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Saturday, 9-December-2006 19:41:24 (GMT +10) - by Agg
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HWZone have some first looks at a 24-port SATA II RAID adapter from ARECA. The new ARECA RAID controllers support one DIMM socket with deault 256MB of ECC DDR2-533 SDRAM and can be upgraded to 1GB. ARECA has benchmarked the ARC1280, 24ports PCI-Express SATA II RAID controller using the 800Mhz Intel IOP341 I/O processor measuring read and write cache transfer rates of 1624MB/s and 1295 MB/s respectively with sustained RAID 6 write transfer rates of 771MB/s.
Also on the storage front, TGDaily have info on a 100GB 1.8" HDD from Toshiba, which will no doubt end up in an iPod near you soon. The new model MK1011GAH has two platters, four heads, and can transfer data at 100 MB per second, according to Toshiba. The company also reports a 4200 RPM platter rotation speed, a weight of 59 grams, and dimensions of 54x71x8 mm. More info here.
Digital-Daily compared X1950 Pro video cards from GeCube, ASUS and HIS. For the time being, all ATI's partners have coped with production of video cards on the base of X1950 Pro and offered their own versions, and we even did not expect that the diversity of specifications would vary that wide.
FlingingSquids are the latest to offer their thoughts on Vista. The new OS boasts several additional new features and enhancements, and in this article we’ll discuss some of these in more detail. We’ve got quite a bit of info here to go over (6,000+ words), so we’ll go ahead and get started.
Meanwhile, the NSW Department of Education and Training is considering Linux on the desktop. "We have to consider [open source] very seriously because it is clearly an industry trend. We need to have genuine competition in the marketplace for desktops … a lot of innovative educational solutions are coming out of the open source area.
Also close to home, the CSIRO apparently demonstrated the world's fastest wireless recently. Or at least, that article from the 6th said they would "tomorrow", but I can't find another one saying it did or didn't work.. hmm.
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