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TLC: Tables, Ladders & Chairs was a professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) event produced by World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE), which took place on December 13, 2009 at the AT&T Center in San Antonio, Texas. It featured talent from the Raw, SmackDown, and ECW brands. Seven matches were scheduled for the event.

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The Princess And The Frog

2010-02-13T12:44:00.000-08:00

A fairy tale about a young girl named Princess Tiana who lives in New Orleans' French Quarter during the Jazz Age.

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Sherlock Holmes (2009)

2010-02-13T12:37:00.000-08:00

Detective Sherlock Holmes and his stalwart partner Watson engage in a battle of wits and brawn with a nemesis whose plot is a threat to all of England.

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Blade: Trinity

2010-02-13T12:32:00.000-08:00

Blade, now a wanted man by the FBI, must join forces with the Nightstalkers to face his most challenging enemy yet: Dracula

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Blade

2010-02-13T12:15:00.000-08:00

A half-vampire, half-mortal man becomes a protector of the mortal race, while slaying evil vampires.

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Hellboy

2010-02-12T14:11:00.000-08:00

A demon, raised from infancy after being conjured by and rescued from the Nazis, grows up to become a defender against the forces of darkness.

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Constantine

2010-02-12T14:07:00.000-08:00

Based on the DC/Vertigo comic book Hellblazer and written by Kevin Brodbin, Mark Bomback and Frank Capello, Constantine tells the story of irreverent supernatural detective John Constantine (Keanu Reeves), who has literally been to hell and back.

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Ghost Rider

2010-02-12T14:04:00.000-08:00

Based on the Marvel character, stunt motorcyclist Johnny Blaze gives up his soul to become a hellblazing vigilante, to fight against power hungry Blackheart, the son of the devil himself.

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The Patriot

2010-02-08T12:59:00.000-08:00

Peaceful farmer Benjamin Martin is driven to lead the Colonial Militia during the American Revolution when a sadistic British officer murders his son.

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Gladiator

2010-02-08T12:56:00.000-08:00

When a Roman general is betrayed and his family murdered by a corrupt prince, he comes to Rome as a gladiator to seek revenge.

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Iron Man

2010-02-08T12:52:00.000-08:00

When wealthy industrialist Tony Stark is forced to build an armored suit after a life-threatening incident, he ultimately decides to use its technology to fight against evil.

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Wanted

2010-02-08T12:43:00.000-08:00

"Wanted" tells the tale of one apathetic nobody's transformation into an unparalleled enforcer of justice...

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Veer

2010-02-08T12:36:00.000-08:00

As the British enslave India with their devious Divide and Rule policy, kings and nawabs fall to their guile and cunning, and entrust their precious kingdom to the foreigners.

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Spider-Man 3

2010-01-31T22:47:00.000-08:00

A strange black entity from another world bonds with Peter Parker and causes inner turmoil as he contends with new villains, temptations, and revenge.

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Spider-Man 2

2010-01-31T22:44:00.001-08:00

Peter Parker is beset with troubles in his failing personal life as he battles Doctor Octavius (aka Doc Ock), a brilliant scientist with mechanical tentacles to do his bidding.

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Spider-Man 1

2010-01-31T22:40:00.000-08:00

When bitten by a genetically modified spider, a nerdy, shy, and awkward high school student gains spider-like abilities that he eventually must use to fight evil as a superhero after tragedy befalls his family.

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The Incredible Hulk

2010-01-31T22:32:00.000-08:00

Fugitive Dr. Bruce Banner must utilize the genetic accident that transforms him into a giant, rampaging hulk to stop a former soldier that purposely becomes an even more dangerous version.

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Planet Hulk

2010-01-31T22:22:00.000-08:00

Will he save their world or destroy it? When the Hulk becomes too dangerous for the Earth, the Illuminati trick Hulk into a shuttle and launch him into space to a planet where the Hulk can live in peace. Unfortunately, the Hulk's struggle to escape makes a malfunction in the shuttle causing Hulk to land on the planet Sakaar where he is sold into slavery and trained as a gladiator.

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2010-01-31T13:24:00.000-08:00

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The Spy Next Door

2010-01-24T14:52:00.000-08:00

Former CIA spy Bob Ho (Jackie Chan) takes on his toughest assignment: looking after his girlfriend's three kids, who haven't exactly warmed to their mom's beau. And when one of the youngsters accidentally downloads a top-secret formula, Bob's longtime nemesis, a Russian terrorist, pays a visit to the family.

