Seagate Savvio 10K.4 Drive Puts 600GB Into 2.5-Inch Form [Seagate]
The Seagate Savvio 10K.4 is an enterprise storage HDD, which means you’re likely not going to just go out and buy one. But it’s notable for just how much information it can fit into one tiny disk drive.
Its 600GB capacity is twice what’s currently available on the market, and Seagate’s asserting that it’s 25% more reliable than any other drive, with an annualized failure rate of just .44%. And while it’d be nice to have one of my very own, at least I know that it’s about to make some IT manager out there very happy.
SEAGATE® SHIPS WORLD’S HIGHEST-CAPACITY, MOST RELIABLE
SMALL FORM FACTOR ENTERPRISE DRIVE: THE SAVVIOÒ 10K.4 HARD DRIVE
Enterprise storage systems can now move to 600GB capacity, 2 million hour MTBF solution
SCOTTS VALLEY, Calif. – February 9, 2010 – Seagate (NASDAQ: STX) today announced worldwide shipments of its Savvio® 10K.4 hard disk drive (HDD), the world’s highest-capacity and most reliable 2.5-inch enterprise-class drive. Built for the demands of enterprise servers and to enable new levels of data density in external storage arrays, Savvio 10K.4 doubles the capacity of its nearest competitor to 600GB. It is also the first HDD to achieve an unprecedented 2 million hours Mean Time Between Failure (MTBF) reliability rating.
As the industry’s only fourth generation, field-proven, 2.5-inch HDD designed for the enterprise,
Savvio 10K.4 also features Protection Information for enhanced protection of data-in-flight, a self-encrypting drive (SED) option for the ultimate protection of sensitive data-at-rest and PowerChoice™, which allows the Savvio 10K.4 hard drive to deliver improved power savings during idle.“Our customers face challenging storage needs requiring the most efficient use of space and power while maintaining the highest performance possible,” said Howard Shoobe, senior manager, Dell Storage Product Management. “The new 2.5-inch 10K-rpm 600GB capacity point allows a doubling of capacity within the same rack space of current 3.5-inch 15K 600GB drives while increasing overall system-level performance and decreasing power usage.”
The combined features of Savvio 10K.4 deliver greater overall value and can reduce the total cost of ownership to IT organizations and administrators eager to optimize their data center’s power and performance efficiency. Leveraging the enterprise 2.5-inch small form factor as its platform, Savvio 10K.4 serves as a powerful storage building block when compared to 3.5-inch based systems.
“A transition to 2.5-inch enterprise-class HDDs by server and storage system OEMs is building momentum,” said John Rydning, IDC’s research director for hard disk drives. “There continues to be nearly insatiable demand for digital content accessed via numerous applications and devices, content that is increasingly delivered from storage systems equipped with high capacity enterprise-class HDDs such as Seagate’s Savvio® 10K.4.”
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The Facebook Imperative Cannot Be Stopped
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Two weeks ago on TechCrunch I posted “The Facebook Imperative,” which posed a simple question, “Why isn’t all enterprise software like Facebook?” It was the next iteration of the question I asked in 1999 that spawned salesforce.com, “Why isn’t all enterprise software like Amazon.com.” If you have read my book, Behind The Cloud, you are well aware how that one question launched a company, and a movement. Its been an exciting decade. But the real excitement is just starting.
Frankly, I’ve been amazed by the huge amount of responses, tweets, and comments (aka “the ruckus across the blogoshere,” as Joe McKendrick calls it). It only strengthens my conviction that we are about to see the greatest revolution in enterprise software, ever. Well, really, the most exciting revolution in computing, ever.
Editor’s note: This guest post is written by Marc Benioff, chairman and CEO of salesforce.com.
