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The cloud: no place for amateurs

Interesting but...Phil... it may be a contentious argument but neither of these two examples (IBM/Air New Zealand and Sidekick/Danger) are really cloud computing.My definition of cloud computing is in keeping with the utility model. Using the analogy of electricity supply, one power station going down does not greatly affect my...

Tags: Storage, Managed hosting, cloud computing, Hitachi Ltd., electricity supply, Hitachi HDD, hard drive, amateur

Discussion threads 2009-10-12

Hitachi to phase out small hard drives

Hitachi to phase out small hard drivesWhen and when will we have 60, 80, 120GB flash drivesto phase out these wonderful small hard drives in our wonderful portable media dvrs and mp3/mp4 players, . . . cause I really really want to hold onto having my entire music collection in...

Tags: Storage, Hitachi HDD, hard drive, Hitachi Ltd., small hard drive

Discussion threads 2008-01-07

Additional Resources

Hitachi announces 500GB 2.5" Travelstar hard drive

Hitachi on Tuesday announced that is it shipping its fifth-generation, 7200 RPM mobile hard drive, the Travelstar 7K500. The 500GB, 2.5-inch, 3Gb/s SATA drive is intended for notebooks, gaming systems and external storage and is the fastest hard drive in its class,...

Tags: Hard Drive, Hitachi Ltd., Travelstar 7K500, 7K500, Storage, Hardware, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2009-09-01

News to know: Office 2010; Dell; Moon tech; Apple; Software buyer's bill of rights

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Ed Bott: Office 2010 makes splashy debut Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft to deliver tech preview build of Office 2010...

Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Apple Inc., Digital Camera, Microsoft Corp., Adrian Kingsley-Hughes, Microsoft Windows 7, Digital Cameras, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Windows, Digital Photography, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Office Suites, Software, Operating Systems, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-07-14

Hitachi SimpleTOUGH external HDD is water-resistant, shockproof to 9.8 ft.

Hitachi on Monday unveiled three new products: the water-resistant and shock-resistant SimpleTOUGH portable USB drive; a colorful palette of SimpleDRIVE Mini 2.5-in. external hard drives; and the SimpleNET NAS adapter for sharing existing USB drive content over a home or office network. ...

Tags: Hard Drive, Network, Hitachi Ltd., Adapter, USB Flash Drive, SimpleNET Adapter, Storage, Hardware, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2009-07-13

Seagate offers drive firmware fix for Macs

Seagate offers drive firmware fix for MacsThis can't be as widespread as all the seagate haters claim...The problem stems from drives manufactured in thailand.I do 3d and video processing for a living, and that means lots of archiving. I have half a petabyte worth of 7200.11s running in raid 10,...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Seagate Technology LLC, firmware

Discussion threads 2009-01-29

Toshiba, Fujitsu in talks to combine HDD business

Toshiba and Fujitsu are in final talks to combine their hard-disk drive businesses as the companies try to reduce costs, according to a Bloomberg report. Toshiba, Japan's biggest chipmaker, would reportedly have a majority stake in any joint venture. Fujitsu is in discussions with several companies about...

Tags: Hard Drive, Fujitsu Ltd., Toshiba Corp., Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2009-01-14

Hitachi DZ-BD10HA

Hitachi DZ-BD10HAStunning Picture QualityThe new Hitachi Hybrid DZBD10-HA camcorder really caught my attention with it's stunning picture quality, longer recording time, easy dubbing and face detection. It has a choice of 3 HD formats (Blu Ray, HDD, SDHC), and you can easily jump from one to the other. ...

Tags: camcorder, Hitachi Ltd., Hitachi DZ-BD10HA

Discussion threads 2008-12-22

Anyone here own a 1.5TB Seagate Barracuda 7200.11?

Anyone here own a 1.5TB Seagate Barracuda 7200.11?ConfusedSeaTools Enterprise Edition only scans for SCSI only found my DVD burner, but my 1.5TB is a SATA drive.Anyway, my drive has firmware version SD17 according to "SeaTools for Windows". I cannot find any information regarding part number, though.I haven't experienced any appreciable...

Tags: Storage, Seagate Technology LLC, RAID, SCSI, Serial ATA

Discussion threads 2008-11-11

$350 barebones Vista/7 PC

$350 barebones Vista/7 PCDidn't you forget somethingWhere is the case?RE: $350 barebones Vista/7 PCAdrian: Read what you write:"Prices of PC components are falling weekly, and what $350 will buy you a lot more horsepower today that it would a few months ago."Which variant of English is this? And if so,...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), DVD, Vista/7 PC

Discussion threads 2008-11-11

The mother of all notebook hard drives: Scorpio Blue

I'm totally psyched that someone has finally released a 500GB hard drive that fits in my MacBook Pro. That someone is Western Digital. WD just announced its WD5000BEVT mobile hard drive, a.k.a. the Scorpio Blue with a huge 500GB capacity. The 500GB barrier was broken earlier this...

