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ESA Conducts Mars Terraforming Experiments On ISS 181

Posted by samzenpus on Thursday February 04, 2010 @12:44PM from the give-those-people-air dept.

geegel writes "Space is a hostile environment for living things, but small organisms on the Expose-E experiment unit outside Europe's Columbus ISS laboratory module have resisted the solar UV radiation, cosmic rays, vacuum and varying temperatures for 18 months. A certain lichen seems to be particularly happy in open space."

A Hybrid Approach For SSD Speed From Your 2TB HDD 194

Posted by timothy on Wednesday February 03, 2010 @02:55PM from the bottleneck-feedback-loop dept.

Claave writes "bit-tech.net reports that SilverStone has announced a device that daisy-chains an SSD with a hard disk, with the aim of providing SSD speeds plus loads of storage space. The SilverStone HDDBoost is a hard disk caddy with an integrated storage controller, and is an easy upgrade for your PC. The device copies the 'front-end' of your hard disk to the SSD, and tells your OS to prefer the SSD when possible. SSD speeds for a 2TB storage device? Yep, sounds good to me!"

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