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Legion (2010)

2010-01-24T14:44:00.000-08:00

When God loses faith in humankind, he sends his legion of angels to bring on the Apocalypse. Humanity's only hope lies in a group of strangers trapped in a desert diner with the Archangel Michael. ****NOTE: CAM VERSION - BETTER QUALITY WILL BE POSTED AS SOON AS IT IS AVAILABLE.****

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Slumdog Millionaire (2008)

2010-01-24T14:40:00.000-08:00

The story of how impoverished Indian teen Jamal Malik became a contestant on the Hindi version of "Who Wants to be A Millionaire?" -- an endeavor made without prize money in mind, rather, an effort to prove his love for his friend Latika, who is an ardent fan of the show.

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Munich (2005)

2010-01-24T14:35:00.000-08:00

Based on the true story of the Black September aftermath, about the five men chosen to eliminate the ones responsible for that fateful day.

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Lawrence of Arabia (1962)

2010-01-24T14:31:00.000-08:00

Epic rumination on a flamboyant and controversial British military figure and his conflicted loyalties during wartime service.

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Apocalypto

2010-01-24T13:56:00.000-08:00

As the Mayan kingdom faces its decline, the rulers insist the key to prosperity is to build more temples and offer human sacrifices. Jaguar Paw (Youngblood), a young man captured for sacrifice, flees to avoid his fate.

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The Devils

2010-01-22T13:36:00.000-08:00

This film focuses on an outspoken priest and a group of sexually repressed nuns in 17th-century France.

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The Cook, The Thief, His Wife & Her Lover

2010-01-22T13:32:00.000-08:00

The wife of an oafish restaurant owner becomes bored with her husband and considers an affair with a regular patron.

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Cannibal Holocaust

2010-01-22T13:16:00.000-08:00

An NYU professor discovers the true nature and intent of lost film makers, who were making a documentary on primitive cannibal tribes, when he returns from the Amazon with their footage.

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Basic Instinct

2010-01-22T13:03:00.000-08:00

A police detective is in charge of the investigation of a brutal murder, in which a beautiful and seductive woman could be involved.

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Daybreakers ( 2009 )

2010-01-17T12:53:00.000-08:00

In the year 2017, a plague has transformed most every human into vampires. Faced with a dwindling blood supply, the fractured dominant race plots their survival; meanwhile, a researcher (Hawke) works with a covert band of vamps on a way to save humankind.

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The Book of Eli

2010-01-17T12:44:00.000-08:00

The Book of Eli movie is Directed By : Albert Hughes, Allen Hughes

Starring : Denzel Washington, Gary Oldman, Mila Kunis, Ray Stevenson, Jennifer Beals, Evan Jones, Joe Pingue, Frances de la Tour, Michael Gambon, Tom Waits, Chris Browning, Richard Cetrone, Lateef Crowder, Keith Davis, Don Tai

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Bionicle: The Legend Reborn

2010-01-13T06:23:00.000-08:00

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In this ever expanding universe of heroes and villains, Mata Nui, once a great and powerful ruler, awakens to find himself in a remote, decaying wasteland of scrap parts and burnished metals. A desert junkyard. Local villages scavenge for what remains, building shelters, survival gear and ultimately arenas where they can settle their disputes. Pitting the best gladiator in each village against one another, tribes can quickly end quarrels based on the outcome of the fight. Mata Nui, in search of how to get home, quickly finds himself in the middle of one of those battles.

However, the outcome is as much of a surprise to him as it is to the villagers when he leaves the arena triumphant. As a result of his brave actions Mata Nui strikes a friendship and is asked to help fight the villagers’ real enemies the Skrall and the Bone Hunters. Mata Nui accepts, thereby delaying his own quest to find a way home. United, he and his band of gladiators and scavengers battle amongst the strange creatures and even stranger landscapes as our hero Mata Nui longs to return home to help save his enslaved people.

