An Analysis between SATA, PATA and SCSIMay 13th, 2009 To start geeky things with a straight face (:|), let's get familiar with the full name of the gentlemen we are going to discuss about. PATA stands for Parallel Advanced Technology Attachment, SATA means Serial Advanced Technology Attachment and SCSI is Small Computer System Interface.
Seagate Unveils 6Gb/s SATA HDD for Unmatched Improvement on Streaming and Data TransfersMarch 12th, 2009 Seagate, teamed with AMD unveiled Serial ATA 6Gigabit/second – for bandwidth-hungry desktop and laptop PC applications including gaming, streaming video and graphics multimedia at the Everything Channel Xchange Conference in New Orleans this week. The Serial ATA (SATA) 6Gb/second storage interface will deliver the highest performance – burst speeds of up to 6Gigabits per second – for all PC applications.
SATA vs PATA Hard Disk Drives: A GuideMarch 4th, 2009 With the advent of new SATA drives, as you probably know, there was a big naming issue. The old IDE drives needed a name to distinguish it from SATA drives and so the name PATA was born.
Seymour Cray, Super Computers and Inspirational ElvesAugust 10th, 2006 Seymour Cray, the father of the supercomputer, died recently aged 71, following a car crash. He was one of the most original computer designers the world has ever seen, and a true maverick.
Terabyte Disk Drives From Seagate (& Samsung)June 26th, 2007 Seagate announced availability of Terabyte disk drives at 7200 rpm; separate models targeted for enterprise and consumer desktops. The enterprise drives features serial attached SCSI interface option.
200 GB Notebook Drive From ToshibaJune 6th, 2006 Toshiba has claimed a first with its MK2035GSS 2.5in notebook hard drive which uses perpendicular recording technology to achieve a massive 200GB of storage. It can withstand 325g operating shock and 850g non-operating shock.
Recommended Value Desktop PC (Assembled) Configuration for Home Users in IndiaFebruary 24th, 2007 We recently purchased parts for a home desktop PC in India for the value oriented price sensitive segment (along with several new computers for office). My objective was to choose a solid home desktop personal comnputer with decent graphics, solid sound system and strong processor speed.
A Guide to Your Computer Mainboard/ MotherboardMay 1st, 2009 Motherboards are said to be the heart of the computer. Its a matrix that holds or connects to all the important devices and peripherals of the computer such as CPU, hard disk, RAM, SATA, PCI supported cards.
Men and women expresses divergent social behavior and usage of Facebook: StudyJune 22nd, 2009 SYDNEY - The popularity of a Facebook application mostly depends on whether you are male or female, and if it meets the criteria of being "cool", says a latest study. The research was conducted by Professor Rebekah Russell-Bennett and Dr.
20 cool t-shirts for geeksJuly 4th, 2009 Let's admit it, we geeks love those cool and comfy t-shirts. And if they carry some of our geekyness, there is nothing cooler.
Seagate Constellation - World's Highest Capacity and Power- Efficient SED Hard DrivesFebruary 3rd, 2009 Seagate (NASDAQ:STX) today introduced its Constellation™ family of new enterprise storage solutions for Tier-2 nearline storage applications. The two new drive models, the 2.5-inch Constellation and the 3.5-inch Constellation ES hard drives, include a combination of features that enable high capacities, increased power efficiency, enterprise-class reliability, and data security.
Working on Site Accessibility & Dedicated Web Hosting Provider LookoutJuly 13th, 2007 I had several reports from users that the site is inaccessible from certain ISP's including but not limited to CableVision. I did everything to figure out what went wrong without much success.
Home-built PVR Records a Month's Worth of Shows from all ChannelsJuly 25th, 2005 Promise TV is a home-built personal video recorder (PVR) made out of commodity PC components (primarily LOT of high-capacity hard-drives). Promise grabs the entire broadcast TV multiplex ( all the channels being broadcast in the UK ) slices them up according to the free, over-the-air electronic programming guide, and stores an entire month's worth.
File Archiver SmackdownJuly 5th, 2007 I tested several file compression programs like zip, gzip, arj, bzip2, jar etc for compressing big files. The corpus constituted 5 POI generated Microsoft Excel documents totaling 298.8 MB.
Now, use twitter to see the International Space StationJune 27th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Two journalists have built an online service that would let twitter users around the world to spot the International Space Station (ISS) without a telescope. The online service, built by Dutch science reporter Govert Schilling and journalist Jaap Meijers, would let people know when they have to look up to see the ISS pass.