Via Microsoft.com:
REDMOND, Wash. — July 22, 2009 — Microsoft Corp. today announced the release to manufacturing (RTM) of Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2, the next versions of its flagship desktop and server operating systems. With the completion of this development phase, industry partners are readying products in time for the Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 worldwide general launches. Windows 7 will be generally available to customers around the world on October 22, and Windows Server 2008 R2 will be generally available on or before that date. As always, current customers of the Windows Volume Licensing program, Microsoft Developer Network (MSDN) subscribers and TechNet subscribers will be among the first to get customer access to Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 in the coming weeks.
Solid State Drives
From everything I've heard, solid state drives are a giant leap forward when it comes to hard drive performance. With that in mind, I bring good tidings via Ars Technica:
Intel has announced two new solid state disk drives made on its leading-edge 34nm process. The two new SSDs are X25M SATA parts weighing in at 80GB and 160GB, and they're meant to replace Intel's existing X25M drives in those capacities, but at 60 percent less cost and with better performance. The 80GB X25-M is $225 in lots of 1,000 (down from $595), and the 160GB is $440 (from $945). That's some serious discounting, and it may well drive even more SSD uptake in the coming quarters despite the ongoing IT spending crunch.
So what do you get for 60 percent less? In a word, speed. The new drives boast a 25 percent reduction in read latency, which was already about 60x the speed of an average hard disk; write performance has also doubled with this new generation.
3 comments:
on SSD drives. the 80 gb intel drives i guess, based on all the reading i've done about them are rediculously fast, even in comparison to other SSD drives. the "M" series is very expensive but the speed is phenomenal.
If you can't cough up the money for the intel SSD, the OCZ is the next best thing, but I guess now that the price is dropping - if the performance is the same, the intel drives cannot be beaten.
as far as speed compairsons, there really is no compairison in hard drives out there...the difference is that significant.
Microsoft Quality comment...
yeah, well...Games for Windows Live still really really sucks.
yes. I'm bitter.
"yeah, well...Games for Windows Live still really really sucks.
Yes, I'm bitter."
And you knew this and you bought it anyway.
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