With a 7200 RPM spin speed, 16 MB cache, and capacities up to 320 GB, the Western Digital Scorpio Black series of 2.5″ notebook hard drives should send fear down the heads and to the platters of competing hard drives. Read on to see how the WD Scorpio Black 320GB hard drive (WD3200BJKT) does against six other 2.5″ drives!
OCZ Technology today unveiled OCZ Vertex EX 2.5 Solid State Drives that is designed to meet the stringent demands of server environments and enterprise applications. These new premium offerings are the pinnacle storage option excelling Continue reading “OCZ Announces Vertex EX, an SLC-based Solid State Drive Series”.
Five ASUS VH Series LCD monitors with screen sizes ranging from 20″ to 24″ have been certified by EPEAT at the Gold level, the highest environmental rating possible. EPEAT is an international organization that evaluates Continue reading “Five ASUS VH Series LCD monitors Get certified by EPEAT at the Gold level”.
The One Laptop per Child project’s XO laptop will switch to a Via processor as part of a general hardware refresh. Generation 1.5 of the XO machine will have the same industrial design as the Continue reading “OLPC laptop drops AMD for Via”.
Western Digital today expanded its enterprise family of hard drives to include the next-generation 2 TB capacity, the largest and only 2 TB enterprise-class hard drive shipping today. Combining industry-leading 64 MB cache, dual processors, Continue reading “Western Digital Announces RE4-GP 2 TB hard drive – WD2002FYPS”.
Information technology company Oracle is buying Sun Microsystems in a cash deal the company valued at $7.4 billion. The deal comes after IBM abandoned its bid to buy the networking equipment maker. Redwood Shores-based Oracle Continue reading “Oracle to buy Sun Microsystems for $7.4 billion”.
OCZ Technology today unveiled their first miniPCI-Express Solid State Drive (SSD) Series, the affordable flash-based storage option to significantly increase the capacity for netbooks. For on the go computing professionals and students looking for an Continue reading “OCZ Introduces MiniPCIExpress Solid State Drives”.
A Swedish court on Friday found the four defendants in the high-profile Pirate Bay case guilty, sentencing each to a year in jail. The defendants were also ordered to pay a total of 30 million Continue reading “Pirate Bay defendants found guilty, though no actual files found”.
Taiwan’s DRAM chip suppliers have paid much attention to the active transaction in the spot market over the past two days, pinning their hopes on an early recovery. The cash-strapped chipmakers expect the spot price Continue reading “DRAM spot prices up significantly”.
DFI LANParty will start shipping the first microATX motherboard based on AM3 platform in the end of April, but announced the board this morning. The motherboard is called the LanParty JR 790GX-M3H5 and a dozen Continue reading “DFI Announces LanParty JR 790GX-M3H5 Socket AM3 Motherboard”.
In a move that signals a firm and ongoing commitment to advanced semiconductor technology leadership, IBM, Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing Ltd., GLOBALFOUNDRIES, Infineon Technologies, Samsung Electronics, Co., Ltd., and STMicroelectronics have defined and are jointly developing Continue reading “IBM Technology Alliance Announces 28nm Process”.
The first quarter of the year was rough for computer sales, but the growing appeal of lower-priced laptops and netbooks kept demand from sinking even lower. Those low-end models also helped propel Hewlett-Packard into the Continue reading “Hewlett-Packard No. 1 PC vendor in the United States”.
The PC market shrunk during the first part of 2009, but not as badly as expected. Shipments of PCs during the first quarter were down 7.1 percent from a year ago, to 63.5 million units, Continue reading “U.S. PC market shows some resilience amid continuing decline”.
Taiwan’s flash memory device manufacturers as well as US-based Kingston Technology are expected to grab a slice of the US NAND flash market now that the US International Trade Commission (ITC) has ruled that certain Continue reading “SanDisk may lose ground to Kingston Technology and others”.
The OCZ Vertex Series is the result of all the latest breakthroughs in SSD technology, including new Indilinix barefoot controller, 64MB of onboard cache and insane read and write speeds. Read on to see if we can hit the rated read speeds of up to 250MB/s and write speeds of up to 180MB/s.
