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String 24 SSDs together for 6TB & 2GB/s throughput!
What happens when you string together 24 256GB Samsung MLC SSDs - you get 6TB of storage and 2GB/sec throughput. Sweet mother of ---! Discovered the news on Lucas Mearian's Computer World blog who writes: When you've got millions of... Full Story
Posted on March 10, 2009 10:09 AM
Hard Drives Slow Down With Loud Background Noise
Apparently, disk drives are more sensitive to minor vibrations than previously thought. A blog post by Sun Microsystems engineer Brendan Gregg called "Unusual disk latency" discovered unusually high disk I/O latency during a streaming write test. He explains how... Full Story
Posted on January 2, 2009 9:26 AM
WD VelociRaptor Hard Drive
Western Digital (WD) released their latest VelociRaptor 300GB hard drive. The WD VelociRaptor hard disk drive (HDD) is one scary looking beast! This puppy spins at 10,000 RPM - fast enough to tear through your gigabytes of naked flesh in... Full Story
Posted on April 22, 2008 12:58 PM
Father of the Hard Drive Passes On
Yes, I do believe it's worth a moment to pause and reflect on what Al Shugart (founder of Seagate) and his invention of the hard drive meant to the whole world of gadgets. Obviously, a key component in the rise... Full Story
Posted on December 14, 2006 2:23 PM
The Hard Drive Hits 50
Not too many gadgets hit the age of 50, especially in the world of computers, but the hard drive is still going strong at 50 years of age! (I never would have guessed!) (An age that many may feel depressed about while looking... Full Story
Posted on August 22, 2006 10:08 AM
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