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  • Seagate unveils first-ever 3TB external drive | Electronista

    Every few months it seems a HDD manufacturer has to release a new product that is faster or more dense than currently shipping products. As the war of the densities has been waged we marveled at each new generation of outlandishly large hard drives. And companies once dominant took a back seat. Seagate’s fortunes have…

  • OCZ’s RevoDrive Preview: An Affordable PCIe SSD – AnandTech

    Previously I’ve posted a lot about the Enterprise level PCIe SSD products. Most of them don’t have Manufacturer Suggested Retail Price (MSRP) listed anywhere on their websites. The reason being, if you have to ask how much it costs, you cannot afford it. That is the Enterprise Market, that’s how they roll. But for the…

  • Tilera, SeaMicro: The era of ultra high density computing

    Two big announcements with in a week or so of one another from two server manufacturers. On one side we have the Quanta SQ2 on the other SeaMicro SM10000. Both have 512 CPUs. Quanta fills up 2U of rack space, and SeaMicro fills 10U.

  • Big Web Operations Turn to Tiny Chips – NYTimes.com

    Stephen O’Grady, a founder at the technology analyst company RedMonk, said the technology industry often has swung back and forth between more standard computing systems and specialized gear. via Big Web Operations Turn to Tiny Chips – NYTimes.com. A little tip of the hat to Andrew Feldman, CEO of SeaMicro the startup company that announced…

  • SeaMicro Announces SM10000 Server with 512 Atom CPUs

    There’s a new kid on the block with a really dense massively virtualized, massivley parallel CPU computer. And it fits in a 10U rack mount. And it’s using 512 Atom CPUs from Intel, what the what? Where the heck did this thing come from anyways?

  • Seagate, Toshiba to Make SSD + HDD Hybrid?

    We saw a quick and unceremonious demise to Microsoft’s ReadyBoost and ReadyDrive technology released at the dawn of the Vista era. Flash caches on the motherboard or worse yet, reusing a Flash memory stick as a disk cache never caught on. But now Seagate’s revisiting the idea of a hybrid hard drive by marrying an…

  • Disk I/O: PCI Based SSDs (via makeitfaster)

    If you want an experts view of the currently shipping crop of PCIe Flash cards, here is a great survey from the blog makeitfaster.

  • Announcing the first free software Blu-ray encoder

    Blu-ray is still a small bit of total movie sales. And online downloads of movies are still in MPEG-2 format with some HD versions available (in 720p). I know there’s a market for higher resolution and higher frame rates and surround sound. But we’re still not there yet. Until Blu-Ray becomes more widespread, it’s probably…

  • Apple admits to eating ‘iPad chip designer’ • The Register

    Last week Apple’s secret purchase of th ARM chip designer, Intrinisity came out. All indications are A4 is a pre-existing project titled Hummingird which was a Samsung/Intrinsity project to create a cell phone CPU. If A4 is the Hummingbird or very much like it, little wonder then that it is so efficient with the battery,…