Dell brings next-gen Precision performance to M4500 15.6-incher
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The super-high-end 17-inch M6500 is all well and good for giant people, but we’re glad Dell’s finally giving us regular-sizers a shot with the new Precision M4500. Naturally, compromises have been made, but only just barely. The new 15.6-inch laptop rocks a 16:9, 1920 x 1080 display, backed up by NVIDIA Quadro FX 1800M or 880M graphics (the 6500 supports the 3800M, 2800M and ATI M7740) and your choice of Core i5 or Core i7 processors, on up to the Core i7-920XM Quad Core Extreme Edition. This being Dell, there are plenty of tweaks and perks on offer, like a HD+ sRGB LED screen with 100 percent color gamut, a 64GB SSD mini card for dual drive configs without losing the optical drive, a 3 megapixel camera, backlit keyboard, multitouch trackpad, Precision ON, and a multi-carrier-friendly Gobi 2.0 wireless chip. Perhaps most excitingly for us on-the-go regular-sizers, you can supposedly squeeze out 7 hours and 40 minutes of battery with the 9 cell option, and there’s a 12 cell battery slice option less than half an inch thick that should send it over the moon. On its own the laptop is 1.1-inches thick and weighs 6 pounds, and while exact pricing hasn’t been ironed out yet, it should start at less than $1,700. Start counting out those regular-sized green dollars of yours, the laptop should be out in the “coming weeks.”
That not enough for you? Dell’s also upgrading its Precision T7500, T5500 and T5300 workstations to Intel Xeon 5600 Westmere EP processors for you desk slaves within a similar timeframe. PR and another M4500 press shot are after the break.
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Benchmark, Others Store $9 Million In Scale Computing
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Benchmark Capital is placing a rather hefty bet on Indiana-based SAN startup Scale Computing – they’ve led a $9 million Series B round of financing and Partner Bill Gurley joins the company’s board of directors.
Existing investors Blue Chip Venture Company, CID Equity and Spring Mill Venture Partners also participated in the round.
Samsung’s 82-inch multitouch E-board demonstrated (video)
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Article: Ask iLounge 3-05-10
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This week’s Ask iLounge topics: Running iTunes app on external hard drive, iPod shuffle shows no content, Switching Apple ID in iTunes, External microphones for 5G nano, Removing columns in iTunes, iPod Dock and Remote control solutions
Official: iPad Launching Here April 3, Pre-Orders March 12 [Ipad]
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It’s official: iPad’s launching in the US on April 3, with the 3G model coming later in the month. Pre-orders start next week, March 12. It’s just about on time.
April 3, interestingly, is a Saturday, and exactly 59 66 days after the iPad launch, placing it just outside the 60 availability window Jobs promised for the non-3G model. Apple’s still not setting an exact date for the 3G model, promising late April, meaning it stay within the 90-day cocoon. Pre-orders start a week from today.
For folks uh-broad—Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Spain, Switzerland and the UK—both vanilla Wi-Fi and 3G models are launching simultaneously in “late April.”
While we now know it’s April 3, what we’re still wondering about D-Day: How many native iPad apps are launching with it? Will there be lines? (Well, probably.) But will there be shortages, as some analysts have suggested? Also, Apple says iPad will be available through “select Authorized Retailers.” Does that mean Best Buy will get in on the launch action?
So, raise your hand if you’re waiting for the 3G model!
iPad Available in US on April 3
Pre-Order on March 12
CUPERTINO, Calif., March 5 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Apple® today announced that its magical and revolutionary iPad will be available in the US on Saturday, April 3, for Wi-Fi models and in late April for Wi-Fi + 3G models. In addition, all models of iPad will be available in Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Spain, Switzerland and the UK in late April.
Beginning a week from today, on March 12, US customers can pre-order both Wi-Fi and Wi-Fi + 3G models from Apple’s online store (www.apple.com) or reserve a Wi-Fi model to pick up on Saturday, April 3, at an Apple retail store.
“iPad is something completely new,” said Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO. “We’re excited for customers to get their hands on this magical and revolutionary product and connect with their apps and content in a more intimate, intuitive and fun way than ever before.”
