July 30, 2009

WD SHIPS INDUSTRY’S FIRST 1 TB MOBILE HARD DRIVE

New Drives Offer the Highest Capacities to Date For Mobile Storage Applications and Notebooks

Kuala Lumpur †30 July 2009 - WD (NYSE: WDC) today announced two new mobile hard drives that reach new capacity extremes. The highlight is a one terabyte model †the industry’s highest-capacity 2.5-inch drive available. Industry-leading 333 GB-per-platter technology enables the new WD Scorpio® Blue™ SATA 2.5-inch hard drives to offer mobile storage device and notebook users an enormous 1 TB capacity. A 750 GB WD Scorpio Blue model also will be available.WD_WD Scorpio Blue 750GB & 1TB_A

The WD Scorpio Blue 750 GB and 1 TB hard drives have a 12.5 mm form factor[1] and are ideally suited for use in portable storage solutions, such as the newly released My Passportâ„¢ Essentialâ„¢ SE Portable USB Drives. Other applications include select notebooks and small form factor desktop PCs, where quiet and cool operation are important. Both WD Scorpio Blue drives deliver high-performance with a 3 gigabits per second (Gb/s) transfer rate.

“The convergence of the growing mobile computing and digital media trends produces demand for desktop-like capacities in portable devices,” said Margaret Koh, WD Director of Sales, Asia South. “Our new WD Scorpio Blue drives enable people to take even more of their digital collections with them wherever they go and, realizing the value of their data, back up their notebooks on their My Passport drives.”

WD Scorpio Blue hard drives offer high-performance, low power consumption and cool operation in portable applications.  They are designed with WD features to be reliable and shock resistant while also delivering industry-leading capacity and performance.

WD Scorpio Blue Features

-          WhisperDriveâ„¢ – WD’s exclusive WhisperDrive technology combines state-of-the-art seeking algorithms to produce one of the quietest 2.5-inch drives available.

-          ShockGuardâ„¢ – Leading-edge ShockGuard technology combines firmware and hardware advancements to meet the highest combined shock tolerance specifications required for mobile and notebook applications.

-          SecureParkâ„¢ – Parks the recording heads off the disk surface during spin up, spin down and when the drive is off. This ensures the recording head never touches the disk surface, resulting in improved long-term reliability due to less head wear and improved shock tolerance.

Price and Availability

WD Scorpio Blue 750 GB drives (model WD7500KEVT) are available now through select resellers; the 1 TB capacity (model WD10TEVT) is available now configured into My Passport Essential SE USB drives. The manufacturer’s suggested retail price (MSRP) for the WD Scorpio Blue 1 TB drive is RM 899.00 and for the 750 GB version is RM 689.00. WD Scorpio Blue hard drives are distributed by Achieva Technology Sdn Bhd, eSys Distribution Sdn Bhd, Genuine C & C (M) Sdn Bhd and Servex (Malaysia) Sdn Bhd. and are covered by a three-year limited warranty. More information about WD Scorpio Blue mobile hard drives may be found on the company’s Web site at http://www.wdc.com/en/products/Products.asp?DriveID=685.


[1] 750 GB and 1 TB models are 12.5 mm high and may not be compatible with all notebook systems. Consult system specifications for maximum allowable drive height before attempting to install.

About WD

WD, one of the storage industry’s pioneers and long-time leaders, provides products and services for people and organizations that collect, manage and use digital information. The company designs and produces reliable, high-performance hard drives and solid state drives that keep users’ data accessible and secure from loss. Its advanced technologies are configured into applications for client and enterprise computing, embedded systems and consumer electronics, as well as its own consumer storage and media products.

WD was founded in 1970. The company’s storage products are marketed to leading OEMs, systems manufacturers, selected resellers and retailers under the Western Digital® and WD® brand names. Visit the Investor section of the company’s Web site (www.westerndigital.com) to access a variety of financial and investor information.

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April 4, 2009

Terlupa renew domain? Awasi Cyber Squatter!!!

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Topik kali ini saya nak ulas sedikit berkenaan dengan pembaharuan nama domain. Perlu berhati-hati bila domain dah tamat dan pastikan kita ingat bila domain kita tamat. Perkara yang betul adalah renew sebelum domain tamat.
Jika dah tamat, kita perlu renew domain itu dalam tempoh 30-40 hari bagi mengelakkan kesulitan. Ini adalah penting, kerana jika tidak sama ada kita terpaksa bayar mahal untuk mendapatkan semula domain itu ataupun langsung tidak dapat semula domain apabila orang lain daftar semula domain kita itu.

