-21

Cooling future cost inflation

Cooling future cost inflationMakes senseAlthough you COULD should take those 80+ watt desktops and grid them together in a distributed fashion - thus adding little-used CPU power into a big pool. This allows for ALL computers great and small to be loaded and configured EXACTLY THE SAME. This of course...

Tags: Currency & Foreign exchange, Desktops, Virtualization, inflation, Sun Ray, Sun Microsystems Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-05-23

Comin' at ya! 'Ultradense' servers

Comin' at ya! 'Ultradense' serversCooling is keyCooling is the key in ultimate density systems it is obvious at least to me that liquid cooling will replace air. It is an opportunity to re engineer the data center as a whole from sub systems to turn a profit from heat generated...

Tags: Data centers, Storage, Ultradense, Comin, data center, Cooling, server

Discussion threads 2009-03-10

The Hardware 2.0 Best Kit List - Apr 08/May 08

The Hardware 2.0 "Best Kit List" for Apr 08/May 08. Here I've put together a list of the best high-end and mid-range components currently available, with some decent budget parts listed too, along with a few honorable mentions. by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

Tags: kit, components, graphics, ram, cpu, drives, processors, cases, psu, cooling

Image galleries 2008-03-28

The server with the windmill on top

The server with the windmill on topCooling the real killerIf we wanted to really tackle the problem of power consumption in the data center, cooling should be addressed. Maybe a naturally cooler environment could be used to cool the data center rather than running all those AC units.RE: Cooling the...

Tags: Data centers, Storage, Cooling, server

Discussion threads 2008-03-18

Photos: Cryogenics chilled systems at CeBit

Amid the talk of green and power-efficient computing at CeBIT this year, in some cases it is all about faster and cooler--and in one instance, that involves liquid nitrogen. ZDNetUK reports from Hannover, Germany. by Andy Smith

Tags: CeBit, Hardware, cooling

Image galleries 2008-03-05

Choosing the right PSU for your PC

Choosing the right PSU for your PCAnd oh, yeah . . .And oh, I forgot - I do indeed use a UPS. Needed to, I was getting brownouts in my neighborhood, and that killed my first power supply collapsing magnetic fields cause spikes in transformers.So now I use a UPS...

Tags: PC, power supply, PSU, PC Power, Cooling, Antec

Discussion threads 2007-03-09

SilverStone SG01-E (silver)

While some small-form-factor PC cases come with a custom-made power supply and motherboard and could more accurately be called bare-bones systems, the $150 SilverStone SG01-E is just an empty shell, waiting to be filled with your choice of components. And the choices the SG01-E affords are many; the chassis can...

Tags: PCI, SilverStone SG01-E, motherboard, hard drive, card

Product reviews 2006-05-03

Liquid-filled chips cool like mini-fridges

Liquid-filled chips cool like mini-fridgesPretty, umm... Cool..?Will this cause me to start using heat in the winter? The 9 PCs and 3 laptops do a pretty good job right now..This makes my nips stand out!But I wonder how they avoid condensation...Anyone got......a mini-beer?Liquid filled chipsWhat is the cooling media......

Tags: Semiconductors, Network technology, chip, Cooling

Discussion threads 2005-04-18

Additional Resources

Solution Brief: Dell Equalogic PS Series Can Offer Robust, High-Availability Infrastructure for Microsoft's 2008 R2 HYPER-V

Virtualization has become a popular IT strategy for enhancing hardware utilization, helping organizations decrease power, cooling, and data center footprint costs, and enhance the flexibility of IT. While virtualization can offer a wide range of IT benefits, running multiple applications on each physical server can place availability at risk. If...

Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Data Center, Virtualization, Information Technology, Dell EqualLogic, Server, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows Server Hyper-V, Data Centers, Cloud Computing, Strategy, Storage Management, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Management

White papers 2009-11-04

Washington: lots of talk about global warming

Fuller: Too many blogs about the LIE of global warming.Global warming b*llshit demolished:http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1533290/Climate-chaos-Dont-believe-it.htmlGuys (or should I say - Fuller), stop LYING.Also, stop saying there's a problem and then coming up with burdening 'solutions' to non-existent problems. The latest FASCIST idea: Blame Children for 'global warming'. Yeah right.http://unitedfamiliesinternational.wordpress.com/2009/11/02/children-to-blame-for-climate-change/Fuller, why are you...

