On Tuesday, Western Digital introduced a 600-GB VelociRaptor, doubling the capacity of the company’s fastest SATA hard disk drive. The VelociRaptor family which was launched two years ago with a maximum of 300 GB of storage includes a spindle speed of 10,000 RPM and a 2.5-inch form factor. The drives are designed for blade servers, [...]
According to a Microsoft’s blog posting on Friday, Microsoft is ending its support for Intel’s Itanium processor with the current version of its Windows Server OS. This news can be considered a setback for Intel which has struggled to get its 64-bit Itanium processors more widely used by the server makers. The company launched the [...]
With lots of Windows PCs available at retail, each preloaded with one of some versions of Microsoft’s Windows 7 operating system, it’s too easy to purchase a version of the operating system which doesn’t meet your demand. Your Acer Aspire One netbook you like runs Windows 7 Starter but you’d prefer Windows 7 Home Premium, [...]
Samsung Electronics Co has recently claimed to produce 32GB DRAM which is considered as density memory module for servers to equipment manufacturers. The previous high-end module of Samsung has half of capacity in comparison with the upcoming one and used 2Gbit chips based on 50 nanometer (nm) lithography technology. In contrast, the upcoming module of [...]
With the aim at gaining more market share from the great rival Intel, AMD has recently announced to release its first eight-core and 12-core Opteron processors. AMD not only introduced the new 6000 series processors which is dubbed Magny-Cours but also gave birth to a server platform, the first in years. The new platform of [...]
Synology, which has been known as one of the biggest manufacturers of network attached storage servers, has recently announced DS410 DiskStation, its new four-bay network attached storage server aimed at workgroups and small and midsize businesses. Customers may choose to buy the DS410 in form of diskless and preconfigured with hard drives. Synology said to [...]
It has been six months since ATI, the graphics arm of AMD announced the first ever DirectX 11 video card. Since then, they have released a top-to-bottom lineup of discrete graphics cards, ranging from the Radeon HD 5970 from the passively cooled Radeon HD 5450 that’s available for less than $50. Meanwhile, its chief competitor [...]
