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Engineering the 10 TB notebook drive

Engineering the 10 TB notebook driveEvery 2 years?"Disk capacities double about every 2 years"It's possible you're right but I just got my 300 GB drive because prices dropped when the 500 GB drive came out about 6 months later a 1 TB drive came out. That was over a span...

Tags: Network-attached storage (NAS), Storage management, TB notebook, disk, SATA II, GB Drive, platter, storage, NAS, hard drive, EIDE, notebook

Discussion threads 2007-09-27

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SanDisk releases Extreme Pro CompactFlash cards

I want....A 1 TB memory stick micro priced at $100 or less.too priceycut a zero from that $300-800 range and I'll buy it.1TB memory cardYou don't want much do you? Sure I would take one , too. I bought an adapter to be able to use the CF...

Tags: Flash memory, Memory, card, MB Card, camera, SanDisk Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-09-14

Apricorn's 4 TB hard card: PCI RAID array pt. 1

The folks over at Apricorn - a 26 year old company in SoCal - sent me their new PCIe Drive Array to review. A new video capture card requires higher bandwidth storage - over 100 MB/s sustained - so the timing was good. You may recall the...

Tags: Card, Bandwidth, Disk, Apricorn, Video, PCI Express, Video Capture Card, MB/sec, PeDA, WD, Blackmagic Design Intensity Pro Video Capture Card, RAID, Corporate Communications, Storage, PCI, Hardware, Marketing, Robin Harris

Blog posts 2009-08-27

(Forget the Apple tablet: These touch-screen laptops are available now)

Yeah...but everyone has been talking about how bad current tablets are since the Apple Tablet rumor started... so... who cares?The Apple Tablet will have to be something way more than these.This thread is useless without textYou could at least list the make & model, if not a brief review. "Works...

Tags: Tablets, Notebooks, Keyboards, touch screen, laptop computer, tablet, Apple Inc., Apple Tablet

Discussion threads 2009-08-13

News to know: Google Books, Yahoo's Search Pad; CrunchPad; 99-cent netbook; Psystar; SAP war chest

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. Richard Koman: DOJ confirms Google Books investigation Sam Diaz: Can Yahoo steal the search throne from Google with Search...

Tags: Google Inc., Yahoo Search, Larry Dignan, Richard Koman, Yahoo! Inc., Dana Blankenhorn, SAP AG, Apple Inc., Video, Psystar, Sam Diaz, Netbook, Corporate Communications, Projectors, Netbooks, Nettops & MIDs, Open Source, Marketing, Hardware, Components

Blog posts 2009-07-07

(Gallery: Nokia N97 - your future netbook?)

(Gallery: Nokia N97 - your future netbook?)nokia 97It looks like a "posh" version of a TyTN!Nokia N97 ????With a spare TB of storage availlable to me now is it worth a full sinc link to an N97??? If the 97 is all its cracked up to be then the next...

Tags: Smart phones, Cellular phones, Handhelds, Nokia N97, Nokia Corp., Netbook

Discussion threads 2008-12-02

Ubuntu 8.10 release candidate is out

Ubuntu 8.10 release candidate is outUbuntu 8.10 release candidate is outWhoopdeefriggindoo! Run linux fanboys! Go and reinstall every 6 months just to have an almost usable system. Don't forget to set aside a week of your time trying to get it installed like poor Chris Dawson. ...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, Linux, Operating systems, Ubuntu, Ubuntu 8.10, Ubuntu 8.10 release candidate, release candidate

Discussion threads 2008-10-24

Do we care if the new MacBooks don't have FireWire?

Do we care if the new MacBooks don't have FireWire?Missing firewireThe biggest plus for firewire for Macs is target disk mode. It's an incredibly useful feature.Firewire needThe other uses for firewire are.....firewire drives, Target Disk Mode and ....that adaptor you listed is XP only...not Vista and not OS X. Only...

Tags: Notebooks, FireWire, USB 2.0, Apple MacBook, new MacBook

Discussion threads 2008-10-17

Slimming down the bloated iTunes 8 installer

Slimming down the bloated iTunes 8 installerPerformance?Let alone the installer size, does anyone else out there have kind of mediocre performance with iTunes in Windows Vista? I've had a number of times where it just seems to come up black, or respond slowly, or syncing just slows my PC to...