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3 Idiots (2009)

2010-01-07T13:28:00.000-08:00

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Aamir Khan ... Rancho
Kareena Kapoor ... Pia
Madhavan ... Farhan Qureshi
Sharman Joshi ... Hari
Boman Irani ... Viru Sahastrabudhhe
Rajeev Ravindranathan ... Ragging senior
Akhil Mishra ... Hindi Teacher
Mona Singh ... Mona
Pitobash Tripathy ... Junior 1
Aakash Dabhade ... Junior 2
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Anacondas: The Hunt for the Blood Orchid (2004) (In Urdu)

2010-01-07T13:26:00.000-08:00

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Johnny Messner ... Bill Johnson
KaDee Strickland ... Sam Rogers
Matthew Marsden ... Dr. Jack Byron
Nicholas Gonzalez ... Dr. Ben Douglas
Eugene Byrd ... Cole Burris
Karl Yune ... Tran
Salli Richardson-Whitfield ... Gail Stern
Morris Chestnut ... Gordon Mitchell
Andy Anderson ... John Livingston
Nicholas Hope ... Christina Van Dyke
Peter Curtin ... Lawyer
Denis Arndt ... CEO
Khoa Do ... Lead Lopak Hunter
Aireti ... Lopak Hunter
Andre Tandjung ... Bartender

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2010-01-07T13:08:00.000-08:00

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An epic adventure about a global cataclysm that brings an end to the world and tells of the heroic struggle of the survivors.

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Listen and Record 'RADIO' as MP3 files

2010-01-06T21:01:00.000-08:00

RarmaRadio 2.30.3
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Listen to thousands of Internet radio stations from around the world. Record multiple stations simultaneously as MP3 files. View album covers, lyrics, and station logos. Search for stations or browse by region, network, or genre. Listen to and record last.fm stations.

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Powerful Image Gallery Downloading Tool

2010-01-06T20:59:00.000-08:00

Bulk Image Downloader 3.0.0.7

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Bulk Image Downloader is a simple to use yet powerful Web gallery downloading tool. It can download full sized images from almost any thumbnailed Web gallery, bypassing all annoying pop-ups and adverts. Almost all popular image hosting sites (such as imagefap, imagevenue, flickr and imageshack) are supported. Multi page imagefap, flickr, imagereverb and Web forum galleries can be downloaded automatically. It can even handle forum attached images. Partially downloaded or invalid images are automatically retried, and image downloads are resumed where possible. It can also handle images that have had their true locations hidden via redirection sites such as user-cash and image-cash (redirected links are resolved automatically) . It integrates with Internet Explorer, Firefox, and Opera via the right click context menu for even easier downloading. BID can also download videos from sites like YouTube, Google Video, DailyMotion, MetaCafe, MegaVideo, and more, with HD video download support where available.

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Join the Best Video chat community

2010-01-06T20:56:00.000-08:00

PaltalkScene 9.8

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Paltalk's integration of video, audio and text chatting unified into one window makes for a strong chatware program that includes a wealth of features.Parental controls employ a password to change settings or block groups; adult content is hidden by default and all rooms are moderated. Add in the room ratings of G, R and A, and safe chatting is a cinch. Right-clicking a person's name gives a user-defined amount of personal information, with private room invite and file sending options. Sessions can be printed and saved, and buddy lists from other chat accounts can be automatically imported. Latest updates include screening rooms to share online vids, music feeds from Rhapsody and multiplayer games in case you get bored talking.However, the abundance of pop-up ads, which strike even while you're in the middle of joining a room, might motivate users to pay for a subscription or look elsewhere. Free accounts only can open Webcams for a few seconds, while paid users can open multiple video windows. The app crashed for us when closing, and the system slowdowns were disappointing. Uninstalling Paltalk left an icon on the desktop.Still, the thousands of rooms for politics, karaoke, tech advice, and porn mean that anybody can find a connection on Paltalk. Paltalk allows you to video chat, send IMs and join chat rooms with anyone in the world for free. Browse or search thousands of free chat rooms, or create your own. Paltalk works with AIM, Yahoo!, ICQ and MSN so you can chat with all your buddies using a single program. And with SuperIM from Paltalk, you can webcam chat - up to 10 people at once with rich video, audio and text. Now any PC or Mac user with internet access and a web browser can join Paltalk -- even if they have never downloaded video chat software of any kind before. Paltalk's rich feature set includes: *Free SuperIM - voice and video chat for up to 10 people ltaneously. *Free chat room - Every member within Paltalk is able to create their own chat room and invite anyone to join them. Top room categories include politics, karaoke, sports and religion. *A Bot-Free and Friendly Environment - Paltalk is a place for real people to connect in a friendly, trusted environment. Utilizing proprietary technology, Paltalk has created a "no-bot zone," free of chatterbots or virtual chat partners. PC-To-Phone: call phones and cell phones for low rates via Paltalk.

