July
30


WD announced today the WD VelociRaptor 10,000 RPM enterprise SATA hard drives in an enterprise-class 2.5-inch form factor for blade servers and 1U and 2U rack servers. The newest WD VelociRaptor hard drive is built for business-critical applications with enterprise-class mechanics and packs up to 300 GB of capacity into the enterprise small form factor bays, while consuming 35 percent less power than the previous-generation WD Raptor drive. The new 2.5-inch WD VelociRaptor drive is the only drive available that can offer server customers the flexibility of integrating SATA technology while benefiting from server-class performance and reliability.

WD VelociRaptor 2.5-inch 300GB SATA Hard Drive can hold up to 85,700 digital photos, 75,000 songs (MP3), 130 hours of DVD quality video and 36 hours of HD video. WD VelociRaptor 2.5-inch hard drives are designed and manufactured to enterprise-class standards to provide high reliability in high duty cycle environments, resulting in the highest available reliability rating of any SATA drive at 1.4 million hours MTBF.

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May
30


Super Talent today announced immediate availability of DDR3 SO-DIMMs. Super Talent’s new 1GB DDR3-1333 SO-DIMM supports transfer rates up to 10,664 MB/sec. That equates to 66% higher bandwidth than DDR2-800 SO-DIMMs, making this the world’s fastest production DDR3 SO-DIMM. In addition to the faster speed, DDR3 SO-DIMMs require only 1.5V, compared to 1.8V for DDR2, resulting in power savings of up to 20% and less heat output.

The 204-pin Supertalent1GB DDR3-1333 SO-DIMM is available now at street prices under $99.

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January
13


Its really strange that Apple released two powerful desktop computers ahead of Macworld 2008. According to Cupertino based company, the Mac Pro and Xserve are their fastest machines with dual Intel 45nm quad core processors. The new Mac Pro is based on 3.2 GHz 8-core Xeon processor, providing 1600 MHz front side bus and 800 MHz memory. It is equipped with ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT graphics card with 256MB of video memory, PCI Express 2.0 graphics slot, max 4TB storage, sexy Apple keyboard, Bluetooth, and Leopard operating system. “The new Mac Pro is the fastest Mac we’ve ever made,” said Philip Schiller, Apple’s senior vice president of Worldwide Product Marketing.

The Xserve can be configured with up to two Quad-Core Intel Xeon 5400 series processors running up to 3.0 GHz with 12MB of L2 cache per processor. It features up to 32GB of 800 MHz DDR2 ECC FB-DIMM memory for a 64 percent increase in memory throughput, two PCI Express 2.0 expansion slots, 3TB hard drive, built-in accelerated graphics to drive up to a 23-inch Apple Cinema Display, 10Gb Ethernet cards and Leopard.

The Mac Pro and Xserve are now shipping for $2,799 and $2999 respectively.

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