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Xbox 360 Game Install Sizes for the New Xbox Experience
One of the new features that came with the “New Xbox Experience” update that went live recently is the ability to install games directly off their source DVDs onto the Xbox 360’s hard drive; for faster load times (in most cases). Unlike the PS3, the Xbox 360 uses a proprietary hard drive that is roughly 1100% [...]
Continue reading...Xbox Live Experience Will Drive 1100% Marked-Up Xbox HDD Sales
Saturday, November 1, 2008
With the giant Fall update of the Xbox Live Dashboard (nicknamed ‘Xbox Live Experience‘ at this point) looming, some folks with early access are starting to look at the new features coming in that update. To recap the hotness that is the “Xbox Live Experience” update, it’s more or less every major feature you’ve ever wanted [...]
Continue reading...Samsung Releases 256GB SSD - Only Jesus and Santa Can Afford It
Tuesday, May 27, 2008
Samsung has released the world’s largest solid state drive (SSD) in the form of their new 256GB FlashSSD flagship drive. For those not in the know about the SSD craze, basically these hard drives are giant collections of flash-based memory, offering no moving parts (physically very strong, don’t need to worry about dropping it killing it) [...]
Continue reading...New Samsung SSD: 100 MB/sec Write, 120 MB/sec Read
Wednesday, November 7, 2007
FastSilicon has the scoop on Samsung announcing their new ultra-fast, ultra-low energy 64GB SSDs (Solid State Drives). We have covered SSD development quite a bit in the past, including the sometimes lack-luster performance. It’s true that in some cases the drives can perform pretty phenomenally (0.1ms seek times for example) but some of the read/write numbers [...]
Continue reading...Ubuntu Power Saver Settings Could Damage Hard Drive
Tuesday, October 30, 2007
It seems that the default ACPI (power saving) settings for hard drives while running on battery power mode could be causing your hard drive to run an insane amount of load cycles, manifesting itself in “clicking” sounds and also the hard drive’s mechanical portions to be stressed quite a bit more than normal and life [...]
Continue reading...Explanation of why Linux doesn’t need defragmenting
Friday, August 18, 2006
This blog entry gives an excellent, detailed and illustrated explanation of why Linux doesn’t need defragmenting while FAT-based disks suffer from fragmentation more readily.
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Monday, November 24, 2008
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