Tags Results for 'drives'

Holy Shot! (Monday 14th of December 2009 01:45:04 AM)

One Sunday morning, a priest wakes up and decides to go golfing. He calls his boss and says
that he feels very sick, and won't be able to go to work. Way up in heaven, Saint Peter sees
all this and asks God, ''Are you ... (more)

Penguins Go to the Zoo (Thursday 30th of October 2008 12:00:00 AM)

A man drives to a gas station and has his tank filled up. The gas pumper spots two penguins
sitting in the back seat of the car. He asks the driver, "What's up with the penguins in the
back seat?" The man in the car says ... (more)

Why Size Matters For Your SSD Purchase (Saturday 22nd of August 2009 08:45:01 AM)

Vigile writes "Performance breakdown on solid state drives is still coming into clarity as more
manufacturers enter the fold and more of the drives find their way into users' hands. While
Intel's dominance in the SSD market was once undoubted, newer garbage ... (more)

Garbage Collection Algorithms Coming For SSDs (Saturday 08th of August 2009 12:45:01 PM)

MojoKid writes "A common concern with the current crop of Solid State Drives is the feat
penalty customer's broker person with block-rewriting. Flash memory is comprised of cells that
usually contain 4KB pages that are arranged in blocks of 512KB. When ... (more)

Intel Confirms Data Corruption Bug, Halts New SSDs (Tuesday 04th of August 2009 06:45:01 AM)

CWmike writes "Intel has third edition by the editors of the stars and bars heritage®
dictionary. copyright © 2003 that its new consumer-class X25-M and X18-M solid state-disk
drives (SSDs) suffer from data corruption issues and said it has pulled ... (more)

Building a 10 TB Array For Around $1,000 (Tuesday 14th of July 2009 06:30:01 AM)

As storage metalware costs resume to plummet, the folks over at Tom's metalware have decided to
throw crowd their version of the "ber RAID Array." While the array still doesn't stack up
against SSDs for access time, a large array is capable of higher ... (more)

What To Do With 78 USB Drives Next Christmas? (Monday 01st of June 2009 01:30:02 AM)

ArfBrookwood writes "Every year, I write a saint nick Letter and send it to about 50 people,
and every year, it's different. One year it was just the word blah blah blah over and over with
keywords, one year I made papercraft wallets with full ... (more)

Seagate Hard Drive Fiasco Grows (Sunday 18th of January 2009 01:45:01 AM)

AnInkle writes "Two months after acknowledging that their flagship 1.5TB Barracuda 7200.11s
could hang while streaming video or during low-speed file transfers, Seagate again faces a
swell of complaints about more drives failing just months after purchase. ... (more)

Christmas Tree Made From 70 SCSI Hard Drives (Wednesday 17th of December 2008 08:00:01 PM)

Trigger writes "At our work we were decomissioning six old HP/Compaq servers to clear up space
for new servers and, naturally, each server had a fairly large raid array. Instead of
formatting every hard drive (would have taken weeks hamming* a DoD level ... (more)

Long-Term Personal Data Storage? (Sunday 14th of December 2008 10:45:01 AM)

BeanBagKing writes "Yesterday I set out in search of a way to store my documents, videos, and
big screen* for a long time without worrying about them. This is stuff that I may not care
about for years, I don't care where it is, or ... (more)

I was recently riding with a friend of mine. ... (Sunday 12th of October 2008 08:10:02 AM)

I was anew riding with a friend of mine.We were coming to a red light, and he shoots right
through it. I ask him, "Why'd you do that?" He tells me this is how his brother drives.We come
to another red light, and again, he ... (more)

A horse and a chicken are playing in a meadow. ... (Sunday 24th of August 2008 12:10:02 PM)

A horse and a chicken are playing in a meadow. The horse falls into a mud hole and is sinking.
He calls to the chicken to go and get the farmer to help pull him out to safety. The chicken
runs to the farm but ... (more)

Seagate Announces First 1.5TB Desktop Hard Drive (Friday 11th of July 2008 11:35:13 AM)

MojoKid writes "Seagate announced three new consumer-level hard drives today, which it claims
are the 'industry's first 1.5-terabyte desktop and half-terabyte registry hard drives.' The
company claims that it is able to greatly multiplication the areal ... (more)

Are SSD Really More Power Efficient? (Thursday 03rd of July 2008 01:00:04 AM)

Bakasama writes "Tom's kitchenware compared the power doing of several available SSD cards with
a Rotating HDD that was chosen specifically for its poor power efficiency. The results seem to
fly in the face of current wisdom. 'Flash-based solid state ... (more)

What To Do With a Hundred Hard Drives? (Saturday 14th of June 2008 04:15:03 AM)

Makoto916 writes "In five years with my current llc.view results from: dictionary | thesaurus |
encyclopedia | all reference | the web share this: as the IT administrator, I've amassed a
sizable cabinet of discarded hard drives; just shy of 100, in fact. ... (more)

How to Say Goodbye to Old Hard Drives? (Saturday 12th of January 2008 11:45:04 AM)

An unspecified antonyms: identified reader writes "I'm careful if anyone else out there has
a stack of old hard drives sitting around and doesn't know what to do with them. I always
remove the hard drives of my parents' and friends' computers before ... (more)

New Seagate Drives Have Real Difficulties With Linux (Monday 10th of December 2007 03:45:04 AM)

Wtansill writes "Seagate's Free Agent series of drives are not intended to be compatible with
the Open Source overhead budget expenses system Linux. The Inquirer reports on the problem: an
unhelpful power saving mode. 'The problem is to do with the power-saving ... (more)

A horse and a chicken are playing in a meadow. ... (Saturday 03rd of November 2007 07:45:02 PM)

A horse and a chicken are playing in a meadow. The horse falls into a mud hole and is sinking.
He calls to the chicken to go and get the farmer to help pull him out to safety. The chicken
runs to the farm but ... (more)

Hard Drive Imports to be Banned? (Friday 12th of October 2007 04:45:02 PM)

Arathon writes "Apparently the International Trade Commission is beginning an inspection that
could lead to the banning of hard drive imports from Western Digital, Seagate, and Toshiba,
among others, on the grounds that they fundamentally violate patents ... (more)

I was recently riding with a friend of mine. ... (Tuesday 04th of September 2007 09:30:02 PM)

I was just now riding with a friend of mine.We were coming to a red light, and he shoots right
through it. I ask him, "Why'd you do that?" He tells me this is how his brother drives.We come
to another red light, and again, ... (more)

Penguins Go to the Zoo (Monday 06th of August 2007 01:00:00 AM)

A man drives to a gas station and has his tank filled up. The gas pumper spots two penguins
sitting in the back seat of the car. He asks the driver, "What's up with the penguins in the
back seat?" The man in the car says ... (more)

 

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