July 22nd: Top Ten Best Tech Articles of the day

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Here are today’s top ten tech news that I recommend to you:

1. Intel release a new X25-M SSD with 34nm NAND flash This new Solid State Drive reduce production costs by up to 60% and bring capacities up to 320GB. Intel will also release a new firmware to support Windows 7 TRIM command and will release a tool to optimize performance under XP/Vista. This is another step toward SSDs becoming mainstream, with lower costs, greater capacity and increased support/reliability.
2. AMD is about to introduce a new flagship processor: AMD Phenom II X4 965BE 3.4GHz Now, what we all want to know is the price. This should be bring more competition to Intel’s Core i7 920.
3. Guide: Overclocking AMD and Intel CPUs on a budget Interesting article on the how and why of overclocking, which explains the performance difference and tackles the efficiency question.
4. The Ipod, as we know it, is dying An interesting analysis on Apple’s music portable players. Although I don’t agree with the author, I don’t see the Ipod dying until there’s a device that has a large capacity to replace it, as a lot of people use their Ipod to store their entire music collection.
5. Testing the latest x86 rack servers and low power server CPUs A great comparison of different server configurations, their performance, their power consumption and their efficiency.
6. Core 2 Quad, Duo and Pentium prices cuts See a comprehensive table of all the recent Intel cpus price cuts, with the old and new prices.
7. Point of view Nvidia Ion motherboard 330 review Here’s another motherboard based on Nvidia Ion, currently the best platform for a low-power HTPC in my opinion.
8. Initial thoughts on Propus, AMD’s Quad-core Athlon A great opinion on AMD’s upcoming budget quad-core cpu.
9. A storage performance retrospective The Tech Report takes four years of hard drive data to look back on storage performance over time.
10. Toward a more rational backup strategy We all know how data security and backups are important. Unfortunately, not all of us do it properly, due to a lack of time, cost or sometimes simply a lack of strategy or a lack of will.