The “Break it Down” Blog

Samsung Releases 256GB SSD - Only Jesus and Santa Can Afford It

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) [...]

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Google to Host Public Scientific Data for Free

Google, using it’s insane computing infrastructure, has offered to begin hosting terabytes upon terabytes (likely petabytes when done?) of public scientific data so the community has easier/central access to the information. The project is named Palimpsest. Google also purchased the visualization group behind the Gapminder software (see Ted Talk video, very interesting) that was designed to [...]

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Gmail Boosting Storage for All Users

Looks like Google will be bumping everyone’s Gmail storage up, not by a set amount right now for free users, but by speeding up their “Infinity + 1″ counter on the front page. For the Gmail-pay-people and the Google Apps folks, your storage is getting bumped by a set amount to more than double (10GB to [...]

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