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- 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...
- Blog posts 2008-08-04
- 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. ...
- Blog posts 2008-05-28
- 6 Gbit drives coming
- 6 Gbit drives comingAll this high speed interface is limited...by the transfer rate internally in the drive. This improves burst rates only and data that can be cached in the drives buffers. It does nothing for extended read/write function that are larger than the drives buffers.RE: 6 Gbit drives...
- Discussion threads 2008-05-14
- 6 Gbit drives coming
- Chip vendor PMC-Sierra and Seagate announced that they've . . . achieved interoperability between PMC-Sierra's end-to-end 6Gb/s SAS chipset and Seagate's early development 6Gb/s SAS Hard Disk Drives HDDs. This successful demonstration of 6Gb/s Serial Attached SCSI SAS interoperability provides server and storage system equipment...
- Blog posts 2008-05-13
- Western Digital VelociRaptor hard drive
- Western Digital have started shipping the company's fastest drive yet - the VelociRaptor. The VelociRaptor, model WD3000GLFS, is a 10,000RPM, 300GB drive. It differs from the existing Raptor models not only in the capacity (the largest Raptor has only 150GB of storage) but also in fact that...
- Blog posts 2008-04-22
- News to know: Microsoft and open source; Google; Motorola, PMA 2008
- Notable headlines: Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft's open-source strategy: A picture is worth a thousand words Dana Blankenhorn: Should we fight the proprietary open source power? Larry Dignan: Google's quarter falls short of expectations Tom Foremski: GOOG's troubled social network deals threaten Facebook valuation....
- Blog posts 2008-02-01
- Build a 10 Gbit home network for $1100
- Build a 10 Gbit home network for $1100Necessary?I'm not sure even the "hardcore gamer" needs a 10Gbit home network. Heck, I stream HD content and I don't even have a need for a gigabit network... yet.Unless you're hammering the bejesus out of your network, it's not necessary. Neat though it...
- Discussion threads 2008-01-31
- Build a 10 Gbit home network for $1100
- Create the ultimate gaming supercomputer? You've overclocked, water cooled, matched DIMMs, added 10k drives and the latest 1 GB video card. But so have all your friends. What now? How about a 10 Gig home network for the ultimate gaming supercomputer? In a pricing breakthrough...
- Blog posts 2008-01-31
- How much for a video-friendly Internet?
- How much for a video-friendly Internet?What about static addresses?ISP's charge extra for static IP addresses. That made sense in the days of dial-up, but it is a total rip-off in the world of "always on" Internet. We are all second-class contents consumers without static addresses.Only if you sign up for...
- Discussion threads 2008-01-19
- Time Capsule works with PCs too
- Time Capsule works with PCs tooMaybe a silly question, but......why would anyone need a Gigabit WAN connection? Are there people out there with dedicated OC-24 connections into their houses?Very nice and well pricedWireless backup is a breakthrough product. Very nice.Combined with a 1/2T drive, wireless printer port and Gbit Ethernet...
- Discussion threads 2008-01-16
- Lightpath-Level Protection Versus Connection-Level Protection for Carrier-Grade Ethernet in a Mixed-Line-Rate Telecom Network
- Ethernet is a success story in Local Area Networks LAN. Efforts for extending its boundaries beyond LAN to the carriers' backbone networks are in progress. The paper studies the problem of designing reliable and cost-efficient high-rate (100 Gbit/s) carrier-grade Ethernet in a multi-line-rate telecom network under signal transmission-range constraints. Reliability...
- White papers 2007-11-30
- My Mac mini experience - Thoughts on the Mac mini
- My Mac mini experience - Thoughts on the Mac miniNo lightsNo lights is a bummer when you are troubleshooting. No nic lights means you can't tell at a glance if you have a network connection. No hard drive light means when you think the machine is locked up...
- Discussion threads 2007-11-13
- From Interop, video of Plat' Home's Linux Server that fits in the palm of your hand
- Within minutes of arriving on the Interop show floor this morning and beginning my search for something cool to videotape for publication here on ZDNet, we found Plat' Home's booth in the back of the exhibitor's area with two very cool products -- both of them tiny Linux servers, one...
- Blog posts 2007-10-25
- The great fraud of our time
- The great fraud of our timeuntil goverment does it job to protect it citizenuntil goverment explain to business that there only permit business es to exit that if they want they can revoke that right ......but since government is in the pocket of businesses and since nobody have the backbone...
- Discussion threads 2007-10-17
- 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...
- Blog posts 2007-09-27
- 1.25 - 10 Gbit/s Reconfigurable Access Network Architecture
- This paper proposes a novel reconfigurable access network architecture which enables the bidirectional transmission of 1.25 - 2.5 Gbit/s. Optical Network Units ONUs are equipped with a Reflective Semiconductor Optical Amplifier RSOA and Remote Nodes RNs are based on microring resonators - both contribute to network transparency and flexibility. The...
- White papers 2007-06-14
- Ethernet piggybacks on InfiniBand chip
- Ethernet piggybacks on InfiniBand chip20 Gigabit/s? Let's first have 10 gigas!I can't really see the interest of a 20 Gbit/s bandwidth over a standard 10 Gbit/s. Let's first have the standard implemented, and its cost will dramatically lower.For most devices, only 100 megabit:s is available with standard Ethernet cables, and...
- Discussion threads 2007-03-31
- Nortel Network Case Study: Lehigh Valley Hospital - Optical Backbone
- Founded in 1899 as Allentown Hospital, today Lehigh Valley Hospital and Health Network LVHHN is one of the largest and oldest teaching facilities in Pennsylvania. Lehigh Valley Hospital and Health Network recognizes the wealth of new modalities and technology available to support advancements in patient care including PACS (picture archiving...
- Case studies 2007-01-01
- Optical Access Network Using Centralized Light Source, Single-Mode Fiber + Broad Wavelength Window Multimode Fiber
- Access networks based on a Single-Mode Fiber SMF using a Centralized Light Source CLS have attracted much attention recently due to their wavelength management flexibility and potential for cost reduction at customers' premises. Future networks, in addition, are likely to contain segments of MultiMode Fiber MMF, whose core dimension is...
- White papers 2006-08-01
- ACAL Storage Networking Launches Bundle With Cisco and Emulex
- ACAL Storage Networking is Europe's leading independent storage networking distributor. ACAL Storage Networking wanted to offer customers cost-effective, 4 Gbit/s SAN performance. ACAL Storage Networking along with Fibre Channel Storage Area Network SAN solutions comprising the Cisco MDS 9020 Fabric Switch and the LP1150-F4 HBA from Emulex. Available to Cisco...
- Case studies 2006-04-27
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