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Hitachi Unveils World’s Largest Enterprise-Class Hard Disk Drive.

Hitachi Global Storage Technologies, a leading designer of hard disk drives, on Thursday unveiled the world’s first hard disk drive (HDDs) for enterprises with 15000rpm spindle speed and 450GB capacity. Hitachi believes that the new Ultrastar 15K450 drive also offers unprecedented performance.

Hitachi Ultrastar 15K450 with 450GB capacity, 16MB cache and 15K rpm spindle speed is based on four 112.5GB platters and declares average seek time of 3.6ms as well as average latency time of 2ms. The new drive will ship with either 3Gb/s Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) or 4Gb/s Fibre Channel (FC) interfaces. Hitachi declares 30% performance improvement over predecessor.

OCZ Technology Speeds Up High-Speed Liquid-Cooling Memory.

OCZ Technology, a leading producer of high-performance DRAM-based products, on Thursday unveiled the world’s first set of 2GHz memory modules that can work at rather unprecedented 2GHz clock-speed. Unfortunately, the modules do not operate at a little higher frequency of 2100MHz unveiled at CeBIT 2008 earlier this year.

Intel 6 core CPU coming soon

ZDNet has an interesting blog post asking what you might need a 6-core CPU for. Intel plans to release a 6-core processor, trumping AMD just as they release their own version of a quad core. However, how much use these extra cores will be in normal usage remains to be seen: "Simply put, the...