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HDS, McData tap new standard for cheaper storage

HDS, McData tap new standard for cheaper storageabout timebeen sick of the "standard" hard drives, time to innovate and move away from existing hard drive standardsForum LOGOUTCome on ZDNET, give us a way to LOGOUT of this forum from anywhere on yout site. Accessing a post just to log off...

Tags: Logout, HDS, McDATA Corp., hard drive, storage

Discussion threads 2003-11-20

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Microsoft COO: Standing firm on Vista

Microsoft COO: Standing firm on VistaI like the 64-bit version for a better GUI and good app compatibilityBut they really need to go back to the drawing board. Vista (32- or 64-bit) should in no way require 4x more RAM and 10x more disk space just for its own...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows Vista, RAM, Turner

Discussion threads 2008-05-30

Liveblogging: Apple's Q2 2008 financial results

In a conference call today with analysts, Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) discussed financial results of the second fiscal quarter of 2008 which runs from 01 January – 31 March 2008. Apple's revenue was up 43 percent year-over-year. The company posted revenue of US$7.51 billion and...

Tags: jason D. O'Grady, Sales Strategy, Apple Inc., Apple iPhone, Revenue, Growth, Sales Force Management, Operational Accounting, Apple iPod, Finance, Financial, Sales

Blog posts 2008-04-23

Vista SP1 vs. XP SP2 - Benchmarked

Vista SP1 vs. XP SP2 - BenchmarkedProbably ...... what we still need to test are small files - less than 256KB. We didn't include these since we felt that the kinds of files that users will have are unlikely to be sub 256KB files.Did you quit timing...when windows said...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows XP, Service Pack 2, Microsoft Windows Vista SP1, Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 2

Discussion threads 2008-02-15

MacBook Air Diary-Day 12: Tackling the storage issue

MacBook Air Diary-Day 12: Tackling the storage issueTwo things...1) Will it fit in the manilla envelope?2) Be careful with the Passport as they have been known to corrupt data due to the host device being unable to supply enough current through the USB port.The lesson to be learned here isDo...

Tags: Notebooks, MBA, MacBook Air Diary-Day 12, MacBook Air, storage issue, Apple MacBook, notebook, storage

Discussion threads 2008-02-11

Build the $340 NAS for half the price but double the speed

Build the $340 NAS for half the price but double the speedHard Drives not included in this articleGeorge doesn't mention the cost of hard drives, currently a 500GB drive is about $120-130. The Elite 340 case George specifies in this article is a MicroATX case with two 5.25 and...

Tags: Network-attached storage (NAS), Storage, NAS, FreeNAS

Discussion threads 2007-10-22

With hardware-based hypervisors, Hitachi says 'ditch software like Xen, VMware'

With hardware-based hypervisors, Hitachi says 'ditch software like Xen, VMware'I guess this could have merit, but ONLY if it allows the read-only sharingof the OS, library, and application memory images. There are plenty of reasons to run multiple instance of the same OS, but almost NO reasons to run instances...

Tags: Utility computing, Storage, Operating systems, hypervisor, virtualization, Hitachi Ltd., Xen, VMware Inc., operating system, hardware, software

Discussion threads 2007-09-18

Grokking the iPod

Grokking the iPod100% agreement concerning the Touch...Having only 16GB of storage is a TRAVESTY!This is the cream of the crop. The most advanced player on the market.And it can't even hold my Pink Floyd collection :(If the Floyd don't fit, I cannot get.The real winner out of yesterdays announcements...

Tags: Digital music, Digital media, Free Public WiFi, Microsoft Corp., Apple iPod Touch, Apple iPod, Apple Inc., Wi-Fi

Discussion threads 2007-09-06

Safari Bookmarks on the iPhone desktop

Safari Bookmarks on the iPhone desktopApple will get there in timeSince the iPhone uses OS X Apple will tweak it over time, and provide the updates to the original owners.I think that in the first months Apple is just going to let the dust settle. They'll work on bug...

Tags: Desktops, Apple iPhone, Safari Bookmarks, Apple Inc., Apple Safari, desktop

Discussion threads 2007-08-20

OH data loss now runs over 1 million

OH data loss now runs over 1 millionWhen will people learnYou don't take HDs in or out of a computer away from work. If you use a notebook and take it home then you leave the data on the server. If there was a law making the loss...

Tags: data loss

Discussion threads 2007-07-13

Are you a "fixer" or do you "throw away"?

