2006 May 12

Word on the street says that new perpendicular hard drives are changing the way we store data. From bigger capacities at lower cost-per-gigabyte, to better data integrity, to improved drive performace, perpendicular hard drives are the next wave in data storage. At the eFocus event outside E3, Seagate showed off their new 750 GB drive, which takes advantage of perpendicular data writing. Chris talked with Matthew Hull of Seagate about perpendicular storage to find out…

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Word on the street says that new perpendicular hard drives are changing the way we store data. From bigger capacities at lower cost-per-gigabyte, to better data integrity, to improved drive performace, perpendicular hard drives are the next wave in data storage. At the eFocus event outside E3, Seagate showed off their new 750 GB drive, which takes advantage of perpendicular data writing. Chris talked with Matthew Hull of Seagate about perpendicular storage to find out how it works and what makes it better than the horizontal storage we’ve used for most of the evolution of the hard drive.

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All network traffic doesn’t deserve the same priority. You want your business emails to get through. VoIP calls can’t lag. And online gaming traffic certainly shouldn’t suffer simply because someone else in the house is downloading something from a torrent. You can manually prioritize certain kinds of network traffic, but it gets confusing and requires some background in network routing. Linksys decided to take the complexity out of increased quality of service for specific traffic…

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All network traffic doesn’t deserve the same priority. You want your business emails to get through. VoIP calls can’t lag. And online gaming traffic certainly shouldn’t suffer simply because someone else in the house is downloading something from a torrent. You can manually prioritize certain kinds of network traffic, but it gets confusing and requires some background in network routing. Linksys decided to take the complexity out of increased quality of service for specific traffic by releasing their OGV200 Network Optimizer, which sits between your cable modem and router to make sure both gaming and voice packets get priority over everything else. You don’t need a Cisco certification to make it work. Just plug in the appropriate cables and start reducing game lag or optimizing call quality. At eFocus outside E3, Chris talked with Bijan Yaminafshar on Linksys about the Network Optimizer, how it works and how both gaming and voice quality is improved.

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