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Beginning of the end for PATA

Beginning of the end for PATAAlthough I want toI am one of those people who are still chomping at the bit to keep some older systems running. phasing out older tech only means I have to spend more time cobbling it together. Now is about time, but I...

Tags: FireWire, Who-ever, PATA Drives, Serial ATA

Discussion threads 2007-08-01

Beginning of the end for PATA

It's the beginning of the end for the 20 year old technology. Now that Seagate has announced plans to phase out PATA drives in favor of the faster SATA technology, other hard drive manufacturers will follow suit and PATA's days are numbered.From a personal perspectivemost ofl my PCs now use SATA drives and PATA...

Tags: Poll of the Day

Blog posts 2007-08-01

Additional Resources

SeaTools for Windows 1.2 (Windows)

SeaTools for Windows is a comprehensive, easy-to-use diagnostic tool that helps you quickly determine the condition of the disc drive in your external hard drive, desktop, or notebook computer. It includes several tests that will examine the physical media on your Seagate or Maxtor disc drive and any other non-Seagate...

Tags: Disc, Seagate Technology LLC, Microsoft Windows, Serial ATA, Operating Systems, Software, Storage, Hardware

Software downloads 2009-10-26

Western Digital begins shipping in-house SiliconDrive III SSDs

Western Digital today announced that it has begun shipping its new SiliconDrive III solid-state drive product family based on technology from its March 2009 acquisition of SiliconSystems and featuring feature faster read/write speeds, increased capacities and mechanical scalability, the company says. SiliconDrive III...

Tags: Hard Drive, Storage Array, Western Digital Corp., Register, WD, Serial ATA, Ip storage, Storage, Hardware, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2009-06-16

AMD Phenom Win 7 benchmark results

AMD Phenom Win 7 benchmark resultsCorrection: Image says Vista Build 7048***RE: AMD Phenom Win 7 benchmark results4 gigs ? What about 2 gigs ?Please re-run the tests with 2 gigs only.RE: AMD Phenom Win 7 benchmark resultsIf a Quad processor and 4gigs is what it takes to run Windows 7,...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows, AMD Phenom Win 7, AMD Phenom, Microsoft Windows 7, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Windows Vista

Discussion threads 2009-03-10

Netbooks not up to the task? Baloney!

Netbooks not up to the task? Baloney!Get one and try it.It just amazes me sometimes how people will listen to such claims without trying it for themselves. Maybe a netbook isn't up to the task or maybe it is....try it and find out.I've read a guys blog who claims he...

Tags: Netbooks, nettops & MIDs, netbook

Discussion threads 2009-02-20

SanDisk boosts speed, lowers price of SSDs

SanDisk announced today a new line of SSDs that not only offer larger capacities but, according the company, are twice as fast as competing SSDs that have hit the market in the past year which are themselves already significantly faster than standard hard drives on many tasks. ...

Tags: SanDisk Corp., SSD, Flash Memory, John Morris

Blog posts 2009-01-08

Black Friday '08: Deals, steals & specials guide

Black Friday '08: Deals, steals & specials guideA different take on Black FridayI read an article a couple of weeks ago about Black Friday. The interesting thing is it's proven to be accurate so far.If anyone is interested, it's on http://www.uberi.comThe specific article is titled "What About Black Friday?"...

Tags: Notebooks, MicroCenter, Black Friday

Discussion threads 2008-11-24

HP ultraportables get new Intel chips, 80GB SSD

HP has added three new ultraportables to its laptop lineup. All three have 12.1-inch wide-screen displays. Two of them, a 3.2-pound model with a built-in optical drive and a convertible tablet, are part of the new EliteBook line targeted at business users. The third is an HP Compaq model designed...

Tags: Hard Drive, Hewlett-Packard Co., Battery, Intel Core 2 Duo, Intel Corp., Chip, 2230s, Engineering, Processors, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, John Morris

Blog posts 2008-08-19

2nd-generation Intel Classmates reviewed

I just love these little laptops, so here's another repost while I've "gone fishin'". Intel recently sent me two examples of their second-generation Classmate PC for testing. The Classmates include numerous improvements on their already well-thought-out first-gen machines and mark the first versions that we can...

