Seagate delivers enterprise hard drive with 2 TB

Seagate delivers enterprise hard drive with 2 TB

The 3.5-inch model Constellation ES comes with either a 6-GBit/s-SAS- or 3-GBit/s-SATA-Interface. It works with 7200 U / min and 16 MB cache. The price is around 300 euros.

Seagate has started about a year after the initial announcement with the delivery of the fourth generation of its enterprise hard drive Constellation ES. The 3.5-inch drive for external storage architectures (nearline storage) is now available in capacities of 500, 1000 and 2000 GB.

The Constellation ES works with 7200 U. / min and 16 MB cache. At the interface between a customer can choose one or 3-GBit/s-SATA- 6-GBit/s-SAS-Interface.

With the latter, according to the manufacturer a data transfer rate of 150 Mbytes / sec. The average seek time to be reading below 8.5 milliseconds, and the letter below 9.5 milliseconds. The mean latency is given as 4.16 milliseconds, the mean time between failures (Mean Time Between Failures, MTBF) of 1.2 million hours.

The drive supports Seagate's Choice Power technology, which will reduce power consumption at light loads by up to 35 percent. In operation, requires the Constellation ES average 12.2 watts at idle it is satisfied with 8 watts.

The SAS model with 2 TB of memory lists online stores for around 300 euros. The SATA version of the same size costs about 270 Euro.

Besides offering Seagate and Hitachi and Western Digital enterprise hard drives with up to 2 terabytes of capacity. However, the models RE4-GP and Ultra Star A7K2000 available exclusively with 3-GBit/s-SATA-Interface.

The Constellation ES is 3-GBit/s-SATA- or 6-GBit/s-SAS-Schnittstelle available (Image: Seagate).

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Samsung announces e-book reader with handwriting recognition

Samsung announces e-book reader with handwriting recognition

The eBook Reader "models E60 and E100 come in April in the trade. They support the ePub format, PDF and TXT. Per Stylus can add text notes and drawings. Also an MP3 player is on board.

Samsung has unveiled two e-book reader with handwriting recognition and wireless. The models' eBook Reader E60 "and" eBook Reader E100 "coming in April on the market.

The readers have a monochrome display. The E60 has a resolution of 600 x 800 pixels, of the E100 provides 824 x 1200 pixels.

Using an electromagnetic stylus can add users handwritten note and drawings to an electronic text. The handwriting is recognized and converted into electronic text. It also allows passages highlight, annotate, and then transferred to a computer for further processing. The E100 even has a pressure-sensitive pen and calligraphy and review functions such as Cut and Copy and paste.

The controls on the device itself only come to light, as if it is a slider phone defers. When closed, users can only access two buttons for paging back and forth.

Both e-book reader ePub support the formats, PDF and TXT. The integrated WLAN interface (802.11b / g) can new Leseinhalte from the Internet or share your own notes with other devices.

Other features include a calendar, a dictionary (English-German) and an MP3 player. On request, the devices read text, thanks to a speech synthesizer and before. The internal memory can be expanded using micro SD cards.

Samsung's new e-book reader by Stylus allow the addition of drawings and notes (Image: Samsung).

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Western Digital introduces its first consumer SSDs

Western Digital introduces its first consumer SSDs

The model number SiliconEdge Blue offers capacities of up to 256 GByte. The maximum read rate is 250 MByte / s and write speed up to 170 MByte / s. The SSDs dominate the Windows 7 supported TRIM command.

SSDs Series SiliconEdge Blue come with capacities of 64, 128 and 256 GByte in the trade (image: Western Digital).

Western Digital has its first Solid State Drives (SSD presented), aimed specifically at consumers. The models of the SiliconEdge-Blue series are available with capacities up to 256 GByte. They are based on multi-level memory cell (MLC) and have an error correction code (ECC).

The 2.5-inch drives use a SATA-2 interface. The reading speed is to Western Digital with up to 250 MByte / s, the write speed of up to 170 MByte / s. The mean time between failures (Mean Time Between Failures, MTBF) is 1.4 million hours.

For read operations, the energy of the solid state drives is 2 watts, on writes it rises to 3.5 watts. At idle, the consumption drops to 0.6 watts. The models in the range SiliconEdge Blue according to the company are very robust and have a high tolerance to vibrations and falls. According to the manufacturer, they keep surges of up to 1000G.

SiliconEdge Blue SSDs dominate the Windows 7 supported TRIM command, which creates a continuous high performance of solid state drives. They are loud Western Digital now available in the U.S.. The 64-gigabyte model costs $ 279, the variants with 128 GB and 256 GB are at $ 529 or $ 999.

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Foxconn builds up in March to 700,000 iPad

Report: Foxconn builds up in March to 700,000 iPad

In April, the delivery will increase to one million tablets. Anonymous sources have suspicions back to delivery problems. According to one analyst are due to a shortage in production in March, only 300,000 iPad available.

Foxconn is during the month of March from 600,000 to 700,000 finished iPad. The Digitimes reported, citing anonymous sources with suppliers of the company. In April, the delivery quantity to increase to about one million pieces. The view expressed by one analyst earlier this week guess Apple will move due to production difficulties in entering the market, keep the sources of Digitimes unlikely.

On Monday, an analyst at investment bank Canaccord Adams had stated that the Apple Tablet will probably due to a shortage in production to the market start to appear only in the U.S. or even delayed by a month. The number of estimated available in March iPad analyst at 300,000.

Apple iPad had presented in January without naming a date for the launch. The wireless versions should the world in 60 days (until the end of March), the UMTS equipment in 90 days (until the end of April) will be available after that time information.

As The Examiner reported that the Apple Tablet with high probability, 26 March come on the market. From 10 March to Apple employees on the sale of the iPad will be trained. First television commercials run according to the report from 15 March.

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