Starting at just $499, iPad lets users browse the web, read and send email, enjoy and share photos, watch videos, listen to music, play games, read ebooks and much more. iPad is just 0.5 inches thick and weighs just 1.5 pounds-thinner and lighter than any laptop or netbook-and delivers battery life of up to 10 hours.*
iPad’s revolutionary Multi-Touch™ interface makes surfing the web an entirely new experience, dramatically more interactive and intimate than on a computer. You can read and send email on iPad’s large screen and almost full-size “soft” keyboard or import photos from a Mac®, PC or digital camera, see them organized as albums, and enjoy and share them using iPad’s elegant slideshows. iPad makes it easy to watch movies, TV shows and YouTube, all in HD, or flip through the pages of an ebook you downloaded from Apple’s new iBookstore while listening to your music collection.
The App Store on iPad lets you wirelessly browse, buy and download new apps from the world’s largest app store. iPad includes 12 new innovative apps designed especially for iPad and will run almost all of the more than 150,000 apps on the App Store, including apps already purchased for your iPhone® or iPod touch®. Developers are already creating exciting new apps designed for iPad that take advantage of its Multi-Touch interface, large screen and high-quality graphics.
The new iBooks app for iPad includes Apple’s new iBookstore, the best way to browse, buy and read books on a mobile product. The iBookstore will feature books from the New York Times Best Seller list from both major and independent publishers, including Hachette Book Group, HarperCollins Publishers, Macmillan Publishers, Penguin Group and Simon & Schuster.
The iTunes® Store gives iPad users access to the world’s most popular online music, TV and movie store with a catalog of over 12 million songs, over 55,000 TV episodes and over 8,500 films including over 2,500 in stunning high definition. All the apps and content you download on iPad from the App Store, iTunes Store and iBookstore will be automatically synced to your iTunes library the next time you connect with your computer.
Pricing & Availability
iPad will be available in Wi-Fi models on April 3 in the US for a suggested retail price of $499 for 16GB, $599 for 32GB, $699 for 64GB. The Wi-Fi + 3G models will be available in late April for a suggested retail price of $629 for 16GB, $729 for 32GB and $829 for 64GB. iPad will be sold in the US through the Apple Store® (www.apple.com), Apple’s retail stores and select Apple Authorized Resellers.
iPad will be available in both Wi-Fi and Wi-Fi + 3G models in late April in Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Spain, Switzerland and the UK. International pricing will be announced in April. iPad will ship in additional countries later this year.
The iBooks app for iPad including Apple’s iBookstore will be available as a free download from the App Store in the US on April 3, with additional countries added later this year.
*Battery life depends on device settings, usage and other factors. Actual results vary.
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Dear Aunt TUAW: Does size matter (when it comes to iPads)?
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Dear Aunt TUAW,
I am planning on getting an iPad WiFi+3G when they become available, but I am still undecided on which (storage) size I should get. I currently have a 16GB iPhone 3GS which comfortably, for now, holds all my media needs. While I have a lot of music and photos and some video I don’t feel the need to have it all on my phone at one time.
Looking at what I store on my iPhone I think an iPad 32GB would more than fit my needs — but will my media files be larger on the iPad with the larger format of the device? I don’t expect that my iTunes songs will take up anymore than they do on the iPhone, but will the format of pictures and video take up more storage space? With AT&T increasing the download size limit over 3G it got me wondering if 32GB on the iPad will be more like a 16GB iPhone.
At this point I would be deciding between the 32GB and 64GB. Just wondering if the $100 price difference would be better spent buying the 32GB and putting the $100 toward a year’s worth of 3G connectivity?
Love, kissies & hugs,
Your nephew, RJ
Dearest RJ,
16GB data? Buy the 32GB model, unless you can easily swing the 64 GB one. Then go for that.
