Showing posts with label Hardware. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Hardware. Show all posts

Friday, December 9, 2011

LaCie Little Big Disk SSD


LaCie Little Big Disk SSD, For those who have a Thunderbolt-enabled computer and the necessary funds, the LaCie Little Big Disk SSD makes a decent investment for a compact and superfast storage solution.
It is the second Thunderbolt-based storage device we've worked with and it's quite different from the first one, Promise Pegasus R6. If the Pegasus is considered huge, heavy, and offers a ton of storage space, the SSD-based LaCie is tiny and comes with just 240GB of capacity. (There are also hard-drive-based versions of the drive that offer up to 1TB of storage--still much less than that of the Pegasus.)

Thursday, December 8, 2011

NVIDIA GTX 560 Ti compete with AMD's Radeon HD 6930 prepared


With the recent launch of the GTX 560 Ti with 448 cores, NVIDIA managed to provide an option for you who are looking for a graphics card with great performance but at a fair price. Because not to be outdone by its competitor AMD also reportedly plans to release a GPU Radeon HD 6930 to face this new competitor.

Just like Nvidia has done with the GTX 560 448 core Ti, AMD also plans to use the cut version of the most powerful GPU in existence, the Cayman graphics core, for the latest cards. However, unlike the older brother who already use the Cayman architecture, the Radeon HD 6930 will use what is called the Cayman LUXX Hardware according to CE 1280 GPU stream processor will use only. This decrease is quite significant when compared with 1536 stream processors found on the HD 6970.

Sunday, December 4, 2011

History of SSD (solid-state drive)


The origins of SSDs came from the 1950s using two similar technologies, magnetic core memory and card capacitor read-only store (CCROS). These auxiliary memory units, as they were called at the time, emerged during the era of vacuum tube computers. But with the introduction of cheaper drum storage units, their use was discontinued.
Later, in the 1970s and 1980s, SSDs were implemented in semiconductor memory for early supercomputers of IBM, Amdahl and Cray; however, the prohibitively high price of the built-to-order SSDs made them quite seldom used. In the late 1970s, General Instruments produced an electrically alterable

Solid-state drive (SSD)


A solid-state drive (SSD), sometimes called a solid-state disk or electronic disk, is a data storage device that uses solid-state memory to store persistent data with the intention of providing access in the same manner of a traditional block i/o hard disk drive. SSDs are distinguished from traditional magnetic disks such as hard disk drives (HDDs) or floppy disk, which are electromechanical. SSDs use microchips that retain data in non-volatile memory chips and contain no moving parts. Compared to electromechanical HDDs, SSDs are typically less susceptible to physical shock, are silent, have lower access time and latency, but are more expensive per gigabyte (GB).

Thursday, December 1, 2011

Wireless network


Wireless network technology is actually stretched from voice communication to data networks, which allow users to establish a wireless connection at a certain distance. These include infrared technology, radio frequency and so forth. Devices are commonly used for wireless network includes computers, handheld computers, PDAs, cell phones, tablet PCs and so forth. This wireless technology has so many uses. For example, mobile users can use their cell phones to access e-mail. Meanwhile, the traveler with a laptop can connect to the internet when they are at airports, cafes, trains and other public places. At home, users can connect to their desktop (via bluetooth) to synchronize with his PDA.
To reduce costs, ensure interoperability and promote the widespread adoption of wireless technology, then organizations like the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF),

Wednesday, November 23, 2011

Intel Ivy Bridge

Rumors presence Bulldozer architecture will be made by AMD seems to have come really makes its competitors feel inflamed lately. Associated with it, one of Intel's main competitor AMD is based in Sunnyvale reportedly are planning to develop its future processors are Intel 22nm Ivy Bridge.

So far, Intel's own party has not given the official publication relating to the release date of the fleet of processors Ivy Bridge. And even that estimate was thought that the possibility of new architecture will be released ahead of the CES in 2012.