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Hard drive gig - what you need to know
Posted on January 20, 2010 - Filed Under Computers | Leave a Comment
In 1980, a 26MB drive would cost you $5,000, equivalent to $193,000 per hard drive gig (1GB=1000MB). Now, 30 years later, a 1TB drive can be yours for less than $100, which puts the cost per hard drive gig down to under $0.10 (1TB=1000GB). Of course, back in the 80’s, the thought of selling GBs [...]
Finally, a disk encryption standard
Posted on January 30, 2009 - Filed Under Computers, News | Leave a Comment
Wish they figured it out sooner. On Engadget today:
We’ve seen quite a few hardware-encrypted disks hit the scene lately, but to be honest, we’ve always thought they were a risky investment, since all the systems were proprietary — we wouldn’t want to store our encryption-worthy data on a disk that can’t be read at all [...]
Price comparison: Optical Discs vs Hard Disk Drives
Posted on January 12, 2009 - Filed Under Computers | 2 Comments
Let’s do some simple math. In order to store 1TB of data on DVDs that have a capacity of 4.7GB each, you’ll need about 213 blank discs. At an average price of P10 per disc, that amounts to P2,130 per terabyte. However, that’s assuming you’ll fill each disc to its maximum, which isn’t always the [...]
MacBook Prices (as of Dec 2008)
Posted on December 14, 2008 - Filed Under Computers | 1 Comment
In a local forum I frequent, there was a thread asking, “What gadgets would you buy if you were given 100K?” Let’s see, if that much money suddenly dropped from the sky, I wouldn’t buy any gadgets - I’d save it in a bank to add to my house fund (planning to build one in [...]
NComputing X300 Desktop Virtualization Kit
Posted on December 4, 2008 - Filed Under Computers | Leave a Comment
It’s a promising concept. NComputing kits can transform a single desktop PC into virtually 4-30 computers depending on the model (making it ideal for Internet cafes, schools, & small offices). You’d still need to buy monitors, keyboards and mice, but for the processing power, all of the virtual computers will share the lone desktop PC. [...]
The cheapest desktop rig you can assemble
Posted on November 27, 2008 - Filed Under Computers | 3 Comments
Prices have fallen down dramatically over the last decade, while features have vastly improved. This got me thinking: if I was to build a brand new PC, what’s the cheapest desktop rig that can be assembled? What specs can it have? Can it be built with new parts under 10K?
In order to answer this, I [...]
Portable hard drive price check
Posted on November 25, 2008 - Filed Under Computers | 2 Comments
The first hard drive I ever owned was in the region of 10GB. At that time, it seemed big enough for all my needs as a student - but that was the Windows 98 era. Nowadays, Windows XP alone would gobble up a sizeable portion of the space, and don’t even get me started on [...]
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