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(link) Tuesday, 22-September-2009 04:00:35 (GMT +10) - by Agg
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Seagate have announced the first SATA 6Gb/s 2TB HDD. Press-release here, coverage on Anandtech, BenchmarkReviews and BigBruin. The Barracuda XT product, a four-platter drive featuring an areal density of 368 Gigabits per square inch, delivers the highest performance – burst speeds of up to 6 Gigabits per second – for all PC applications, maintains backward compatibility with the SATA 3Gb/second and SATA 1.5Gb/second interfaces, and uses the same cables and connectors as previous SATA generations to ease integration.
Telstra apparently have plans for their own set-top box. The device is part of a bid to shift Telstra's entertainment, news and sport content offered under the BigPond brand from people's computers to their televisions.
You can have James May's Lego House, if you can take it away. May says Legoland reneged on a deal to take it to their theme park in Windsor, Berkshire, after deciding it would be too expensive to move. Meanwhile, miffed Legoland managers criticised May for building the house without their help.
Here's a quite neat zoomable galaxy viewer. Through three giant images, the GIGAGALAXY ZOOM project reveals the full sky as it appears with the unaided eye from one of the darkest deserts on Earth, then zooms in on a rich region of the Milky Way using a hobby telescope, and finally uses the power of a professional telescope to reveal the details of an iconic nebula.
OCClub have some performance testing in Darkest of Days. What you can see based on the results in these graphs is that when the Physx effects are set to the lowest level, the performance from ATI's cards is almost identical to the competing Nvidia cards. However, the GTX 285 finally pulls away from the HD4890 at the top end. The point of showing these numbers is to show that yes, the game is playable with non Physx-enabled cards.
Gamasutra have an article about the mechanics of World of Warcraft. As an organization, World of Warcraft utilizes 20,000 computer systems, 1.3 petabytes of storage, and more than 4600 people. "Operating an online game is about more than just game development."
BenchmarkReviews interviewed Seagate about SSD and Enterprise Storage. In this article Benchmark Reviews Executive Editor Olin Coles submitted several industry-specific questions directly to storage expert David Szabados, the Senior PR Manager responsible for enterprise storage, security, and future emerging storage technologies at Seagate Technology.
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