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When the first of these variable speed hard drives started showing up a while back -- and WD began hinting that this was "the future" of desktop storage -- many people (in and around the storage biz) were definitely not impressed with the ideas of a variable speed spindle using constant linear...

I bring this subject up from time to time, and people frequently do not believe it when I tell them, but, there was actually a "Firewire" around for a few years before the Firewire that Apple allegedly invented and submitted as IEEE-1488. This mysterious hardware and cabling looks and works...

A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.

Indeed. I meant HD 2400 XT, but for some reason when I went back to edit that post, the [Edit] function here on the StorageForum website was not working.

According to TechARP (or Rojakpot or whatever they call themselves these days), the older Radeon X1550 is virtually even with a Radeon HD2900XT. Radeon X1550 == 2200 MTexels/s + 12.80 GB/s Radeon HD2900XT == 2100 ~ 2800 MTexels/s + 6.40~12.80 GB/s One big difference between the...

Firefox version 2.0.0.4 just released... http://www.mozilla.com/

My large collection of Nikkor AI and AI-S lenses dictated my DigiSLR choice -- a Nikon body that I could afford and could adequately replace my F and F3 Nikons film bodies. My D100 does its job well, though use of my film-camera Nikkor lenses throws the D100 into 100% manual mode. But...

It is, but not when the drive is under BIOS control. I hot-swap SATA drives -- even "old" SATA drives -- along with SAS drives without problem. But, I do this with a 5-slot Supermicro SCA drive bay ("mobile rack") for 3.5-inch form factor SAS and/or SATA hard drives that is connected to an...

One approach to large LCD monitors for some of you might be to buy a 1080p HDTV monitor. Get one with an inbuilt HD tuner, and it could double as both a telly and a computer monitor running at 1920x1080 resolution.

For what it's worth, I've met and briefly talked with Bill Gates -- twice -- but never Ballmer. I've also met and briefly talked with "Apple technology evangelist" Steve Wozniak once -- but never Jobsie. This was in another time and universe called the 1980s. :geek:

...which is not my experience 3 ~ 4 years ago. I know there was an era when Plextor opticals were built quite well (the 8x and 16x CD-R/W period), because I used them (at work). But, starting around the 40x CD-R/W period, I had some of these overpriced Plextor drives to die suddenly for no...

Ballmer (the used car salesman) selling Windows 1.00 for $99. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGvHNNOLnCk&NR

...Phase-change memory can be scaled down to 22nm, or far smaller than flash memory, the researchers developing it say. Phase-change also appears able to be more durable than flash, whose memory cells start to break down after 100,000 rewrites... ...Among the advances, the companies have built...

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