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1. IBM simulates cat, maps human brain to improve chip tech

   (General Sciences/General Sciences Features)

   Wednesday, 18 November 2009

   ... change memory and magnetic tunnel junctions. The simulation of the cat cortex used a simulator on the Lawrence Livermore Dawn Blue Gene/P supercomputer - it has 147,456 CPUs and 144 terabytes of memory. ...

2. Nvidia showcases Fermi-based Tesla GPUs

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   Tuesday, 17 November 2009

   ... hierarchy (L1 and L2). The GPUs also support: C++. Up to 1 terabyte of memory. Concurrent kernel execution. Fast context switching. 10x faster atomic instructions. 64-bit virtual address space. System ...

3. Ubuntu is still rubbish

   (Software/Software Features)

   Tuesday, 27 October 2009

   ... this? Ubuntu then went away for about five minutes and eventually returned telling me that there were no operating systems on my machine and showing only the two terabyte D: drive (SATA 1) which indeed ...

4. SSDs inch toward the desktop

   (Hardware/Hardware Opinion)

   Wednesday, 21 October 2009

   ... a 160GB device at $649. But they have a long way to go before they reach traditional hard disk drive prices. You can pick up a 1 terabyte LaCie drive for as low as $135. So, you need a good reason to ...

5. New material increases storage capacity

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   Tuesday, 20 October 2009

   Through selective doping, North Carolina State University engineers have created a new material that would allow a fingernail-size computer chip to store a terabyte of information. Through selective ...

6. Salt crystals promise improved data storage

   (General Sciences/General Sciences Features)

   Monday, 19 October 2009

   ... to store more than 100 times as much data as current systems. A terabyte could be stored in a space the size of a sugarcube, they say. Growing regular salt crystals is trickier than it seems. The researchers ...

7. Sun and Fujitsu upgrade SPARC processor

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   Tuesday, 13 October 2009

   ... to two terabytes of solid-state Flash and is capable of achieving 1.6 million read-1.2 million write IOPS performance in a single rack unit. According to Sun, the F5100 utilizes 300 watts of electricity ...

8. HP rolls out notebooks: Hails Windows 7

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   Tuesday, 13 October 2009

   ... can be fitted with one terabyte hard drives.  There's also a RAID 1 mirroring array. The Elite 7000 comes with a S-ATA DVD ROM drive, a S-ATA DVD writer drive and an optional S-ATA Blu Ray writer. ...

9. Seagate 2TB Barracuda drive features 64MB cache

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   Sunday, 20 September 2009

   Seagate has introduced a 2 terabyte hard disk drive with a 64MB cache. The Barracuda XT - which features a 6GB/s SATA interface - is targeted at high-end gamers and multimedia developers. San Francisco, ...

10. Dell starts to sell uninterruptible power supplies

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Wednesday, 09 September 2009

    ... NX300 - a Windows Storage Server 2008 NAS box that can store up to four terabytes of data. The T110, T1310, R210 and R510 servers are available this month with a starting price of $600. The PowerVault ...

11. Win7 'showstopper' bug fails to materialize

    (Software/Software Features)

    Thursday, 06 August 2009

    ... a desktop  with an Intel 965 chipset and a laptop with an 965 Express, both with 4GB of RAM - we encountered no problems at all. Chkdsk /r running on a two terabyte secondary (not ...

12. Hitachi GST gives two terabytes a spin

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Thursday, 06 August 2009

    The hard drive wing of Japanese giant Hitachi said it has started shipping a two terabyte (TB) unit.The hard drive wing of Japanese giant Hitachi said it has started shipping a two terabyte (TB) unit. ...

13. WD debuts 1TB 2.5 inch HDD

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Monday, 27 July 2009

    ... satisfy even the most profligate laptop user. The one terabyte Scorpio Blue - which becomes the industry's highest-capacity 2.5-inch drive - is accompanied by a smaller yet still impressive 750GB ...

14. Google's a threat to you, not Microsoft

    (Software/Software Opinion)

    Wednesday, 08 July 2009

    ... think professional Photoshop users or record producers are going to be happy working across a flaky network while manipulating terabytes of data with multiple levels of undo, you are clinically insane. ...

15. Wii expected to dominate global console market

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    Monday, 29 June 2009

    ... Pachter. In addition, Pachter surmised that videogame storage would increase exponentially to 1 terabyte or more - with digitally distributed software accounting for only 50 percent of all software ...

16. Rambus showcases 7.2Gbps XDR memory system

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Tuesday, 23 June 2009

    ... incorporated technology developed as part of the company's Terabyte Bandwidth Initiative, including: Fully Differential Memory Architecture (FDMA) – Enhances signal integrity and increases performance ...

