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Intel Solid State Drive 520 series revealed and detailed

Chris Burns, Feb 6th 2012 Discuss [0]

This week the folks at Intel have revealed a bit of information on their brand new SSD 520 series, complete with 6 gigabit-per-second (gbps) speed and Intel compute-quality 25-nanometer (nm) NAND memory process technology. This new solid state drive series will bring new security features, ultra fast throughput performance, and an unmatched reliability suite that'll bring the fury to even the most needy consumers. High bandwidth, low latency, and accelerated speed will all be yours soon! Read The Full Story

Corning Day Made of Glass 2 video released with making-of add-on

Chris Burns, Feb 3rd 2012 Discuss [0]

Technology is advancing slightly slower than the minds at Corning would have it, it seems, as the creators of Gorilla Glass present a second video in a series that brings the future to us now, glass based. The video moves from one technology to the next, starting with Handheld Display Glass, this essentially stemming off what Gorilla Glass already presents, it being thin and lightweight, damage resistant and what Corning plans for the future: 3D-projection ready! The loveliness then continues through an impressive display of lights and magic through a future we can only dream of. Read The Full Story

Apple updates AirPort Utility, Time Capsule firmware, AirPort Base Station

Chris Burns, Jan 30th 2012 Discuss [0]

Several updates to software surrounding AirPort and Time Capsule have been sent out by Apple today, each of them coming to users through Software Update. The first update is to 802.11n AirPort Express, 802.11n AirPort Extreme and Time Capsule models - in it, users get an issue fixed for wireless performance amongst other smaller issues. The other update is for AirPort Utility 6.0 for Mac OS X Lion, it being an update for you to more effectively manage your Wifi network and AirPort base stations galore. Read The Full Story

Judge rules Fifth Amendment to no longer cover hard drives

Chris Burns, Jan 24th 2012 Discuss [0]

In a court case currently going on here in the United States including a Colorado woman who's hard drive may well include incriminating evidence against her, it's been ruled that her encrypted password on said hard drive must be bypassed by her, and is not protected under the Fifth Amendment. Before this case, a distinction had been drawn in cases which included such situations, the difference being clear between forcing a person to reveal their password and forcing a defendant to decrypt encrypted data without revealing their password. Revealing the password has up until now been ruled as forcing the defendant to reveal the contents of their mind, this bringing up some Fifth Amendment issues - that's no longer the case according to Judge Robert Blackburn. Read The Full Story

Cooler Master unveils new vapor chamber cooling tech for CPUs

Shane McGlaun, Jan 20th 2012 Discuss [0]

There is always a battle in the computer world to get faster processors and to be able to dissipate the heat that the processors produce. When you get into an enthusiast class machine where a geek is overclocking you end up with even more heat to deal with. Some folks don't like to go to liquid cooling or more exotic methods of cooling; they want reliable and simple air cooling. Read The Full Story

MSI shows off R7970 video card

Shane McGlaun, Jan 9th 2012 Discuss [0]

MSI is showing off a new video card that it says is the first to get the new AMD 28nm Radeon HD 7900 GPU called the R7970-2PMD3G5. The card uses the PCI Express Gen 3 standard. The series will pack 3GB of GDDR5 RAM inside and will use the MSI exclusive Afterburner overclocking utility. That utility has the ability to increase the core voltage for overclocking. Read The Full Story

ADM Radeon HD 7970 Specifications revealed in leaked slide

Chris Burns, Dec 15th 2011 Discuss [4]

This week we're getting our first real glimpse of the ADM Radeon HD 7970 though what appears to be a leaked slide from the manufacturers, it showing off its mighty power in an array of numbers you're going to just love. As the launch draws near, you'll be glad to know that this device works with GCN architecture, 32 CU (Computing Unit), and a 2048 ALU (SP) that will allow you to operate at 925MHz clock speed, 128 TMU and 32 ROP. All that sound healthy to you? Read The Full Story

Hitachi GST 4TB Deskstar 5K4000 Hard Drive and Touro Desk External Drive revealed

Chris Burns, Dec 12th 2011 Discuss [2]

The fine folks at Hitachi have revealed a couple of new models in their hard drive line this week, one of which is the 4TB Deskstar 5K4000 Hard Drive retail kit with CoolSpin Technology, the other being the Touro Desk external drive, both of these units available in the first quarter of 2012 at the earliest. In that your hard drive still remains the place where your do everything from watch movies to edit movies to save your everloving homework assignments, the cloud hasn't quite completely taken over the industry for the bulk of us regular citizens. Hitachi Global Storage Technologies brings to you today two drives at right around $400 USD and a massive 4TB of space for fun. Read The Full Story

HP webOS hardware still a no-go

Chris Burns, Dec 9th 2011 Discuss [3]

While the good news that webOS as a mobile operating system would now be Open Source did come down the chute with much rejoicing this early afternoon, HP's stance on no future with HP hardware for the OS remains true. As it was announced earlier this summer right before The Great TouchPad Exodus of 2011, HP will no longer be producing hardware with webOS on it natively. This of course doesn't mean that someone couldn't hack a bit of the ol' webOS onto an HP product in the future if they wanted to, but their current status with webOS is the same as the rest of the "other leading operating systems" at the moment. Read The Full Story

XFX announces Deus Ex Human Revolution Radeon video card bundles

Shane McGlaun, Aug 18th 2011 Discuss [2]

Years ago I really, really liked the first Deus Ex video game, it was one of the first shooter style games that I really go into. I have been waiting with anticipation for the next installment in the franchise to land. The new game is called Deus Ex Human Revolution and should be cool. From what I have seen of the graphics in the game, if your computer is older you might miss some of the cool effects. Read The Full Story

Smart Optimus 1.6TB SSD Reads 1GB Per Second

Rue Liu, Aug 4th 2011 Discuss [2]

Smart Modular Technologies introduced today an enterprise level SSD that has just about the largest capacity and fastest reading speed of any SSD on the market right now. Called the Optimus, the SSD boasts capacities from 200GB up to 1.6TB and read speeds of up to 1GB per second, all packed into a 2.5-inch form factor. Read The Full Story

OCZ Z-Drive R4 PCIe SSD Revealed

Chris Burns, Aug 2nd 2011 Discuss [0]

The folks at OCZ have today revealed their latest bit of hardware in the Z-Drive R4, running at 2,800MB/sec, over 500,000 input output operations per second with one SuperScale controller. One as in single. Then there's a dual version at 5,600MB/sec and 1.2 MILLION IOPS. These monsters are not aimed at private users, instead going for enterprise users, thusly the prices are not yet listed. You'll find that these units are available with SLC / MLC NAND flash memory, customer-chosen configurations, and functionality based on the requests of those laying down the bucks. Read The Full Story