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28/02: 160 Gb Solid State Hard Drive!!!!
2.5'' - 160GB - 70MB/sec.At your reach for only 80 USD/GB!!!!!!
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09/01: Why wait? 1 TB Hard Drive this year!
A couple days ago we wrote about the impressive 300 TB Hard Drive that will be available in 3 years.But know, Hitachi has just announced the launch of a 1 TB HD for THIS year!
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14/11: News in the Linux Filesystem World
Linux always finds a way to come to us with innovations from the inside of the computer…as well as from the outside.Read More ...
27/10: 3 Terabytes (3,000 Gigabytes) on a CD
Yes, soon the possibility of 3 Terabytes of data on an optical disc of the size of CD could become a reality.Read More ...
13/10: 50 years must be celebrated...
A couple weeks ago, on September 13, the hard drive turned 50 years old…The hard drive was created on September 13 1956 by IBM under the name RAMAC 350 and it was storage unit for IBM’s 305 computer. Despite its 50 years of existence, it is still an essential part of every modern day computer.
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10/08: I-RAM, M-RAM , Good Bye to Hard Drives?
A couple of weeks ago, one of my lab associates made a comment about the advantages of the I-RAM and its speed with respect to the hard drive. What is an I-RAM? I asked. Simple. They are a bank of DDR memories that are used as a hard drive. They are powered through a PCI port and use a SATA connector that goes to the mother board.Bottom line, an I-RAM emulates a SATA hard drive. The volatility problem associated to RAM memories is solved with the constant feed that it receives from the board through the PCI port. Even if there is a blackout, the I-RAM even has a small battery that can hold for some time.
Advanteges? Problems?
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