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Free your system Ram

2010-01-06T20:54:00.000-08:00

FreeRAM XP Pro 1.52
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Even if you're not a RAM whiz, you can still easily free up RAM on your running system? By selecting AutoFree mode and then 'go,' FreeRAM XP Pro can automatically optimize your system, balancing levels between your memory cache and the computer's speed. Those with a little more RAM know-how can specify the amount they'd like freed in the program's extensive settings menu. Remember that attempting to free up more RAM than your system can handle will subsequently slow it down. Reporting options, a slew of memory monitoring tools, and the ability to place a preset of your memory settings to the desktop are reasons to try FreeRAM XP Pro.FreeRAM XP Pro includes automatic memory monitoring and optimization; advanced tray support; fast, threaded freeing with a stop option; multiple system-metric monitors; a simple and attractive GUI; memory reporting and diagnostic logging; and real-time memory information. FreeRAM XP Pro's AutoFree feature intelligently scales how much RAM is freed with your current system status, thus optimizing RAM without slowing down your computer. Additionally, FreeRAM XP Pro's unique Global Memory Compression technology frees memory instantly in a way that is completely unlike other memory managers. FreeRAM XP Pro has been designed to be easy to use yet highly customizable by computer novices and experts alike.
Version 1.52 enables Global Memory Compression by default for all memory freeing operations (this can be disabled through the Settings); adjusts AutoFree to be slightly more conservative when freeing RAM; and fixes a minor installation bug.

How to Remove Windows XP's Messenger

2009-03-01T12:22:00.000-08:00

Theoretically, you can get rid of it (as well as a few other things). Windows 2000 power users should already be familiar with this tweak. Fire up the Windows Explorer and navigate your way to the %SYSTEMROOT% \ INF folder. What the heck is that thingy with the percentage signs? It's a variable. For most people, %SYSTEMROOT% is C:\Windows. For others, it may be E:\WinXP. Get it? Okay, on with the hack! In the INF folder, open sysoc.inf (but not before making a BACKUP copy first). Before your eyes glaze over, look for the line containing "msmsgs" in it. Near the end of that particular line, you'll notice that the word "hide" is not so hidden. Go ahead and delete "hide" (so that the flanking commas are left sitting next to one another). Save the file and close it. Now, open the Add and Remove Programs applet in the Control Panel. Click the Add / Remove Windows Components icon. You should see "Windows Messenger" in that list. Remove the checkmark from its box, and you should be set. NOTE: there are other hidden system components in that sysoc.inf file, too. Remove "hide" and the subsequent programs at your own risk.

GENERAL CLEANING TIPS

2009-03-01T12:21:00.000-08:00

You can save your computer maintenance cost if you clean your computer on the regular basis. This will improve the cooling and performance of the computer components. Your computer components could damage, if you do not keep it clean on periodically basis, because dust is the main cause to heat up your system and heat link to hardware failure.Never place your computer on the ground, always use computer table or shelf for this purpose.To clean computer case first unplugs your system power from the electrical outlet. Remove all cables and connectors from the back side of your computer.Now blow the air around all the hardware components and keeping away your blower nozzle 4 to 5 inches away from main board components. You can use vacuum cleaner also for this purpose but compressed air is the better solution to clean a system.At the end using lightly dampened cloth or spray any cleaning fluids on the computer case and use paper towel to dry it.Never clean inside computer components or other circuit board with damp or wet cloth.Always be careful to eat or drink around the computer.

