Posts Tagged ‘Hardware’

Western Digital ships 2.5-inch 750 GB Notebook Hard Drives

By TechnoGadge on March 31, 2010 at 5:07 am

Western Digital (WD) has started shipping WD Scorpio Blue 750 GB notebook hard drives. Designed for mainstream notebook computers, the 2.5-inch notebook hard drives offer industry’s highest capacity to date in this form factor. The WD Scorpio Blue 750 GB (model WD7500BPVT) utilize WD’s leading 375 GB-per-platter areal density and Advanced Format technology. An ideal solution for notebook computers and other portable devices whose users require extreme capacities in a small package, extended battery life and cool, reliable operation, …


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AMD announces Opteron 6000 Series Platform

By TechnoGadge on March 29, 2010 at 2:11 pm

AMD announces availability of Opteron 6000 Series, a new server platform featuring the world’s first 8- and 12-core x86 processor for the high-volume 2P and value 4P server market. While delivering more cores and more memory for less money, the AMD Opteron 6000 Series platform provides better workload-specific performance and power efficiency. According to Patrick Patla, VP and GM, Server and Embedded Divisions, AMD: "The AMD Opteron 6000 Series platform signals a new era of server value". Features of …


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Samsung ships samples of 40nm-class 32GB DRAM modules for Servers

By TechnoGadge on March 29, 2010 at 11:35 am

Samsung has begun shipping samples of 40nm-class 32GB memory modules, the industry’s highest-density memory module for server systems. The 40nm-class, 32-Gigabyte memory module has been designed for use in advanced servers, which require high-density and high-performance features at low-power consumption levels. Samsung is using the industries highest-density monolithic DDR3 device – a 40-nanometer (nm) class, four gigabit (Gb) DDR3 chip – as the building block for the new 32GB module. This comes just one year after the company announced …


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OCZ unveils 2.5-inch affordable Onyx Series SSD

By TechnoGadge on March 11, 2010 at 6:37 am

OCZ Technology Group, Inc. has just unveiled OCZ Onyx SATA II 2.5" Solid State Drive (SSD) Series, an ultra-affordable MultiLevel Cell (MLC)-based solid state storage solution designed for consumers looking to take advantage of flash-based storage technology. With a sub 100 dollar MRSP, the Onyx 32GB SSD offers a faster and more durable alternative to traditional hard drives. Onyx SSDs feature HDD-dominating access times, up to 125MB/s read and 70MB/s write speeds, 64MB of onboard cache, and unique …


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Toshiba announces 600GB 2.5-inch Enterprise HDD

By TechnoGadge on February 17, 2010 at 5:29 pm

Toshiba Storage Device Division (SDD) on Tuesday announced a new high-capacity, high-performance, power-efficient small form factor product line for enterprise applications. With top capacity at 600GB, the new MBF family of hard disk drive (HDD) represents the industry’s highest-capacity 2.5-inch enterprise-class HDD and features Toshiba’s first enterprise-class self-encrypting drive (SED) offering. The MBF2-RC series drive features a 10,025 RPM spin speed, 6 Gb/sec SAS interface, and environmentally friendly low power consumption benefits. In addition to the low power consumption design of 2.5-inch …


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3M launches 22-inch multi-touch LCD display

By TechnoGadge on January 8, 2010 at 2:39 pm

Earlier this week, 3M unveiled the 3M Display M2256PW, a 22-inch high-definition, multi-touch LCD display. Based on 3M Projected Capacitive Technology, the M2256PW display is designed for professional and advanced consumer applications that need up to 10-finger touch input or multi-user interactivity with very fast response time. While most multi-touch technologies support two-finger touch and gestures, 3M’s multi-touch technology supports 10-finger touch input and advanced gesture capability. Introduced in June 2009 at SID Display Week as the 19-inch 3M Multi-touch Developer …


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MSI launches Big Bang Fuzion Mainboard

By TechnoGadge on January 8, 2010 at 9:45 am

MSI today unveiled the 2nd Big Bang branded mainboard, Big Bang-Fuzion. MSI Big Bang-Fuzion, featuring the Hydra technology ever created, can offer serious gamers the most flexible upgradability on 3D performance, allowing users to install cross-vender GPU in a single system. The epochal technology can perform scalable rendering by load-balancing graphics processing tasks. Besides, the Big Bang Fuzion Mainboard can deliver near-linear gaming performance upgrade to break through the performance barrier with two or more graphics cards. In addition, the …


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Seagate unveils Momentus, the World’s Thinnest 2.5-Inch Hard Drive

By TechnoGadge on December 15, 2009 at 1:44 pm

Seagate Technology on Monday announced the Momentus Thin drive, the world’s thinnest 2.5-inch hard disk drive for ultra-portable and entry-level laptops, high-end netbooks, backup devices and consumer electronics. At a wafer-thin 7mm in height – 25 percent slimmer than traditional 9.5mm 2.5-inch laptop hard drives – the Momentus Thin drive gives original equipment manufacturers (OEM) and system integrators significantly lower cost-per-gigabyte storage than solid state and 1.8-inch drives, enabling a new breed of entry-level thin laptops. Of all netbook computers available today, …


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