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- Hybrid hard drives set to heat up the market--for Vista
- The next timesomeone asks if you have a hybrid, consider your answer carefully. He may notbe asking about your wheels, but instead about something else than spins—yourdata storage. Coming soon to the storage stage is a technology called a "hybri
- Technical articles 2006-10-25
- Windows Vista Beta 2 at WinHEC?
- As you know, since Microsoft released the widely available VistaFebruary CTP Community Technical Preview, build 5308, they've let a couple ofinterim builds slip out the door: 5352, 5365 and, just last week, 5381. Thesebuilds have only gone to small groups of hard core testers with the goal ofvastly improving the...
- Technical articles 2006-05-10
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- Hybrid hard drives promise radically improved data transfer rates
- A Japanese company named DTS has added 1 GB DDR RAM on-board cache to hard disks to boost data transfer rates as high as 110 MB/sec. The hard drives, named as Mcell, will initially be available in 80 GB, 120 GB, and 160 GB configurations. ...
- Blog posts 2007-09-04
- Seagate launches hybrid hard drives
- Seagate has started shipping its first batch of hard drives incorporating NAND flash for cache memory. The 'Momentus' 5400 SATA laptop drives will be offered in 80, 120, and 160 GB sizes with 256 MB of Flash memory. Here's a quote from an article on Wired: Seagate says,...
- Blog posts 2007-10-08
- Seagate Innovation About to Deliver a Windows Vista-Ready Hybrid Drive
- Hybrid hard drive technology, pairing a cache of NonVolatile NV memory with traditional hard drive technology, offers significant power efficiency, speed and extreme durability benefits, especially for notebook computers and mobile devices. The Microsoft Windows Vista operating system is the first operating system to fully enable the benefits of hybrid...
- White papers 2006-09-01
- Hard drive Interface help
- My question is about Hard drive Interfaces. My laptop HDD interface is ATA-6. What other interfaces are compatible with this one, and what are the drawbacks of using other interfaces?? I recently ordered a Seagate Momentus 80 GB with ATA-6. I was just curious. Thanks ahead of...
- Discussion threads 2008-05-29
- Dedicated PCI Express flash storage card thrashes regular hard drive
- PCI Express-based flash storage disk debutsDoes your company have the need for such a high performance drive like the ioDrive?RE: Dedicated PCI Express flash storage card thrashes regular hard driveEventually to have the technology )with adequate price point) to move totally away from mechanical interface?Wow, wouldn't that be great! Can...
- Discussion threads 2007-09-27
- RSA SecurID Aids Highly-Secure Remote Hard Drive Encryption
- This government department ensures that the correct tax is paid at the right time, whether this relates to payment of taxes received by the department or entitlement to benefits paid. The challenge was to further improve the security of sensitive data, including Personally Identifiable Information and to deploy government-approved hard...
- Case studies 2009-09-01
- SanDisk adds new twist to hybrid drives with its Vaulter Disk prototype
- SanDisk unveiled a prototype of its Vaulter Disk drive, a solid state PCIe module that attaches to and complements the standard hard drive. An excerpt from IDM: SanDisk’s 8 to 16 GB cards on the other hand, have enough capacity to hold an operating system, quite...
- Blog posts 2007-11-18
- Windows Vista: ReadyBoost, ReadyDrive, and SuperFetch, oh my!
- In order to keep the Windows Vista media machine goingdespite the release date delay, Microsoft recently released some official namesfor some of the new Windows Vista performance enhancing features. In theFebruary 16th edition of The Windows Vista Report "Windows Vista: SuperFetch and External Memory Devices," I toldyou about SuperFetch, which...
- Technical articles 2006-04-13
- Flushing Policies for NVCache Enabled Hard Disks
- One of the goals of upcoming hybrid hard disk is to reduce power consumption by adding a small amount of Non-Volatile flash memory NVCache to the drive itself. By using the NVCache to satisfy writes while the rotating media is spun-down, hard disk power consumption can be decreased by lengthing...
- White papers 2007-05-01
- Practical strategies for protecting your data
- In my series on RAID technology and why it makes sense for home users, fellow blogger Robin Harris took me to task saying that RAID won't ever fly in the home. Robin's main gripe with RAID is that it doesn't address the backup along with other complaints such as the...
- Blog posts 2007-06-08
- Seagate promises faster hybrid flash hard drives
- Speed plus capacity is what we need.When this new drive comes out, it should not only be fast but have the sheer capacity to carry alot of data. It is no good having a fast drive if it does not hold at least 200gb of data. In the future we...
- Discussion threads 2008-01-24
- TJX's failure to secure Wi-Fi causes $1B damage
- Most of the major retailers during that time were running WEP and many are STILL running some form of WEPThe news TJ Maxx data breach has rocked the the retail and banking industry and many estimate that it will cost hundreds of millions or even a billion plus dollars in...
- Blog posts 2007-05-07
- Blind people say hybrid cars pose safety risk
- http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21112810/This is not a troll post on my part. This is one of those things that you would never think about until it happens. The hydrids when running on battery power make no noise. Blind people rely on their sense of sound to detect their environment. They can't...
- Discussion threads 2007-10-03
- Air Force base CIO finds an alternative to PCs and thin clients
- Based on a pilot implementation, an Air Force CIO estimates that his IT department could save as much as $400,000 a year by gradually replacing conventional PCs with rack-based CPUs.Each year, the IT department at Hill Air Force Base near Ogden, Utah, replaces one third of its PCs with new...
- Technical articles 2002-09-17
- What would Jesus drive?
- What would Jesus drive?Last night on the UK's Channel 4 we had a TV documentary that was part of a series covering global warming. This particular hour covered the love of Americans for the car and, in particular, the current craze for "gas-guzzling" SUVs. During the program we had interviews...
- Discussion threads 2005-01-11
- Video provides a good alternative for MCSE certification training
- Choices abound when it comes to picking training materials in pursuit of an MCSE. Peter Parsons shows you how video courses from CBT and LearnKey can help provide good training alternatives.The options for MCSE certification training are extensive, and the best method for study is almost certainly a combination of...
- Technical articles 2002-02-25
- by Jason Hiner (Apple TV proves useful for watching video podcasts)
- Ho Hum....I was initialling pretty excited when Apple annouced the Apple TV. I still think it is a pretty cool device. But if I cannot download and watch widescreen 1080i HD content, what's the point? If it had a DVR function this would be so glaring an ommision. I think...
- Discussion threads 2007-03-30
- Pics: Artsy woodcrafted PCs and components
- For those of you who just can't get enough of the hybrid Japanese/Scandinavia aesthetic, here's a wooden external USB hub/hard drive from Suissa. For a mere $875, you can get 750GB of external storage, along with four USB 2.0 ports and and two headphone jacks--and all in a lovingly woodcrafted...
- Blog posts 2007-10-09
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