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Feb 15
Inductive coupling slashes SSD power consumption
Posted in: solid state drive, SolidStateDrive, SSD, storage, Today's Chili, Wireless
While HDD vendors are still pushing areal density limits, SSD manufacturers seem to be kicking back and soaking in the profits associated with a cutting edge technology. Unsatisfied with the lack of innovation in the space, a team from Keio University has developed an inductive coupling wireless communication technology, which is used within a solid state drive composed of “three-dimensionally layered 64 NAND flash memory chips.” The development is being highlighted at ISSCC 2009, and it’s bruited that drives constructed using this tech can operate with 50 percent less power compared to traditional SSDs. Additionally, the wireless communication that goes on enables the amount of wires within to be cut down significantly (from 1,500 to 200 in one example). We can only imagine that those involved with the process are pushing hard to get it implemented by SSD makers, and while we’re still looking for overall prices to drop before we start focusing on anything else, we’ll certainly take a performance boost (and energy savings) while they’re at it.
[Via HotHardware]
Filed under: Wireless, Storage
Inductive coupling slashes SSD power consumption originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 15 Feb 2009 11:22:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Feb 10
Valentines Day Gifts for Your Geeky Lady, Part 2
Posted in: Books, diy, flash drive, hard drive, LED, storage, Today's Chili
Did you know that 33 percent* of people said they would prefer to send an SMS when asking someone out for the first time? Yes, it’s a geeky, geeky world we live in, but thankfully, there are some geeky ladies out there just waiting for that text…
OK, so the text might be a bad idea, but these Valentine’s gifts will surely woo your tech-savvy babe. Check out Part Two of Gearlog’s Valentine’s Day gifts for geeky gals, but make sure to peruse Part One for ten other Valentine’s Day ideas.
Heart Meter Shirts (above)
So, you know how in video games, if your heart meter reaches zero, you die? Buy one of the 8-Bit Dynamic Life Shirts for you and one for your girlfriend. During regular activity, only two and a half pixelated hearts will light up, but when you’re in hugging distance of your honey and she’s wearing her shirt too, the hearts on both shirts will light up until you “have full health.” Yes, the shirt is extremely cheesy, but if your girl is a fan of Zelda, she’ll appreciate it. $24.99 from ThinkGeek.com.
More geeky gal gifts after the jump!
Feb 06
The Imperial March played on a hard drive. It’s hard to beat this. In fact, the only thing that could possibly be better would be the Imperial March played on, say, a 3.5" floppy disk. Wait, somebody did! Click through to watch. The Force is most definitely strong in this one.
Video page [Live Leak via New Launches]
Feb 05
Steve Wozniak is known for a lot of things: co-founding Apple, pioneering Segway Polo, and seeing Kathy Griffith naked. Now the Woz is getting ready to add one more item to that illustrious list of accomplishments: head of an enterprise storage company.
Fusion-io today announced that Wozniak will be coming on board as the company’s chief scientist, acting as a technical advisor to its R&D group. According to a statement issued today, “[h]e will also work closely with the executive team of Fusion-io in formulating a company strategy that will accelerate the expansion of major global accounts.”
“With the revolutionary technological advances being made by Fusion-io, the company is in the right place at the right time with the right technology and ready to direct the history of technology into the 21st century and beyond,” said Wozniak of the announcement. “The technology marketplace has not seen such capacity for innovation and radical transformation since the mainframe computer was replaced by the home computer. Fusion-io’s technology is extremely useful to many different applications and almost all of the world’s servers.”
Feb 05
With the iPod Classic now offering a "mere" 120GB of storage, media junkies have little choice but to take just a subset of their collections with them, or buy two iPod. Or, of course, get a life and forget about having all their music, all the time.
But those sad-sacks can now load up on a ridiculous 240GB of music and movies – that’s enough music to last them until they next get laid – on Rapid Repair’s modded iPod 5G. The repair company is retrofitting the 5G model with the MK2431GAH 240GB drive from Toshiba, currently the largest 1.8" single platter drive available. The price is $300, plus the iPod, and you can either pop the thing in yourself (easy) or send it in for the upgrade.