Be Careful with Attachments

2009-03-01T12:20:00.000-08:00

There have been a number of really bad viruses just within the past 6 months. We've seen the W32.Beagle, W32.Netsky, MyDoom, and so on. Most of these viruses were transported or replicated from pc to pc-using email attachments. These are easy to spot if you're paying attention, simply because they are usually executable files, but not always.Some attachments contain Macros (simple programs that run within other programs, all the titles in Microsoft Office use macros). If you're not that familiar with spotting file extensions, don't worry, that's what I'm here to talk about today. If you are a little hazy on the whole "file extension" thing then let's spend a few moments explaining it.File extensions are what tell the program how to treat a particular piece of data. For example, most people are somewhat familiar with .doc or a .txt file extensions these are both text documents and when the user opens this file the Operating System looks at this extension and then knows how to open it.Hackers try to use some sort of eye-grabbing ploy to get you to open their email and activate the virus, which is always an attachment. Most Anti-virus nowadays stops, or at least warns, you of these high risk attachments and even take measures to protect you. However, on the average 10-15 new viruses are created every day and I personally wouldn't count on any program to 100% protect my pc. That's why I scrutinize any email, if I wasn't expecting an attachment, I won't open it until I had a chance to talk to the sender.Some of the more common file types used to hide viruses include:.scr - Windows Screen Saver - USE CAUTION if you receive a screen saver via email. They can contain worms or viruses.pif - DO NOT OPEN! This is most likely a virus. Clicking it will run a program or code that can mess up your computer..exe - executable file - a program that contains a virus, Trojan horse, or worm.pps - MS PowerPoint (can contain macro virus).zip - Zip (compressed) file.vbs - Visual Basic script.bat - Executable MS-DOS batch file.com - DOS executable command.asp - active server page - internet script.doc - Word document (can contain macro virus).xls - Excel file (can contain macro virus)This is in no way a complete list. Just because an attachment may have one of these extensions doesn't mean that it is a virus, but it should send up warning flags. Hackers use clever subject lines, and viruses can appear to come from a friend so keep on your toes and don't fall victim to their deceptive traps. Scan those attachments and verify with the sender before opening.

How to download the youtube videos on hard disk?

2009-03-01T12:17:00.000-08:00

Using this tip, you can easily download the youtube.com movies and save on your computer hard disk. Actually all videos are saved on youtube in flash video format, so you can simply play these videos on the website and can't save directly to your computer. But there are many tools are available in the market to download these videos on the hard disk, but here you can do this using a website. You can convert also the downloaded videos from youtube into any common video format, for example, windows media video file (wmv), windows video file (avi) and movie file (mpeg).

Follow the given steps to download videos from youtube on your computer:First open www.youtube.com then plays any your favorite video.For example, you search a video and the URL of that youtube video ishttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pVkUG6XLItcThe ID if this search is pVkUG6XLItc after equal sign. Now open a website http://youtube.navi-gate.org, now copy and paste above video ID in the search box, and press button ID search.The result may be displayed in any different language, but don't worry, just click on download button and save this video on your computer hard disk. Now use any video converter to convert it in any other common format.

Video security

2009-03-01T12:16:00.001-08:00

Webcams are being used for security purposes. Software is available allowing PC-connected cameras to watch for movement and sound, recording both when they are detected; these recordings can be saved to the computer, e-mailed or uploaded to the internet. In one well-publicised case,[6] a computer e-mailed out images as the burglar stole it, allowing the owner to give police a clear picture of the burglar's face even after the computer had been stolen.

Videoconferencing

2009-03-01T12:15:00.001-08:00

As webcam capabilities have been added to instant messaging text chat services such as AOL Instant Messenger, one-to-one live video communication over the internet has now reached millions of mainstream PC users worldwide. Increased video quality has helped webcams encroach on traditional video conferencing systems. New features such as lighting, real-time enhancements (retouching, wrinkle smoothing and vertical stretch) can make users more comfortable, further increasing popularity. Features and performance vary between programs.Videoconferencing support is included in programs including Yahoo Messenger, AOL Instant Messenger (AIM), Windows Live Messenger, Skype, iChat, Paltalk (now PaltalkScene), Ekiga , Stickam, and Camfrog.Some online video broadcasting sites have taken advantage of this technology to create internet television programs centered around two (or more) people "diavlogging" with each other from two different places. Among others, BloggingHeads.tv uses this technology to set up conversations between prominent journalists, scientists, bloggers, and philosophers.

