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Posted June 8, 2013, 3:54 PM by Kent Smith | Filed in Hardware
A number of years ago, the storage industry got together and developed a solution between the OS and the SSD by creating a new SATA command called TRIM. It is not a command that forces the SSD to immediately erase data like some people believe.
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Posted May 31, 2013, 3:30 PM by Shawn Knight | Filed in Industry News
Kim Dotcom wins another battle as the New Zealand High Court on Friday ruled that warrants used during a raid on Dotcom’s home in 2012 were illegal. As such, police are now required to provide copies of all evidence used…
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Posted October 2, 2012, 1:34 AM by Shawn Knight | Filed in TechSpot, Hardware
Could a few hundred bucks tacked on the top end make a difference between a vanilla ultrabook and something truly special? That's something Acer is willing to gamble on with its latest flagship ultrabook.

The Aspire S5 comes with a beefy Core i7-3517U clocked at 1.9GHz, 4GB of RAM and 256GB of flash storage -- no hybrid caching system here. In most instances, an SSD is the best component upgrade for any modern system, but Acer took things one step further as the S5 is equipped with two 128GB SSDs in a RAID0 configuration. It goes without saying that the storage subsystem should be blazing fast.
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Posted January 6, 2012, 6:00 PM by Rick Burgess | Filed in Microsoft, Software
An interesting article has been posted to the MSDN blog, thoroughly outlining a new Windows 8 feature called "Storage Spaces". The technology will allow users to create a single storage volume from multiple storage devices. The feature also allows users to…
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Posted January 6, 2012, 7:30 AM by Matthew DeCarlo | Filed in Hardware
Western Digital has launched a new external storage device that offers hassle-free backup while providing remote access to all your data. The My Book Live Duo comes in two dual-drive configurations (2x2TB for $400 or 2x3TB for $500) and maintains…
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Posted September 13, 2011, 6:30 PM by Shawn Knight | Filed in Hardware
Angelbird is now shipping an SSD RAID add-in card that boasts read speeds of 800MB/s and writes up to 750MB/s. The new solid state drive player from Austria hopes to provide performance for the enterprise market and affordability and flexibility…
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