* Posts by Peter Gibbins

4 publicly visible posts • joined 23 Oct 2007

OCZ plays its joker in the hybrid drive card game

Peter Gibbins
Mushroom

OCZ

Sounds very nice - except my OCZ SSD has just died after 6 months use. I found a HDD review site which claims ~15% failure rate on Sandforce controllers (not sure which model). This seems ridiculously high to me.

Anyway my SSD is winging it's way to the Netherlands for replacement but do I trust their drives with my data in the future?

This new hybrid seems like there are now many components which can fail - I'm seriously starting to question the value of an SSD, unless you pay for a tier 1 Intel jobbie. Good luck being an early adopter to this technology, be sure to have a decent backup procedure.

BlackBerry tablet boots from 'floppy disk OS'

Peter Gibbins
FAIL

blah blah

Yeh - but can it play Angry Birds?

Microsoft opens Xbox 360 Arcade

Peter Gibbins
Boffin

Falcon or not?

Does anybody know if this new unit contains the 'Falcon' chipset as seen inside the 360 Halo special edition version?

(Falcon is the 65nm CPU and supposedly runs cooler / quieter).

Transformers sets hi-def format sales record

Peter Gibbins
Flame

@Graham

....thank-you Barry Bleedin' Norman.