Best offers
Exclusive Interview: Nvidia's Ian Buck Talks GPGPU
With Snow Leopard and Windows 7 both offering GPGPU capabilities, we wanted to talk to Nvidia's Ian Buck. Not only is he one of the fathers of Brook, the programming language ultimately adopted by AMD/ATI, but the head of Nvidia's CUDA group as well. Read More
-
Beamforming: The Best WiFi You’ve Never Seen
Forget 802.11n Draft 2.0. The future of video-capable WiFi depends on a signal-boosting technique called beamforming. We put the pioneers in this frontier through some real-world testing to find out which technology is going to change the wireless world. Read More
-
Exclusive Interview: Going Three Levels Beyond Kernel Rootkits
Today we have the pleasure of chatting with Joanna Rutkowska, one of the top computing security innovators in the world. She is the founder and CEO of Invisible Things Lab (ITL), a boutique computer security consulting and research firm. Read More
Partners
The Games selection
action :
Yoyo the Star
Yoyo is a young girl who recently graduated and dreams to become a movie star (don't we all). You'll have to guide her on the path to stardom,...
|
crazy :
Xiao Xiao 7
A great fight scene from the animation movies Xiao Xiao.
|
Sponsored links
WD adds mobile 120 GB, desktop 500 GB hard drive to portfolio
Next newsWestern Digital (WD) announced that it has expanded its mobile and desktop hard disk families. New in the catalog are a 120 GB 2.5" drive that is available with EIDE or SATA interface and spins its platters with 5400 rpm. WD claims that the new 2.5" drive consumes about the same power as a 4200 rpm model. According to its specifications, the new drive is equipped with 8 MB of cache and is rated at an average access time of 12 ms.
The 2.5" 120 GB Scorpio drive is priced at $235.
WD now also offers its Caviar SE16 desktop hard drives with up to 500 GB capacity. The new 7200 rpm drive include native command queuing (NCQ) are claimed to reach a transfer rate of 300 MB/s. The 500 GB retails for about $350.
Source : Tom's Hardware US
Sponsored links
Related forums topics
- Want to upgrade
- Why is my new build not as fast as I thought it'd be?
- One question about Apple computers now....
- Help with OC'in Q6600B3 Above 3.2Ghz
- Ordered new rig, need opinions!
- When overclocking a system is it wise to trust auto settings in bios?
- msi k8n ne04 platinum freezes after xp screen during boot
- P5k-SE IDE problems. PLEASE help!
- What is the max disk size that Gigabyte GA-8IRXP can support?
- SLI/Xfire mobo question
- gaming pc specs
- Promise PDC 20378 Issue
- I'm jumping in, My first attempt at a build, Please Help
- Criticism on a new midrange build