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- Photos: How five 500-GB hard drives stack up
- In 1992, I drove 70 miles to snag a 200-megabyte IDE hard drive for $499. This weekend I bought 2.5 terabytes of hot-swappable SATA-300 storage for just under $730. That's more than 10,000 times the storage for the same dollar.
- Tags: hard drive, storage, IDE, photograph
- Image galleries 2007-04-30
- 2.5 TERABYTE hot-swap storage for $730!
- I still remember the first hard drive I ever bought. The year was 1992 and I had my friend drive me 70 miles in to the silicon valley for the deal of the month in hard drives. The prize at the end of that grueling drive without air...
- Tags: Storage, Servers, Intel, Hardware, Fun Stuff, Desktop
- Blog posts 2007-04-30
- 2010: Data doubling every 11 hours
- Martin Lamonica of news.com reports on IBMs release of FileNet P8 4.0, an update to the content management software that integrates better with IBM middleware (IBM purchased Filenet for $1.6 billion in August 2006) and support Java server standards, and Web interface for front-ending IBM content management servers....
- Tags: Storage, IBM, IT Management, General
- Blog posts 2007-02-13
- Photos: Hitachi's terabyte drive
- Hitachi says it's ready to roll on terabyte drives.
- Tags: Hitachi Ltd., terabyte
- Image galleries 2007-01-04
- Addressing Storage Arrays Greater Than 2 Terabytes
- With increasing hard disk drive sizes, the available array and volume capacity of a system has grown considerably. This paper discusses in detail the 2 terabytes limit under some operating systems and suggests workarounds currently available to achieve volume sizes greater than 2 terabytes. This paper has been written for...
- Tags: Terabyte, Storage, Linux, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, UNIX, Open Source, Software
- White papers 2006-07-28
- Sun and Greenplum claim price-performance win with data warehouse appliance
- Sun and Greenplum introduced a data warehouse appliance that uses the new Sun Fire X4500 server formerly known as Thumper and Greenplum's massively parallel distribution of PostgreSQL, Bizgres MPP. Here's what the two companies claim about the appliance:Two orders of magnitude better price- performance over competitionPerformance boost of 10 to...
- Tags: GreenPlum
- Blog posts 2006-07-26
- Visual Hindsight Home Edition (exe)
- Monitor your home or business over the Internet with Visual Hindsight - powerful, simple to use, and affordable to own. Visual Hindsight is the ideal remote network camera surveillance and recording tool for private or commercial use. Version 2.2.0.412 has support for Secure Protocol HTTPS. Support for up to 2...
- Tags: RFC, camera, video server, video, AVI, monitor, storage, security, server, Internet, network, computer
- Software downloads 2006-03-13
- Hard drive terabytes to increase at 37% a year between 2004 and 2009
- Over 50% of all storage terabytes (38% of the worldwide storage revenue) shipped in 2009 will be based on capacity-oriented disk drives. Worldwide shipments of external disk system terabytes are expected to increase at a 2004-2009 compound annual growth rate CAGR of nearly 60%, while shipments of internal terabytes will...
- Tags: terabyte
- Blog posts 2005-07-06
- 100 mln books published in human history, 200K movies, 50K CD-ROMs
- About 100 million different books have been published in history, according to the estimates from Carnegie Mellon University. About 28 million sit in the Library of Congress. On average, a book can be condensed to a megabyte in Microsoft Word. Thus, the books in the Library of Congress could fit...
- Tags: terabyte
- Blog posts 2004-08-09
- New Data Warehouse to Buoy 7 Terabytes for State of Alaska
- The Alaska Department of Revenue, Permanent Fund Dividend PFD Division, managed a multitude of disconnected and continually failing technologies, housing several terabytes of data, with only a six-person IT staff. It needed a new data infrastructure to support its operations, which includes the distribution of between U.S.$500 million and a...
- Tags: Data Warehouse, Terabyte, Microsoft Corp., Image, Business Intelligence, Storage, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Hardware
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- Oracle enters hardware market; Launches storage server to ride shotgun with database
- Oracle CEO Larry Ellison on Wednesday unveiled its first ever hardware product--a storage server with embedded software designed to work with the company's databases and be used in a grid. The Exadata programmable storage server aims to put database intelligence next to each drive. Oracle and HP also launched a...
- Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Oracle Corp., Server, Larry Ellison, Storage Server, Storage, Databases, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-09-24
- News to know: IE vs Chrome; Microsoft's TV pack; Oracle; Pandora CEO
- Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Mary Jo Foley: Should Microsoft do an IE 8 'Lite'? Larry Dignan: Google: Chrome likely to land on Mac before Linux Ed Bott: TV...
- Tags: Google Inc., Larry Dignan, Oracle Corp., Microsoft TV, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Microsoft Corp., TV, E-mail, Open Source, Tv & Home Theater, Online Communications, Personal Technology
- Blog posts 2008-09-19
- How I dumped my DVR for a terabyte TiVo
- How I dumped my DVR for a terabyte TiVoI think you meant..."With the TiVo DVR, whatever you programmed in last takes priority." From context I think you mean that this happens with the Time Warner SA DVR, since on a TiVo by default new SPs get the *lowest* priority...
- Tags: DVR, Digital video, OK IT, TiVo Inc., digital video recorder
- Discussion threads 2008-09-19
- How I dumped my DVR for a terabyte TiVo
- Recently my house was struck by lightning and one of my TiVo boxes got zapped among other things. I had decided to try replacing it with a generic DVR from Time Warner Cable. Boy, was that a mistake. I wanted to like the Time Warner...
- Tags: TiVo Inc., Button, Digital Video Recorder, Play, Scientific Atlanta DVR, DVR, Digital Video, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Ed Burnette
- Blog posts 2008-09-18
- Your capacity will vary
- Your capacity will varyA "wordo"I dictated the first draft of the article, and while the software is pretty good about not misspelling words, if it gets the wrong word it can be hard to spot. Like "desk" for "disk". Thanks for noting it.Robinhours of ten?Should it be "powers of ten"?If...
- Tags: Storage, RAID
- Discussion threads 2008-09-17
- Acer, Toshiba and Sony push laptop displays to 18.4 inches
- [Update 9/16: A page on the SonyStyle site referred to the AW series as having the "industry's first 18.4-inch extra-widescreen display." Sony says this statement should have referred to the FW series, which is the first 16.4-inch laptop on the market, as stated in the press release. The company is...
- Tags: Toshiba Qosmio, Sony Corp., Acer Inc., Intel Core 2 Duo, Series, Toshiba Corp., Laptop Computer, Selling Point, Toshiba Qosmio G50 Series, Notebooks, Processors, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Semiconductors, Components, John Morris
- Blog posts 2008-09-15
- Sony announces three all-in-one desktops
- At a home theater show this week Sony announced three new all-in-one desktops along with a slew A/V receivers, LCD TVs and projectors, and Blu-ray players. All three AIOs offer Blu-ray drives, and the higher-end models offer rewritable BD drives. The entry-level VAIO JS series has a...
- Tags: Sony Corp., Hard Drive, Sony Vaio, Memory, Intel Core 2 Duo, VAIO LV Series, Desktops, Processors, Hardware, Semiconductors, Components, John Morris
- Blog posts 2008-09-04
- 3D HD cellphone video: a killer app for next decade storage
- Terabyte notebooks are coming in a couple of years. But what will we fill them with? Glad you asked. How about 3D HDTV cell phone footage? Don't laugh. It's coming. Flashback When I bought my first external hard drive - 30 MB for $300 - I...
- Tags: 3D, Phone, Killer Application, Storage, Cell Phone, Video, Terabyte Notebook, Robin Harris
- Blog posts 2008-08-14
- External HD cases turn your drive into Samuel L. Jackson
- External HD cases turn your drive into Samuel L. JacksonSeems a little expensive to me$250 for a drive case? Tough to consider when external drives in the terabyte range cost less than that WITH the drive.RE: External HD cases turn your drive into Samuel L. Jacksonand if the drive...
- Tags: External HD case, Samuel L. Jackson, External HD
- Discussion threads 2008-07-30
- What paper trail?
- I've been carting around my latest sheaf of press releases about the green-ness of electronic document technology for weeks now. Yes, as I've blogged before, I am still one of those people who can't help printing out certain emails in order to act on them. Yes, it's bad, I know....
- Tags: Xerox Corp., Paper Trail, Survey, Printers, Data Centers, Marketing Research, Hardware, Peripherals, Storage, Data Management, Marketing, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-07-25
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