17. Nvidia’s boss aims for computing hegemony

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Wednesday, 17 June 2009

    ... architecture of the microprocessor is no longer adequate. There are sensors everywhere collecting world data that is coming in in gigabytes, moving to terabytes. We need to make something of that data."He ...

18. Wozniak astounded by Microsoft's Bing

    (Software/Software Features)

    Friday, 29 May 2009

    ... 50 microsecond access latency and enables terabytes of virtual memory with near-DRAM speeds. The corporation manufactures a number of other products, including the Iosan, a networked enterprise SSD, ...

19. Missing National Archives hard drive lacked any encryption

    (Security/Security Features)

    Thursday, 21 May 2009

    A security firm has hit out hard at US careleness in losing a terabyte of data which wasn’t even encrypted. A security firm has hit out hard at US careleness in losing a terabyte of data which wasn’t even ...

20. WD offers two terabytes for $299

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Tuesday, 19 May 2009

    Western Digital has announced the industry's largest hard drive to date, the 2TB WD20EVDS. Lake Forest, CA - Western Digital has announced the industry's largest hard drive to date, the 2TB WD20EVDS. ...

21. GE demos 500GB holographic storage

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Monday, 27 April 2009

    ... consumers to play back CDs, DVDs and BDs.    GE believes that the discs will ultimately store more than a terabyte of data.  ...

22. Chinese blamed for hack into Joint Strike Fighter system

    (Security/Security Features)

    Monday, 20 April 2009

    ... has been breached by spies, with the finger being pointed at China. According to the report, in today's Wall Street Journal, the spooks have downloaded terabytes of data before the attack was noticed. ...

23. NASA to provide 100 TB of space images to Microsoft

    (Space/Space Features)

    Tuesday, 24 March 2009

    ... available later this year and eventually top a volume of 100 terabytes (TB). EXTRA: SLIDESHOW Washington, D.C. – Microsoft is catching up with Google and said it has signed an agreement to make planetary ...

24. Blu-ray gets simplified licensing

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    Friday, 27 February 2009

    ... of Blu-ray discs. We can have our PC with a Terabyte hard drive and just use DivX or alternate free video codecs to handle our content, which is stored online and immediately available. In addition, it's ...

25. Amazon: One Terabyte of public data now available to developers

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Thursday, 26 February 2009

    Amazon.com, which has typically been known for its presence in the virtual shopping arena, has now begun offering over 1 Terabyte (1,000 GB) of data which is sure to completely wow the public via its ...

26. Taking SSDs beyond half a terabyte: Sandisk's 32 nm flash

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Wednesday, 11 February 2009

    There aren’t many options for flash manufacturers in the current market downturn: While some manufacturers are clearly running at a slower pace, there are some that seem to accelerate their research ...

27. ioSafe Solo drive guards against fire and water

    (Security/Security Features)

    Tuesday, 13 January 2009

      Consumers fleeing from their homes in the wake of flooding waters may not think to grab external hard drives containing important data. The need falls then to have a consumer product which could withstand, ...

28. It's time to dump soft limitations

    (Hardware/Hardware Opinion)

    Friday, 02 January 2009

    ... Atom-based NetBook with 64 GB of memory, a 256 GB built-in SSD drive as well as several Terabyte hard drives and DirectX 10.1 capabilities if they wanted it, if a manufacturer wanted to build it, and if ...

29. Solid-state disks hit half a terabyte

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Thursday, 18 December 2008

      Toshiba said it will showcase a 512 GB solid-state disk (SSD) drive at next month’s Consumer Electronics show (CES). The 2.5” drive is likely to be the highest-capacity SSD when shown at the tradeshow, ...

30. Asus announces quad-core gaming laptop

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    Tuesday, 07 October 2008

    ... 4 GB of DDR3 1066 MHz memory and up to two 1 terabyte hard drives.  Rounding out the features, the G71 will have a 2 megapixel webcam and a secondary keyboard display (mounted just above the function ...

31. 4000 hard drives in the palm of your palm with Fusion IO’s flash card

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Monday, 08 September 2008

    ... The modular card has one-third of a terabyte worth of storage capacity and a simple add-on increases this to two-thirds of a terabyte.  San Diego (CA) – How would you like to hold the power of ...

32. Intel claims SSD superiority, tries to dispel myths

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Friday, 05 September 2008

    ... of 100 GB/day for five years totals approximately 182500 GB worth of writes or 182.5 terabytes.  Let’s make a big assumption that we can max out the 70 MB/sec max transfer rate until the SSD dies, ...

33. BitMicro says 6.5 TB SSDs on the way

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Thursday, 14 August 2008

    While most people would be happy just to own a solid state drive, BitMicro says it can now make SSDs with an amazing 6.5 TB of capacity.  At the Siggraph trade show held at the Los Angeles Convention ...

