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Today in Tech; 3/8
By Oliver Rist | March 8, 2007, 12:11 am
- Samsung releases first hybrid hard drive. You knew they were coming, flash hard disks are here and they’re going to doom the platter variety in a number of markets, especially mobile. Samsung’s are first but there are more coming. These are called MH80 hybrid hard drives and will be available in sizes of 80GB, 100GB and 120GB. Good news is they’ll actually use less power than regular hard disks. Available only to PC makers at first, so no real word on pricing. (Source: CNET)
- But don’t count SATA disks out yet. Flash drives may be a’comin’ but that doesn’t mean disk-based disks are just going to vanish. Indeed, the Serial ATA International Org just released a new spec, the SATA revision 2.6 (that’s a PDF link, BTW). New specs for mobile applications are the big changes. (Source: Daily Tech)
- Office Macs get SSL VPN appliance. While I have relatively little trouble hooking my Mac to anything, they’ve apparently got some hassles with SSL VPNs. Until now. Billion Electronics is releasing two SSL VPN security appliances that are 100% OS -friendly. Okay, it’s not bone chilling, but cut me a break. (Source: InfoWorld)
- Intel ordered to investigate ‘lost’ emails. So the judge orders Intel to investigate the loss of a pile of email germane to the lawsuit filed against Intel by AMD. So let’s see: Emails lost…specific to a trial that’s going on right now…in this day and age of archiving…by they biggest tech company in the world. Yeah, asking Intel to investigate is really going to help. (Source: Ars Technica)
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March 8th, 2007 at 9:44 am
So does the hybrid hard drives mean we get the headaches of flash memory too? Like limited read/write cycles and slower read/write cycles with passing time?
March 8th, 2007 at 6:54 pm
You betcha. Only thing is, the world at large doesn’t know about those problems yet so these things are going to be popular for a good while until they figure it out.