Hi all, Its just amazing how quickly this year is going, and with a tsunami of new technology and products expected, our heads will be kept spinning all year. Congratualtions by the way to Ken from Seven Hills who was our latest newsletter winner for February.
Storage solutions are conintuing to be a growth area with the prevalence of digital audio and video, and to help with our appetite Seagate will be releasing a 160G-byte Portable Hard Drive that weighs less than half a kilo. It is expected to cost around $500 when it goes on sale. The new drive is based on an emerging technology called perpendicular recording. You may recall we discussed this emerging technology in one of our earlier newsletters. Just to refresh, older drives store data by lining up bits on a flat drive from end to end, but perpendicular recording stacks bits of information vertically. This frees up more space on the drive for data, and will allow hard-drive makers to continue pushing the boundaries of storage capacity. And now for a bit of visual stimulation - this could be the future of the way in which we interact with our screens. Being very reminiscent of the minority report, check this out: <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zp-y3ZNaCqs> With our quest for higher and higher speeds, IBM have found a method of boosting retrieval and sharing of information by as much as 600%. 'Project Fastball' used the combination of the compute power of ASC Purple, the massive IBM-designed Blue Gene supercomputer at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories in Livermore, Calif., and IBM's General Parallel File System (GPFS) software.The combination demonstrated more than 102GB per second of sustained read-and-write performance on a single file, which is more than a 600 percent jump in the speed of data, said Chris Maher, development director for HPC development at IBM. The GPFS software was used to manage the flow of information between the thousands of processors and disk storage devices in the supercomputer. The project used 104 Power-based eServer p575 nodes and 416 storage controllers. The project resulted in a file system of 1.6 petabytes, one of the largest in the world. The performance of the file was maintained as more than 1,000 clients pushed workloads into the file. The speed equated to the downloading of 25,000 songs in a second. Read more here: <http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1935980,00.asp> And now to some specials and some new items: New from MacPower, the IceCube Super S-Combo which combines the popular interfaces of FireWire 400, 800 & USB 2.0 with SATA. Housing SATA drives, these enclosures will be able to boost your transfers of data. The enclosures are featured here and priced at $204 <http://zytech.com.au/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=ZOSFAFMDS&Product_Code=ENGS> And of course we have them with drives as well, along with our other types of enclosure, many of which are on special - see <http://zytech.com.au/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Screen=CTGY&Category_Code=ED35FCG2> We are currently doing a special on a number of our flash drives, and in addition we are offering free printing of your logos on any flash drive order of 50 or more. Check out our new 'wrist band' flash drives as well - see: <http://zytech.com.au/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Screen=CTGY&Category_Code=FM> Lastly, Pioneers have some amazing specials on thier Plasma displays. Manufacturers of Plasmas are being abosultely cut throat at the moment, so the consumer wins. The ones featured here are High Definition ones. You'll get a great brand for the same price that you would normally pay for a low resolution model. Have a look at the 42" and the 50" models here: <http://zytech.com.au/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Product_Code=AVP50FXE10> 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.
