Photo of the day: Acer Aspire 1714SMi and ASUS S300 in our lab
Maxtor introduces SATA MaXLine III series
NEC unveils new chipset for 16x DVD recorders
Kingston announces DDR2-400/533 SDRAM DIMM for i915/925
Photo of the day: Acer Aspire 1714SMi and ASUS S300 in our lab
We are currently testing Acer Aspire 1714SMi notebook with 17" display and ASUSTek ASUS S300. Though both are notebooks, the devices are totally different!
Acer Aspire 1714SMi:
- 17" SXGA
- Pentium 4 3.4 GHz
- Intel 865
- 1 GB PC2700 SDRAM
- NVIDIA GeForce FX Go5700 128 MB
- 120 GB 3.5" (!!!) Seagate Barracuda 7200.7 HDD
- DVD Multi Matsushita DVD-RAM UJ-8205
- IEEE 802.11 g
ASUS S300:
- 8.9" 1024x600 XGA
- Pentium M ULV 1 GHz
- Intel 855
- 512 MB PC2700 SDRAM
- 80 GB HDD
- DVD Multi Matsushita DVD-RAM UJ-812
Our Nikolay Dorofeev will tell you about their benefits and drawbacks after he finishes the tests, so stay tuned!
Maxtor introduces SATA MaXLine III series
Maxtor introduced SATA MaXLine III hard drives that feature 16MB buffers. Novelties are designed for corporate systems, have MTTF of 1 million hours, support NCQ (up to 32 instructions execution to improve storage subsystem bandwidth), have 7200rpm rotation speed, up to 300GB capacities and features Maxtor MaxCommand technology that implies two processors for effective load balancing.
As for other features, they include support for Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) drives. Besides, the Serial in a Box architecture provides disk scalability for organizing data centres.
A MaXLine III drive features three plates and has 250GB or 300GB capacity. The volume production is to start next month, but drives are already available for testing. The company also plans to introduce ATA/133 at some later time.
| |
250GB |
300GB |
| ATA/133 16MB buffer |
7B250R0 |
7B300R0 |
| SATA/150, 16MB buffer |
7B250S0 |
7B300S0 |
| Plates |
3 |
| Heads |
6 |
| Sector/Block |
512 B |
| RPM |
7200 |
| Average read seek |
9.3ms |
| Track-to-Track read/write |
0.8ms |
| Recoverable read errors/bits |
<10 per 1012 |
| Unrecoverable read errors/bits |
<1 per 1015 |
| Size |
101x147x25mm |
| Weight |
630g |
NEC unveils new chipset for 16x DVD recorders
NEC unveiled a new chipset for 16x DVD±R recorders (also supports DVD±R/RW, DVD-RAM).
The chipset features µPD63635 ATAPI DSP and µPC3335 ASP that control laser and servo. Despite the high recording speed, µPD63635 and µPC3335 have energy consumption reduced by 10% (down 1W at 8x playback) due to clock generator deactivation when it´s idle. Both chips have QFP packages that allow using them in notebooks.
According to the press release, the new chipset will be used in products from Pioneer and NEC. The chipset is already sampling, volume production is to be launched this month to reach 2 million units per month by the year-end.
| Model name |
µPC3335 |
| Process |
Bi-CMOS 0.35µm |
| Voltage |
5V |
| Package |
120-pin TQFP (14x14mm) |
| Power consumption |
0.66W (8x DVD playback) |
| 0.74W 8x DVD recording) |
| Speeds |
DVD playback |
16x CAV |
| DVD-RAM playback |
4x |
| DVD recording |
16x |
| CD playback |
48x |
| CD recording |
48x |
| Other |
Lead-free |
| Model name |
µPD63635 |
| Process |
CMOS 0.15µm |
| Voltage |
1.5V core, 3.3V I/O |
| Package |
216-pin LQFP (24x24mm) |
| Power consumption |
0.35W (8x DVD playback) |
| 0.95W (8x DVD recording, LVDS) |
| Interface |
Host |
ATA/ATAPI5 |
| Buffer |
16Mbit SDRAM |
| Speeds |
DVD playback |
16x CAV |
| DVD-RAM playback |
4x |
| DVD recording |
16x |
| CD playback |
48x |
| CD recording |
48x |
| Other |
Lead-free |
Kingston announces DDR2-400/533 SDRAM DIMM for i915/925
Kingston Technology announced DDR2-400/533 SDRAM DIMM modules for the new 915G and 925X chipsets. Modules are tested in the proprietary labs and are certified by Intel 9xx chipsets.
| Model name |
Desc. |
MSRP, $ (USA only) |
| Server Registered 400-MHz DIMM (240-pin, 1.8V) |
| KVR400D2R3/512 |
512-MB 400-MHz registered ECC DDR2 DIMM |
$222.00 |
| KVR400D2R3/1G |
1-GB 400-MHz registered ECC DDR2 DIMM |
$420.00 |
| KVR400D2R3K2/1G |
1-GB 400-MHz registered ECC DDR2 (kit) |
$443.00 |
| KVR400D2R3K2/2G |
2-GB 400-MHz registered EDD DDR2 (kit) |
$840.00 |
| Desktop Unbuffered 533-MHz DIMM (240-pin, 1.8V) |
| KVR533D2N4/256 |
256-MB 533-MHz unbuffered DDR2 DIMM |
$125.00 |
| KVR533D2N4/512 |
512-MB 533-MHz unbuffered DDR2 DIMM |
$185.00 |
| KVR533D2N4K2/512 |
512-MB 533-MHz unbuffered DDR2 (kit) |
$250.00 |
| KVR533D2N4/1G |
1-GB 533-MHz unbuffered DDR2 DIMM |
$362.00 |
| KVR522D2N4K2/1G |
1-GB 533-MHz unbuffered DDR2 (kit) |
$370.00 |
| KVR533D2N4K2/2G |
2-GB 533-MHz unbuffered DDR2 (kit) |
$723.00 |
| KVR533D2E4/512 |
512-MB 533-MHz ECC unbuffered DDR2 DIMM |
$207.00 |
| KVR533D2E4/1G |
1-GB 533-MHz ECC unbuffered DDR2 DIMM |
$405.00 |
| KVR533D2E4K2/1G |
1-GB 533-MHz ECC unbuffered DDR2 (kit) |
$413.00 |
| KVR533D2E4K2/2G |
2-GB 533-MHz ECC unbuffered DDR2 (kit) |
$810.00 |
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