Rapid Repair wants to add this to the iPod Classic and the Zune, too. What a thought. A serious music nerd with a Zune. If this is you, we have a tip: Get out of the house. Talk to people. Hell, even talk to a girl. You’ll thank us for it.
Rapid Repair unveils the world’s first 240GB iPod [Rapid Repair. Thanks, Valerie!]
Feb 04
eSATA HDD Extender may / may not expand PS3 storage
Posted in: hard drive, HardDrive, playstation, ps3, sony, storage, Today's Chili
We’re not saying the mildly brilliant eSATA HDD Extender wouldn’t work in theory, but we’re a bit skeptical about the, um, realness of this here product. Unlike Team Xecuter’s Hard Drive Xtender, which is definitely shipping to buyers, this device supposedly gives Sony’s PlayStation 3 the ability to recognize an external eSATA drive. Furthermore, the device also adds four USB ports for even more connectivity, and given just how sweet this looks beneath the console, we’d say some serious thought went into the design. Sadly, there’s no real indication of where the PS3 HD Plus PHE-01 will be sold, and even if you are able to locate one, the installation is a few notches above “drop dead simple.”
[Via Joystiq PlayStation]
eSATA HDD Extender may / may not expand PS3 storage originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 04 Feb 2009 03:02:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Feb 03
Seagate’s 2TB Constellation ES is rife with potential space puns
Posted in: hard drive, HardDrive, storage, Today's Chili
It’s been a long time coming, but Seagate’s finally unveiled its first 2TB hard drive, the 3.5-inch Constellation ES. The hefty spinner also comes in 500GB and 1TB varieties and runs at 7,200RPM, which should make it a bit faster than Western Digital’s behemoth, according to reviews for the latter. It’ll be out calendar Q3, which we take to be fancy schmancy business talk for “this Summer.” Meanwhile, the 2.5-inch ES-less Constellation line sports 3 Gbps SATA and SAS 2.0 interface. Look for this one in 160GB and 500GB sizes sometime this quarter, with Dell said to be one the first companies to offer the drives. Check out one more out-of-this-world promotional image after the break.
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Seagate’s 2TB Constellation ES is rife with potential space puns originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 03 Feb 2009 08:02:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Jan 30
Western Digital 2TB Caviar Green review roundup
Posted in: hard drive, HardDrive, memory, review, roundup, storage, Today's Chili
Now that the proverbial cat is out of the bag on Western Digital’s 2TB Caviar Green HDD, hardware fanatics have had a chance to take the 3.5-inch drive for a spin. While its performance leaves something to be desired — transferring files took longer than the 1TB Caviar Black or 1.5TB Seagate Barracuda — instead we’ve got low heat and noise. Of course, the biggest boon is a ginormous storage capacity for just three Benjamins, the same price as some 128GB SSDs. Solid state be damned, rotating disks aren’t going away anytime soon.
Read – Register Hardware
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Filed under: Storage
Western Digital 2TB Caviar Green review roundup originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 30 Jan 2009 03:21:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
Jan 29
Super Talent unloads 32GB / 64GB SSDs for ASUS Eee PC S101
Posted in: ASUS, SSD, storage, Today's Chili, upgrade
If your prior budget forced you to select an ASUS Eee PC S101 with just 16GB of succulent SSD storage space, Super Talent has the cure. The outfit has just introduced three new solid state drives made specifically for the aforementioned netbook, all of which tout 90 MB/sec maximum sequential read speeds and up to 55 MB/sec write speeds. You can select from the FPM16RSE (16GB), FPM32RSE (32GB) or the FPM64RSE (64GB), though you’ll have to guess on the prices of the first two. As for the big daddy? It’ll run right around $169.
[Via HotHardware]
Super Talent unloads 32GB / 64GB SSDs for ASUS Eee PC S101 originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 29 Jan 2009 12:03:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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