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If you saw the MotoGP today, you may have seen a crash involving Marco Simoncelli - he has passed away as a result of his injuries. It's been a shocking couple of weeks in the world of motorsport, with Dan Wheldon killed in IndyCar last weekend. My heart goes out to all involved. MotoGP discussion continues here.
Severe flooding in Thailand may impact hard drive prices around the world, with facilities like Western Digital's factory being flooded (photos here.) WD Australia say that supply is ok for the short term, however. Seagate are also affected. Both Seagate and Western Digital late this week that continued flooding in Thailand was worsening shortages. There would be a 'significant impact," Seagate said, and it expected this to last over multiple quarters. CRN in the USA said that around 25 percent of hard drives are made in Thailand and there could see significant shortages among traditional PCs.
EVGA are showing off a dual-socket Sandy Bridge-E board. Imagine dropping a pair of Sandy Bridge-EP Xeon chips into your system and surrounding the chips with four-way SLI and gobs of RAM by filling up 12 DIMM slots (eight are wired to Socket 0 and four are wired to Socket 1). If you have the capital, EVGA has the foundation for building a system that will not only run Crysis and fold proteins like a banshee, but will do almost anything else you ask of it.
ArsTechnica meanwhile ponder Bulldozer's disappointing debut. The launch of the Phenom in 2007 was similarly underwhelming - it arrived late, broken, and slow - but AMD managed to turn things around with Phenom II to produce a viable competitor to many of Intel's processors.
TheSSDReview have a 6Gbps SSD Showdown using LSI's 9265-8i MegaRAID and Adaptec's 6805 RAID cards. Total value of testing equipment exceeds $45,000 US. Top speeds come in at 2.7GB/s performance performance and over 461000 IOPS and we have absolutely pushed two RAID cards and 13 SSDs as far as we think they can be pushed. Grab a seat and buckle up because this is going to be our best ride yet, one you definitely won't be seeing attempted elsewhere anytime soon!
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