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Feature: Is AMD’s Mantle really worth it?
Introduction and AMD Rigs Since AMD announced its Mantle initiative in September last year, we’ve been excitedly hypothesising what it could really mean for AMD, its graphics cards, our processors and...
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SanDisk to launch self-encrypting enterprise SSD
SanDisk has unveiled its first self-encrypting solid state drive (SSD) designed for the enterprise market. The 2.5-inch 7mm SanDisk X300s SSD comes in capacities of 64GB, 128GB, 256GB, 512GB, and 1TB....
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Opinion: Resolution revolution: why are desktops so late to the 4K party?
Welcome to the revolution The king is dead. Long live the king. After a few years when stereoscopic 3D ruled supreme as the next big thing in PC displays, it’s finally been usurped. High-DPI or...
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Toshiba tackles cloud workloads with 5TB enterprise drive
Two months after it unveiled its first 5TB hard disk drives, Toshiba has announced a new range of HDDs that has been designed with "bulk storage systems and servers that support cloud-based...
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UK universities come together to work on laser storage technology
A new Center for Doctoral Training (CDT) in Photonic Integration for Advanced Data Storage has been set up with a total of £8.1 million funding to carry out research in the field of photonics. Two...
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Fujifilm debuts high-performance SSD range
Fujifilm has launched a new series of SSD products called the HQ-PC and aimed, it says, at "highly demanding PC users". Three capacities are available in an industry standard 7mm form factor – 128GB,...
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Seagate touts simplicity in NAS OS 4 drives for small businesses
Seagate has lifted the lid on two new NAS drives aimed at small businesses and home office users. Both the new Seagate NAS and NAS Pro are available in 2- and 4-bay configurations and come with the...
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WD launches cheapest 6TB drive, highest platter density yet
Western Digital has finally unveiled its first 6TB HDD as part of its family of products that focus exclusively on NAS (network attached storage). The WD Red range will welcome a 5TB and 6TB hard...
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Storage market embracing smaller 2.5-inch HDD
The worldwide personal and entry-level storage market has been stagnating with 17 million units shipped in the second half of 2014 according to research analyst firm IDC. The average revenue per unit...
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Seagate’s 8TB drive is biggest ever, stores more than 300 Blu-ray discs
Seagate has shipped the world’s first 8TB hard disk drive, less than one year after the first 6TB HDD was announced by HGST, a subsidiary of archrival WD. Not much is known about the drive other than...
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Interview: Flash flood: when smart storage teaches virtual machines to swim
You can’t accuse California-based Tintri of choosing an ill-fitting name: it literally translates to "lightning" in Irish Gaelic, which begins to make sense when you discover that the company sells a...
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You will soon be able to finally buy a 24-inch QHD monitor
Do our eyes deceive us? Apparently not: a 24-inch QHD monitor really has landed on the market, and it comes courtesy of Taiwanese monitor maker BenQ. The BL2420PT has a 2560 x 1440 pixel-resolution, a...
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Samsung supercharging enterprise servers with industry’s first 8Gb DDR4 chips
Samsung is looking to get its nose in front of the competition by producing the industry’s first 8Gb DDR4 DRAM chips on 32GB modules. Designed for use in enterprise servers, they are being produced...
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HP reportedly readying device that can ‘sprout’ pseudo-holograms
If you’ve been following the news around HP lately, you’ll know that the company has split into two companies, with one focusing on personal computers and printing and the other on corporate hardware....
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HP adds application delivery, video transcoding and web infrastructure to...
HP has added three new devices to its lineup of HP ProLiant Moonshot servers. The new products include application delivery, video transcoding and web infrastructure tools. HP’s new application...
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IBM exits semiconductor business
IBM has sold its semiconductor and commercial microelectronics businesses to GlobalFoundries; the deal will see the latter get a $1.5 billion (£930 million, AU$1.71 billion) one-off payment from Big...
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Intel’s updated server chip road map shows SoC delay, new Xeon D-1500
Intel refreshed its public processor roadmap just over a week ago and while it does not reveal anything fundamentally new, it does show that the follow up to its Atom server SoC, the C2000, has been...
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ARM promises greater efficiency with next-gen Mali components
Smartphones and tablets have become our main computers, ARM argued in a press release today, and they should be our most efficient devices. Enter the new T800 GPUs, DP550 display processor, and V550...
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Worldwide 3D printing shipments to double over the next year
Analyst firm Gartner has predicted that shipments of 3D printers will double every year to reach 2.3 million in 2018. That may sound like a lot of zeroes, but the figure is just a small fraction of...
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buying guide: Best gaming mouse – top 5 gaming mice reviewed
If you’re serious about PC gaming, you’ve put your heart and soul into building your rig. You’ve hand-selected the right combination of memory, processing power and storage options, calculated your...
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