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- Your capacity will vary
- By an increasing amount Why is your storage capacity always less, sometimes a lot less, then what you see advertised on the box? There is only one rule: you will never get the capacity the vendor advertises. Storage vendors don't mean to be lying. They just...
- Tags: Disk, Capacity, Disk Capacity, Robin Harris
- Blog posts 2008-09-16
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- DiskTools Pro 3.5.1 (Mac)
- DiskTools Pro is a total system utility for the Mac, and the only one that allows you to schedule when to perform important tasks such as file defragmentation, backup, and bad sector repair in a single, easy-to-use interface. This intuitive software utility also doesn't require you to boot from a...
- Tags: Monitor, Apple Macintosh, Volume, Macware, DiskTools Pro, Backups, Monitors & Displays, Serial ATA, Hardware, Components, Storage
- Software downloads 2009-11-12
- Microsoft gives up to 1 million Xbox modders the boot from Live
- Exactly. I could not agree moreno different then many other things.In NASCAR, the team owns the car, NASCAR the rest.You are perfectlly free to do with your car whatever you wish, NASCAR just will not allow you to run it at their events.Microsoft is not stopping them from modifying their...
- Tags: Game players, Linux, Games, EULA, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Xbox, hardware functionality, hardware
- Discussion threads 2009-11-11
- AVCWare iPod to iPod/PC/iTunes Transfer 2.1.38.1016 (Windows)
- AVCWare iPod to iPod/Computer/iTunes Transfer not only can transfer your iPod/iPhone music/video/playlist/photos back to PC, but also support iPod to iTunes transfer. If you own more than one iPods, it can simultaneously manage all the iPods in the same interface, you may transfer files among these iPods by drag-and-drop. All...
- Tags: Apple iPod, Microsoft Windows, AVCware Studio, Digital Music, Digital Media, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics
- Software downloads 2009-11-09
- DV Backup 1.4.4 (Mac)
- DV Backup lets you use a digital camcorder (DV or Digital8, PAL or NTSC) to backup hard disk files. Capacity is up to 10GB per hour of tape, or 15GB if LP mode is used. backup, restore, verify with up to 11.5GB SP and 17.5GB LP capacity per hour of...
- Tags: Apple Macintosh, Coolatoola.com, Backups
- Software downloads 2009-11-07
- 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
- Oracle announces Exadata 2
- Cute. No SPF in this box? Hmmm....Well since Larry did not mention that the box does not have UPS tied into itself, the SPF Single Point of Failure for the unit is simply the PLUG. What a maroon. Pull the plug and it's down across the board.What I love about...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., SPF
- Discussion threads 2009-10-15
- Michael Dell - Loves Windows 7, slams netbooks
- O.o[i]Looks like Michael Dell is pushing for people to upgrade to the newest Dell laptops/desktops and Windows 7.[/i]He has to. It's how they make money.RE: Michael Dell - Loves Windows 7, slams netbooksNetbooks are about travel and portability. Am I going to give up my quadcore desktop? ...
- Tags: Netbooks, nettops & MIDs, Operating systems, Microsoft Windows, Dell Computer Corp., Michael Dell, netbook, Microsoft Windows 7
- Discussion threads 2009-10-14
- Optical storage: RIP
- Vintage Zip DriveI've actually got a Zip 100 SCSI drive sitting around with a ton of disks. Cost a ton when it was new, but now it's just an antique paperweight...Optical storage is not a dead endSSD drives are never going to catch on for some big things, like PC...
- Tags: Games, SSD Drives, SSD, optical media, hard drive, CD, game, Cd/DVd, storage, Optical Storage
- Discussion threads 2009-10-11
- RAIDaid 1.9.2 (Mac)
- RAIDaid has an easy to use interface that allows you to view disk arrays in all popular RAID formats. You can now plan your RAID setup and configuration even if you don't have a RAID!Benefits: Quickly determine the best configuration for your RAID system. Mix and match different RAID levels...
- Tags: Apple Macintosh, RAIDaid, RAID, Storage, Hardware
- Software downloads 2009-10-10
- New report explores the safe materials aspect of green technology
- Lots of the green technology coverage out there right now is focused on the carbon emissions impact of various gadgets, equipment and data centers. But a new report illustrates the advances that seven electronics companies have made when it comes to eliminating hazardous materials from their products. ...
