Have you really stopped to look at your cable bill lately?

It’s hard enough when money is tight, but have the cable companies constantly raising their rates faster than inflation is just something that isn’t right.

It’s been reported in study after study after study; NO ONE watches 900 channels of anything. They watch a max of around 25 different channels and with just about every person and their brother offering VOD [video on demand] I’ve yet to understand why if I want to watch a show from the discovery channel I’ve to buy a package with 15 more channel of crap I don’t want.

Honestly, who wants to watch Spanish underwater basket weaving in French as an info-mercial? Not me.

So here’s a few things I found.

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OCZ has announced the introduction of its high-performance Z-Drive SSDs, a new line of PCI Express solid state drives which the company first showcased earlier this year at CeBIT. Available in 250GB, 500GB and 1TB capacities, the new offering comprises of up to four 256GB drives set up in a RAID 0 array and housed inside a graphics-card like enclosure, which hooks up to the system via a PCIe x4 link.

The drives are based on MLC NAND flash memory and feature a built-in 256MB cache to help speed things along. For all three models, the sustained write speed is specified at 200MB/s but maximum read and write specs vary depending on their capacity. The 500GB version, for example, is the fastest of the bunch with max read and write speeds rated at 510MB/s and 480MB/s respectively. No prices have been officially announced, but according to listings from a French online retailer, they should cost around €1400, €2200 and €3400.

via OCZ intros Z-Drive SSDs with up to 510MB/s speeds – TechSpot News.

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