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| PlayStation Portable Might Get Hard Drive and Trophies |  | Through firmware update 2.41, the cleaned up version of the disastrous 2.40, Sony finally introduced Trophies to the PlayStation 3, bringing a reward system to its console that is on par with the Achievements system available on the ... [read more >>] | | 18 July 2008, 16:11GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Ladies and Gentlemen, We Have an Xbox 360 Price Cut |  | What was just a rumor at the end of last week is confirmed reality at the beginning of this one. Just a few days prior to the now usual E3 press conference, Microsoft has finally announced that the Xbox 360 is getting a price cut and that the standard 20 GB console ... [read more >>] | | 14 July 2008, 03:49GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| New Fire-Safe/Waterproof Hard Drive Launched by Sentry Safe |  | Sentry Safe, a leader in residential and small office security-storage containers, announced yesterday the launch of its next generation 250GB FIRE-SAFE/Waterproof Hard Drive, capable of providing data protection from fire and water disasters and computer crashes. The development of the innovative, award-winning hard drive that enables users to back-up their critical data was possible due to a partnership between SentrySafe and Maxtor Stor ... [read more >>] | | 02 July 2008, 05:04GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| More Affordable SSDs from OCZ |  | As we already stated a couple of times now, Solid State Drives are the way of the future, even if most of us still have to wait a while until the cost per gigabyte becomes more affordable. Until that happens, we can only hope that the technology is going to advance and will eventually improve the lifetime of the flash-based drives. In this respect, OCZ, one of the leading manufacturers of memory devices, has decided to join those manufactu ... [read more >>] | | 01 July 2008, 10:49GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Nintendo Promises Solution to Limited Storage Space |  | Nintendo is really working on a solution to the storage issues that Nintendo Wii users are reporting, but apparently it is not preparing to deliver an external hard drive for the Wii. The same Laurent Fischer of Nintendo Europe that ignited a small controversy by calling all ... [read more >>] | | 19 June 2008, 17:51GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Nintendo Issues Apology Regarding “Geek” Remark |  | Laurent Fischer, one of the most important people at Nintendo Europe, has issued an apology regarding some remarks he made last week regarding people that demanded more storage space for their Nintendo Wii gaming consoles.
He now says that "I have huge respect for those who, l ... [read more >>] | | 16 June 2008, 18:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| How Virtual Memory Works |  | If you ever ran a Windows operating system, then I'm most certain that you have encountered at some point in time an error saying something like "Your system is low on virtual memory..." and so on, but you have never really figured out what it meant or what virtual memory really was. The virtual memory is part of most operating systems out there. On Linux, if I'm not mistaken, the virtual memory is called 'swap ... [read more >>] | | 06 June 2008, 09:10GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Experimental Data Recovered from Columbia Disaster Hard Drive |  | On the 1st of February 2003, the space shuttle Columbia re-entered Earth's atmosphere while severely damaged to the left wing. The intense heat generated by the friction with the air eventually weakened the structural integrity of the vehicle and determined its disintegration, killing the crew of seven it was carrying on board. Most of the pieces which resulted in the breakup burned over the sky of Texas, while some reached ... [read more >>] | | 10 May 2008, 04:26GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| How Cache Memory Works |  | Have you ever noticed how as soon as you enter a computer shop the seller starts talking in some alien language, mentioning words such as 'L2 cache', '16 megabytes buffer' or 'virtual memory', but never has time to explain what those words really mean? If you have, then you're in the right place, because this article describes exactly what a memory cache is and how it works.
Caching is a technology ba ... [read more >>] | | 18 April 2008, 09:49GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| HDD Replacement for MacBook Pro (Video) |  | Looking to upgrade your MacBook Pro hard drive? Good. That's always good. Upgrading is good. But what if you've never popped open a laptop, or don't have much experience with swapping hardware in and out of a system, all this while ... [read more >>] | | 05 February 2008, 05:35GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Revolutionary Magnetic Experiment Promises Better Hard Drives |  | The experiment for which Albert Fert and Peter Grünberg received the Novel Prize, for their new discoveries in the field of magnetism, concentrates mostly on the study of magnetic cores on the nanoscale, which seem to present extremely stable magnetization, which could potentially be used in the developing of the future non volatile magnetic memory.
The magnetic cores only 10 nanometers across are located in magnetic vortices that have ... [read more >>] | | 20 December 2007, 10:52GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Troubleshoot Xbox 360 Hard Drive |  | The Xbox 360's hard drive is a very delicate and valuable asset to your console. Sometimes however, the damned thing just won't work. It is possible in some cases that the user is an idiot and doesn't follow the rules of using the machine, but some users may have trouble with the hard drive despite taking care of their machine like it was their own child. Whatever category you fit, the information below may prove to be of va ... [read more >>] | | 18 December 2007, 09:42GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Teach Your Hard Drive a Lesson – the Hard Way |  | Data recovery providers are the last resort when things go extremely, and I mean extremely nasty with your computer. Among the most precious things to lose when your hard drive fails are pictures of your ex or the final paper your promotion depends on.
