Interview: World could "run out of storage capacity" within 2 years warns...
Seagate VP for branded products group, Mark Whitby, walks us through the fascinating world of storage, warning us of the dangers of not producing enough data and introducing us to the concept of the...
View ArticleARM server startup Calxeda back on track
Remember Calxeda? This startup was the first one off the blocks with design wins for ARM-ready server chips. It was good enough for HP to adopt it in its first Moonshot server back in 2013. It did...
View ArticleIntel betting on semi-custom designs for 2015
Intel’s head honcho for anything data-centre related has confirmed that the company is betting big on semi-custom designs for next year. Diane Bryant told the New York Times that she expects half of...
View ArticleFirst USB 3.1 products to launch at CES
Taiwanese company Adata will be releasing a number of USB flash drives that will use the brand new USB 3.1 technology (Type C OTG) at CES 2015. No details about the storage capacity but one can expect...
View ArticleFirst USB 3.1 products to launch at CES 2015
Taiwanese company Adata will be releasing a number of USB flash drives that will use the brand new USB 3.1 technology (Type C OTG) at CES 2015. There are no details about the storage capacity, but we...
View ArticleCES 2015: Seagate’s latest hard drive is almost as thin as an iPhone 6
Storage giant Seagate has launched an external disk drive just in time for CES 2015. Called Seven, it’s the world’s thinnest external hard disk drive according to Seagate, and at 7mm (hence the name)...
View ArticleWestern Digital demoes intriguing SSHD prototype
An event dedicated to storage, Storage Visions, is taking place at the same time in Las Vegas as CES and Western Digital showcased a new storage solution that uses a discrete SSD and a HDD. The drive...
View ArticleCES 2015: SanDisk unveils flash and SSD drives for consumers
SanDisk has updated its flash storage and consumer solid state drive (SSD) products to help you more quickly transfer and save large amounts of data. The SanDisk Ultra Dual USB Drive 3.0 is a USB...
View ArticleCES 2015: Intel Cherry Trail could bring desktop graphics to mobiles, tablets
Details of the 14nm successor to the current Bay Trail family have emerged in Singapore courtesy of online website, VR-Zone. Top of the agenda for Intel’s answer to ARM’s growing armada of...
View ArticleCES 2015: Linksys wants everyone to afford its classic blue-and-black router
Belkin-owned Linksys has used CES 2015 to announce a more affordable version of last year’s WRT1900AC router, which was an updated version of the company’s recognisable blue-and-black model from 2002....
View ArticleIntel Compute Stick is a PC the size of a pack of chewing gum
Devices like Google’s Chromecast and Amazon’s Fire TV brought instant media streaming to the living room, and now Intel is looking to go one further with a stick that transforms any HDMI-equipped TV...
View ArticleCES 2015: New Samsung SSD allows laptops to sleep for months
Samsung has announced that it has started mass producing a "high-performance, low-powered" PCIe solid state drive that seems destined to go in laptops that will be running on the new Intel Broadwell-U...
View ArticleCES 2015: Toshiba’s new memory card can be read by simply touching it
You will now be able to read what’s on a memory card simply by touching it, that’s what Toshiba wants to achieve thanks to the introduction of a new family of memory cards. These SDHC models are...
View ArticleCES 2015: Intel Compute Stick is a PC the size of a pack of chewing gum
Devices like Google’s Chromecast and Amazon’s Fire TV brought instant media streaming to the living room, and now Intel is looking to go one further with a stick that transforms any HDMI-equipped TV...
View ArticleMediatek could aim new 12-core chip at servers
Chinese chip designer Mediatek is apparently on the verge of launching 10- and 12-core system on chips if rumours emanating from China. As it stands though, it makes little sense for the market to...
View ArticleIndustry voice: Is there a perfect balance of performance and capacity for...
Introduction Despite storage being the foundation on which all data and applications reside, some people say working in the storage industry can be a thankless task at times, and the work often goes...
View ArticleToshiba’s new 3TB hard disk drive is a record breaker
Toshiba unveiled a new 3TB hard disk drive that’s crammed into a 2.5-inch form factor. The MQ03ABB300 is the smallest such hard disk drive and kickstarts another potential round of product launches....
View ArticleApple to use its own CPUs in future iMac and MacBooks?
A report published by analyst firm KGI claims that Apple will use its own processors in at least one Mac device in 2016 with 9to5Mac suggesting that it might be a future iteration of the...
View ArticleNavigating remote desktops on iPad just got easier with Citrix X1 mouse
Have you ever tried to tap on a link on an iPad, but missed because your fingers were too big? Having a mouse would help, but unfortunately Apple doesn’t allow Bluetooth mice to connect to iOS, unless...
View ArticleHow to share an external monitor between Macs
It’s possible to run into trouble when sharing monitors between your Mac and another computer. You may be trying to use an external monitor with a Mac, for example. Sometimes when unplugging it from a...
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