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 [...]
64GB SSD drive now available in CD-R King
Posted on February 15, 2009 - Filed Under News | Leave a Comment
Early this morning, I saw this picture on the front page of CD-R King’s website: a re-branded external 64GB SDD drive, with SATA and USB 2.0 interfaces. It looks like they’re experimenting on putting out affordable solid state disk drives, which is a move I welcome. I haven’t even seen SSDs being offered on [...]
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 [...]
Warning: Seagate Barracuda 1TB hard drive multiple failures reported
Posted on January 17, 2009 - Filed Under News | 4 Comments
A word of caution for would-be buyers. Tom’s Hardware has just posted news on alarming Seagate hard drive failures for those with model number ST31000340AS, more popularly known as the 1TB Barracuda 7200.11. The issue has reached the Seagate support forums where it’s been gaining considerable attention.
As expected, news like this drove people into [...]
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 [...]
LaCie 8x Portable DVD Writer - bought, unboxed, and photographed
Posted on January 9, 2009 - Filed Under Others | 1 Comment
If you follow this blog, you’ll know about my storage predicament. Today I took the plunge and got myself a new external DVD writer in Cyberzone, SM Megamall. It was a difficult hunt. Almost every shop I went to either didn’t have stocks of any brand, or selling theirs at an unreasonably inflated price. Good [...]
2TB max SDXC memory cards within reach
Posted on January 8, 2009 - Filed Under Others | 1 Comment
Running out of space in your memory card? Is the 32GB upper limit of the SDHC standard weighing you down?
My guess: Probably not, unless you’re into shooting HD videos. The standards-defining SD Association isn’t taking any chances, however, and is taking steps to make the SD format future-proof (for now, anyway).
They have just announced [...]
There’s never enough storage
Posted on December 27, 2008 - Filed Under Others | 7 Comments
The 320GB external hard drive I bought just this November is getting filled faster than I thought it would. Less than two months after, it’s now down to exactly 89.7GB. Blame it on torrents, as I’m addicted to documentaries - nature, art, history, and what have you. It’s all good. I’m learning. However, my storage [...]
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 [...]
Confessions: A rundown of my own gadgets
Posted on November 25, 2008 - Filed Under Others | 3 Comments
“Tell me who your friends are and I’ll tell you who you are.”
To a certain extent, this old saying is true, and you could also say the same from a persons possessions. That is, tell what your house/car/(insert word here) and I’ll tell you who you are. Before I write anything here, let me introduce [...]
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