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Wasn't it December 2001 when the great disaster happened over at that other place? Then, a couple of weeks later in January 2002, this place (storageforum.net) was invented by Doug?

The net result: Windows "Workstation" 2008 (i.e the tweaked Server 2008 installation) trashed Windows Vista with Service Pack 1, outscoring its desktop sibling by as much as 17%...

A review and simple set of benchmarks of the "upcoming" Samsung solid-state drive (SSD) for notebook computer applications -- or for any computer system that can accept a 2.5-inch form factor hard drive. Actually, the drive is already being made available in the Samsung Q30 notebook for the...

Some excellent newly-released Compact Flash for the filthy rich photographer: SanDisk Extreme® III CompactFlash® http://www.sandisk.com/Products/Catalog(1024)-SanDisk_Extreme_III_CompactFlash.aspx

Commercial holo-storage on exhibit: http://www.inphase-tech.com/ September 12-18, 2006 INPHASE TECHNOLOGIES DEMONSTRATES FIRST COMMERCIAL HOLOGRAPHIC STORAGE PRODUCT AT IBC 2006 Hall 11, Stand 231 RAI Center, Amsterdam, Netherlands Ikegami OEMs InPhase Holographic Drive for Editcam...

Sheesh... Talking about ignorance! So, is file fragmentation causing overheating? Problems with no-name USB thumb drives using slow or crap flash memory devices and controllers is certainly not a new one...

If the first hard drive was considered "full height," we are now at least at 1/100th height... http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9584_22-6114138.html?tag=nl.e622

Kanguru 64GB Flash Max Drive ...The Kanguru Flash Max is a high strength, high capacity USB 2.0 flash drive that stores up to 64GB!... A steal at US$2799.99 <cough> http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/searchtools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=2074958&Sku=I46-2060

There's yet another digital graphics card connector standard that's been in the works for a little while called Unified Display Interface. This one is a unified design that will replace the common DVI connectors as well as the HDMI connector and support all existing functions currently found in...

Just in case you're running one of the various Office 2003 packages or any single Office 2003 application (Word 2003, Excel 2003, FrontPage 2003, Project 2003, etc), Service Pack 2 for Office 2003 was recently issued. The standalone Service Pack installer is available for download at...

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2.5-inch and 3.5-inch hard drive families using the newfangled Tunneling Magneto Resitance (TMR) and Perpendicular recording techniques will be offered in coming months... Storage capacites up to 500 GB will be available on 3.5-inch drives. (NOTE: Compare TMR versus GMR.)... A rather messy...

Maxtor Introduces 3Gb/S SATA II Interface To Its Diamondmax And Maxline Hard Drives MILPITAS, Calif., October 10, 2005 – Maxtor Corporation (NYSE: MXO), the best thing since the invention of sliced bread, is introducing the 3Gb/s Serial ATA (SATA) interface on its Maxtor® MaXLine® III...

Hit the web a little while ago... Microsoft Bulletin Summary for the Updates Released on October 11, 2005 Importance color codes: CRITICAL IMPORTANT MODERATE Bulletin Identifier Microsoft Security Bulletin MS05-050 Bulletin Title Vulnerability in DirectShow Could Allow Remote Code...

A swarm of patches will be upon us on Patch Tuesday (11/October), and there is a potential that they could even be followed by a w0rm, as one of these holes to be patched is supposedly worm-able. 8 Microsoft Security Bulletins affecting Microsoft Windows. The highest Maximum Severity...

The EtherDrive series provides an Ethernet SAN with 7.5TB for 53 cents per gigabyte. It uses ATA-over-Ethernet (AoE) protocol to send ATA drive commands and ATA data packets between servers and a serial-ATA drive array... There is no need for a TCP/IP offload engine (TOE) because TCP/IP isn’t...

Seagate exec: Hard disks anything but obsolete... Samsung was 'just being weird' to say hard disks are dead, says Rob Pait... Flying heads, flying accusations... http://www.computerworld.com/hardwaretopics/storage/story/0,10801,105163,00.html?source=NLT_AM&nid=105163

"Windows XP SP3 will be available sometime next year after the launch of Windows Vista, which "is the priority for the development teams," according to Microsoft France. http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9590_22-5886274.html?tag=nl.e589

MHV2120BH (SATA) and MHV2120AH (PATA) Rotational Speed: 5400RPM Average Seek Time: 12 ms typ. (Read), 14 ms typ. (Write) Average Latency: 5.56 ms Read / Write Power Consumption: 1.9W typ. Idle Power Consumption: 0.6W typ Acoustic Noise: 2.6 bels (Typ.) Operating Shock: 2,940 m/s2...