34. Seagate boosts hard drive storage capacity to 1.5 TB

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Thursday, 10 July 2008

      Seagate reclaims storage capacity leadership in the hard drive market with a 1.5 TB drive, which represents a stunning 50% improvement over the largest drives currently available on the market. ...

35. Hitachi fires up second-generation terabyte hard drives

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Wednesday, 09 July 2008

    ... to 2.5” territory (about 2 – 2.2 watts) and could make these drives an interesting option for any environment that does not depend on maximum data transfer rates. The price of the terabyte drive is substantially ...

36. Google forced to give Viacom video logs, but can keep search source code

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Thursday, 03 July 2008

    Viacom won a significant victory in their $1 billion copyright infringement case against Google/YouTube.  Google has been ordered to hand over terabytes of video search information that shows ...

37. A $5300 PC challenges $4.6 million supercomputer

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Friday, 30 May 2008

    ... GPUs cannot replace traditional supercomputers, which still can be applied to applications with a broader range. Also, supercomputers usually carry huge memories, often in the Terabyte range, which cannot ...

38. Star wars: Hubble’s galaxy collision pictures

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Thursday, 24 April 2008

    ... individual Hubble gallery released to date, which were extracted from “several terabytes” of archived raw images taken by the telescope.  The images, which celebrate Hubble’s 18th birthday, document ...

39. Spintronics at work: IBM outlines “racetrack” memory

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Thursday, 10 April 2008

    ... that store data within a wiretrack could enable MP3 players with several terabytes of capacity and superfast access times.  San Jose (CA) – IBM today pitched a completely new storage technology ...

40. Samsung first to ship 500 GB notebook HDD

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Wednesday, 05 March 2008

    $300 could buy you a 32 GB solid state disk drive for your notebook – or half a terabyte of traditional storage space. What will it be? San Jose (CA) – $300 could buy you a 32 GB solid state disk drive ...

41. Fujitsu announces 500 GB notebook hard drive

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Monday, 25 February 2008

    Terabyte notebooks could be hitting the market at the end of the second quarter of this year as Fujitsu is preparing to roll out the first 500 GB 2.5” mainstream hard drives. Sunnyvale (CA) – Terabyte ...

42. EMC announces enterprise solid state disks

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Tuesday, 15 January 2008

    ... but said that the drives will be “up to 10 times faster than those with traditional 15,000 RPM Fibre Channel disk drives.” At the same time, a terabyte of data can be stored on flash drives ...

43. Asustek showcasing new notebooks

    (Mobility/Mobility Brief)

    Wednesday, 09 January 2008

    Asustek Computer has showcased several notebooks at CES 2008, including the G70 with dual GPUs, M50 and M70 with terabyte capacity hard drives and U2E with a SSD (solid state drive), according to the company. ...

44. Seagate working on one terabyte DVR drive

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Brief)

    Monday, 07 January 2008

    El Paso (TX) - The Inquirer is reporting that Seagate Technology is working on the one terabyte hard drive for HD digital video recording units.  The hard drives are called Pipeline HD drives, and ...

45. Mempile claims one TB can fit on a DVD-sized disc

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Saturday, 05 January 2008

    ... of transparent yellow plastic that can hold one terabyte of data and more. Las Vegas (NV) – Sure CDs, DVDs and HD-DVD discs can hold a lot of data, but an Israeli start-up claims their discs can ...

46. Hitachi readies mobile 500 GB hard drive

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    Thursday, 03 January 2008

    ... February. Asustek Computer, based in Taiwan, said it would use two of the drives to create the world's first laptops with a monster capacity of 1 terabyte. More here at Yahoo... ...

47. Rambus proposes Terabyte per second memory initiative

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Sunday, 25 November 2007

    Rambus will soon announce an initiative to bring a high-speed memory solution for future multi-core and many-core platforms.  Could one Terabyte per second be enough?  And did we ever think ...

48. Sun beams brightly on Oracle, bundles pre-configured data warehousing

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Brief)

    Monday, 12 November 2007

    ... 6540 arrays with up to 10 Terabytes of database storage.  These large systems are designed to provide an out-of-the-box base or template for building a customized data warehouse around Oracle technology. ...

49. HP intros Windows Home Server systems

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    Tuesday, 06 November 2007

    ... won't ship until later this month, is priced at $599 with 500 GB of storage, or $749 with a terabyte of disk space. Those prices were identical to the listings leaked by Amazon.com in late August. ...

50. Windows 7 previewed with MinWin

    (Software/Software Features)

    Friday, 19 October 2007

    Eric Traut, a distinguished Microsoft engineer, was on hand last week to give a preview of upcoming virtualization techniques, hypervisors and the like. However, one of the more interesting aspects of ...