Tags: Hard Drive, Apple MacBook, Apple MacBook Pro, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Jason D. O'Grady

Blog posts 2008-09-25

(The $2,000 build-it-yourself gaming/video editing/photo editing PC)

(The $2,000 build-it-yourself gaming/video editing/photo editing PC)$2000 build-it-yourself PCGreat article would do it if I didn't already have a pretty good PC. How about a build-it-yourself gaming laptop?RE: (The $2,000 build-it-yourself gaming/video editing/photo editing PC)I have a similar system with only 4Gb of cheaper ram , 2 Tb...

Tags: Corporate communications, Games, Desktops, PC, video, game

Discussion threads 2008-09-12

Review: OWC Mercury On-The-Go 500GB portable HDD

Other World Computing makes my favorite 2.5-inch hard drive enclosures, bar none. Their Mercury On-The-Go cases are killer because they're made of clear Lucite so that you can instantly tell which drive is inside just by looking at them. I know, I know, stickies work too, but stickies come off...

Tags: jason D. O'Grady, Apple MacBook, Apple MacBook Pro, Hard Drive, Notebooks, Hardware, Hitachi 5K500 Mechanism, Notebooks & Tablets

Blog posts 2008-06-05

Time Capsule ships; quickly unboxed and dissected (updated)

Time Capsule ships; quickly unboxed and dissected updatedAnxiously waiting for the Airport update as well. [nt]ntClass action law suit, file quickly!The HDD is not server grade! And it sells on NewEgg for $239! Oh wait I see an Apple logo on the case, never mind.....Questionable Vendor SelectionFirst there was AT&T...

Tags: Storage, Time Capsule, Hitachi Ltd., hard drive

Discussion threads 2008-03-03

Time Capsule ships; quickly unboxed and dissected (updated)

PowerPager Chuck Freedman has posted a complete unboxing and first impressions of the long-awaited Time-Capsule 1TB model. Although it's a spitting image of the venerable albeit crippled Airport Extreme Base Station AEBS Freedman notes "the unit is about two inches larger square than its Airport Extreme base station cousin." ...

Tags: jason D. O'Grady, Hitachi Ltd., Hard Drive, Backups, Storage, Hardware, PowerPager Chuck Freedman

Blog posts 2008-03-03

How smart is SMART?

How smart is SMART?I have to go with Google on thisThrough the thousands of hard drive failures that I have dealt with exactly one drive was diagnosed before failing by SMART.I remember when SMART was first introduced. After a few years I realized that SMART wasn't going to go...

Tags: hard drive, Seagate Technology LLC, Hitachi Ltd., Compaq-India, IBM Corp.

Discussion threads 2007-11-26

2.5 TERABYTE hot-swap storage for $730!

2.5 TERABYTE hot-swap storage for $730!FreeNASIf you want to build a simple NAS system and you have a spare PC hanging about... check out FreeNAS.Decimal vs. binary"Tera" is an SI unit, defined in decimal. So is "Giga", "Mega", "Kilo", etc.Only an old pedantic fart would still go on and on...

Tags: Network-attached storage (NAS), Taxes, Free trade, way thing, storage, NAS

Discussion threads 2007-04-30

From Sun 1 to T5240

From Sun 1 to T52404 Cores?Your article states that modern desktops go "up to" 4 cores, but Apple's latest Mac Pro systems can be custom-configured with 8 cores...The standard config on those has 4 cores.Soon 16 Coreswill be available for server with 4 x Quads for both Intel and AMD.And...

Tags: Workstations, Processors, Storage, Desktops, Sun Microsystems Inc.

Discussion threads 2007-04-19

Hitachi DZ-HS300A

Photo gallery:Hitachi DZ-HS300AI'll start with the good news. Hitachi's goal of an inexpensive camcorder, combining the long recording times and stability of a hard disk drive with the easy playback and distribution of a DVD, merits attention. Furthermore, from that limited perspective, the hybrid DZ-HS300A succeeds. Its one-touch dubbing from...

Tags: DVD, Consumer electronics, HS300A, Hitachi DZ-HS300A, Hitachi Ltd., video

Product reviews 2007-03-16

I can't get enthusiastic about hybrid hard drives

I can't get enthusiastic about hybrid hard drivesSome minor corrections.The drives in question will use SLC flash instead of MLC and therefore have a longer usefull life. The estimates of usefull life are the same as the devices used in ReadyBoost and should be about 10 years under normal...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Engineering, Notebooks, Memory, Microsoft Corp., Hybrid Hard Drive, hard drive, ReadyBoost

Discussion threads 2007-03-08