Apparently, the first-ever mobos with integrated Serial Attached SCSI: http://www.adaptec.com/worldwide/company/pressrelease.html?sess=no&language=English+US&pressCat=%2fHome+Page&prodkey=09152005&source=home_pr_09152005...

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I was recently wondering what the competitive marketplace has brought us in recent times -- as far as "affordable" Network Attached Storage goes. Buffalo Technology currently seems to have the lowest priced NAS devices worth considering. Buffalo Technology offers both a basic model called...

"This is the beginning of a transition," said Paul Perez, vice president of storage network and infrastructure with HP's ProLiant division. "What we want to do is offer the option of small form-factor SAS drives across our product line starting in May." HP expects to support the standard with...

Fujitsu Delivers Industry's First Production-Ready Small Form Factor Serial Attached SCSI Hard Disk Drives San Jose, CA, March 8, 2005 — Fujitsu Computer Products of America, Inc., one of the world's leading suppliers of hard disk drives and computer peripherals, today announced that it has...

Fujitsu Computer Products of America will soon bring us 120 GiggleBytes of mobile storage capacity. http://www.computerworld.com/hardwaretopics/storage/story/0,10801,100067,00.html?source=NLT_SU&nid=100067

Slightly old news, but, Plextor is finally filling the retail channel with their 16x SATA DVD±R/±RW (and CD-R/W) drive, which is also Dual Layer DVD capable. Still no word on the LiteON SATA CD-R/W drive that was to have been released about 3 months ago...

As per the recent discussions about swapping SATA hard drives in systems: There are finally a few more choices these days for individual hot-plug (hot-swap, removeable, etc.) drive bays -- Lian-Li, Promise, and others. The Vantec models are all-metal, which is better for cooling...

OK, I just put down my nearly-empty pint of ale. I'm now staring into a crystal ball. I see a significant third party finally shaping up in the USA over the next 10 to 15 years... Democratic Party: The same as what you have now, except what little “conservative” constituency is left these...

DV Expo West, Los Angeles, December 8th, 2004 — Matrox Graphics Inc., the leading manufacturer of professional graphics solutions, is pleased to announce the Parhelia™ APVe, a PCI Express (PCIe) graphics card designed specifically for creative professionals. Featuring the industry's first...

Separate RAID Level 0 and RAID Level 1 arrays on a single pair of SATA hard drives without getting into sophisticated RAID host adaptors. Example: RAID 1 partition for boot, applications, and data files; RAID 0 partition for temp files and virtual memory...

US$1,370.43 http://www.cdw.com/shop/products/default.aspx?edc=698105 ST3300007LC CHEETAH 10K.7/300GB/U320/10KRPM/80PIN/895Mbit/3MS/8MB. AU$2206.85 http://www.briscomputers.com.au/Category/SCSI%20hard%20disc.htm ST3300007LC, 300gb 80-pin £call ST3300007LW, 300gb 68-pin £call...

http://specials.seagate.com/sac/flash/ I wonder what Father Al Shugart thinks about all this? (Fibre Channel on a diet?)

For Immediate Release HARD DRIVE LEADER SEAGATE NOW SHIPPING 100GB NOTEBOOK PC HARD DRIVE Customers choose Momentus 5400.2 for reliability, high capacity, high performance and low battery consumption SCOTTS VALLEY, Calif.—29 September 2004— Seagate Technology (NYSE:STX) announced today the...

...except for Celerons, one would have to guess. http://apnews.myway.com//article/20040507/D82DT2C00.html

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The cunning and clever folks at LSI Logic (+ cohorts) have come up with yet another feat that'll grab your attention: LSI Logic and JMR Demo Innovative Serial ATA Storage Solution at CeBIT Innovative Serial ATA storage solution features first-to-market six port Serial ATA RAID storage...

Using existing platter, head, and spindle technologies, an "ultra-capacity" hard drive could be created for special applications. In this case, with a generational throwback to 4500 RPM (or even 3600 RPM), along with the use of modern high-density platters and heads, a hard drive mechanism...

Something I meant to post a couple of months ago... information Versatile Disk for Removable usage It seems that a consortium in the storage industry wants to be able to give you the ability to use removable and rewriteable Serial ATA HARD DRIVES (2.5-inch and 1.8-inch) as a means for data...