Strata and Nocti: of mSATA in OCZ SSDS

The California manufacturer OCZ will soon propose of new micro-SSD...

OCZ is preparing new series of flash drives. The Strata and Nocti are solutions to the mini-PCIe format. They are equipped with a 3 Gb/s microSATA interface and are designed around SandForce and Indilinx controllers. These solutions are 29,85 x 50.9 x 4.75 mm. The Strata architecture a Barefoot, and 30 or 60 GB of MLC flash memory. Displays sequential flow of 125 or 130 MB/s read, and 40 or 85 MB/s write. Random performance, are they of 11 or 12 000 IOPS in reading, and 750 or 1500 IOPS in writing.

The Nocti is for him based on a SF-2100, with 30, 60 or 120 GB memory flash MLC. Displays sequential respective speeds of 280 read, for 260 MB/s write (255 MB/s for the 30 GB). Random performance reach 11 500 IOPS (6000 IOPS for the 30 GB) in reading, and 32 000 IOPS write (12 500 IOPS for 30) and 60 GB. First European listings are rates located around €45-€60 for Strata and Nocti and 30 GB, €80 and €100 for the 60 GB versions, and €190 for the Nocti of 120 GB. It remains now to wait for the official launch of these micro-SSD.

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Also 4 To Hitachi!

The Japanese manufacturer Hitachi Unveils 4TB external storage via its subsidiary G-Technology.

Hitachi has announced, through its subsidiary G-Technology and in the wake of Seagate, a 4TB external storage solution. This G-DRIVE is likely to incorporate a hard disk with four trays of 1 TB. Its speed of rotation would be of 7200 revolutions per minute, which would guarantee a good level of performance. G Technology also launches a version of 8 To (with two HDD), named G-RAID (logically configured in RAID-0).

Both models have an aluminum shell, and a triple connectivity, with a 3 Gbps, a FireWire 800 port, eSATA port and a USB 2.0 port. It is unfortunately not known when and how much the Japanese manufacturer account propose these new solutions. G - Technology should also start in the fourth quarter G-RAID and G-DRIVE equipped with a Thunderbolt (10 Gb/s) interface.

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VLC in beta on Android

The video player all formats VLC prepares his arrival on Android.

It is not the VideoLan Media Player, VLC having long managed to settle as one of the best alternatives to drives pre-installed by the systems of the market (including Quicktime and Windows Media Player). A player who landed on Android, but beta version first, and on invitation.

This first beta is the result of a fairly long and problematic development, VLC being at the base written in C++ and audio libraries of Android is Java. And if the VideoLan team has not wished to communicate release date scheduled for the final version of VLC for Android, she indicated that the results could vary from one terminal to another, depending on support hardware acceleration or not.

Holders of a terminal Android, to register for the beta and hope to participate, it's here that it happens.

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The ex-PDG of Yahoo says his dismissal by phone

Carol Bartz, CEO just be thanked by Yahoo, rather poorly lived his landing.

We you announced early in the week the dismissal of the CEO of Yahoo, Carol Bartz, who was no longer the case for the Board of Directors of the Internet portal. We learned that his dismissal had been served to him by telephone. Hard. Today, Carol Bartz back at this painful time and have absolutely no hesitation in the legs of the members of the Board of Yahoo. Deemed to be a follower of the passage in force, it was - once more - uncharacteristically his words.

"You would still have had the balls to to announce me it yourself" - Carol Bartz to Roy Bostock

Interviewed by Fortune on his dismissal, she States, without detour: "these people have no floor, they have tubed me, that's all". She explains that it's Roy Bostock, Chairman of the Board who contacted him by telephone to announce his dismissal, but that instead of being human, he preferred to read a text written by a lawyer. "You would still have had the balls announce me it yourself, I thought that you would at least have this class, but not even" he would answer.

Also asked about the "true" reasons for her dismissal, she explained to Fortune that the board and shareholders expected that growth would be immediate and that profitability is the appointment after the restructuring. But it defends its results, explaining that any plan had been thought that turnover begins to rise on the year 2012. As to his successor, if Carol Bartz wish him good courage, she said bitterly: "They should think about me, remind me, me, I knew what to do for this business". And now? "I have much too much purple in my closet" prefer fun Carol Bartz, who has not taken the time to consider his career rebound.

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A 16 GB of DDR3 in Apacer module

The Apacer Taiwanese manufacturer has just announced a new DDR3 DIMM for 16 GB servers...

Apacer is to unveil a new module of RAM for servers. This bar of DDR3 offers a capacity of 16 GB. It operates at 1333 MHz, displays latencies 9-9-9 and requires a nominal voltage of 1.35 volt. This module is type LRDIMM, a technology which allows to increase capacity without increasing the load on the memory bus (Apacer mentions a reduction of 50% from a dual-rank DIMM, and 75% from a quad-rank).

However, the presence of a cache memory increases the cost. We also note the presence of a sink in aluminium (painted black). The Taiwanese manufacturer says validated its solution on the recent AMD and Intel platforms. It remains to know when and how many Apacer account start this bar.

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NVIDIA offers Batman: Arkham City

For the purchase of a GeForce GTX 5XX, Nvidia proposes to offer you one of the most expected the year end games.

Vulcans had marked the spirits with Batman: Arkham Asylum, and we are necessarily eager to discover what they have booked us with Arkham City which looks even better in all. NVIDIA informs us also that we will not necessarily need to pay to live the new adventures of the bat man, as in a promotional operation, GPU manufacturer proposes to offer the game for any purchase of a GeForce GTX Ti 560, 560, 570, 580 or 590 until November 30 in one of its partners (Amazon, Atlanpolis, CDiscount)(, Cybertek, LDLC, MagicPC, Materiel.net or Tones in Belgium).

The beneficiaries of this operation will thus receive a key to use on Steam for free download the game, which will be available as of October 21. Need be recalled that the game is fully part of the specific duties to Nvidia GeForce graphics cards such as PhysX effects and rendering 3D Vision? And with eligible cards to this promotion, there is no doubt that it will be possible to discover Arkham City in the best conditions.

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Google Books: Gallimard, Flammarion and Albin Michel resumed negotiations

Google is more sued for infringement by five large publishers, back to the negotiating table.

August had been marked by the change in attitude of two publishing houses vis-à-vis in Google Books, Hachette, and La Martinière which were favourable to a reopening of negotiations. These houses are now joined by three other big names, namely, Gallimard, Flammarion and Albin Michel, who renounce their suits against Google Books in respect of infringement for "wild" of thousands of books digitisation. It is the LivresHebdo.fr site which tells us this strategic shift, recalling that these publishing houses were claiming in Google not months of 9.8 million euros in damages and interest.

Brice Amor, legal Director, Gallimard, told AFP following these revelations: "the negotiations will now resume again where they had been suspended by Google when we had assigned him to justice". These three publishing houses have therefore responded favourably to the message by the head of Google books France, Philippe Colombet, who declared the month last will "continue to interact with the actors of Culture, to make available to users the huge French cultural heritage".

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