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November 16, 2011

Prediction proved: SSDs now cheaper than hard disks

By John Dixon in Assured Forwarding Tag performance, reflections, seagate, storage, talos

In my previous post Will the Thailand floods prompt a move to SSDs?, I posited that the floods in Thailand would increase the price of traditional spinning media so that…

November 1, 2011

Will the Thailand floods prompt a move to SSDs?

By John Dixon in Assured Forwarding Tag Asia, capacity, Cloud, Europe, Google, Intel, performance, reflections, Samsung, seagate, south korea, storage, thailand, theregister, transition, UK, Western Digital

With ASUS announcing that it will run out of hard disks at the end of the next month , since new ones are not being produced in enough numbers to…

August 12, 2011

A brief history of the IBM PC, thirty years on.

By John Dixon in Featured Tag anniversary, BIOS, board, Cable, capacity, change, Cloud, Dell, history, HP, htc, HTTP, IBM, IBM Personal Computer, Intel, Internet, Microsoft, package, printer, ram, reflections, seagate, servers, shared, sharing, space, standard, switch, wintel

30 years ago today, a new office automation device was officially launched by IBM at the Waldorf Astoria hotel in New York. August 12, 1981, marked the launch of the…