Crucial M550 SSD 512 GB Review

The M550 offers excellent capacity / price, but also speed. Whether for large or small files, performance is at the rendezvous. Too bad the manufacturer does not provide software for cloning data.

Crucial M550 512 GB

Swift as for large than for small files, this 2.5-inch model, perfect for ultra-thin laptops, costs only 100$ in its 128 GB version.

Crucial offers a new line of SSDs called M550. Available in mSATA formats, M.2 and 2.5 inches, it provides capacity 128 GB to 1 TB The M550 is equipped with a Marvell controller and flash memory Micron 20 nm. According to the manufacturer, it reaches speeds of 550 MB / s read and 500MB / s write.

The M550 measures just 0.7 inches thick, which allows it to be installed in the latest laptops, ultrabooks category. Good point, Crucial Book a plastic frame to wedge the traditional SSD in a notebook, with a pitch of 0.95 cm thick. Unfortunately, no program is provided to clone your system disk to the SSD.

The M550 offers excellent rates for small files
The Crucial SSD is also swift to transfer small files (pictures or audio) with speeds of 403.4 MB / s read and 364.7 MB / s write. It is also better than the Vertex 460. Finally, the M550 proved very efficient in multi-tasking environment and seamlessly manages accesses performed simultaneously by multiple programs.


Secure and protect your data
The Crucial M550 is a disk encryption with automatic controller integrates the highest encoding hardware, the disc can run at full speed without loss of performance due to the encoding software.

Features Crucial M550 512GB:

• SSD  memory  NAND Flash Micron 20nm MLC
• Capacity: 512 GB
• Height: 3.75 mm
• Transfer speeds: 550 MB / s read / 500 MB / s write
• I rate / S: 85,000 IOPS
• Interface  mSATA
• Almost instantaneous loading of files and programs
• Download large files in seconds instead of several minutes
• Energy management for increased life of your battery

The verdict

The M550 offers excellent capacity / price, but also speed. Whether for large or small files, performance is at the rendezvous. Too bad the manufacturer does not provide software cloning data.

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MOZILLA RELEASE A PHONE BASED ON THE FIREFOX OS FOR ONLY $ 25

Huge corporations engaged in production of expensive and clever smartphones. At the Mobile World Congress trade show, Mozilla announced its plans to release a budget model smartphone just $ 25.

Nonprofit organization Mozilla Foundation was created specifically for the project management of the same name Mozilla, which includes Netscape Navigator, Mozilla Application Framework and other developments. But in world wide the company is known primarily for its popular free browser Mozilla Firefox, which won the people's love and confidently takes the first lines of the charts around the world.

Since Mozilla - the organization has no right to engage in commercial activities, its role in this case is confined to certain specifications and installation providing its mobile operating system developers to iron, ie themselves directly to smartphones.

According to the news portal CNET, Mozilla has already signed a partnership agreement with the Chinese manufacturer of microchips Spreadtrum Communications, which has agreed to supply the first smartphones to markets around the world.

"We are working together with Chinese partners working to reduce the price of smartphones below the 50-dollar barrier, that was not such a simple task," - said Mozilla CTO Brendan Eyck in an interview.

These phones will not look like something that we are all used. They will be much smaller than the averages smartphones of our time, the battery will have a lower capacity and lower screen resolution than the one to which we are accustomed.

However, in countries where people can not afford to pay 200-500 dollars for smartphone handsets with Firefox OS on board for the ridiculous price of $ 25 can enjoy great popularity.

Cheetah, the fastest robot in the world

The field of robotics comes from living a revolution. For the first time, a robot could reach a speed of race superior to man. Named Cheetah robot-sprinter Usain Bolt has done better by exceeding  the 45 km / h on a treadmill.

Usain Bolt is the holder of the speed record at the Championships World Athletics Championships in Berlin in 2009. He reached a speed of 44.71 km / h on the 100m with a record time of 9.58 seconds. But the robot Cheetah was dethroned. Developed by U.S. company Boston Dynamics with the support of financial DARPA and on behalf of the Pentagon, the robot Cheetah and largely inspired by the performance of this animal has managed the feat of running to 45.54 km / h. At the moment, Cheetah has been tested on a treadmill and connected to a cable that allows it to maintain balance. But the company Boston Dynamics plans soon test a new model of its robot, the Wildcat. This new prototype will evolved outdoors and completely independently. longer term, this robot sprinter will be used by the U.S. Army during military missions, such as the robot Alphadog LS3 .

