Category Archives: Peripherals

Intel SSD uses two-inch mSATA form factor

Intel Corp. announced a solid state drive (SSD) in 40GB or 80GB capacities, claimed to be an eighth the size of the company’s 2.5-inch X25 … Continue reading

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First Look: New WD VelociRaptor Hard Drive Cruises Through Speed Tests

Western Digital’s 10,000 rpm, 300GB high-performance hard drive chomps through the competition. Western Digital picked an extremely appropriate name for its new 10,000 rpm (rotations … Continue reading

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Intel cuts chip prices up to 50 percent

Intel posted price cuts on Sunday that included reductions of 50 percent on select quad-core processors. The chipmaker also introduced new Celeron and Core 2 … Continue reading

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Seagate Sues Solid-State Storage Maker STEC For Patent Infringement

SSDs remain significantly more expensive than hard disk storage, and the theoretical performance advantage is still largely unrealized. Seagate Technology, the world’s largest maker of … Continue reading

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Hitachi Readies Monster 500GB Mobile Hard Drive

Hitachi Global Storage Technologies, hitting hard in the days leading up to CES, announcied a hard drive for notebooks and other mobile devices that offers … Continue reading

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