Tags: global warming, carbon dioxide

Discussion threads 2009-11-03

Hardware 2.0 'Very Best Kit List' for Nov/Dec 09

These are consistently your most useful columnsI really look forward to these, especially since I'm thinking about building a new video editing machine. One that can handle full frame 1080 24p h.264 video. I can transcode it with cineform but unless you're doing a lot of color work, it's...

Tags: Processors, Nov/Dec 09, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Best Kit List, Hardware 2.0, CPU, hardware, Intel Corp., motherboard

Discussion threads 2009-11-03

Kerry-Boxer bill battle set for Tuesday

That is just the bipartisanship ........ President Obama campaigned on. Not!!!Harry leaves and we're all better offWhy don't you go somewhere else to blow off all this hot air and perhaps the U.S. emissions will be cut in half? :-)Harry's blogs: e-pollution on this IT tech site.ntLeveling the playing field...The...

Tags: Blogging, Arctic

Discussion threads 2009-11-02

The perfect computer?

I have to admit...that I did not read past the title. Suffice it to say that there is no such thing as the perfect woman, perfect car, perfect meal, perfect computer or perfect anything. Individuals' needs and tasted are just too varied. Too trueTo mirror the above post, there is...

Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Brownouts, computer, perfect computer

Discussion threads 2009-11-02

Internet performance management makes data center consolidation possible

There are many more advantages to consolidation... Virtual switch technology... Virtual switch technology, is far faster than anything Ciscoor other hardware router vendors can push through your INTRAnet.... In the era of mashups... and multi database applications, you want internet connections that are at memory transfer speeds, not...

Tags: Routers & switches, Network technology, NETWORKING, data center consolidation, data center, hub/Switch, IP, hardware, Internet

Discussion threads 2009-11-02

Maingear unleashes Shift desktop, child-sized 'personal supercomputer' for $2,199 (or $13,394)

Without demonstrated Linux or OSX support......what's the point? Who does video stuff on Windows?Plenty do.....You just don't get out much. My XP system with cakewalk software did me just fine and that was on a P4 system that couldn't keep itself cool, ever. But my audio quality...

Tags: Desktops, Maingear, personal supercomputer, supercomputer, desktop

Discussion threads 2009-11-02

Holiday Gift Guide 2009: Hardware components

Another ideaThe KH family must look forward to Santa's arrival if those are your ideas of gifts!One I think worth considering is and external drive and a back up program. You know which friends need those. (Sorry Zack :- Well, those choices were...... different.Why the i7 extreme, when you can...

Tags: Games, Holiday Gift Guide 2009, Holiday Gift Guide, Holiday gift, hardware component, hardware

Discussion threads 2009-11-02

Wave disk engines to make hybrid vehicles cheaper, more efficient

RE: Wave disk engines to make hybrid vehicles cheaper, more efficientIt would require an encyclopedia simply to list all the turbine applications developed over the past century. What turbines continue to dislike, however, is speed alterations. Change their speed and you lose much of their efficiency. That's...

Tags: Telecom & Utilities, gasoline engine, disk, diesel, combustion, turbine, battery

Discussion threads 2009-11-02

eVGA GeForce 9400 GT - graphics adapter - GF 9400 GT - 1 GB

Great for Windows 7The EVGA GeForce 9400GT can be summarized in one word; Performance. The Windows Experience Index increased from 3.5 to 4.9, mostly because the old card had only 128 MB of memory while this one has 1 GB. Several things worth mentioning, especially for Windows 7...

Tags: installation disk, graphics, card, eVGA, Microsoft Windows 7, adapter

Discussion threads 2009-10-30

More laptops combine Core i7, Windows 7

dear zdnet editors,please put sign "commercial" before you write one.who cares for lenovo and win 7 anyway?i agree !The low cost PC manufacturers DON'T CARE about things like heat problems ! They just want to make money and sell PCs that will have a short lifetime because of their poor...

Tags: Notebooks, Operating systems, Microsoft Windows 7, MIL-SPEC, Microsoft Windows, Little Man, laptop computer

Discussion threads 2009-10-28