From the corporate world -
“Sun today announced a new entry-level addition to its family of Unified Storage arrays. The Sun Storage 7310 array allows smaller IT shops to deploy both solid-state disk and hard disk drives in the same box; it also offers clustering capabilities.”
This looks like a good interim solution for smaller shops that [...]
Looks like more good news for Windows 7: performance with an SSD drive is faster than Vista. Not that I”m surprised. To be honest, I think Vista should just be excluded from all future benchmark tests, and go away as fast as possible. Via Gizmodo:
“A lot of the hype around Windows 7 is predicated on [...]
That dire warning comes from SanDisk’s CEO Eli Harari. The capacity of flash chips has doubled 19 times in 14 years to 64 billion bits, currently. But Harari says they’re “running out of electrons.”
The short story is that the number of electrons crammed inside of flash storage now makes them less accurate as they get [...]
There’s fast, and then there’s stupid-fast, and a new hybrid SSD drive will fall into the latter category if it can live up to the speed claims being put out by its manufacturer, who says a single DDRDrive X1 can hit a staggering 300,000 IOPS.
The new drive combines 4GB of DDR memory for high-speed operation [...]
Well this is certainly interesting. Apparently, PNY has released a 2 GB USB Flash Drive that is preloaded with the full Ghostbusters movie. From the press release:
“2GB USB preloaded with movie for download
PNY Technologies and Sony Pictures Home Entertainment announce the launch of a new 2GB USB preloaded with Sony Pictures’ 80’s comedy classic, GHOSTBUSTERS [...]