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High-end disks dead in 2 years

High-end disks dead in 2 yearsHigh end Flash"High end" Flash has been spec'ed at 1M write cycles for years now. And even with wear leveling they will still wear out a lot faster with heavy use. Finally, write times are still slower.

Tags: disk

Discussion threads 2008-05-20

What's in my gadget bag (this time)

What's in my gadget bag this timeABQ SunportYou are absolutely right about the airport here in Albuquerque. It is probably the most business traveler friendly airport I have ever been to. I regularly fly to SLC and it amazes me how much more friendly the Sunport is compared...

Tags: SLC

Discussion threads 2007-05-11

Intel's flash drive strategy

"Sure the margins are low - but well make it up on volume!" At first glance it didnt make much sense to me why Intel announced flash drives last week. Going up against Samsung in flash, a company that has been reducing flash cost per bit at about 70% per...

Tags: strategy, GB Max, Intels, USB flash drive, SLC, USB, Intel Corp.

Blog posts 2007-03-23

Intel's flash drive strategy

"Sure the margins are low - but well make it up on volume!" At first glance it didnt make much sense to me why Intel announced flash drives last week. Going up against Samsung in flash, a company that has been reducing flash cost per bit at about 70% per...

Tags: strategy, GB Max, Intels, USB flash drive, SLC, USB, Intel Corp.

Blog posts 2007-03-23

QinetiQ Case Study: Student Loans Company (SLC)

hack Glasgow-based Student Loans Company SLC was set up in 1989 as a not-for-profit, nondepartmental Government body and has a central role in the provision of the governments student finance schemes. In 2003, SLC identified the urgent need to implement a secure infrastructure as part of its corporate governance. Any...

Tags: QinetiQ Ltd., SLC, Corporate Governance, Financial Accounting, Corporate Law, Business Operations, Finance

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What memory technology is Samsung after?

Samsung Electronics recently made public its $5.8 billion offer for SanDisk, a major manufacturer of memory cards. There are plenty of possible business motives behind this bid including the hefty royalties that Samsung pays to SanDisk to use its flash technology, and SanDisk's strong retail brands and distribution. But I'll...

Tags: 3D, NAND Flash, SanDisk Corp., Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., NAND, Technology, Toshiba Corp., Cell, Chip, Flash Memory, John Morris

Blog posts 2008-09-22

Grab yourself a 64GB solid-state drive for $99

Grab yourself a 64GB solid-state drive for $99Comments are lousyI looked through some of the comments at the Newegg site and they are pretty uniformly negative. Apparently the drive has a lot of problems.hoops?The only hoops I ever run into are the norm: you must have bought it in...

Tags: UPC, original

Discussion threads 2008-09-18

Super flash, hyper flash

Samsung has announced a new SLC flash part with 5x the write/erase cycle spec over standard single-level cell SLC NAND flash. They call it server grade flash. Is this the flash promised land or marketing hype? 5x what? The press release doesn't mention any numbers, but...

Tags: Sun Microsystems Inc., Storage Pyramid, Marketing Research, Storage, Marketing, Hardware, Robin Harris

Blog posts 2008-07-17

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

What's next for the MacBook Air?

Brook Crothers at CNet's nanotech blog has posted an interesting piece about what upgrade options might be coming for the MacBook Air. Drives Apple dropped the price of the 64GB Solid State Disk SSD option by US$400 on Thursday but Crothers points to higher capacity, 128GB...

Tags: Apple Inc., Apple MacBook, Battery, Disk, Engineering, Hardware, Intel Corp., jason D. O'Grady, MBA, MLC, Notebooks, Notebooks & Tablets, Solid State Disk, Processor

Blog posts 2008-07-07

Helpdesks and productivity

Helpdesks and productivityGood start, and then...You lost it.1980 CalledThey want their mainframes back. :DWhy don't you explain your present value...calculation. Do you even know what present value means? What time period are we talking?Huh?You imply that on a Sun Ray platform the only problems are the applications or how they...

Tags: Call centers, help desk, Sun Microsystems Inc., Sun Ray, PC

Discussion threads 2008-07-03

How Toshiba's 128GB SSD-equipped Portégé R500 stacks up

Toshiba has released what it says is the first laptop with a 128GB SSD. Technically, the 17-inch Alienware Area-51 m9750 can be configured with two 64GB SSDs, but Toshiba gets credit for shipping the first laptop equipped with a 128GB SSD that you'd actually want to carry anywhere. ...

Tags: Hard Drive, Toshiba Portege, Toshiba Corp., Laptop Computer, Portégé R500, SSD, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, John Morris

Blog posts 2008-06-17

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

Samsung bets on SSDs and mobile hard drives

Samsung plans to double the capacity of solid state disks SSDs every 12 months. The company said it will deliver samples of 128GB SSDs by mid-year and a 256GB drive sometime in 2009, according to several reports from a Samsung press conference yesterday. At the same time, Samsung is boosting...

Tags: Hard Drive, Disk, Mobile, Drawback, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., Solid State Disk, Spinpoint M6, John Morris

Blog posts 2008-03-05

Flash drives get a fight from disks

Flash drives get a fight from disksBattery LifePersonally I see 30 minutes of extra battery life as being a big bonus but maybe thats just me. We've push Li Ion batteries to the breaking point just as sony how it worked out when they went past it and so...

Tags: Engineering, Notebooks, Good Money, USB flash drive, laptop computer, battery, disk, SSD

Discussion threads 2007-09-10

Where does SCO go from here?

Where does SCO go from here?Whither ...Well, by 31 August they're going to have to file a statement with Judge Kimball on where this leaves the [i]IBM[/i] case. That should be interesting, since they're caught between their usual shenanigans and Hizzoner's less-than-jovial appreciation of same.Then, in just one month...

Tags: OPEN SOURCE, UNIX, Sun Microsystems Inc., SCO Group Inc., Novell Inc.

Discussion threads 2007-08-15

OLPC founder finally faces a 'grim reality'

OLPC to run Windows? Say it ain’t so! was the headline and so far reader reaction is mixed. Adrian Kingsley-Hughes reports $175 OLPC deals blow to open source, guarantees Microsoft’s continued dominance. From the beginning, the One Laptop per Child foundation, the brainchild of MITs Nicholas Negroponte, has...

Tags: Education Technology, Emerging Tech, Funding, Hardware, K-12, Microsoft, Open Source

Blog posts 2007-04-30

SSD watch: Dell laptops; TweakTown 16 GB SSD review

SSDs are comin' onDigiTimes is reporting this morning that Dell is offering 1.8" 32 GB solid state disk drives as an alternative to standard hard drives on a couple of their small notebooks.The new drives can also increase system performance by up to 23% and decreases boot time by up...

Tags: Uncategorized

Blog posts 2007-04-25

A flash drive in your future?

The good, the bad and the uglyI've been a huge fan of flash ever since I plunked down $400 for a 10 MB compact flash card in the early '90s for my brand-spanking new HP Omnibook 300. Light and built like a tank, the 300's chiseled abs battery life almost...

Tags: Uncategorized

Blog posts 2007-04-11

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