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Dropbox Cloud Storage Goes 1.0, Gains Selective Sync

admin — Fri, 17 Dec 2010 03:52:24 +0000

Our the one preferred online-storage service Dropbox got the vital update currently, finally bringing it out of beta and into chronicle 1.0.

Most notably, the update introduces a large performance progress as well as a underline we’ve desired for the prolonged time: resourceful syncing.

Now instead of syncing your complete Dropbox printed matter to each computer you make use of, you can choose to sync only specific folders to sure computers to save space (for instance, if you have the netbook which you don’t watch cinema on.) This could save you a lot of time as well as space.

Dropbox has posted the full explainer upon service enhancements and features.

Hard Drive Dock Marred by Stupid Novelty Design

admin — Thu, 02 Dec 2010 03:44:42 +0000

As the newness USB tool, a Slipper from Brando is the hideous, pointless square of cosmetic. Shaped like the flip-flop with glossy red toes peeking out, the Hornettek Slipper would be more during home in a dime store than on any self-respecting geek’s Christmas list.

But omit those foolish toes, if you can, as well as the Slipper becomes something you do essentially want: the wharf for all a tender hard drives you have tucked divided under a bed subsequent to your genuine slippers. Slip in any 2.5 or 3-inch SATA drive and offshoot it up around rapid USB 3. Backup is made easy with the dedicated switch (if you have the software commissioned, as well as are also running Windows), as well as those irritating toes (sorry, I can’t omit them) are in fact an eject-lever: lift it as well as a drive pops out.

Useful, right? And during $45 it’ll substantially essentially save you income because you won’t have to buy enclosed backup drives. Available right away.

Slipper product page [Brando]

WD’s New 3TB Drive Packs More Storage Than 32-Bit Can Handle

admin — Tue, 19 Oct 2010 05:07:52 +0000

Western Digital claims its newly-announced 2.5 TB as well as 3 TB Caviar Green tough drives are a largest capacity SATA drives upon a marketplace. But WD admits which these bigger drives need the little bit of help operative upon comparison systems.

“Drives with capacities in additional of 2.19 TB currently benefaction barriers for PC hardware, firmware as well as program,” according to WD’s press recover. To get around these barriers, WD is bundling the brand-new drives with an Advanced Host Controller Interface (AHCI)-compliant Host Bus Adapter (HBA), that will pair bequest handling systems with a driver than can await bigger drives.

The 2.19 TB extent isn’t the complaint for 64-bit versions of Windows 7 or Vista, OS X Leopard or Snow Leopard, or most versions of Linux. Really, a complaint is Windows XP.

XP (whether in 32- or 64-bit) runs into problems since of its bequest BIOS and Master Boot Record (MBR) partition list, that it in spin carried over from progressing versions of Windows. These concede XP to residence a maximum usually 2^32 judicious blocks during 512 bytes any — for an upper firm of 2.19 TB.

Any 32-bit complement (even a single as brand-new as Windows 7) has trouble booting into the drive with the genius over 2.19 TB, but they can work around which limitation for a delegate inner drive. XP can usually make use of these vast drives as outmost drives with special USB firmware which possibly presents it as the single drive regulating incomparable sector sizes or as more than a single not as big drives to the horde (this is how Seagate’s 3 TB outmost drive functions — or regulating an inner HBA label, which does fundamentally a same thing.

Still confused? WD has the finish list of handling systems, motherboards as well as USB bridges which it supports for the brand-new large-capacity drives. Meanwhile, if you’re ready to hurl as well as a old 2TB drives only weren’t sufficient storage, a new drives have been accessible right away. The 2.5 TB is $189 and the 3 TB tough drive is $239.00.

Storage Has Come A Long Way: The Story of IBM’s Storwize V7000

admin — Thu, 07 Oct 2010 08:01:40 +0000

In 1956, IBM’s Ramac computer storage complement squeezed 20MB of interpretation into the vast office room. Big Blue’s brand-new mid-size storage rack packs over a million times more interpretation (up to 24TB) as well as fits upon a desktop.

Size as well as storage aren’t the Storwize v7000’s usually selling points; IBM also touts its performance, quite for high-volume cloud cover computing or exchange over a web. It uses the brew of potency program which IBM possibly developed by the own R&D or not long ago acquired.

