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OK. I've been sitting on this info for about 6 months now. I don't believe I'm under NDA on this particular item. Nonetheless, I will only state that this is data from notes I took at a briefing from a respected 3rd party that shall not be revealed. Mobile 2.5-inch 4200 RPM ATA/SATA: New...

If you qualify, you can get a "SAS Bundle" direct from Adaptec for US$550 (+ your local sales tax, + $7.95 UPS ground shipping in USA). The best open market pricing I've found on an Adaptec 48300 SAS HBA (8-port model with PCI-X/133 interface) and 2-each Seagate Cheetah 15K.4 36GB SAS hard...

This could be the proverbial light at the end of the tunnel. Say hello to SED technology (Surface-conduction Electron-emitter Display). Commercialization of the 55"FHD is scheduled in the spring of 2006... http://www3.toshiba.co.jp/ddc/eng/sed/index.htm

Adaptec Strengthens SATA Product Line with New SATA II 4-Port and 8-Port RAID Controllers for Cost-Effective, High-Performance Storage Industry's First SATA II RAID-on-Chip Controllers offer Advanced Data Protection - Including Array Snapshot and RAID 6 - for Maximum Fault Tolerance Adaptec...

This is an exhibit of nano-artwork hidden on the wafers of many electronic circuits (microprocessors, RAM, controllers of all sorts, etc). A few images were submitted, but the vast majority of these were discovered while scanning the surfaces of hundreds of opened-up integrated circuits, some...

Hitachi Global Storage Technologies has introduced a 2.5-inch hard drive with several features that company executives predict will make it a leading contender in several segments of the notebook market, as well as the consumer electronics market... The 4,200 rpm Hitachi Travelstar 4K120 hard...

FUJITSU, LSI LOGIC, SUPERMICRO AND BELL MICROPRODUCTS DELIVER FIRST SERIAL ATTACHED SCSI SOLUTION San Jose, CA, June 22, 2005 – Bell Microproducts (NASDAQ: BELM), a leading value-added provider of storage products and solutions, today announced that it will deliver small form factor (SFF)...

...The suspension must provide a force on the slider in a direction into the disk to counteract the upward aerodynamic forces of the air bearing that cause the slider to "take off" from the disk surface. This force must act precisely in the proper location or a twisting force (torque) will be...

Before we dive into this, it's worth dwelling on a few issues that may be of concern to anyone wanting to actually build one of these things: It's not cheap, but you can use this as a template for building a less pricey system. Availability of the Athlon 64 X2 4800+ -- or any part based on...

Seagate Readies Shift To Perpendicular Recording Nearly all of Seagate's products will use perpendicular recording technology by the end of 2006 ...The announcement represents the clearest indication yet of a widespread shift to perpendicular recording by the hard-disk drive industry, and...

LAKE FOREST, Calif. - July 26, 2005 - Western Digital Corp. (NYSE: WDC) today introduced the most reliable high capacity Serial ATA (SATA) hard drives for server and network-attached storage applications. Meeting the 24x7 demands of enterprise environments, WD Caviar RE2 hard drives employ...

I'm surprised the Pentium 5 name never emerged when the HyperThreading architecture was implemented. Oh well... here comes the Sextium I guess :lol: Intel Plans to Drop Pentium Moniker Intel Corp.'s Pentium 4 brand, its flagship desktop processor since 2000, will be retired with the...

Powered by Adaptec's Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) RAID Controller and RAID 6 Software, IBM's New xSeries 366 will be the Industry's First Available Adaptec SAS-based Server... "We have worked closely with IBM in their transition from Ultra320 SCSI to faster, more cost-effective SAS technologies...

During their first few months of operation, in 1980/81, MTV only had about 50 or 60 videos to broadcast. These were videos the staff scrounged up that were originally done for the BBC in the late '70s up to about 1980/81, recent video projects that were being done by independent bands, and...

This coming Monday (14/June) there will be an announcement of all the hard drives that Seagate plans to introduce this calendar year. Possibly the most inteesting will be the new 3.5-inch form factor Cheetah 15K.4, with capacities of 36 GB, 73 GB, and 147 GB, and available with Fibre-Channel...

(newzsource = Associated Press) ...The project was led by researchers at Stanford and included a scientist at the Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics in Moscow and engineers at disk-drive maker Seagate Technologies LLC... The whole enchilada at...

Maxtor and Intel Team to Show the Performance of Native Command Queuing and the Flexibility of Hot Plug Capabilities Using Next Generation SATA Drives ...talk of SATA II, also: http://www.shareholder.com/maxtor/ReleaseDetail.cfm?ReleaseID=128847&reltype=Corporate&maxtor_section=press

Just in case you weren't looking this weekend, Nero Ultra version 6.3.0.0 was released for all of those users of 6.0.0.23 (or earlier, but not 5.x) to upgrade to. With V6.3 casting its long shadow over the CD-R/W and DVD+-R/W landscape, one would have to guess they are trying to stay Ahead of...

Have a large (>120 GB) ATA or SATA drive that won't allow you access to its full capacity? (Or, Intel's old Intel Application Accellerator is not compatible with your "new" mobo?) Minimum of Windows XP Service Pack 1 (SP1) or Windows 2000 (SP3) [list:c8531412a8] Run REGEDIT. Go...

Just in case you haven't heard, Service Pack 3 for MS Office 2000 (Standard, Professional, Premium) was released a few days ago. All about Office 2000 Service Pack 3 -- updates, fixes, slipstream installations, etc: http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=326585 Office 2000 SP-3 is...

. . I am aware of TiVo and that other video recorder thingee with a hard drive that's just like a TiVo, but competition. What I DO like about these two machines is that they can record dozens of hours of television broadcast material unattended and not use videotapes. What I DON'T like...

. . A *much* improved security analyser over the old command-line-based HFNetChk making it a must have for those running Windows XP or Windows 2000 (Workstation or Server). Note that M-BSA can only run on WinXP or Win2K, but it can check NT4, Win2K, WinXP, SQL Server, IE, or IIS over a...