Scientists have created a bionic arm that could "feel"

The work, carried out by researchers at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne, Switzerland,  developed a bionic prosthesis human hand, which allows its owner to feel varying degrees of pressure, which are called tactile sensations, reports MIT Technology Review .

Novelty, which became a sensation in Biomechatronics, has been successfully tested Dutchman who after an accident with fireworks left without a left hand.

After implantation of the prosthesis to this man took over a month to once again feel the touch, as it was before the accident. Swiss scientists created a prosthesis not only receives signals from the brain, but also gives him the feeling that occur at different degrees of pressure.

Opportunity to relive tactile sensations appeared after the nerve endings during surgery were connected to the electrodes. Once touch sensor bionic prostheses strength to various substrates, the electrical signals received by electrodes implanted. Those are in turn influenced by the central nervous system of man.
Recall that in the United States was developed bionic prosthetic leg, which the patient experienced a rather extreme way - man walking climbed the stairs to the 103rd floor of a skyscraper.



Details of the Swiss implant are published in the journal Science Translational Medicine.

Microsoft ready to spend a lumpsum to develop Windows Phone with manufacturers

Windows Phone

There are countless billions at Microsoft! Among those invited to the dance, Samsung, Sony and Huawei may well be the best riders.
Rumors has since spread to other manufacturers: Microsoft reportedly offered huge sums to Samsung, Sony and Huawei so they released a new smarpthone Windows Phone 8 in during the year. According to blogger "influential" Eldar Murtazin, Samsung touch $ 1.2 billion, 500 million Sony and Huawei 600 million. Additional 300 million have been offered to other manufacturers of lesser importance, without being cited.

Huge numbers, which have also been quickly challenged by Frank X Shaw, director of communications at Microsoft. If one admits that his company is the "co-marketing" with manufacturers, he said nonetheless that the amounts raised by Mutarzin are totally fantastic, without giving further details. Understandably, as it seems difficult for Microsoft to detail what kind of strategy, which has ultimately nothing really shocking, as it is actually quite common in the environment.

source: NDTV

The final version of FreeBSD 10.0 is available

 final version of FreeBSD 10.0 is available

FreeBSD now has a little over 20 years and the draft party these days out in the final version of its tenth version. Used by major players in the sector (Apache Sony via Yahoo), while being in the heart of FreeNAS or been declined for the Raspberry Pi, the FreeBSD operating system is finally finished and stable 10.0 ( after a short fifteen working versions, the first alpha was published there about a year and a half).

Any release notes are compiled here to find out exactly what changes have been made ​​to the software, but complied briefly on some important changes and improvements: GCC is abandoned in favor of Clang compiler gives way to Bind DNS Unbound hand, Virtualization has been widely optimized and now supports virtio bhyve and load, TRIM is supported on SSD formatted ZFS (file format which now takes into account the LZ4 algorithm), and finally moves to the GNOME 2.22 release.

To know what are the compatible components, you can take a look at this list , and to download ISO images, it goes on the FTP server . The 10.0 version of FreeBSD will be supported for one year by the project team.

AT CES 2014, LG will teach "smart" refrigerators and vacuum cleaners to chat with the owner

LG Electronics(LG) company continues to surprise developments, laid up to CES 2014, and officially announced at the show in Las Vegas novelties are "smart" gadgets and technology fit into the popular conception of "Internet of Things". For example, the expected presentation of the next generation of home appliances with support for firm service HomeChat and famous mobile messenger LINE, which will allow owners to communicate with refrigerators and vacuum cleaners with LG’s HomeChat™ service.

LG HomeChat

In other words, users can not simply give a command such as "on" or "turn off", but in the literal sense of the word to communicate with consumer electronics through ordinary human words and expressions. For example, it is enough to say "I'm going on vacation," and your "smart" refrigerator goes into power-saving mode, the robot vacuum cleaner will get the job on a regular vacuuming. In turn, these appliances will alert you that is in the freezer, and will show the history of cleansing.

