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Intel's latest RAID controller has been announced, the RS2BL080, capable of directly controlling up to eight SAS or SATA hard-drives with support for both 6Gb/s and 3Gb/s interfaces. The RS2BL080 is a half-height card that supports RAID 1, 5, 6, 10, 50 and 60 for mirroring, parity, double-parity and striping.
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Intel RS2BL080 RAID controller with 6Gb/s SAS drive support
By Ewdison Then on Tuesday, Jul 28th 2009 No CommentsA-DATA 4GB DDR3 memory for laptops, desktops & servers
By Ewdison Then on Tuesday, Jul 28th 2009 No CommentsA-DATA have introduced 4GB DDR3 DRAM single-modules into their range of performance memory. The new capacity stick will be available across the company’s U-DIMM desktop RAM, SO-DIMM laptop RAM and unbuffered ECC-DIMM/ECC Registered DIMM RAM workstation/server lines.
RunCore PRO IV SSDs announced: easy PC and Mac upgrades
By Ewdison Then on Monday, Jul 27th 2009 No Comments
RunCore have announced a new range of SSDs, intended to offer PC and Mac users direct drop-in replacements for their existing drives. The company bills the RunCore PRO IV SSD range as offering increased battery runtimes, heat reduction, quieter operation and, not least, increases in speed, and offers capacities ranging from 32GB to 256GB.
Toshiba Portégé R600 Review
By Ewdison Then on Thursday, Jul 23rd 2009 No CommentsToshiba may not have the fashionable appeal of Apple, nor the solid reputation of Lenovo, but they do know how to push the envelope. Their Portégé series of ultraportables is already slim, and was the first to offer a 128GB SSD back in 2008; now it’s the first, in the shape of the Portégé R600, to offer a 512GB SSD. Legitimate business tool or shallow one-upmanship? SlashGear decided to find out.
Intel Pine Trail nettop chips, plus Core i3 and Core i9 CPUs coming Q1 2010?
By Ewdison Then on Thursday, Jul 23rd 2009 1 Comment
After word slipped out from Taiwan earlier this week that Intel were considering pushing back the release of the Pine Trail Atom N450 processor until the first half of 2010, now comes more specific news from PC manufacturers that both the netbook platform, Pine Trail-M, and its Pine Trail-D nettop sibling will both now arrive in the first quarter of next year. That, say the unnamed sources, will coincide with the release of Intel’s 32nm Core i9 processors, codenamed Gulftown, and offering six cores.
Corsair Dominator GT ultra-performance DRAM re-launches
By Ewdison Then on Wednesday, Jul 22nd 2009 No Comments
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Corsair are today re-releasing their Dominator GT ultra-performance DRAM, after pulling the chips from the market earlier this year due to "unacceptable failure levels of the Elpida "Hyper" components" used in their manufacturer. Now using new new materials, the re-launched Dominator GT chips are available in 4GB and 6GB kits for Intel and AMD high-performance processors.
Intel X25-M 34nm SSDs arrive: lower prices, higher performance
By Ewdison Then on Tuesday, Jul 21st 2009 No CommentsIt’s not the 320GB SSD tipped yesterday, but Intel have announced that they will be lowering prices for their solid-state drive range, having moved to more cost-effective 34nm NAND flash production. The shift could see SSDs reduced by as much as 60-percent for both PC and laptop OEMs and mainstream consumers.
Intel Core i5-750, i7-860 and i7-870 coming September 6th?
By Ewdison Then on Tuesday, Jul 21st 2009 No Comments
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Intel's first Core i5 processor, the mainstream model from their Nehalem platform, is expected to make its debut on September 6th, along with two new Core i7 chips. According to sources in the Taiwan motherboard industry, Intel will begin shipping the Core i5-750, Core i7-860 and Core i7-870 from early September, with quadcore clock-speeds of 2.66GHz, 2.8GHz and 2.93GHz respectively. They'll be joined in early 2010 by two energy saving versions, the Core i5-750s and Core i7-860s, running at 2.4GHz and 2.53GHz, but with 82W TDP rather than 95W.
Intel 32nm 320GB Postville SSDs tipped for end of July
By Ewdison Then on Monday, Jul 20th 2009 No CommentsIntel’s next SSD, a 320GB drive build using its 34nm processes, is being tipped for imminent release. According to details posted in the forums of Canadian retailer RedFlagDeals, the new “Postville” SSDs will be cheaper than the existing drives but have higher performance than those SSDs from rival manufacturers.
Ruckus Wireless ZoneFlex 7762 outdoor draft-n access point
By Ewdison Then on Monday, Jul 20th 2009 No CommentsRuckus Wireless have announced a new outdoor access point, which the company claims is the “world’s first and only outdoor dual-band 802.11n with dynamic beam forming.” The ZoneFlex 7762 supports WiFi draft-n along with concurrent dualband 2.4/5GHz and up to sixteen simultaneous SSIDs, inside a heated weatherproof casing.
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