A noisy fan inside a AC Ryan Media Player caused Gerrit van Donk to use the PWM Fan Controller Chip from the PWM Fan Controller Project. This will allow the fan to remain off when the unit is cool inside and only turn on when the system generates some heat. There is a hard drive [...]
Read an article today about Safaricom creating a domestic cloud service offering outside Nairobi in Kenya (see Chasing the African Cloud). But this got me to thinking that cloud services may be just like mobile phones in that developing countries … Continue reading →
Thursday 27 October 2011 About Contact Sitemap Advertise Here Directory News Feed Comments Feed Home Audio HDTV Images Misc PC Phone Software Featured Article Gadget Gifts Videos Movies Home PC Are desktop PCs dead Are desktop PCs dead Thursday , October 27, 2011, 18:14 PC 8 views Add a comment Sales of notebook computers overtook sales of the steadfast desktop computer a long time ago , stemming from greater transportability and significantly more effective processors . The variety of low-cost laptop computers nowadays has furthermore been a godsend to the IT economy , allowing students , educators and commuters to have a flexible easily transportable computer which can be truly . personal Yet , not every laptop computer is made use of on the move down to the advances in CPU technology
Here are the five members of the Open Compute Project Foundation announced at OCP event - Arista, Goldman Sachs, Facebook, Intel and Rackspace.
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Frank kicked off the conference asking the question what if hardware was open?
1) Pace of Innovation Increases
2) Environmental Impact Decreases
3) Efficient at Scale
Today I met with Spectra Logic execs and some of their Media and Entertainment (M&E) customers, and toured their manufacturing, test labs and briefing center. The tour was a blast and the customers Kyle Knack from National Geographic (Nat Geo) … Continue reading →
Recap of recent SNIA SNW, SNIA GSI and Emerald energy metric program, SNIA Cloud activities including CDMI as well as special discount code for the book Cloud and Virtual Data Storage Networking
OCZ just announced that their new Octane 1TB SSD can perform reads and writes under a 100 μsec. (specifically “Read: 0.06ms; Write: 0.09ms”). Such fast access times boggle the imagination and even with SATA 3 seems almost unobtainable. Speed matters, especially … Continue reading →
In a news story out of Singapore Institute of Materials Research and Engineering (IMRE), Dr. Joel Yang has demonstrated 6X the current density on disk platter media, or up to 3.3 Terabits /square inch (Tb/sqin). And it all happens due … Continue reading →
Dont be scared of cloud data storage, however do your homework to be prepared.
Zombie technolgies are those that have been declared dead, yet are still routinely used, continue to be enhanced and sold. For users they equate to productivity while for vendors they can mean profitability. Being established, zombie technologies usually do not get or need much marketing promotion thus lack of awarness can lead to perception of being dead.
A Frankenstack is a collection of different technologies, products, services and solutions that at best, might work in a presentation however not in real life
One can only be perplexed by the seemingly overwelming adoption of server virtualization and contrast that with the ho-hum, almost underwelming adoption of storage virtualization. Why is there this significant a difference? I think the problem is partly due to … Continue reading →
The latest Kingston DataTraveler usb flash drive counterfeit is the DT310/512GB. This model was not produced by Kingston Technologies. The DT310 usb flash drive is manufactured to a capacity of 256GB. So why is the internet site Sunkye.com listing them for sale? DT310 512GB Kingston DataTraveler Now Available! Where Can You Buy One? Counterfeit DT310/512GB [...]
Kingston DataTraveler 512GB usb flash drives do not exist for any model as of October 2011. This includes the DT101. However Dest Technology would have you believe they do. Please beware of cheap wholesale prices for Kingston DataTraveler USB flash drives. Ensure you perform validation with Kingston: Kingston USB Flash Drives. How To Check You [...]
We all heard last night of the passing of Steve Jobs. But rather than going over his life I would like to here discuss some of the Apple products I have used over my life and how they affected … Continue reading →
The old Corsair Flash Voyager usb flash drive continues to be counterfeited. The fake capacities offered are 64GB, 128GB and 256GB. They are now available at 512GB on the internet wholesale site, dhgate. The 512GB capacity usb flash drive as yet still does not exist for consumers. Recently this listing was found by inspectors who [...]
An interesting guest post on Claus’s Blog (Claus Mikkelsen of HDS) by Ian Vogelesang of HGST provided some technical/economic insights on why specific disk drives are more economically feasible than others. It’s a bit hard going and more technical than a … Continue reading →
Do you believe Kingston made a DT100 usb flash drive DataTraveler at 512GB capacity? If you do read the FlashDriveFacts article:Counterfeit DT100/512GB Kingston DataTraveler Fake USB Flash Drive 512 GB The internet wholesale site Diytrade would have you believe DT100 usb flash drives exist. If you buy them, you will buy counterfeits and upgraded flash [...]