In addition, the system announced NFC-tags and "smart" diagnostic for future series of smart devices LG, which will help owners avoid unnecessary visits to the repair shop. Thus, the future we imagined for fantastic films and novels, when users interact with things, it turns out, very close.

Source: LG

Three new advanced Cyber-shot cameras from Sony

The Sony introduced three new compact digital cameras, Cyber ​​-shot , the WX three hundred, HX three hundred and TX the 30th , with many advanced and innovative features and powerful zoom .

The slim and stylish Cyber ​​-shot WX 300 is the smallest and lightest digital camera in the world with powerful optical zoom on the 20th x .

The WX300 fit in a pocket and has a very high quality lens G Lens by Sony, who handled without effort, wide-angle landscapes , portraits and cinema nearby. This feature Optical SteadyShot reduces the problems created by the hands that shake and delivers crisp images without blurring.

The stabilization is approximately two times more efficient at high zoom settings, the Cyber-shot HX20V the previous generation with zoom 20x. Furthermore, it has very fast autofocus , which is now 3.6 times faster than HX20V, at full zoom.

Thanks to the built-in Wi-Fi , you can use your smartphone as a handy wireless remote control for your camera.

You can also send photos and videos on your smartphone or tablet to see them and share them with the implementation PlayMemories Mobile from Sony. View images saved in your camera wirelessly to a TV connected to a network, or get back up photos and videos directly from Cyber-shot to your computer, the application PlayMemories Home .

Despite its small size, the Cyber-shot WX300 has a very long battery life, to pull up 500 images on a single charge, enough for a busy day when you're on the go, without the possibility of extra charge.

The powerful camera Cyber ​​-shot HX three hundred allows you to travel without having to carry extra lenses. Stands out, thanks to the excellent appearance resembling DSLR and effective in handling .

With a huge range of optical zoom 50 x - the largest on any compact camera - the lens Carl Zeiss Vario -Sonnar T * covers a wide range of possibilities shots. The protective filter T * , on the surface of the lens, reduces reflections and flare phenomenon, while the glass elements Super ED and ED reduce chromatic aberration for crisp, high-contrast images.

Featuring the recently improved function Optical SteadyShot to create your own compositions, without anxiety, and have clearer pictures, even in settings with high zoom.

Another improvement concerns the very high speed auto focus telephoto settings, which locks your subject two times faster than its predecessor, the Cyber-shot HX200V.

The Cyber ​​-shot TX on the 30th with optical zoom the 5th x is the slimmest compact digital camera in the world that is waterproof up to a depth of 10 meters . It is resistant to dust, shock and freezing temperatures, it helps also to capture the action in almost any situation with beautiful photos with great detail and smooth video Full HD .

Thanks to the new functionality available in the new Cyber-shot TCH30, the Magnifying Glass Plus , you can zoom in and have a thrilling super-enlarged view - magnified up to 15 times - from colorful fish, plants or insects. The very strong display LED camera illuminates dark scenes very clean and detailed close scenes.

All models feature advanced flash (Advanced Flash) that ejects soared sensitivity of the camera, increasing the range of the flash to appear brighter distant objects.

The technology Triluminos Colour , which exists in all new Cyber-shot models gives a rich, vibrant palette of great natural colors when viewing your photos on any compatible TV BRAVIA , with the support of technology Triluminos Display.

Models WX300 and TX30 will be available on the market since May, while the HX300 will be available from March.

Water cooling for servers reduces cooling costs up to 97%

The Datacenter require large amounts of energy to operate the server hosting and hence high costs, with a large percentage of the costs relate to the cooling needs of the systems.

Researchers at the University of Leeds have developed a liquid cooling system, which is so effective that it reduces the power consumption up to 97% !

The team replaced the air cooling system "incorporating" somehow a cooling-rack unit that hosts servers inside the unit server. Cooling is achieved by a process three stages and outside of the water used and a special refrigerant that is called on the 3rd M Novec and not conduct electricity.

The system is called Iceotope and a standard rack can hold up to 48 hot-swappable server modules. The autonomy of the system allows it to be installed in any environment, while a further advantage is that compared to the noisy air systems, the noise levels are too low.

The first system Iceotope recently installed at the University of Leeds , after two years of studies and testing prototypes.

