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Toshiba Highest-Capacity HDD

Toshiba Storage Device Division (SDD) is one of the pioneers in the industry to bring small form factor enterprise-class and mobile hard disk drives (HDDs) to the market, and they relied on their expertise by unveiling a new high-capacity, high-performance, power-efficient small form factor product line which will target enterprise applications. Capable of holding up to 600GB of storage space in its high end range, the new MBF family will represent the industry’s highest-capacity 2.5″ enterprise-class HDD which boasts Toshiba’s first enterprise-class self-encrypting drive (SED) offering. We will see more about it right after the jump before you come to a conclusion on whether you would want to make a purchase decision or not.

The new MBF series is capable of demonstrating the successful integration of Toshiba and Fujitsu’s HDD business last year, where it underlines Toshiba’s capability and commitment to consolidating their leadership in the enterprise segment. This series is more than capable of meeting the exacting standards of the enterprise market with 10,025 RPM spin speed and a 6Gb/s SAS interface which is great for action in mid-range volume servers, mainstream storage arrays, blade and rack-mount servers and other business-critical, power-conscious, data-intensive applications. Apart from that, Toshiba has not forgotten about being green, thanks to its inherent lower power consumption which reduces power consumption up to 28%, thanks to a new enhanced power condition state that allows the hard drive to spin at a lower RPM when it remains idle.

Selected models of the MBF series do come with an option of drive-based encryption that was specially designed to the Trusted Computing Group (TCG) Enterprise Security Subsystem Class specification. Basically, it means that you don’t have to worry (too much) about your data being hacked into, leaving you with peaceful nights of sweet slumber whenever you are away from work. The MBF product line will come in 300GB, 450GB and 600GB capacities as they ship in volume this April 2010, where samples are already available for design development.

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B&W MM-1 computer speakers with hi-fi roots

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B&W is back with its MM-1 computer boombox, said to be a pair of true hi-fi speakers shrunk to desktop size according on its Web site. The MM-1 incorporates the same tube-loaded tweeter found on its flagship Nautilus tower speakers, as well as built-in digital signal processing to deliver richer sounds as low as 57Hz (think low bass) for a compact 100 x 100 x 170mm package. The MM-1 utilizes USB for computer connectivity and is compatible with both PCs and Macs. This is on top of a regular 3.5mm minijack for your music player, handheld and other portable devices. The B&W will even support soundtrack selection in Windows Media Player and iTunes via its pebble-shaped remote controller.

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Apple A4 chip really means 4th-generation ARM processor?

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During the iPad launch, Apple declared that the magic behind the little clever device is its own A4 processor which runs at a clockspeed of 1GHz. But is it really all that spectacular? According to reports, neither the Cupertino company nor PA Semi (which was purchased by the former) had anything to do with the A4 processor. Turns out that Apple’s newest baby is an ARM Cortex-A9 processor with an ARM Mali GPU, which is similar to the ones used by the Nvidia Tegra and Qualcomm Snapdragon platforms. Marketing strategies aside, the A4 chip (or shall we say ARM platform) promises to bring mobile gaming and entertainment to new heights. Let’s hope we’ll see it pop up in the next-generation iPhone and iPod touch soon.

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