Auntie has a pretty firm policy on this kind of thing: always buy the most storage you can afford unless the storage on offer is insufficient, whether truly insufficient or plausibly insufficient. Here’s how it works. Let’s say you have about 30GB of data. There’s a 32GB item for sale and a 64GB item for sale. Which should you buy? Auntie’s advice is to always buy the 64GB item. There’s plenty of room there for you to grow over time, and overbuying your storage ensures that your device will remain useful as your data demands grow.
Now let’s say, we’re in the same situation but with 16GB and 32GB units instead. Here’s where Auntie goes mental.
In that scenario, my advice is to buy low, just getting the 16GB model. “OMG, Auntie,” you’re saying to yourself. “How can you give such poor advice? The 30 GB of data I currently use as of today will fit comfortably on that 32GB unit! What the…um…heck?”
Here’s the reasoning behind that advice: Buying any iPhone/iPod/iPad unit with just 2GB to spare is asking to pay extra for not-enough-room misery. You’re going to ebay-and-upgrade within six months anyway, right? So why not just save the money and wait until something decent actually comes out? That’s why I stayed to 4GB and 8GB iPhones until my beloved 32GB 3GS finally debuted. The money I saved helped underwrite the equipment I actually wanted. Of course, I’m now thisclose from running out of room on my newish 64GB iPod touch. And my 3GS? Sadly, overburdened already. (Although, to be fair, it’s had a really great year — and I’ve loved the storage space that it added to my life.)
It’s the same way with the iPad. Top of the line 64GB simply isn’t going to cut it for me under any plausible near term usage scenarios. With movies and books and lots of other iPad-ready great digital resources that go way beyond normal iPhone use, my storage requirements are constantly moving upwards, not downwards. I’m buying the 16GB model until at least a 128GB (and, preferably a 256GB) model shows up.
Is this biting off my nose to spite my face? (And, by the way, that’s physically harder than you might imagine unless you have a very flexible nose and jaw, but I digress.) No, it’s keeping my eyes on what I really want instead of settling for not-quite-good-enough. Over time, prices drop. Storage increases. So long as I have an entry-level iPad to get started with, I’ll be fine — at least until my dreamPad finally debuts.
If you do have the spare cash on-hand and don’t have to count pennies, well, buy the best unit available. With that kind of cash flow, you don’t have to worry about asking Auntie T. questions about which unit offers the best value. But if you’re like me, a tech addict on a tight budget and unwilling to compromise on quality, you may consider buying down instead of up until the right model comes along.
Love & hugs,
Auntie T.
TUAWDear Aunt TUAW: Does size matter (when it comes to iPads)? originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Thu, 04 Mar 2010 08:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Pierre Cardin tablets won’t keep your pants up
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Well isn’t this the most unlikely partnership of the year. Apparently world famous designer and maker of watches/belts Pierre Cardin thought the tablet selection in the world was lacking, and teamed up with a small Taiwanese OEM to bring some touchscreen devices to market. We checked out the line today, and though both the 7-inch PC729 and 8.9-inch PC819 tablets are rather thick the build quality is actually solid. The tablets pack resistive multitouch displays and include a stylus for navigating around Windows 7. Internally they’re packing VIA’s older C7-M processors which doesn’t mean good things on the battery life front — we can’t imagine these things running for longer than two hours. All we know is that we’re loving the attachable leather murse that opens up to reveal a rubbery physical keyboard. Whether you’d shell out $450 ($300 without Windows 7) for one of these really just depends on how much you love Pierre Cardin — the man, not the tablet maker.
Gallery: Pierre Cardin tablet PC hands-on
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Socialtext 4.0 Launches With Groups, Better Search, And Activity Stream Filtering
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There are a plethora of enterprise friendly collaboration platforms to choose from these days, with Yammer, Salesforce, Jive, Bantam Live, Socialcast, and others all vying for marketshare. All of the offerings are compelling but now more than ever, the startups and companies that develop these platforms are facing pressure to make their offerings the most appealing and feature-rich. Today, Socialtext, the developer of an enterprise social software platform built around microblogging, is rolling out a more powerful version, called Socialtext 4.0, of its collaboration applications.
