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Calling it Quits?
BFG Technologies is calling it quits and pulling out of the graphics market. The US-based company was founded in 2002 and it made a name for itself flogging premium Nvidia cards.
However, BFG will still continue to offer power supplies, Deimos gaming notebooks and Phobos gaming rigs. Owners of BFG cards should not be concerned. The company will continue offering support and RMA services for all BFG cards still in circulation.
On the upside, BFG Technologies Chariman John Slevin announced that the company is working on a few new products. We wish them luck.
3TB drives?!
Seagate has officially confirmed that it will introduce a 3TB drive later this year. In a chat with Thinq, Seagate's Senior Product Manager Barbara Craig confirmed the plans and noted that getting to 3TB is not as easy as it seems.
Due to logical block addressing (LBA) limitations inherited from DOS, it is impossible to increase storage size beyond 2.1TB without introducing a new LBA standard. Seagate did just that, by extending LBA to Long LBA addressing and increasing the number of bytes used to define addresses. However, Long LBA is not supported by older operating systems, such as Windows XP. Hence, only Vista and Windows 7 users can hope to use the new drives.
This might not sound like a major issue, as most users have already migrated to more recent operating systems, but booting from the new drives is also troublesome. Most current motherboards can't cope with Long LBA due to BIOS and controller limitations. Despite this, Craig is optimistic and believes the industry will embrace the new standard by year's end.
( Man there really hasn't been much in the tech world going on lol )
New Siggy; What do you think?
BFG Technologies is calling it quits and pulling out of the graphics market. The US-based company was founded in 2002 and it made a name for itself flogging premium Nvidia cards.
However, BFG will still continue to offer power supplies, Deimos gaming notebooks and Phobos gaming rigs. Owners of BFG cards should not be concerned. The company will continue offering support and RMA services for all BFG cards still in circulation.
On the upside, BFG Technologies Chariman John Slevin announced that the company is working on a few new products. We wish them luck.
3TB drives?!
Seagate has officially confirmed that it will introduce a 3TB drive later this year. In a chat with Thinq, Seagate's Senior Product Manager Barbara Craig confirmed the plans and noted that getting to 3TB is not as easy as it seems.
Due to logical block addressing (LBA) limitations inherited from DOS, it is impossible to increase storage size beyond 2.1TB without introducing a new LBA standard. Seagate did just that, by extending LBA to Long LBA addressing and increasing the number of bytes used to define addresses. However, Long LBA is not supported by older operating systems, such as Windows XP. Hence, only Vista and Windows 7 users can hope to use the new drives.
This might not sound like a major issue, as most users have already migrated to more recent operating systems, but booting from the new drives is also troublesome. Most current motherboards can't cope with Long LBA due to BIOS and controller limitations. Despite this, Craig is optimistic and believes the industry will embrace the new standard by year's end.
( Man there really hasn't been much in the tech world going on lol )
New Siggy; What do you think?