For e.g., Storwize’s GUI is modeled on Israeli storage startup XIV’s. In 2008, IBM purchased XIV, founded by a highly-regarded Moshe Yanai, former conduct engineer for IBM’s storage opposition EMC, for $300 million; an researcher called Yanai’s pierce to IBM akin to a Boston Red Sox star fasten a New York Yankees. No vigor there. Yanai left IBM in August; a Storwize’s success or disaster will exam whether the high-profile acquisition has paid off.

Storwize’s Easy Tier program, grown by IBM Research, automatically scans files for tall I/O use as well as moves them to higher-performing SSD drives for discerning entrance. ProtecTIER, record IBM additionally bought in 2008, eliminates transcribe files; real-time compression program (also the outcome of an IBM merger further reduces a storage footprint. IBM also promises non-disruptive migrations, definition you can pierce interpretation around, though you as well as your business can still entrance it, shortening a single of a categorical causes of planned downtime.

I wonder what storage downtime in 1956 looked similar to — substantially only someone branch off a lights and going home.

I-O Data Hard Drive Slurps Video Direct From Camcorders

admin — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 06:04:52 +0000

I-O Data’s brand-new hard drive not usually hooks up to your computer but connects approach to your camcorder as well as slurps in any video which competence be there, all without an surrogate PERSONAL COMPUTER.

The 500GB will work with a JVC Everio, the Sanyo Zakuti Sony’s Handycams, as well as hooks up around USB. There is additionally the pier for joining it to the TV around HDMI wire, so you can watch a footage true back, again but a mechanism.

Weirdly, the specs say it won’t work with the Mac, but we’d theory which it substantially functions excellent as the hard-drive: You only won’t get any fancy additional facilities. The HDPN-U500 (it’s clunky name will be available in “late September” for ¥14,600, or around $170 of your American dollars.

Portable Hard Disk Camcorder [I-O Data around Akihabara News]

LG-Hitachi HyDrive Puts SSD into CD/DVD

admin — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 02:36:22 +0000

Notebook storage is the maze, as well as not usually since of the confusion of acronyms and abbreviations (see title, on top of. Your hard-drive is sweeping though delayed compared to an SSD (solid-state drive). The CD/DVD drive is used hardly once the year, though it is used. And an SSD will let your mechanism boot as well as launch applications in no time, though you’ll usually fit half you song library on there.

Hitachi-LG comes to a rescue with the hybrid visual as well as SSD drive that is the slot-in deputy for your existing DVD player. The HyDrive combines the battery-sucking, disk-spinning drive with the still as well as fast SSD of either 32GB or 64GB (with aloft capacities to come). This approach you get to put the computer’s OS and applications on a rapid solid-state territory, keep all your cinema as well as data upon the slower HDD as well as keep which old-fashioned visual drive around for a peculiar DVD-rip or software designation. Everyone’s the winner.

Everyone except your pocketbook, which is. While prices haven’t been reliable for a tellurian September launch, Hitachi did let trip to Engadget which a HyDrive would supplement around $200 to a cost of a appurtenance to illustrate versed.

The alternative track is to remove a CD/DVD altogether as well as replace it with an SSD, possibly hacking it yourself or profitable somebody to do it for you.

Hitachi-LG Data Storage Inc. (HLDS), currently voiced HyDrive [Hitachi-LG around Engadget]

Here Comes a Zettabyte Age

admin — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 18:18:17 +0000

How most report is out there?

For most of us, “a crapload” is a amply correct answer. But for a couple of recurrent interpretation analysts, some-more pointing is necessary. According to the new investigate by market-research company IDC, and sponsored by storage association EMC, a distance of the report star is now 800,000 petabytes. Each petabyte is the million gigabytes, or a homogeneous of 1,000 one-terabyte tough drives.

If you stored all of this interpretation upon DVDs, a study’s authors contend, a stack would stretch from a Earth to a moon as well as behind.

That’s a 62% enlarge over a volume of digital report floating around the year prior to — though it’s only a down remuneration upon subsequent year’s sum, that will reach 1.2 million petabytes, or 1.2 zettabytes.

If these expansion rates continue, by 2020 a digital star will sum 35 zettabytes, or 44 times some-more than in 2009.

It’s engaging to review IDC’s investigate with the new UC San Diego report upon how most report Americans consume per year. According to which investigate, media expenditure in 2008 added up to 3.6 zettabytes as well as 10,845 trillion difference, or about 34 gigabytes per chairman per day.