Kalau domain registrar Resellerclub atau Directi biasanya 90 hari diambil untuk domain dilupuskan sepenuhnya daripada Registrar. Lain-lain registrar mungkin berlainan.

Pecahan tempoh tamat adalah seperti berikut:

Renewal Grace Period 40 Days. (biasanya harga untuk renew adalah antara RM30-RM55 bergantung kepada tempat kita beli domain)
Redemption Grace Period of 45 days. (Biasanya harga untuk dapatkan balik serta renew adalah RM300 dan mungkin lebih lagi)
Pending Delete period for 5 days. (Tidak boleh renew/retrieve domain)

Selepas tempoh ini domain boleh didaftarkan semula oleh sesiapa sahaja dalam dunia ini dan AWAS jika domain anda popular Cyber Squatter memang ramai. Siapa Cyber Squatter tu? Cyber Squatter adalah pengemis domain? Apa tu pengemis domain? Mereka ini mencari domain yang popular atau high rank, terlupa renew sampai domain di remove oleh registrar.  Daripada kita bayar RM40 untuk domain tersebut, berkemungkinan kita terpaksa bayar beribu-ribu untuk dapatkan balik DOMAIN POPULAR kita itu.

March 12, 2009

Directi, ceo dan founder rupanya dari India

resellerclubDirecti, atau lebih dikenali sebagai Resellerclub adalah salah satu registrar yang terbesar dalam dunia ni.  Beliau juga ada blog.

I am Bhavin Turakhia, Founder & CEO – Directi. This blog is my chronicle of relevant (and occasionally irrelevant) thoughts, challenges and other random musings in the meandering journey towards realizing our goals at Directi.

Directi is a 300+ million dollars group of Businesses, developing innovative mass-market Web Products, and serving millions of Customers worldwide. Some of Directi’s businesses include ResellerClub, Skenzo, LogicBoxes, WebHosting.Info, etc. Several of Directi’s Business units rank amongst the top 5 or 10 businesses worldwide in their corresponding industry segments. Directi has been ranked amongst the fastest growing technology companies in the country and continent by Deloitte and Touche consistently, for the last 3 consecutive years (2004, 2005 and 2006).

Apa kaitannya dengan kita sebenarnya? Kalau nak tahu, dalam dunia ni ada banyak registrar, Go Daddy, Tucows, ENOM, Resellerclub dan sebagainya. Jika kita beli domain dari mana-mana syarikat di Malaysia,  kebanyakannya hanyalah sebagai reseller dan akan beli dari registrar ini. Untuk menjadi Registrar perlukan modal yang banyak dan perlu memohon dengan ICANN. Registrar untuk Malaysia adalah MYNIC berhad dimana memegang pendaftaran nama domain bagi .my

March 9, 2009

Kisah sedih U mobile broadband

surf_uBuat masa ini saya sudah menggunakan U Mobile selama beberapa bulan. Apa yang boleh dikatakan talian internet dari U mobile bukanlah pada tahap yang bagus. Boleh dikatakan agak teruk kerana terlampau perlahan. Jikapun hendak laju kena surfing pukul 3-4 pagi. Pada waktu itulah baru dapat kelajuan yang boleh dianggap munasabah. Pukul 7 malam keatas adalah waktu yang paling teruk.

Masa mula-mula daftar, reseller cakap speed boleh cecah 3.6Mbps. Memang betul, tapi kalau tak stabil buat apa. Boleh dikatakan 70% kelajuan adalah tidak munasabah. Lebih perlahan dari dial-up.

Reseller cakap, boleh pakai dengan handphone. 2-3 hari lepas aktif, masih tak boleh guna internet guna handphone dan buat panggilan ke call center. Call center cakap tak boleh guna handphone. Pulak..

Disebabkan dah daftar dan malas nak terminate, saya belilah modem 3g kat lelong.com.my dengan harga RM300. Dapatlah cuba U mobile. Ingatkan mula-mula memang perlahan, tapi rupa-rupanya sampai sekarang masih perlahan. Apa yang saya terbaca, U mobile berkongsi line dengan Celcom. Agaknya sebab tu lah perlahan.

Banyak juga komen-komen negatif berkenaan U Mobile broadband. Boleh rujuk sini dan sini. Marah betul ni….

Celcom pun teruk rupanya.

Siapa pernah pakai P1? Boleh tahan juga dan reliable. Kat pejabat saya pakai ni sebagai line backup.

Siapa pernah cuma amax? Broadband baru guna WiMax.

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