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Seagate reaches 2TB with new Constellation HDDs
News Seagate has launched a new family of enterprise disk drives, with the company's first 2TB drive taking pride of place. The Constellation storage drive range, launched on Monday, features 2.5-inch and 3.5-inch models and promises to decrease power...
[February 4, 2009, 16:25]
Intel SSD - details. 32-160GB, production in next 30 days, £400-ish
Blog Comment I think the reason they focused on 5400 rpm HDDs is that is the speed selection that most closely resembles the actual speed a 7200 rpm HDD would be running at in a laptop when you add in power management of the HDDs.
[August 22, 2008, 9:03]
Intel SSD - details. 32-160GB, production in next 30 days, £400-ish
Blog Comment Intel has done a lot of usability testing on SSDs versus HDDs, and says that the difference is startling. They must have tested the faster HDDs too - the fact that they haven't published those figures is interesting in its own right.
[August 21, 2008, 15:16]
Sun goes big with blade servers
Talkback The SunFire X4500 is a 4-way (2x dual core) AMD Opteron server with 48x SATA HDDS, debuting at 250GB per disk and going on to 500GB per disk and above. The SunFire X4600 is a 16-way (8x dual core) AMD Opteron server with 4x 73GB SAS HDDs.
[July 12, 2006, 17:26]
Dell introduces solid state drives
News Solid state drives (SSDs) — as opposed to traditional hard disk drives (HDDs) — are based on flash or volatile memory and therefore do not have any moving parts. The SSDs are the same dimensions as Dell's HDDs and they use the same connectors, so...
[April 26, 2007, 12:55]
Samsung hybrid hard drive extends laptop battery life
Talkback HDD hype has been cringe worthy (care of Samsung)… predictions of flash replacing HDDs have been laughable (Samsung again). Industry forecasts predict $-per-GB, circa 2009, for Flash being in the region of $4.00 (Source: IDC) and HDDs rolling in at...
[May 16, 2006, 11:55]
Hard-drive industry shows continued growth
News However, demand for HDDs wasn't the issue, according to iSuppli. Vendors like Seagate can charge more for HDDs for notebooks than they can for desktops, and, although desktop PCs shipments are down, notebook sales are doing very well.
[July 23, 2008, 8:23]
Toshiba snaps up Fujitsu HDD business
News The deal will enable Toshiba to "reinforce" its position as a vendor of small form-factor HDDs, commonly used in consumer electronics and mobile devices, the company said. Discussions between the two companies were made known last month when...
[February 17, 2009, 10:48]
Asus cuts Eee PC storage options
News Asked whether UK users would be offered HDD or SSD versions, the spokesperson said the decision would depend on the model in question, with "high-end" models generally coming with SSDs and "mainstream" models with HDDs.
[March 16, 2009, 12:11]
IBM adds flash to storage virtualisation
News One such technique is the use of short-stroked hard-disk drives (HDDs), which use only a fraction of the available disk space in exchange for faster throughput. SSDs can provide better throughput at a lower price than banks of such HDDs, according...
[October 19, 2009, 9:34]
Do we need a campaign to save XP?
Blog Comment I'll have to agree with you on the reasons for upgrading, bigger hdds, USB support. A great entry Peter. Personally I've always gone for the next version to feed my gaming habit. Now most games (exclusing Microsoft ones of course) and software is...
[January 16, 2008, 14:52]
You missed a critical factor!
Talkback Instead, it supports backing up to internal/external HDDs, DVDs (yeah, that's really useful) and shared folders. Windows Backup in Windows Server 2008 does not support backing up to tape. This Technet article has the details: http://technet...
[September 12, 2008, 12:54]
Micron unveils server-grade SSDs
News According to the flash-memory manufacturer, they will be 10 times faster at accessing transactional data than traditional enterprise hard disk drives (HDDs). According to Micron, the drives also offer a mean time between failure (MTBF) rate of...
[August 5, 2008, 13:06]
'Wimpy nodes' could cut datacentre power bloat
News The researchers claim the resulting system is cost-competitive with other high-throughput approaches, such as the use of large numbers of hard-disk drives (HDDs), or systems based on DRAM memory, while consuming less power.
[October 19, 2009, 9:23]
HDD Interface Technologies
White Papers The interfaces of Hard Disk Drives (HDDs) have been changed to serial interfaces to meet the demands for high-speed data transfer. The main interfaces involved are the Fibre Channel (FC), Serial ATA (SATA), and Serial Attached SCSI (SAS).
[June 2, 2006, 1:00]
Flash Memory Technology Direction
White Papers System designers implementing NAND Flash-based traditional Hard Disk Drives (HDDs) or newer Hybrid Hard Drives (HHDs) and Solid State Disks (SSDs) face a number of decisions. A number of key new computing system initiatives - including Windows...
[March 29, 2008, 0:01]
Goodbye Linux and x86, hello Panther!
Member Review GB RAM 2x160GB SATA HDDs 256MB Radeon 9800XT. After 9 years of using Linux I've finally found my OS. I love Panther, and the hardware that runs it is beautiful too. After 6 months of using an iBook G4 I took delivery of a PowerMac Dual G5 1.8 (Rev B.
[June 29, 2004, 8:12]
CLARiiON Enterprise Flash Drives: Optimizing Application Performance at a Lower Total Cost of Ownership
White Papers The presenter will compare Flash drives with traditional Hard Disk Drives (HDDs), discuss the degree of Flash drive integration within the CLARiiON family, and help to identify opportunities for integrating Flash drives within the infrastructure.
[August 29, 2009, 1:21]
Samsung promotes flash drives for PCs
Talkback IMO this will go similarly, and a smart-move making the interfaces easier to assimilate into existing architecture - in a few years the noisy, failure-ridden, power-hungry HDDs will be museum pieces. The death-knell for traditional hard disk storage.
[May 24, 2005, 22:49]
Other problems
Talkback My current laptop solution - due to the low price of external HDDs now - is to mirror the entire hard drive every couple of weeks to a similarly-specced external disc via USB. There are faults with both systems, for sure.
[April 29, 2008, 13:20]
