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Ins and Outs of Portable Hard Disc Drive
Posted by ariyes in Computer Hardware, Computers on January 13th, 2010
Additional storage for the digital information storage is indeed an expensive game, whether it is for an upgrade for iPod, a larger MMC for the camera, or for an additional hard disc drive for your Computer.
Advancement in technology is quicker than ever before. Portable or mobile external hard disc drives that once used to cost around hundreds of pounds are now offered at a quite cheap price.
The increase of gigabyte has ushered in ways to an increasing array of diversifying products that are equipped to deal with the enormous stored information, and of late, the term TB or terabyte has got its share of use, meaning one thousand Gigabytes, indicating simply how much storage we need for the residential and businesses goals. An average album is generally 80MB worth of data storage. The memory capability of a DVD is generally around 4GB. The Blu-Ray discs and the HD files will be a lot larger.
Of the available external hard discs the Freecom Classic 1Tera Byte external hard drives can be bought for approximately £120 online, a just £12 for every 100 GB, which is in deed a fantastic value for the money. This particular model is having an USB connection for simple linking to your PC, and eliminating any sort of conflicts within the PC or the OS. Owing to its fan free design this very model is too quiet.
The classic is on offer in various storage sizes, but with time, you will be prone to accumulating more data, which really makes sense of buying an affordable item, and hence save all the hassle of more than one external drives, and thence purchase a 1TB drive. However, the prices do fall continually, and you should not be surprised to purchase them at a lot lesser price than mentioned in the near future!
Quad Core Processors : The Latest Technology to Make It’s Mark
Posted by ariyes in Computer Hardware on December 24th, 2009
For a lot of people Dual core computer technology is quite a new thing, but as a matter of fact quad core technology is all set to turn into become the mainstream technology. Similar to the dual core technology that consisted of two processors simultaneously on the very same die a quad core is typically two dual core machines integrated together. This signifies that two dies are attached with the two processors and on each one but packaged on the very same piece of motherboard.
Intel and AMD are the main gurus behind the quad core PC’s. Intel makes use of the Core 2 chip and of late came out with the very latest Core i7 which is actually based on the very new Nehalem micro architecture. This chip is particularly built by Intel chip for the hardcore PC gamers. Information can be processed by this chip in split seconds in order to make a computer user experience fast frame rates and madly detailed 3D atmosphere.
Front side bus speed is the main factor that affects the speed of a PC. It’s just like a pipe and with the increase in the bus speed, the pipe gets bigger. If you possess a bigger pipe you can easily pump more information via it on every clock cycle. Majority of the dual core processors are pretty fast, but are unable to run to their full potential simply because they possess a comparatively small sized pipe or lesser Bus speed. Whenever you think of buying or updating your PC always try and fetch yourself a PC that has a really fast front side bus in order to ensure that when the processors function, in an instant they can get all the necessary information instead of hoping and waiting for the pipe to unclog.
Western Digital Boosts Record Breaking Storage Medium
Posted by admin in Computer Hardware on March 28th, 2009
Good news to all enterprise users, Western Digital has announced their latest massive network storage device. Called the ShareSpace NAS, Western Digital came up with a device which has a gigantic storage capacity of 8 Terabyte (TB).
Not just is the storage space increased, Western Digital has also improved the transfer speed of data in this device. Traditional speed would take hours to transfer a 8 Tb worth of data into this device, this the engineers of Western Digital innovated a DLNA media streaming capability in this device that transfers data to and fro this device and any computers with a data transmission speed 30% higher than normal ones.
Western Digital claims that their latest ShareSpace NAs is not only a compelling for small business organizations, it can also serve as a digital media enthusiasts ultimate storage device who can have unlimited contents to store and share.
ShareSpace NAS is an astounding piece of gadget squeezing mammoth sized space in a relatively small portabella PVC casing. Western Digital made this possible by indulging four flexible bays which allows to slot in four of 2 TB Western Digital Caviar Green hard drives, thus making up a maximum of 8 TB storage capacities.
Just storage device, how is it unique?
To people very surprise, the ShareSpace NAS is not just a storage device; it is also tuned into numerous capabilities.
Western Digital has included a small footprint 4 bay storage system that takes up a little space providing plenty of data storage space. It is also built in with GigE connectivity which transfers data in the rate off o1 GB per second when used in any GigE network. The disks in the device come with data protection and high speed data execution with the RAID 0/1/5 capabilities fitted in it.
This amazing device also works remotely. It has a built in e-mailing system. The device has self monitoring function in itself that detects and manages the drives and the system health, if any fluctuation in the system gets out of control, it readily sends an email to its owners and inform about specific problems.
The device is also fitted with iTunes server for centralized sharing of music. Microsoft Active Directory is service support is also seen in the device. The device is compatible with any computers with a plug USB drive in the front mounted USB 2.0 port along with a push button o automatically transfer the data to and fro the device. These makes the device truly user friendly to use. The device also has automatic and continuous network data transfer backup system including a lenience to back up three computers running simultaneously. This device is also fitted with Western Digital’s unique MioNet remote Web access service that lets the user’s aces to other drives anywhere in the world.
As mentioned earlier, this is a device of Western Digital’s GreenPower technologies. The system in this device is equipped with a self cooling architecture and power saving mode and consumes at least 30% low power than any other conventional devices and stay reliably cool and quiet.
Compared to the explosion of technologies its buyers will get while fetching this product, the purchase price is relative microscopically small. It is more than a technology, it is dream device anyone would like in their homes.