Hi all! Samsung has introduced a Serial ATA II hard disk drive boasting twice the speed of SATA I hard drives. The drives, available in 80, 120 & 160GB versions run at 3GB per second (300MB data rate on the bus), spin at 7200rpm and have an 8.9 millisecond average seek time and an 8MB cache buffer. The drives also feature Native Command Queuing (NCQ) allowing the drives to multitask.
The NCQ feature has been available in SCSI based products for some time, and may be the key in prompting users to switch from SATA I to II. NCQ will allow the drive to accept a queue of commands like bringing up 5 blocks of data, and put them in the appropriate order. The drives are approximately half the cost of SCSI making them extremely price attractive as well. No doubt the technology will gradually make its way across to other manufacturers and eventually into PC's. In the last few day Apple has released iTunes 4.8. It includes new Music Store features and support for transferring contacts and calendars from your computer to your iPod (requires Mac OS X version 10.4 on your computer). If your version hasn't been updated from 'Software update' you can grab it from here: <http://www.apple.com/itunes/download/> Heard about Tiger? Well of course you have! This review talks about how interested Windows users have become about Tiger, who knows, some people may even convert :). Read the full article here: <http://www.macfixit.com/article.php?story=20050509102638753> We've had a great response to our ex university 500MHz iMac's with over half of them now gone, but we still have some with 320MB of RAM. Priced at $375, or $350 when you buy 2 or more (special price to members of the list). They represent great value as a backup system or to place anywhere in your home as an additional port. We also have the 350MHz computers in either indigo or aqua. We've reduced these to $250 including freight so get in quick as we only have a limited number of these available. For this newsletters specials, we have our 250GB Firewire drive on special at $348, and the huge 400GB at $750 - here are the links: <http://zytech.com.au/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=ZOSFAFMDS&Product_Code=EDGF258> <http://zytech.com.au/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=ZOSFAFMDS&Product_Code=EDGF408> Don't forget we can supply Filemaker products, and right now there are some special promotional deals from Filemaker. Check them out at the following link: <http://www.filemaker.com.au/promos/index.html> We've also taken $50 off on our 60GB 5400rpm Firestar drives in both Firewire and Firewire/USB formats . <http://zytech.com.au/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=ZOSFAFMDS&Product_Code=ED2F605> <http://zytech.com.au/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=ZOSFAFMDS&Product_Code=ED2C605> And, lastly, any purchase of $2000 or more (at normal prices) qualifies you for a free 256MB multifunction MP3 player with voice recording. Here's the link: <http://zytech.com.au/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Product_Code=FFPO256> Till next time. Kind regards, Greg Satti - Zytech PO Box 758 Bunbury WA 6230 Ph: (08) 9721 1125 Fx: (08) 9721 1126 Mb: 0423 558 636 The online data and technology store http://www.zytech.com.au/ If you have received this email in error or you no longer wish to receive communications from zytech, please send me an email at [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the subject line of UNSUBSCRIBE.