- Tags: Chlorine, Green Technology, Report, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2009-10-07
- Researchers devise way to deny denial-of-service attacks
- How about a real-world test?They could set up a test site to the public and see if the hackers can take it down. Let the hackers do their best!Why the server?Why not move the process to the incoming router?Great Idea, good Start....and who else is making progress like this..?Wont...
- Tags: SECURITY, Network technology, NETWORKING, denial of service, server, ZDNet Tech Update Today, DOS, router
- Discussion threads 2009-10-01
- Intel: SSDs are coming
- A MisnomerThe term "solid-state" is actually slightly off, if the intent is to distinguish a unit with no moving parts from one with moving parts. The term "solid-state", although it can be used informally to mean "no-moving-parts", actually refers to lack of vacuum or gas-based tubes, thereby implying the...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Visual Studio, Storage, Intel Corp., SSD
- Discussion threads 2009-09-24
- Seagate's 2TB Barracuda XT, world's first SATA 6Gbps HDD
- It is still a SeageteIt is still a seagate, so it will fail very quickly.RE: Seagate's 2TB Barracuda XT, world's first SATA 6Gbps HDDAny word on the real world performance of SATA 6Gpbs vs. SAS drives?RE: Seagate's 2TB Barracuda XT, world's first SATA 6Gbps HDDHow about smaller capacities? I...
- Tags: Yes Vista, Seagate Technology LLC, SATA 6Gbps HDD, first SATA 6Gbps HDD, Serial ATA
- Discussion threads 2009-09-22
- What does 6 Gbit SATA mean to you?
- RE: What does 6 Gbit SATA mean to you?The transfer speed will remain meaningless until SATA 10k and 15k RPM speeds become the norm. The speed of the data retrieval from the platters is the biggest factor in drive performance. The disk drive is and will remain the...
- Tags: Performance management, Main Memory, OS/driver, Gbit SATA, disk
- Discussion threads 2009-09-21
- What does 6 Gbit SATA mean to you?
- Seagate announced a new disk with a 6 Gbit/s SATA interface, a 64 MB cache and 2 TB of capacity. What do the faster interface and higher cache mean to you? by Robin Harris
- Tags: Serial ATA, Storage, Hardware, Robin Harris
- Blog posts 2009-09-21
- Microsoft's newest Windows 7 promotion: $30 price tag for students
- It's thereClick on the option that says "Need to connect to a domain?".Not for ProfessionalMaryJo,I just tried it and it is only for Home Premium at least as far as I can see.RE: Microsoft's newest Windows 7 promotion: $30 price tag for studentsThanks for the heads up MJ, I just...
- Tags: Network technology, Microsoft Windows, 64-bit, newest Windows 7 promotion, Windows 7 promotion, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows 7, 32-bit, PC
- Discussion threads 2009-09-17
- Time to ditch the optical drive, once and for all
- Once heralded as the second coming of data storage, the sun has finally set on the optical drive as an effective vehicle for data storage and delivery. Optical drives are simply too small and too slow to be practical. Single layer discs hold 4.7GB while double layer discs can hold...
- Tags: Hard Drive, Apple Macintosh, Disk, Storage, Optical Drive, MCE, Jason D. O'Grady
- Blog posts 2009-09-16
- ARM targets Intel with 2GHz multicore chips
- Great platform for next-gen OS developmentThis sounds like it would be a great platform for somebody to develop the next generation OS we so badly need as a replacement for all of the existing 20th century OSes we're currently using.Still primitive - OS has a long way to goI use...
- Tags: Operating systems, Keyboards, multi-core processor, Intel Corp., chip, operating system, keyboard, ARM
- Discussion threads 2009-09-16
- MiniBatteryLogger 1.8.5 (Mac)
- MiniBatteryLogger monitors laptop batteries. Graph charge, amperage and voltage over time. Save monitoring sessions to disk for later analysis. Save snapshots of battery capacity and cycle count to evaluate battery decay. Monitor network batteries using Bonjour standalone battd daemon available. Compare your battery against the shared archive data....
- Tags: Apple Macintosh, Battery, Emeraldion Lodge, Engineering
- Software downloads 2009-09-06
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