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- Light Peak: black hole
- Light Peak is a high-speed optical I/O interconnect - starting at 10 Gbit/sec and scaling to 100 - whose parents are 3 of the biggest I/0 screwups in high tech: Sony, Apple and Intel. Can you spell doomed? by Robin Harris
- Blog posts 2009-11-23
- News to know: Twitter DMs; New Neutrality; Zimbra; Dell-Perot; Palm; Foursquare
- Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET's around-the-Web tech coverage. Michael Krigsman: Are Twitter direct messages safe? Richard Koman: FCC to announce net neutrality principles ...
- Blog posts 2009-09-22
- What does 6 Gbit SATA mean to you?
- RE: What does 6 Gbit SATA mean to you?The transfer speed will remain meaningless until SATA 10k and 15k RPM speeds become the norm. The speed of the data retrieval from the platters is the biggest factor in drive performance. The disk drive is and will remain the...
- Discussion threads 2009-09-21
- What does 6 Gbit SATA mean to you?
- Seagate announced a new disk with a 6 Gbit/s SATA interface, a 64 MB cache and 2 TB of capacity. What do the faster interface and higher cache mean to you? by Robin Harris
- Blog posts 2009-09-21
- USB 'SuperSpeed' 3.0 logos to appear on certified devices
- In 3 Years, Apple Will Take Credit For ItOne of my FanBoy friends, who died a couple years ago, swore that Apple invented the USB. Not really any different than Apple's commercial advertising now.Oh well, give me more speed, no matter what !Sweet...been waiting for USB 3.0 to hit the...
- Discussion threads 2009-09-02
- Performance Report PRIMERGY RX300 S5
- The PRIMERGY RX300 S5 is a space-saving dual socket rack server which takes up just 2 height units and replaces the PRIMERGY RX300 S4. It has an Intel 5520 chipset, two Intel Dual-Core or Quad-Core Xeon processors, up to 144 GB PC3-10600 or PC3-8500 registered ECC DDR3-SDRAM, a bus with...
- White papers 2009-06-01
- Performance Report PRIMERGY TX300 S5
- The PRIMERGY TX300 S5 is a dual socket tower server with an Intel 5520 chipset, two Intel Dual-Core or Quad-Core Xeon processors, up to 144 GB PC3-10600 or PC3-8500 registered ECC DDR3-SDRAM, a bus with 800, 1067 or 1333 MHz timing - depending on the processor used, a SAS controller...
- White papers 2009-06-01
- Performance Report PRIMERGY RX600 S4
- The PRIMERGY RX600 S4 is a space-saving 4-socket rack server which takes up just 4 height units. It has the Intel 7300 chip set, Intel Xeon processors, 4-way interleaved registered enhanced ECC PC2-5300F DDR2-SDRAM, a front-side bus with 1067 MHz timing, an 8-port SAS RAID controller with 512 MB cache,...
- White papers 2009-06-01
- Performance Report PRIMERGY TX150 S6
- The PRIMERGY TX150 S6 is a mono -socket tower server. It includes the Intel 3210 chipset, one Celeron, Pentium Dual-Core, Core 2 Duo, Dual-Core Xeon or Quad-Core Xeon processor, up to 8 GB PC2-6400 DDR2-SDRAM, depending on the processor used a 800 MHz, 1067 MHz or 1333 MHz front-side bus,...
- White papers 2008-11-01
- Performance Report PRIMERGY Econel 100 S2
- This paper contains a summary of the benchmarks executed for the PRIMERGY Econel 100 S2. In addition to the benchmark results, an explanation has been included for each benchmark and for the benchmark environment. In the PRIMERGY server family the PRIMERGY Econel 100 S2 is the entry-level model of the...
- White papers 2008-09-01
- 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
- Gnort: High Performance Network Intrusion Detection Using Graphics Processors
- The constant increase in link speeds and number of threats poses challenges to Network Intrusion Detection Systems NIDS, which must cope with higher traffic throughput and perform even more complex per-packet processing. This paper presents an intrusion detection system based on the Snort open-source NIDS that exploits the underutilized computational...
- White papers 2008-06-17
- Performance Report PRIMERGY BX620 S4
- PRIMERGY BX600 S3 Blade Servers are highly scalable 19-inch rack systems occupying 7 height units U that ac-commodate a maximum of 10 compact dual server blades. They ideally satisfy the requirements of enterprise data centers and Internet or application service providers. In addition to the hot-pluggable server blades, two redundant...
- White papers 2008-06-01
- 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
- Data Center Fabric: Leveraging 8 Gbit/sec Fibre Channel End to End in the Data Center
- Speed increase in Brocade switching platforms is one of many advantages from Brocade's next generation ASIC family. Higher speed in the data center brings the immediate benefit of higher-performing ISLs and increased scalability; since ISL performance is doubled, more ports can be used for servers and storage. In addition, 8...
- White papers 2008-05-01
- 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
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