Tags: Digital music, Digital media, Apple iTunes, installer

Discussion threads 2008-10-03

HGST demos 600Gbit/in² disk density

Disk vendors have a rough idea of how other to reach 10 TB drives within 10 years. But what about 2 years? Hitachi global storage technologies has announced that they have achieved 2 1/2 times the current commercial recording density in a laboratory demonstration. What does that...

Tags: Disk, Density, HGST, Current Recording Density, Parity Code, Robin Harris

Blog posts 2008-08-04

News to know: Google-Yahoo; Twitter; IE8; Cable follies

Notable headlines: Larry Dignan: Yahoo's Google ad deal: Savior or mistake? Icahn's plan goes kaput as Microsoft talks end Garett Rogers: Microsoft and Yahoo stop talking, and Google wins Mary Jo Foley: Yahoo says it won't sell its search biz to Microsoft...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Google Inc., Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., Cable, Twitter, Icahn, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Cyberthreats, Workforce Management, Hacking, Security, Human Resources, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-06-13

The 16 TB RAM PC: when?

The next version of Mac OS X will address 16 TB of RAM. Who will ever have 16 TB - 16,000 GB - of RAM on a home computer? If the past is any guide, some of us will be using 16 TB PCs in 2025. ...

Tags: PC, Storage, RAM, Memory, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, Robin Harris

Blog posts 2008-06-12

Intel & Micron intro 34nm flash chip

Driving fast on the cost curve. Flash prices need to drop about 50% a year to keep volumes growing. Putting more flash on a wafer helps do that. The new process produces 1.6 TB of NAND flash on a 300 mm (12 inch) wafer. ...

Tags: Micron Technology Inc., Storage, USB Flash Drive, Intel Corp., Chip, Semiconductors, Network Technology, Hardware, Networking, Robin Harris

Blog posts 2008-05-28

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

Massive memory servers

How massive? How about 10x standard server memory capacity? There is a boom in large memory server products - anywhere from a quarter terabyte to 2 terabytes. Is this the ultimate solution to server performance problems? Some products Violin Memory is offering a...

Tags: Performance, Metaram, Gear6, Performance Management, Servers, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Hardware, Robin Harris

Blog posts 2008-03-25

Steve Jobs' performance: The big takeaways

Apple CEO Steve Jobs gave his latest performance to the faithful and a few items stood out. He was in good form as usual, and his friends from Google, including CEO Eric Schmidt and co-founder Sergey Brin, as well as Chad Hurley and Steve Chen YouTube founders, were in the...

Tags: Steve Jobs, Performance, Idea, Apple MacBook, Engadget, Apple Inc., Video, Pricing Strategy, Apple TV, Time Capsule, Corporate Communications, Notebooks, Marketing, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-01-15

The paradise of infinite music

Make that "Ever-receding paradise. . . ." “The Paradise of Infinite Storage� was the title of a panel at the “Pop [Music] and Policy� conference at McGill University in Montreal. Great title, so I downloaded it. . . . Princeton Professor Ed Felten was on...

Tags: Apple iPod, Infinity, Storage, Music, Piracy, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Robin Harris

Blog posts 2007-10-14

100,000 year nanowire storage

For all the technology we use to store data, there is one problem that has no good solution: longevity. Some scientists at the University of Pennsylvania - home of some of the first computers - have developed a new kind of memory that is 1,000x faster than flash and should...

Tags: Goal, Memory, Technology, Chip, Semiconductors, Storage, Network Technology, Hardware, Networking, Robin Harris

Blog posts 2007-10-02

News to know: XP's stay extended; iBricks; Google; Gateway One

Notable headlines: Microsoft extends Windows XP's stay. Mary Jo Foley: Is Windows XP too good for Microsoft’s own good? George Ou: More facts and less hysteria on Vista, please Jason O'Grady: iPhone firmware 1.1.1 released; breaks everything. Ryan Naraine: Apple patches 10 iPhone...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Google Inc., Larry Dignan, Gateway Inc., Microsoft Corp., DoubleClick Inc., Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software

Blog posts 2007-09-28

Engineering the 10 TB notebook drive

We all take it for granted that disk capacities keep rising, but did you ever wonder why? Disks are way more complex than you know Chips have a lot of brilliant technology, but disk drives are just as complex. For example, current disks use 50 nanometer...

Tags: Notebook, Disk, BPM, Storage, Chip, HAMR, E-beam, Disk Technology, Business Process Automation, Operational Planning, Strategy, It Operations, Business Operations, Management, Robin Harris

Blog posts 2007-09-27