Posted by nyoman on February 27, 2009 – 10:47 am
There is a process to follow to ensure that an investment in solid-state disks is useful and will pay for itself quickly
By George Crump, February 24, 2009, 1:30 PM
Solid-state disks (SSDs) are an investment that requires serious forethought and a deeper understanding of your storage architecture. How does an IT manager know when to invest in SSDs, and how can he feel confident that the investment is going to pay off? These questions are becoming more relevant as the cost of SSDs has continued to decline over the past few years. This decline has increased the number of application workload scenarios that would be well suited to SSDs.
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Posted by nyoman on February 5, 2009 – 3:08 pm
The Western Digital Caviar Green consumes 7.4 watts in read/write mode and 4 watts at idle.
By Antone Gonsalves, InformationWeek, January 29, 2009, 11:15 AM
Western Digital Corp. (NYSE: WDC) on Tuesday introduced a 2-TB hard drive to its environmentally friendly Caviar Green product line.
WD believes many consumers are ready for such a large capacity drive to store video, pictures, audio, and other files in their expanding media libraries. Quoting market intelligence firm Trend Focus, the hard-drive maker claims about 10% of 3.5-inch drives sold today are at the 1-TB level or higher.
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Posted by nyoman on February 5, 2009 – 2:56 pm
By Jeremy Kirk, IDG news service
Seagate has promised customers that it will soon issue fixes for faulty firmware that is causing several models of its hard drives to freeze.
The models due for a fix are the Barracuda 7200.11, DiamondMax 22 and the SV35, said company spokesman Ian D. O’Leary.
On Friday, Seagate posted new firmware for the Barracuda ES.2, another model also affected by the problems.
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Posted by nyoman on February 5, 2009 – 2:36 pm
By Lucas Mearian, Computerworld (US)
Seagate Technology has launched its first 2TB enterprise-class disk drive as part of a new family of near-line SAS and SATA drives.
The new Constellation 2.5 inch and Constellation ES 3.5-inch drives come in Serial-Attached SCSI (SAS) 6Gbits/sec or Serial ATA (SATA) 3Gbits/sec models and include a feature that allows them to shut down when not in use to save power.
Western Digital was the first to release a 2TB drive , but it was a SATA drive aimed at desktop and external storage applications.
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