The yawning gap between SSD performance and HDD performance is behind the push to SSD-specific interfaces on I/O hubs now, like with Intel\’s upcoming Pine Trail platform. The Intel new drives boast a 25 percent reduction in read latency, which was already about 60x speed of an average hard disk write performance also doubled with… Continue reading
Hawaii\’s isolated position in the middle of the Pacific Ocean also means the area is relatively free of air pollution. Few cities on the Big Island mean there aren\’t a lot of man-made lights around to disrupt observations. Hence Hawaii was chosen on Tuesday as the site for the world\’s biggest telescope, a device so… Continue reading
Microsoft\’s hardware and software partners will receive copies of Windows 7 RTM starting Aug 16 or Aug 23 2009, depending on which partner program they\’re assigned. OEMs or original equipment manufacturers in other words, computer makers will have Windows 7 in hand approximately two days after Microsoft\’s announcement. Volume licensing customers, normally large organizations and… Continue reading