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Engadget's recession antidote: win one of 100 Microsoft Windows 7 pre-order discount codes! {Engadget}
Jun 25th 2009 6:04PM 1 out of 130 chance right now? I'm in!
OCZ intros 3.5-inch Colossus SSD at Computex {Engadget}
Jun 2nd 2009 12:57PM RAID 0 actually does nothing to secure your data, if one component of a RAID 0 fails, all your data is lost. RAID 0 is all about lowering latencies and increasing throughput. You also can't do a RAID 5 on this particular device since there's only two internal drive components, it would have to be a mirror (RAID 1) if you want to secure your data.
I think the more interesting part of this is that within a 3.5" drive you can have the ultra low latencies of a SSD paired with the previously mentioned RAID 0 benefits. It's really the best of both worlds, the performance on this thing should be impressive to say the least.
As soon as they can fit more drive components to increase the number of "drives" in the RAID array, the performance will approach ludicrous speed.
Bill Gates -- Recession-Proof {TMZ}
Oct 30th 2008 6:07PM Dear TMZ,
Please stop deleting Robert Haleluk's posts. I find his extraordinarily idiotic posts quite humorous. Thanks.
Atom-powered D945GCLF Mini-ITX motherboard now available {Engadget}
May 19th 2008 12:21PM That fan isn't for the Atom proc. It's for the north bridge chip.
Verizon XV6900 finally available for order {Engadget}
Apr 16th 2008 10:46AM Good Lord, what is this? A Valentines Day version of the Touch? Maybe it looks better in person...
HP 2133 Mini-Note PC on sale now {Engadget}
Apr 9th 2008 10:50AM I gotta agree with Anonymoose, if you wanna play, ya gotta pay.
I think Priper's comment is pretty close to the truth. Think about the AMD Opteron when it first came out, HP was the first major player to introduce the AMD in it's DL585. I've been told by our HP reps that Intel gave them some serious grief over that one...
I doubt they will go to an Intel platform for this guy anytime soon (more development costs, more inventory for the same platform, blah, blah, blah). I'm guessing that HP was/is banking on VIA's new Isaiah chip that's getting released this year to give the 2133 a performance boost since it's supposed to be pin compatible to the C7. From what I've seen the Isaiah could be a very good mobile chip...but I'm not holding my breath...
OCZ announces 32, 64GB SATA II SSDs {Engadget}
Mar 13th 2008 12:26AM Release Date: We'll let you know...
Price: You don't want to know...
Samsung's new TouchWiz UI gets previewed on video {Engadget}
Feb 15th 2008 5:47PM @Andrew
If you like this one, you may be in luck, check out the Samsung SPH-M800...hopefully it'll have the same UI and it is coming to Sprint sometime soon.
I just got the Touch (great device incidently, especially coming from a Palm), but I think I would have waited for the M800 had I seen this UI and known earlier when it was supposed to come out...
And yes, SERO friggin' rocks big time. I have no problems dropping a few hundred for a phone, but I absolutely refuse to pay excessively monthly for it...
Researchers tout nano explosive's ability to blast cancer cells {Engadget}
Jan 28th 2008 1:11PM Speaking of colon cancer, hopefully they don't use whatever device in that picture to treat it. That thing's nearly a foot long!
HP's MediaSmart Home Servers get a release date {Engadget}
Aug 23rd 2007 1:36AM @Dias
"I heard that it doesn't use raid technology but something else, I wonder how it works."
It does not use RAID. Your next questions leads into how it works...
"Suppose that I have 2hd in my WHS: 100Gb and 300Gb; total capacity is 400GB?"
Correct, it virtually merges all drives that are added, kind of like spanning dynamic drives.
"And if 2nd hd (bigger one and full of data) breaks, what happens?"
You lose any UNPROTECTED data on that drive. You can set up protected folders on the system that will replicated the data in the folders to another drive in the quasi-array. This will take away from the total available space of each drive. Using your 100GB+300GB drive scenerio, let's say you have 50GB of PROTECTED data and 100GB of UNPROTECTED data. Then you could calculate your free space like this:
(100GB - 50GB) + (300GB - 50GB) - 100GB = 200GB
Hope that makes sense...