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The Seagate drives stops producing 2.5-inch 7200 rpm

The Seagate will stop the production of hard drives 2.5 inch with rotational speed 7200 rpm, since the SSD increasingly gaining importance in portable devices, like the desktop systems.

The news was revealed by David Burks, director of marketing and product manager of Seagate Technology, who said that at the end of 2013 the company will stop producing the aforementioned models of hard drives.

The discs of 7200 revolutions per minute have another opponent: the hybrid models, which are conventional hard drives that incorporate flash memory to increase performance.

The SSD increasingly gaining importance, especially in the category of ultrabooks for which is almost one-way, while small manufacturers who want increased performance compared with conventional models but keeping costs low, prefer hybrid models.

Watch the first teaser video of the Samsung Galaxy S 4

Watch the first teaser video of the Samsung Galaxy S 4
The Samsung has just released the first teaser video for the upcoming launch of their new top smartphone Galaxy S four , which will be revealed in 10 days at an event in New York.

In the teaser starring a little boy, Jeremy in the role of " secret messenger , "which take as recipient surprise package, containing the mobile.

The young protagonist but seems to want to keep the surprise revelation of the contents of the packet itself!

Global sales of tablets jumped to 78%

Total 128.3 million units were sold, against only 72 million in 2011.

IDC notes that the increase in sales has gone with a decline in average selling prices by 15% to $ 461.

This is the computer group Apple created the tablet market in 2010 with its first iPad, which continues to dominate the market but suffered increasing competition from devices smaller and less expensive such as Amazon Kindle Fire . Apple itself had also decided last year to launch a "mini iPad" cheaper.

Despite their strong growth, tablets still represent a small proportion (10.7%) of the market for devices connected to the Internet, where the lion's share of smart phones (60.1%), according to IDC.

Adding computers and laptops, the market recorded a total last year growth of 29.1% to 1.2 billion units sold.

Scanner Brother ADS-2600W facilitates document management with wireless connectivity

The trend to integrate wireless connectivity into any device continues to persist and scanners, displays one of the latest products of Brother our market. It is a company document scanner ADS-2600W, designed to serve management and digitization of documents in any office. Its main feature is the presence of Wi-Fi module, which enables him to communicate wirelessly with smartphones and tablets and scan directly to Internet-based cloud services Dropbox, Google Docs or Evernote. Another special feature is the large touchscreen, which also facilitates scanning.

According to official information, Brother ADS-2600W is designed with thought mainly for small and medium-sized companies, where many employees share the same scanner. You can connect both in wired and wireless network in and integrate seamlessly into any existing management system documents such as Microsoft SharePoint, the company stressed. As mentioned, anyone who uses modern currently services a "cloud" may share using Dropbox, Google Docs or Evernote scanned with ADS-2600W documents worldwide regardless of geography. Alternatively you can directly scan and operate with files in your smartphone or tablet via a free app Brother - iPrint & Scan (available for installation on Apple iOS, Android and Windows 7).

The new ADS-2600W scans at speeds up to 24 cpm / / min bilaterally without compromising the scanning resolution, which is 1200 dpi. The automatic document feeder holds 50 sheets and ultrasonic sensors ensure correct application and go through the scanner paper. Supports a variety of opportunities to work with media, including that scan an A3 size, business cards, all plastics, envelopes and paper standard form by additional padding. suite of software functions ADS-2600W is also very broad and allows for example automatically stand skewed pages and remove empty ones if they exist. It certainly saves time, nerves and money when working with documents in any office.

According to official information from the Bulgarian subsidiary of Brother, scanner ADS-2600W comes with a generous free software package for Windows and Mac.

128GB Storage in new iPhone or iPad

The next iPhone or iPad may come with up to 128 gigabytes of storage

Developer @ iNeal discovered that a new beta version of iOS 6.1 contains a reference to support iOS devices with 128 gigabytes of storage capacity. It could go to the next iPhone, according to rumors, the 5S is called, or the iPad 5. But it could also be that Apple later a device with more storage on the market will bring. The biggest iPhone and iPad currently have 64 gigabytes of storage. According to the latest rumors, the new iPhone mid 2013 on the market and run on iOS 7, a new version of the mobile operating system.