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Acer launches Dothan and 64-bit notebooks, plus a budget handheld review
Reviews Optical storage resides in a hot-swappable bay in the form of a DVD/CD-RW combo for the entry-level model and a DVD Super Multi drive (a multi-format DVD burner) at the top end. Apart from its 64-bit CPU, the other main point of difference from the...
[May 27, 2004, 17:10]
Knowledge experiences exponential growth
News It sought to canvas four storage media (print, film, magnetic and optical) and four channels (telephone, radio, television and the Internet). Unsurprisingly, computers won out in the storage category: 92 percent of newly generated information was...
[October 29, 2003, 9:00]
Dell Dimension 8200 (2.8GHz Pentium 4) review
Reviews Hard disk storage is provided by a fast 7,200rpm 120GB Western Digital drive, while optical media are taken care of by a Philips DVD+RW drive and a fast 48-speed CD-ROM drive. Inside the tool-free-access case, you can fit another 3.5in.drive if...
[August 29, 2002, 14:14]
IBM eServer xSeries 226 8488 (Xeon 3GHz) review
Reviews You can configure it with one or two Intel Xeon processors running from 2.8GHz to 3.4GHz; PC2-3200 DDR2 memory beginning at 512MB and maxing out at 16GB; 7,200rpm SATA hard drives with 80GB to 250GB capacity; 10,000rpm or 15,000rpm SCSI hard...
[August 11, 2005, 9:10]
Sony VAIO VGN-A197XP review
Reviews For optical storage there's a Sony DVD+RW/-RW burner located in a fixed bay on the right-hand side. As mentioned above, you get 80GB of hard disk storage, in the form of a 4,200rpm Hitachi Travelstar drive.
[July 15, 2004, 17:00]
Inveneo Computing Station review
Reviews A standard keyboard and an optical mouse are included, and the entire system can run off 12V DC — from a solar panel or car battery, or from the auto-voltage-sensing external power brick. One side of the case carries four USB 2.0 ports, two of...
[February 19, 2008, 11:41]
Hitachi makes move away from tape
News Reducing the amount of physical storage required is a key factor behind the use of virtualisation technology to replace tape and optical libraries. The company claims this method can reduce physical storage by "up to 25 times or more".
[July 10, 2006, 12:30]
Tech firms urged to focus on electromagnetics
News The report highlights four key areas: optical telecoms switches that would be much faster than current networks which use electric signals for routing and data storage; advanced CCTV cameras that would "search" people remotely by monitoring...
[May 4, 2004, 12:35]
Hi-Grade Ultinote M6500-2000 review
Reviews Fixed storage is provided by a 40GB Hitachi hard disk, while the system’s optical drive is a Matshita DVD-ROM/CD-RW combo drive. There’s a single Type II PC Card slot, an RJ-45 Ethernet port and access to the hard disk compartment on the left-hand...
[June 25, 2002, 16:08]
Intel aims to make fibre optics mainstream
News The USB group could get a connector defined rapidly for consumer use, and the IEEE could work on a variation for higher-end systems such as servers, with optical lines linking processors together and linking computers to storage systems.
[September 29, 2009, 13:53]
Acer Aspire 1502LMi review
Reviews The Aspire 1500 series is unusual among today's notebooks in featuring a built-in floppy disk drive, in addition to an integrated optical drive and an internal hard disk. The optical drive is a fixed (as opposed to modular) Pioneer DVD-RW/+RW unit...
[June 15, 2004, 17:00]
Nuggets: Dual DV offerings from Panasonic
News Both cameras come with a 15x optical zoom and a digital zoom that extends to 150x. Quick Start, for example, gets the camera up and running within 3.5 seconds, while Quick Zoom can go across the whole optical range in half a second -- apparently.
[February 18, 2000, 14:20]
The Year Ahead: Top ten technologies to watch
News Holographic storage is real science fiction stuff, with lasers writing complex three-dimensional patterns to optical recording media. Holographic storage But IBM is still keen, as are a handful of small start-ups, and the promise of terabyte...
[December 25, 2002, 6:13]
Networks show drops telecoms, stays in Birmingham
News Two are network-related topics, Infrastructure Solutions (including switching and voice/data integration) and Network Solutions (including optical networks, network operating systems, e-business and computer telephony, which have been criticised...
[June 25, 2002, 15:05]
Acer TravelMate 8006LMi review
Reviews Main storage is provided by an 80GB, 4,200rpm Ultra-ATA/100 hard disk, while the optical drive is a multi-format DVD burner that can handle all of today's leading writable and rewritable media (DVD+R/RW, DVD-R/RW and CD-R/RW).
[May 28, 2004, 16:30]
Volcanic island wants to host your data
News The company claims that Iceland's optical fibre network could be a cheap option for European businesses. SecurStore, which hosts the Icelandic arm of Vodafone (Og Vodafone), is attempting to attract customers to what it calls a storage "safe-haven...
[March 1, 2005, 14:55]
Seagate buys big to build new hard drive paradigm
News Seagate is hoping to build a new direction for hard disk development by acquiring a startup that implements optical technology on Winchester drives to increase data density. One-year-old Quinta Corporation of San Jose, California has developed a...
[July 3, 1997, 10:17]
Networking tech to sweep the Web
News At the SuperComm 2001 telecommunications trade show in Atlanta, Cisco Systems, Lucent Technologies and others will show off their latest optical networking equipment -- technology that can transport Internet traffic at high-speeds.
[June 4, 2001, 15:31]
Poweroid 8001 review
Reviews There’s another backplane unit above the AGP graphics card slot, this one providing digital S/PDIF audio inputs (RCA and optical) for the integrated audio subsystem. There are two optical drives -- a Toshiba 16-speed DVD-ROM and a Lite-On CD-RW...
[August 21, 2002, 11:44]
Mesh X-Serve 146 review
Reviews Indeed, as well as slots for optional tape and optical drives there’s a cage and cabling for up to six internal hard disks. You also get an integrated SATA controller for the storage, which is particularly well provided for on this model.
[February 3, 2006, 6:50]
