Top 5 storage gifts for 2012
Priced from $15 to $1500 there's something for every budget, even Mitt Romney's! Here's what I'd like for Christmas, if I didn't already own all of these.
Storage Bits
Storage is what makes a computer your computer. Robin Harris writes about storage and other tech with a focus on the SOHO/SMB market. And fun stuff, too, like PS3 supercomputers and Google's technology.
Robin Harris
Robin Harris has been messing with computers for over 30 years and selling and marketing data storage for over 20 in companies large and small.
Ricardo Bilton
Ricardo Bilton writes for ZDNet's The ToyBox.
Latest Posts
Self-healing flash for infinite life
NAND flash is a wearing resource - like tires on a car - which creates many problems for high duty cycle storage. But a Taiwanese manufacturer demonstrates how to overcome that limit. Will it fly in the marketplace?
Blu-ray uptake improving as prices drop
Make Blu-ray almost as cheap as DVDs and it will sell. $40 Blu-ray players and $1.99 Blu-rays sell like hotcakes. Is the industry ready to accept near-DVD pricing for Blu-ray quality?
Apple Thunderbolt display/MBA review
The Apple Thunderbolt display promises a seamless experience turning your MacBook into a desktop. The reality is something less.
Is there a shingled disk in your future?
Disk vendors are running out of options when it comes to increasing disk drive density. One increasingly attractive option: Shingled Magnetic Recording (SMR). What is it and will it succeed?
Big Data in Formula 1 racing
We don't think of Formula 1 racing as a Big Data application. But it is. Here's why.
Mac Fusion Drive: pro users beware
The Mac Fusion Drive, melding SSD and hard drive, sounded like a great idea. But upon learning more this is another flashy Mac feature that won't work well for pro users, due to OS X's aging architecture.
DRAM errors: from soft to hard
Every system uses dynamic random access memory (DRAM), but how good is it? Bad news: not nearly as good as vendors would like us to think. Good news: we're learning.
Apple's Fusion Drive: hybrid done right!
Apple takes their trademark top-of-the-line approach with the Fusion drive: a 128GB SSD built into a 1 or 3TB hard drive. Suddenly every other hybrid drive looks like old news. And they are.
The hard drive drought is over
The flooding in Thailand last year knocked out a quarter of the world's disk drive production capacity, causing shortages and price spikes. But that's all behind us now.