Dear Aunt TUAW: How do I use my Apple TV in the car?
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Filed under: Multimedia, Apple, Apple TV
Dear Aunt TUAW,
I’m planning a road trip for the summer. We’ll be driving for 3-4 days, then spending a couple of months in a rental house before heading back. Thinking about keeping the family sane, especially during the drive, I thought, “Why not hook up the Apple TV to the Composite inputs (meant for video games) in the minivan?” That way, we’d have entertainment on the drive, then we could hook it up to the TV in the rental house as well.
One thing I can’t figure out, however, is how to power the Apple TV in the car. Are there car adapters that might work?
Love & Kisses,
Narcema
Darling Narcema,
I’m going to give you the answer you asked for but then I’m going to give you the answer you need. Ready for that? Okay, let’s go.
If you really, really, really want to use your Apple TV in the car, what you need to be looking for is called a power inverter.You plug it into your cigarette lighter, and then just plug in with a normal plug. Cost should run you somewhere between $50 and $100, although I googled up this one for under $20. Make sure you buy one with a standard 110 plug socket. That’s how we used to bring along our (full-sized!) VCR. There are, however, a whole bunch of problems with you plan that you need to know about.
First of all, power inverters tend to be noisy. That’s because they use a fan to keep themselves cool. Some higher-end units use noise filters, making them less obnoxious but at a rather higher price. Also, they generally don’t work with uninterupted power supplies (UPS), and there’s simply no clean way to power down your Apple TV, and every time you shut off your motor, the power will go away.
Second, the last time I checked, Apple TV doesn’t do composite output; only component and HDMI. A quick google reveals that converters (often requiring their own power source) hover between $100 to $200.
Third, you need to carry along another set of cables, since it’s unlikely that your rental accommodations will supply cables for you and may end up needing to use your component-to-composite converter at your lodgings.
And there’s more. The Apple TV uses a built-in hard drive. Not flash memory. That means that it’s not going to be happy when your car goes bumpy bumpy bumpy along some less than driver friendly roads. You may permanently destroy your little Apple TV friend.
Oh, and did I mention that the Apple TV alone gets hot enough to (almost) fry eggs? So be prepared to give it a lot of air ventilation, while somehow keeping it steady on the road.
With all that said, there’s really a much simpler solution. Buy or borrow an iPod touch. (An iPhone, of course, would be even better — because you can use it with 3G data service along the road.) An iPod provides all the same movie playback features of an Apple TV, syncs data just like an Apple TV, plus is fully compatible with the standard $50 Apple Composite Video-Out-Cable, that includes a USB-power dongle. To use, connect the dongle to a cheap (usually under $20) cigarette-lighter to USB adapter for clean 5V power, and you can use your car’s built-in power and video systems.
When you arrive at your destination, you can use the same cable to watch on your (typically composite) TV. (If things are really dire, use an RF Modulator for TVs with coax-in only. And if you only have antenna-in? Hit up your local Radio Shack and throw yourself on their mercy. I still have one coax-to-antenna converter on hand but, thankfully, haven’t needed to use it in years.)
Of course, if things are good (and by good, I mean a relatively modern TV and in-room Wi-Fi), then with an iPod touch, you also have the option of renting movies on the go, so you don’t have to spend a ton of time preparing your device at home. Which is kind of great, as you get to be a lot more spontaneous.
Plus, you can do that thing where you stick earphones into your iPod and listen to that stuff called “Music”, while the iPod rides along in your hip pocket. It’s a little hard to do that with an Apple TV.
Love and Hugs,
Auntie T.
TUAWDear Aunt TUAW: How do I use my Apple TV in the car? originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Tue, 02 Mar 2010 19:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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