Frank Everaardt van Hardwareinfo.net heeft een review in elkaar gezet van de Western Digital 1000BB ATA-100 harddisk. Deze schijf heeft een capaciteit van 33GB per platter en draait 7200 toeren per minuut. Met een opslagcapaciteit van 100GB in combinatie met een ATA-100 interface is Western Digital niet de eerste; Maxtor had ook al een 100GB IDE-schijf ontwikkeld, maar slechts met 5400rpm. Wat prestaties betreft is de 1000BB één van de beste, zoniet de beste IDE-schijf van dit moment. Bij het partitioneren zijn er onder bepaalde besturingssystemen nog wel wat problemen te verhelpen.
WD levert met deze schijf een kunsttukje af. Niet alleen optimale capaciteit maar ook nog eens optimale prestaties. Een ander voordeel van een grote schijf als deze is de relatief lage prijs per gigabyte. Wie die uitrekent komt voor de Western Digital Caviar 1000BB op slechts fl 9,45 of € 4,29 en dat is heel weinig.
Helaas is het vrij lastig om meteen met de schijf aan de slag te gaan en wel omdat FDISK van Microsoft niet geheel bugvrij is. De software van WD is trouwens ook geen aanrader. Het beste kunt u gebruik maken van FDISK van Windows ME om de schijf in te delen. Handig is anders. En het zou WD sieren als hier een elegantere oplossing voor gevonden zou worden.
[...] Al met al een prachtige schijf deze 100 GB-drive van WD. Een product dat een onderscheiding vanwege de goede prestaties en de innovatie waard is. Echter de manier waarop Western Digital de partitioneringsproblemen oplost verdient zeker geen schoonheidsprijs en daarom moeten we helaas de zilveren onderscheiding in de kast laten hangen. Toch hangen we met groot plezier WD een Hardwareinfo.net Bronze Award om.
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Usually, your choice in portable hard drives is limited by the type of port you have on your machine. But what if your desktop machine is set up for FireWire and all you have on the back of your laptop are a couple of lonely USB ports? Worse, what if you want access your backup after a hard drive meltdown and the computer you want to move the files to has a different type of port? Interactive Media may have an answer that will help you avoid these situations with its 100GB KanguruPortable Hard Drive.
Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. today announced the start of volume production of low-power 8-megabit SRAMs using a new 0.13-micron process technology. Samsung said it is planning to launch a 16-Mbit version of the low-power SRAM using the 0.13-micron process in the fourth quarter of 2001.
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Smith said he believes Acrobat Reader software could prove susceptible in any case. Indeed, the Computer Emergency Response Team posted news of a vulnerability in the Windows version of Acrobat in November 2000 that could let an outside attacker gain control over the computer of a person who simply viewed a PDF file. Adobe patched that hole.
You can see a couple of curious things if you take a closer look at it.
First of all, we should point out the dual-channel 128bit memory interface. We believe that it doesn’t at all imply that the memory bus will be 256bit wide. The memory chips on the card are arranges as 4M x 16, i.e. the memory bus can be only 128bit wide (since there are 8 chips on the card). In other words, ATI can boast some tricky memory access technology, maybe something like a cross-bar controller used in GeForce3. Moreover, there will be a HyperZ II technology aimed at unloading the memory bus. We expect ATI to have improved it compared to the ordinary HyperZ used in regular RADEON cards.
But Bob Lande, an antitrust professor with University of Baltimore School of Law, doesn't believe the Court of Appeals will stay the mandate. One reason: "The Supreme Court is very unlikely to take the case," he said.
Microsoft could send PC makers the final--or gold--code for Windows XP as early as Aug. 15, or about two weeks ahead of schedule, the sources said. That would allow PC makers to sell systems with Windows XP installed in September. But the sources warned that Microsoft could change plans at any time, and that nothing is certain until the code actually ships.
On board ATA100 RAID of course is included and there are a few more bells and whistles the first rev of the TH7-RAID didn't have, namely Softmenu III support! The PLL used on the TH7II-RAID is from the same company that Abit uses for most Softmenu III designs, Realtek Semiconductor. Another very nice feature of the TH7II-RAID is one that was carried over form the original TH7. The board has two small momentary button switches, for reset and power on functions. This makes life ease for folks, like us here at HotHardware, that don't always install boards into a case for testing. Simply plug in your cables, and power supply, hit the power on button on the board and she'll boot right up!
Finally, not to be forgotten is our first look at a live Socket 478 Pentium 4 CPU. These things are tiny when compared to T-Birds or the Socket 423 Pentium 4. Again, the mPGA 478 version of the Pentium 4 has, you guessed it, 478 pins. There are many more power and ground pins in this version of the chip, which will help to stabilize the part at speeds at 2GHz. and higher. Intel simply didn't have the mPGA 478 ready in time for launch of the Pentium 4, so they went with the PGA 423 package which was more mature at the time. However, all furture clock speeds beyond 2GHz. will be in this new mPGA 478 package.
