Samsung Galaxy Note and 7.7 Tab Written on September 1, 2011, by Scott.
Still recovering from the Samsung press event this Tuesday that officially announced that the Galaxy S2 smart phone is coming to 3 of the 4 major US carriers? Looks like Samsung dropped more big news at IFA 2011. We can look forward to a new 5.3″ class smart phone call the Galaxy Note and they also [...]
Low cost tablets, do people really want tablets? Written on August 22, 2011, by Scott.
The Tablet industry is a buzz with the cancellation of HP’s WebOS TouchPad tablet weeks after releasing it early July. Some are heralding this as validation of Apple’s business model of vertical integration. Others are pointing to the Google/Motorola merger as the only way to go and that Microsoft will need to snap up Nokia or [...]
Hybrid drives are back – Seagate launches the Momentus XT Written on May 25, 2010, by Scott.
Here is a very interesting development. Seagate is launching the new hybrid solid state Momentus XT drive. The 1st generation of Seagate hybrid drives which were launched in June 2006 but never gain any commercial success. The drives relied on Microsoft Vista’s Ready Boost technology for their read caching algorythm which excluded their use in anything but [...]
Western Digital enters consumer SSD market Written on March 3, 2010, by Scott.
After aquiring SiliconSystems, an enterprise SSD start-up, WD finally announced today the introduction of their consumer product line SiliconEdge Blue. The announcement leaves Hitachi as the sole remaining major hard disk drive manufacturer not offering a consumer SSD (Hitachi is integrating Intel drives on the enterprise side). Interestingly WD decided use a third party for their controller instead [...]
Vertex LE reviews + other updates Written on February 22, 2010, by Scott.
With the release of the OCZ Vertex Limited Edition reviews are sprouting up around the web. 02/20/10: Legitreviews: OCZ Vertex LE (Limited Edition) 100GB SSD Review 02/19/10: Anandtech: OCZ’s Vertex Limited Edition Review & SSD State of the Union 02/19/10: PC Perspective: “OCZ Vertex LE (Limited Edition) 100GB SSD Review – Sandforce Goes Retail” The Anandtech article [...]
OCZ Vertex Limited Edition and Micron RealSSD C300 now available Written on February 22, 2010, by Scott.
The first Sandforce based drive from OCZ is now available on NewEgg for a whopping $949.99. This is for the 200GB version. Amazon lists the 100GB version for $439.99 but is currently not yet in stock. Right on time with the announced Feb 22nd availability date, Micron’s RealSSD C300 is also available from Crucial.com. Pricing [...]
Blog updates and other projects Written on February 18, 2010, by Scott.
I’ve been working on a couple of projects in the last 2 weeks and things are starting to come together. The most obvious change was to the blog template. I’m now using “The Azure Hut – Two Column Widget Ready” template by P. Andrew. I like it’s simple design, the previous “Notepad Chaos” one was [...]
Anandtech Storage Bench – Real World Performance Testing Written on February 10, 2010, by Scott.
With all the new SSDs coming out it’s nice to have all the different synthetic benchmarks to gauge their performance. Linear R/W speeds were great to gauge large file transfers. The 4k write benches were great to identify the problems the JMF602 controller was having. IOps is important if your doing databases. With the early [...]
Rooted HTC G1, wired tethering and Tmobile 3G speeds Written on February 8, 2010, by Scott.
I’m a big supporter of Google’s Android. Lot’s of reasons why but today I’ll stick to the part where I can root the phone and do wired tethering using my HTC G1′s Tmobile 3G service. Rooting the G1 Between Maximum PC: How to hack your G1, Androidandme: Beginners guide to rooting your Android G1 and [...]
Upcoming Sandforce based SSDs Written on February 4, 2010, by Scott.
By now everyone should know that the performance of an SSD is largely dependant on the controller being used. Sandforce is a US based SSD controller start-up that was founded December 2006 who is out to provide next generation SSD performance and reliability with thier SF-1200 and SF-1500 processors. The former being their consumer product [...]