Search results matching tag 'flash'

Re: HotHardware and TechVi Video Podcast No. 4

3vi1 — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 01:42:43 GMT

Another good episode.

Let's hope Adobe gets off their hands and releases 10.1 for 64-bit Linux soon (they've only released the 32-bit version). I've been using the previous 64-bit beta for a while and it works great (Hulu's completely smooth, even fullscreen 1920x1080).

Sadly, they did not enable the H.264 video acceleration in the Linux 10.1 beta. It would be quite ironic if Moonlight incorporates that feature first.

RE: Flash In The Pan: New Adobe Beta Enables GPU Offloading

3vi1 — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 21:28:42 GMT

Remember when all abandoned Flash and converted to Silverlight?

It was pretty smart of MS to do all their streaming in H.264. Being patented, no open source implementation could be published. They continually feigned cross-platform support via their deal with Novell and apparent tolerance of Moonlight, which was always crippled and one version older than Silverlight.

Eventually, all the other operating systems, without access to YouTube and Facebook apps, died out.

That's when the giant robotic flying scorpions first appeared... in swarms blotting out the sun.

Re: RE: Four-Way SSD Round-Up, OCZ, Super Talent, Mtron

Dave_HH — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 23:03:08 GMT

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I have to say, I expected a far more pronounced difference between the SSDs power consumption and that of the VelociRaptor. Considering the minuscule difference in power consumption, I would assume that the operating temperatures are also fairly similar.

Nice Round-Up HH. I am really looking forward to seeing how the new 256GB Samsung MLC SSD and Intel's upcoming offerings perform.

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Thanks dudes! Stick around over the next few days! More exciting stuff coming in this space from a BIG NAME player.

Re: RE: Four-Way SSD Round-Up, OCZ, Super Talent, Mtron

Super Dave — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 03:12:10 GMT

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Nice for a notebook 32gb or netbook perhaps ... but I guess I cannot see myself building my 4TB HD media server/PVR using them in a raid set could buy a house for less in some areas.

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Not too sure I would want to live there, but HEY, welcome to HotHardware, MMC! We are happy to have you join us! So where are you posting from?

Four-Way SSD Round-Up, OCZ, Super Talent, Mtron

Thu, 04 Sep 2008 16:58:05 GMT

Solid State Drive technology is set to turn the storage industry on its ear; there is little doubt of this. When you consider the intrinsic benefits of anything built on solid state technology versus anything mechanical, it doesn't take a degree in physics to understand the obvious advantages.

On the following pages, we thought we'd level-set the features, performance and pricing landscape for you with respect to the current state of SSDs. Today, we have a look at four different SSD offerings, two from OCZ, one from Mtron and another from Super Talent. Is a Solid State Disk in your future? We'll try to help you answer that question in this full performance evaluation and showcase.

Re: Adobe Knew of Vista PWN 2 OWN Hack All Along

digitaldd — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 10:56:12 GMT

patch? the flaw still works.. even with the latest flash player.

Re: SSDs Have High Failure Rate?

Anne@Dell — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 13:11:40 GMT

The recently published analyst report estimating a high return rate for Solid State Drive technology (SSD) in Dell products is unfounded and wholly inaccurate. We've posted our responce on Dell's external blog, www.direct2dell.com.

Dell sees SSD as the future of mobility storage and offers the technology across a wide variety of laptop models, including business, consumer and mobile workstations. Second Generation SSDs, like Samsung’s SATA II Drive, actually outperform existing notebook drives. Dell is offering this drive (called the Dell Flash Ultra Performance SSD) across our laptop portfolio.

Re: Re:

digitaldd — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 20:52:26 GMT

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i thought they had special wear reducing algorthiums for this

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yes they're similar to what is used in regular hard drives, although they haven't developed anything like S.M.A.R.T. for SSDs yet. Basically an SSD drive is a certain % larger than its stated size the extra space is for error correction so when an area on the SSD fails they swap in a good block from the extra space just like a regular hard disk. SSDs also have another means to make them last longer. Whenever an SSD is written to the bits are moved to different areas on the disk so that the entire SSD wears evenly and one single area isn't always being written to.

Another factor that willaffect how long an SSD lasts is what type of flash memory is used to create it. Did the vendor use the cheapo MLC flash memory that a lot of usb thumb drives & memory cards use or is made of SLC NAND flash which tends to last 5-10 times longer than the MLC stuff. You would think with the cost of SSDs they would all be made from the SLC NAND flash chips but that isn't true.

Creative ZEN - 16 GB flash mp3, AAC and video player

~Max~ — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 16:34:46 GMT

Found this video on youtube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mVaip9mQu_U

Apparently this thing can play iTunes files out of the box and it takes SD memory cards too

Looks good. Anyone got any news about pricing?