There are times when such disasters ... [read more >>] | | 05 December 2007, 09:02GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| 60GB PS3 Can Support a 120GB HDD |  | This should come in handy to every PlayStation 3 owner on the planet. Apparently, there's more to the console than you thought and although some of you may have discovered an extra feature or capability by now, ... [read more >>] | | 14 November 2007, 06:05GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| 320 GB Storage Space For Your PS3 |  | In case you haven't already ordered this piece of hardware, we bring good news: Western Digital have just launched a 320GB 2.5 inch Scorpio SATA hard drive. This 5400 RPM baby costs only $200 and it will be compatible with the PS3 that supports any SATA hard drive out there. Final ... [read more >>] | | 02 November 2007, 04:34GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| IDE Data Transfer Interfaces Are Obsolete |  | Parallel ATA or IDE data transfer interfaces have been around for some years now and they are slowly but steadily driven to extinction by the ever increasing adoption of the fast and more manageable Serial ATA interfaces. As more and more computer hardware manufacturing companies are abandoning the use of the old standards, the IDE interface may soon be completely replaced and in the near future we may see computers that are offering no su ... [read more >>] | | 24 September 2007, 08:59GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Hybrid Hard Drives, Not so Hot After All |  | There is a raging battle for the right to store your files and information. On the one side, please welcome the traditional hard disk drive with its spinning platters and not too great access speed, quite high power consumption and huge storage capabilities. On the other hand, please boooo! the solid state drive that offers faster access speeds, needs less power and is more resilient to high temperatures, shock and so on, while costing a s ... [read more >>] | | 21 September 2007, 11:31GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| A Golden External Hard Disk Drive |  | External storage devices are very popular these days as their price is only fractionally higher than the price tag sported by a similar capacity internal hard disk drive and apart from the price consideration, they are also offering a good deal of mobility and fast enough data transferring rates. While the mobile storage market was traditionally dominated by flash memory devices that offered a good price and speed at the expense of storage ... [read more >>] | | 12 September 2007, 07:33GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Seagate Sees Income Rising |  | Seagate just posted its latest fourth quarter financial data and it reported a boost in incomes thanks to a higher revenue and a one-time tax benefit. Seagate is the largest hard disk drive manufacturer in the U.S. and one of the most important in the whole world. Its income increased to $541 million, compared to only $7 million a year earlier, while revenue increased with about 9 percent to $2.47 billion.
Because of a $359 mi ... [read more >>] | | 20 July 2007, 05:02GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| What Killed My Hard Disk? |  | According to researchers working at a joined project of the University of California and Hitachi Global Storage Technologies, cited by ITPro, most hard disk drive failures are produced by phenomena called "magnetic avalanches" and their better understanding could lead to hard disk dri ... [read more >>] | | 19 July 2007, 03:00GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| 750GB Hard Drives from Western Digital |  | Western Digital just announced that a new enterprise class line of hard disk drives will become available through resellers. The main product of this line is the WD RE2 (RAID Edition) 750 GB that features Native Command Queuing (NCQ) and 16 MB cache for the high system performa ... [read more >>] | | 18 July 2007, 03:44GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Trends in Computer Memory |  | In order to keep pace with ever faster and more powerful processors, the computer memory (RAM as it is called) had to undergo several major changes these past few years. The RAM is a very important piece of hardware, as it is the link between the processor and the rest of the storage devices. While secondary storage has a greater capacity, RAM is more speed centered as it needs to be able to serve for the CPU the data it requires and to be ... [read more >>] | | 17 July 2007, 04:08GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| New Standard Will Make Your Hard Drive Faster |  | Hard disk drives, as we know them, have a default data block size of 512 bytes, making the smallest sector on the drive 512 bytes in size. All that is about to change because of the initiative of the International Disk Drive Equipment and Materials Association (IDEMA) which has approved the Long Block Data (LBD) standard on hard drives that increases the size of the default block to 4.096 bytes.
The current 512 byte standard h ... [read more >>] | | 01 May 2007, 19:21GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| One Terabyte of Storage for $399 |  | Hitachi Global Storage Technologies is the manufacturer of the current king sized hard drive in the world, the Hiachi Deskstar 7K1000, which has become available for sale at a recommended retail price of $399.
The drive itself uses the Serial ATA 300 interface, has 32MB of data buffer, 5 platters, 10 recording heads, 7.200RPM, a 4.17 ms average latency, just to mention a couple of the speed related rates. It alsi can withstand ... [read more >>] | | 26 April 2007, 11:34GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Apple TV Hard-Drive Self-Replacement Kit on Sale |  | Of all the modifications being made to Apple TVs, the bigger hard drive is by far the most popular one. Despite all the interest in this otherwise simple upgrade, Apple seems to be turning a blind eye on it.
A company called WeaKnees has started shipping Seagate 160GB Apple TV hard drive replacements for US$199. According to them, the procedure takes only a few minutes, after which the Apple TV will automatically re-synchroni ... [read more >>] | | 13 April 2007, 09:37GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Is the 1TB Hard Drive Necessary? |  | Not so long ago there was little need for massive data storage, but then again, networks weren't that big, content, whether digital or otherwise, wasn't generally available, and many of the people didn't have desires such as downloading movies off the Internet. As the expansion of the Internet and of everything around it grew more and more, different needs started to appear, many of which people didn't have be ... [read more >>] | | 11 April 2007, 09:12GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Seagate's 1TB Hard Drive Is Coming |  | The hard drive has seen some interesting crossroads during the years and the path it took so far has been a huge motivation for the computer industry. Now, we are faced with the challenge brought by memory-based storage devices: they are faster, more rugged and durable, but they are not as big. This being said, the only chance the spinning platters have of still being a noticeable presence on the market in the near future is eith ... [read more >>] | | 02 April 2007, 05:18GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
| Hard Drive MTBF Ratings False? |  | Just about when I was going to buy a new hard drive, I came across this news article about the reliability of Mean time between failures (MTBF), as being given by the hard drive manufacturers. It's an independent study made by the Computer Science Department at the Carnegie Mellon University. They have taken information about approximately 100.000 hard drives over periods of time between five years and a lifetime of service, ... [read more >>] | | 12 March 2007, 09:45GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia |
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