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    Future of high capacity storage: HDD or SSD?

    I see announcements for 12TB HDD drives, and 60-96TB on the SSD side (Seagate, Toshiba in 3.5" form factor). Are we coming to a point where SSD drives' capacity is overtaking HDD's? How did SSD drives gain such a hugh capacity advance in so little time? Actually, half the explanation seems...
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    SATA Express 3.2 16 Gbps

    Thanks for the information, that's what it looked like to me, hence this post. Even if we won't see SATAe, I still think we'll see more of SATA, maybe with regular (not Express) versions 3.1 and 3.2. PCIe drives such as NVMe seem more aimed to the enterprise market and still years away, even if...
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    Looking for a solid 4TB drive to buy -- need 24 of them

    Why 8 x 4TB drives when you can get 3 x 10TB Hitachi drives? OK, these ones are filled with helium and speak funny, but Western Digital recently released improved datacenter drives, the low power RE+ 6TB drives that look very interesting and worth investigating.
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    SATA Express 3.2 16 Gbps

    Any news at all on this new class of drives, motherboards or chipsets? I couldn't find any announcement of upcoming or future devices on the web besides the unfinished Asus motherboard prototype from last year. 3.2 was ratified back in 2013, and from past experience, it takes about that long...
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    sata vs SAS?

    The Optimus SSDs are optimized for storage size, and can sustain "only" 1 to 3 full drive writes per day. The Lightning SSDs are smaller but twice faster, and can sustain 25 full drive writes per day. Still, it is amazing that they are able to pack 4 terabytes into a 2.5 inch form factor. That...
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    Huffington Post to Ban Internet Troll Comments

    It is amazing that a site that often posts on social and controversial issues would not protect the privacy of its users. They say they want to eliminate trolls, but that's what non-anonymous users will be faced with: Trolls that can search they address and all personal information from their...
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    ET3 is Building a 'Hyperloop' Transport System

    Well they tried the vacuum trains 170 years ago in Ireland and Britain, where the air pressure behind the train and the vacuum in front created the propulsion, but that wouldn't work in a system with capsules, and a pure vacuum would be too unsafe, so I guess there has to be air. A train system...
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    Google Increases Rewards for Bug Bounty Programs

    I love their program, I reported a bug on Google Reader in March, and they told me there will be a drastic fix for it on July 1st. ;)
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    500K Google Reader Users Convert to Feedly

    Truth be told, I did not convert to Feedly, but I added it to Reader, just as I have also been trying out Newsburn and TheOldReader on their own Firefox pinned tabs for a couple of days now. Which really makes me regret the day when Reader will disappear, because these really crappy feed readers...
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    Google To Retire Reader RSS Service

    Not "whatever random corporation", in this case a quasi monopoly in the field of RSS readers, because Google virtually killed the competition. A healthy web-based app market would avoid that problem. A good proprietary app working only on some versions of Windows can be abandoned just as well...
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    Google To Retire Reader RSS Service

    This will really be a sad day if they remove Reader in July. The alternative solutions just don't have the server and bandwidth power Google has to keep feeds updated frequently across browsers and platforms, not even mentioning that Reader works flawlessly and is a rock-solid piece of the web...
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    Ratpadz XT $25 w/Free Shipping

    It would be really good if it was flat, but like several users reported, mine was received slightly bended and there's no way to flatten it back. Plus the sticky pads at the bottom use a very poor quality glue or it's their curved design that's flawed, I don't know, but I lost 2 of the front...
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    Illegal Music Downloading Decreased Significantly In 2012

    Ah well, the crap is the 200+ albums I listened to and didn't make it in my To Buy list in the past 3 months. I take it you haven't even listened to these songs and albums I listed, or may not even have heard of several of these artists (I knew less than 50% of them too before I listened to...
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    Illegal Music Downloading Decreased Significantly In 2012

    Let's not kid ourselves, artists get absolutely nothing from Spotify or LastFM, something like $100 for one million listens, they get their money only indirectly, like when you discover them via Spotify and you buy the CD, merchandise, or go to a concert. There's still no satisfying way of...
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    Illegal Music Downloading Decreased Significantly In 2012

    That's total BS, there's 123 scene or other release albums that made my To Buy list alone in the past 3 months, 55 from 2013, out of 337 in total. And I don't even listen to heavy metal or hip-hop/rap: 2Cellos - In2ition - 2013 3 Doors Down - The Greatest Hits - 2012 77 Bombay Street - Oko...
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