Capacity and access speed

2009-03-01T12:11:00.000-08:00

Using rigid disks and sealing the unit allows much tighter tolerances than in a floppy disk drive. Consequently, hard disk drives can store much more data than floppy disk drives and can access and transmit it faster.A typical desktop HDD might store between 120 GB and 2 TB of data (based on US market data[10]), rotate at 5,400 to 7,200 rpm and have a media transfer rate of 1 Gbit/s or higher[citation needed]. (1 GB = 109 B; 1 Gbit/s = 109 bit/s)As of January 2009[update], the highest capacity HDDs are 2 TB [11].The fastest “enterprise” HDDs spin at 10,000 or 15,000 rpm, and can achieve sequential media transfer speeds above 1.6 Gbit/s.[12] and a sustained transfer rate up to 125 MBytes/second.[12] Drives running at 10,000 or 15,000 rpm use smaller platters to mitigate increased power requirements (due to air drag) and therefore generally have lower capacity than the highest capacity desktop drives.Mobile, i.e., laptop HDDs, which are physically smaller than their desktop and enterprise counterparts, tend to be slower and have lower capacity. A typical mobile HDD spins at 5,400 rpm, with 7,200 rpm models available for a slight price premium. Because of the smaller disks, mobile HDDs generally have lower capacity than the highest capacity desktop drives.The exponential increases in disk space and data access speeds of HDDs have enabled the commercial viability of consumer products that require large storage capacities, such as digital video recorders and digital audio players.[13] In addition, the availability of vast amounts of cheap storage has made viable a variety of web-based services with extraordinary capacity requirements, such as free-of-charge web search, web archiving and video sharing (Google, Internet Archive, YouTube, etc.).The main way to decrease access time is to increase rotational speed, thus reducing rotational delay, while the main way to increase throughput and storage capacity is to increase areal density. Based on historic trends, analysts predict a future growth in HDD bit density (and therefore capacity) of about 40% per year.[14] Access times have not kept up with throughput increases, which themselves have not kept up with growth in storage capacity.The first 3.5″ HDD marketed as able to store 1 TB was the Hitachi Deskstar 7K1000. It contains five platters at approximately 200 GB each, providing 935.5 GiB of usable space;[15] note the discrepancy between the its capacity in decimal units (1 TB = 1012 bytes) and binary units (1 TiB = 1024 GiB = 240 bytes). Hitachi has since been joined by Samsung (Samsung SpinPoint F1, which has 3 × 334 GB platters), Seagate and Western Digital in the 1 TB drive market.[16][17]As of December 2008, a single 3.5" platter is able to hold 500GB worth of data.[18]
Capacity measurements A disassembled and labeled 1997 hard drive. All major components were placed on a mirror, which created the symmetrical reflections.Capacity of a hard disk drive is usually quoted in gigabytes and terabytes. Older HDDs quoted their smaller capacities in megabytes, some of the first drives for PCs being just 5 or 10 MB.The capacity of an HDD can be calculated by multiplying the number of cylinders by the number of heads by the number of sectors by the number of bytes/sector (most commonly 512). Drives with the ATA interface and a capacity of eight gigabytes or more behave as if they were structured into 16383 cylinders, 16 heads, and 63 sectors, for compatibility with older operating systems. Unlike in the 1980s, the cylinder, head, sector (C/H/S) counts reported to the CPU by a modern ATA drive are no longer actual physical parameters since the reported numbers are constrained by historic operating-system interfaces and with zone bit recording the actual number of sectors varies by zone. Disks with SCSI interface address each sector with a unique integer number; the operating system remains ignorant of their head or cylinder count.The old C/H/S scheme has been replaced by logical block addressing. In some cases, to try to "force-fit" the C/H/S scheme to large-capacity drives, the number of heads was given as 64, although no modern drive has anywhere near 32 platters.Hard disk drive manufacturers specify disk capacity using the SI prefixes mega-, giga- and tera-, and their abbreviations M, G and T. Byte is typically abbreviated B.Most operating-system tools report capacity using the same abbreviations but actually use binary prefixes. For instance, the prefix mega-, which normally means 106 (1,000,000), in the context of data storage can mean 220 (1,048,576), which is nearly 5% more. Similar usage has been applied to prefixes of greater magnitude. This results in a discrepancy between the disk manufacturer's stated capacity and the apparent capacity of the drive when examined through most operating-system tools. The difference becomes even more noticeable for a gigabyte (7%), and again for a terabyte (9%). For a petabyte there is a 11% difference between the SI (10005) and binary (10245) definitions. For example, Microsoft Windows reports disk capacity both in decimal-based units to 12 or more significant digits and with binary-based units to three significant digits. Thus a disk specified by a disk manufacturer as a 30 GB disk might have its capacity reported by Windows 2000 both as "30,065,098,568 bytes" and "28.0 GB". The disk manufacturer used the SI definition of "giga", 109 to arrive at 30 GB; however, because Microsoft Windows, Mac OS and some Linux distributions use "gigabyte" for 1,073,741,824 bytes (230 bytes), the operating system reports capacity of the disk drive as (only) 28.0 GB.