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 [...]
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 [...]
Silverstone HDDBOOST – Hybrid SSD/HDD solution Written on February 3, 2010, by Scott.
Bit-tech.net posted an interesting article Silverstone’s new “hybrid” HDD product called HDDBOOST. HDDBOOST pitch is “Create your own superdrive with maximum storage and maximum speed”. It promises to give your system the benefits of an SSD without having to reinstall your operating system. The system consists of a 3.5″ caddy with a SATA controller chip [...]
Intel & Micron 25nm NAND announcement Written on February 2, 2010, by Scott.
Update Feb 3, 2010: PcPerspective posted their tour of the Lehi IMFT fab. The article includes a couple of videos. Following Intel and Micron’s 25nm NAND announcement on February 2, 2010. I wanted to provide a couple of quick links on the topic. Press release Anandtech coverage with a couple of IMFT slides and product [...]
Micron’s RealSSD C300 Written on February 2, 2010, by Scott.
Update Feb 10, 2010: Added CrystalDiskMark2.2 benchmark link from Hexus.net and non-official Anandtech benchmarks between the C300 and a X-25M G2 160GB. The higher transfer speed of the C300 has a positive effect on the light workload and in combination with higher IOps results in a big lead in the heavy workload. Update Feb 4, [...]
OCZ Technology Q1’2010 roadmap Written on February 1, 2010, by Scott.
OCZ Technology is capitalizing on it’s success in the consumer segment with their Indilinx based Vertex Solid State Drives. They continue to innovate with their product offerings and are now looking to increase their presense in the enterprise space as well with their Sandforce controller based designs as well as their PCIe products. At CES [...]
OCZ Z-Drive p88 with modularized NAND SODIMMs Written on February 1, 2010, by Scott.
The latest incarnation of the Z-Drive has a couple of interesting features. Besides the impressive 1.3 GB/s read and 1.2 GB/s write performance using MLC NAND, Indilinx Barefoot controllers and a PCIe x8 interface. It also is OCZ’s first product to support custom NAND SODIMMs. OCZ states that this allows more flexibility for managing their inventory [...]