Much of a media you view (TV shows, streaming video from YouTube) is centrally stored, upon internet-connected servers, so a totals for expenditure have been naturally aloft than a storage mandate.

IDC records which whilst interpretation storage will increase 44-fold by 2020, a series of IT professionals worldwide will usually grow by 40%, that equates to each IT man is starting to have a lot more interpretation to manage.

Good fitness with that, guys!

Sony Announces a Death of a Floppy Disk

admin — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 00:11:02 +0000

Fully 12 years after a strange G3 iMac forsaken await for a 3.5-inch floppy hoop, Sony has eventually motionless to stop creation them. The reason is the miss of direct. The warn is which it took so prolonged.

If you still rest upon a large 1.44MB of space to pierce files fast around in between far-flung computers, don’t be concerned: Sony will keep a prolongation lines using until March 2011, giving you the year to save a things. You won’t be alone. Apparently, “lack of demand” is rather relations, as well as Sony sole the jaw-dropping 12 million floppies in Japan during 2009.

The 3.5-inch floppy has gay giggling schoolboys with the name ever given the invention behind in 1981 as well as successive Japanese launch dual years after. Now it joins a cassette fasten as well as a 8-track in fondly remembered shade.

It’s flattering mind-boggling to consider which I could (and had to) foot my aged Amiga from the floppy, as it had no tough expostulate. Back afterwards you used to get out pirated games around sneakernet or by MailTorrent, as it was never called, as well as a a single as well as the half megabytes as well as creaky 1000 kbps send rate seemed unfounded as well as peppery compared to a cassette tapes they transposed.

SLICE, my floppy crony. If anybody out there essentially still uses these frail aged things, discuss it us because in a comments.

Sony to pause 3.5 in. floppy hoop in Japan [Examiner]

Photo: BinaryApe/Flickr

Eventually: Drobo FS for Networked Storage

admin — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 17:52:36 +0000

At long last, Data Robotics has done a networked chronicle of the really renouned surplus storage tough drive bay. The Drobo FS is radically an dull box you block into your router and fill with tough drives. It is then permitted to any alternative mechanism upon the network.

Drobo is a RAID-alike storage device for non-nerds. Similarto RAID, you fill it with tough drives as well as your interpretation is stored opposite them in such the approach which if any one drive dies, we still have all your interpretation. Distinct RAID, which is as fussy as well as changeable as the racehorse, we can chuck a reduction of drives into the Drobo, combining different sizes as well as brands (RAID boundary any drive to a distance of the smallest one).

Up until now we have had to connect a Drobo approach to your computer via USB, FireWire or iSCSI (a quick practical port that uses the ethernet jack). With this new networked model, you can set as well as dont think about, regulating the Drobo from any computer for either protected storage The a great place to keep the photo livingroom, for example or as backup. If it is hooked up to a wireless router, you can even entrance it Some-more solemnly over a air.

You also like Drobo Apps, which work upon any of a Drobo operation. The applications can be commissioned to add functionality to the Drobo: a BitTorrent client, for example, which runs without a mechanism, or a song server that serves up content to iTunes. A Drobo FS starts at $700, takingflight to $1,500 if you fill the 5 bays with 2TB drives.

Drobo FS [Data Robotics]

Amazon’s ‘Frustration-Free’ Wrapping Leaves the Route of Passed Disks

admin — Sun, 28 Mar 2010 23:42:25 +0000

Amazon’s preference to revoke difficult-to-cut-through plastic shells and boxes stuffed with foam as partial of the “frustration-free” wrapping beginning introduced last year has helped consumers as well as the environment.

But infrequently the idea can backfire, as some shoppers detected. Amazon business who bought the dual terabyte Western Digital hard disk expostulate from a company’s website were repelled to find their hoop arrive wrapped only in the bag and secured with alittle “cardboard hoops.”

And not surprisingly, a hard drives were either dead upon attainment or unsuccessful in a few days.

“I only got this hard expostulate. Guess what. DOA,” writes Sung M. Choi on Amazon’s website. “I listened clicking sounds and rightaway WE have to send it back. All this due to their miss of protected packaging. What were they meditative with their weak packaging?” Alternative Amazon users aswell have complained upon the site that they were horrified to find the product wrapped similar to a book before being sent out.

A Western Digital hoop drives themselves appear to be well-reviewed, gathering 4 out of 5 stars on a website. An Amazon spokesperson says a company is wakeful of a complaint as well as private the product from the frustration-free wrapping difficulty a few weeks ago.