Are you a "fixer" or do you "throw away"?fixer for sureI will try to fix ANYTHING. In my experience, even if the problem isn't obvious and I know very little about the device, if I take it apart and clean everything, then be sure all connections are secure, it will...

Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Engineering, fixer, Fixer, battery, computer

Discussion threads 2007-07-06

Poll: do you care iPhone has no removable battery?

Poll: do you care iPhone has no removable battery?What else is newApple loves to make products with batteries that die and need to go in for "service" swapping the battery My ipod battery lasted for less than a year, guess who i had to pay to get it working again??Sim...

Tags: Engineering, Cellular phones, SIM card, battery, Apple iPhone, phone

Discussion threads 2007-06-28

Fedora 7 - Another distro for Ed Tech consideration

Fedora 7 - Another distro for Ed Tech considerationI, too!I, too, am very curious as to how Fedora 7 will look, feel and operate. This is one of the Big Four distro's (Ubuntu, openSUSE, Mandriva, Fedora) that I'm not familiar with yet Mandriva is the other unknown to me.Last night...

Tags: CAD, OPEN SOURCE, graphics, Fedora Project, Fedora 7, Ubuntu, Fedora_7

Discussion threads 2007-06-01

iWeb update sorely needed

iWeb update sorely neededMr. O'Grady asks ?What do you use for HTML authoring? To be quite honest I use Text Edit for creating web pages . I have no need for web apps to create web pages .Upgrade and improve this toolI agree that it was very disappointing Apple choose...

Tags: Desktops, Apple iWeb, Apple Inc., Apple Macintosh, storage, Web

Discussion threads 2007-05-01

And people say that Dell is cheap ...

And people say that Dell is cheap ...Building cheaper than an OEMRegister:Yes, you can usually build a machine for less money than it costs to purchase an equvalent machine from an OEM. George Ou showed how back on December 25, 2006 with this blog article:http://blogs.zdnet.com/Ou/?p=396(Thanks again, George!)Following his price...

Tags: Desktops, Games, Branding, OEM, Dell Computer Corp., MacPro

Discussion threads 2007-04-30

Circuitry (Cracking open a Maxtor hard drive)

Circuitry Cracking open a Maxtor hard driveFunnyOf the 12 or so drives I have taken apart, I have never mangled the read/write heads.Image 19. ShellNot much to the shell? Sorry, wrong. The shell may in fact be the most difficult piece to manufacture in quantilties. Consider this,...

Tags: hard drive, circuitry, PCB, underside, HDA, shell, magnet, Maxtor Corp.

Discussion threads 2007-04-27

Hard disks *do* get slower with use

Hard disks *do* get slower with usePartitioningActually, I'd suggest something a bit different from the "load your common apps first" approach. I'd partition the disk and put the system and application in the [i]inner[/i] partition, as close as possible to the hub.At the outside, where transfer rates are highest,...

Tags: Symantec Corp., disk, C, swap file, Norton Utilities

Discussion threads 2007-04-10

IRS continues to lose machines - and they're not alone

IRS continues to lose machines - and they're not aloneAssumptions, assupmptionsYour story assumes that the equipment the IRS lost is the same as stolen. Not necessarily true.I work for a Federal Agency, and I've seen the same thing.Usually, when an Agency "loses" a piece of equipment, it means one of...

Tags: Advertising & Promotion, PRODUCTIVITY, news media, Internal Revenue Service, agency, laptop computer, computer

Discussion threads 2007-04-06

Power pushing 2.5" drives to tipping point

Power pushing 2.5" drives to tipping pointWe use them now.All new HP ProLiant servers we order have the 2.5" 10K SAS drives. Sure, they are not as power efficient as the notebook drives, but they are much quicker and still only use half the power of the 3.5" SCSI...

Tags: Notebooks, Blade servers, Servers, Utility computing, Dell Computer Corp., laptop computer, hard drive, SSD, IDE, server, adapter

Discussion threads 2007-03-30

Intel releases NAND flash "drives"

Intel releases NAND flash "drives"Only 4 to 8 GB?You have [i]got[/i] to be joking. I have around 160 GB of storage on 2 disk drives on my notebook right now. I really need something along the lines of 250 to 500 GB to carry my "office" with me from one...

Tags: Notebooks, Desktops, storage, notebook, NAND, Microsoft Windows Vista, Intel Corp., NAND flash, Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2007-03-12