In a time when marketing is all around us, companies often have to come up with new and creative ways to get us excited. Some go the viral route, others hire famous spokes people. Samsung did well with this idea. Let some computer geeks build something awesome and have fun with it. They chained 24 drives together to create a whopping 6Terrabyte array. They run various speed tests and even test the … [Read more...]
Sony Vaio UX 64GB solid state upgrade
December 16, 2008 By 24 Comments
This Sony Vaio UX50 came with a 30GB hard drive from the factory. This hacker wanted to do an upgrade and move to solid state, so he started hacking away. He ended up with a total of 64GB of solid state storage crammed into the computer. The hard drive was replaced with a 4GB compact flash drive and the rest is spread through out the device. Apparently any crevice or crack in the Sony UX50 can … [Read more...]
ShmooCon registration opens
November 1, 2008 By Leave a Comment
November 1st means that registration for ShmooCon 2009 has opened. The DC hacker convention is entering the fifth year. They're releasing the tickets in blocks; after today's are gone the next won't be available till December 1st. Today is also the closing of first round consideration for their call for papers, but you still have another month before the final deadline. We've always enjoyed our … [Read more...]
iPhone screengrab issues
September 13, 2008 By 8 Comments
This is unfortunately another story we missed out on while we were trying to keep things from burning down. We told you that [Jonathan Zdziarski] was going to demonstrate iPhone lock code bypassing in a webcast. The real surprise came when he pointed out that the iPhone takes a screenshot every time you use the home button. It does this so it can do the scaling animation. The image files are … [Read more...]
Acer Aspire One hard drive upgrade
August 16, 2008 By 9 Comments
As promised, [tnkgrl] has published part two of Acer Aspire One upgrade. In part one she added Bluetooth and more RAM. This time around she focuses on the storage. The subnotebook comes from the factory with an 8GB SSD. The flash based storage readily unplugs from a small ZIF connector. [tnkgrl] replaced it with a 60GB PATA Samsung drive salvaged from an iPod. It's a 1.8inch disk and is only 5mm … [Read more...]
SSD hard drives tank laptop battery life
July 1, 2008 By 16 Comments
Tom's Hardware has been running some tests to challenge the common assumption that SSD hard drives use power more efficiently than magnetic plate drives. Their results were quite definitive: not only are they not as energy efficient, SSDs actually use more power than conventional hard drives. What they found is that most plate drives are at peak consumption (up to 4W) when accessing files … [Read more...]
Erase an iPhone properly
May 20, 2008 By 14 Comments
A fundamental problem with flash memory has just gone mainstream. A detective successfully recovered data from a refurbished iPhone purchased from Apple. Flash memory controllers write to blocks randomly so using standard secure erase techniques are no guarantee that all of the storage space will be written. [Rich Mogull] has posted a method that should wipe out almost all remnants of your … [Read more...]
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