Tags: Intel Corp., Intel Classmates, Microsoft Windows, Corporate Communications, Memory, Mesh Networking, Notebooks, Operating Systems, Software, Marketing, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, Networking, Notebooks & Tablets, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2008-07-15

Samsung ships 128GB SSDs with cheaper flash memory

Samsung announced today that it has begun manufacturing 64GB and 128GB SSDs based on a less-expensive type of NAND flash known as MLC. The company also said it was still on track to deliver a 256GB version by the end of this year. Samsung has been shipping...

Tags: NAND Flash, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., NAND, Laptop Computer, SSD, Memory, Flash Memory, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, John Morris

Blog posts 2008-07-09

Intel's tiny new flash drives

Data on your fingertip Disk drives are going to offer the best $/GB ratio for years to come. Flash drives have to offer something else. A case in point: Intel's new flash drives. Tinier than disks How tiny are they? The Z-P140 measures 12 x...

Tags: Disk, Disk Drive, USB Flash Drive, Intel Corp., Z-P140, Flash Memory, Robin Harris

Blog posts 2008-06-05

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

Running+naked+%28with+hard+drives%29

Running+naked+%28with+hard+drives%29Not so much anymore...Like you I used do have I don't know how many drives laying around with different installs on them. Mostly for doing developemtn testing on various platforms and software. But now with VMWare, not so much.Looking at my main dev machine it has almost a...

Tags: Backups, enclosure, external enclosure, Serial ATA, virtual machine, backup, hard drive

Discussion threads 2008-02-29

Running naked (with hard drives)

Earlier in the week my cohort here at The Apple Core, David Morgenstern, wrote about living a bare drive lifestyle where "professional Mac users often use hard disk mechanisms like floppies." Count me in that group. I keep a lot of (non-traveling) hard drives in my office, most in silver...

Tags: jason D. O'Grady, Hard Drive, Enclosure, WiebeTech LLC., FireWire, Consumer Electronics, DriveDock, Personal Technology, SJ

Blog posts 2008-02-29

What your disk drive isn't telling you

because it's clueless. You know you've got a problem when your disk drive goes ka-thunk. A study of 1.53 million disks finds that data errors are much more common than outright failures. You just don't know it. What's worse, neither do the people who design...

Tags: Disk, Disk Drive, Robin Harris

Blog posts 2008-02-17

Build a 10 Gbit home network for $1100

Build a 10 Gbit home network for $1100Necessary?I'm not sure even the "hardcore gamer" needs a 10Gbit home network. Heck, I stream HD content and I don't even have a need for a gigabit network... yet.Unless you're hammering the bejesus out of your network, it's not necessary. Neat though it...

Tags: NETWORKING, Games, GigE, latency, network, Gbit home network, GBit, home network

Discussion threads 2008-01-31

MacBook Air: Observations on its technical note

Apple recently posted the MacBook Air's technical notes on its Developer Connection site. While comparing and contrasting the new ultralight notebook with the MacBook Pro isn't fair, the differences between the two machines makes for interesting reading. Both the MacBook Air and the 15-inch MacBook Pro...

Tags: Apple MacBook, Apple MacBook Pro, MacBook Air, Air, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, David Morgenstern

Blog posts 2008-01-24

Yes, the MacBook Air is light. But so what-Dell XPS is a better deal on price

Yes, the MacBook Air is light. But so what-Dell XPS is a better deal on priceYawn.And a desktop is an even better deal. There's more to value than sticker price.Evaluation criteriaYou're evaluating on price and not on weight. Shaving that extra pound off the box is going to increase...

Tags: Notebooks, Apple Mac OS X, MacBook Air, Apple MacBook, what-Dell XPS i

Discussion threads 2008-01-17

Building a sub $1,000 gaming PC

The other day I was challenged to put together a gaming PC for less than $1,000.  As it turns out, not only is it quite easy to hit this figure, but you also get a lot of hardware for your money. Whenever I approach building a system...

Tags: Video Card, PC, Board, Intel Core 2 Duo, RAM, Graphics, EVGA 8800GT 512MB, Western Digital Caviar SE 250GB, Nothing, Games, Corporate Governance, Video Cards, Processors, Personal Technology, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Hardware, Components, Semiconductors, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

Blog posts 2008-01-15