Posted on 03/04/2009 2:46:22 PM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach
LAS VEGAS, NV--(Marketwire - January 8, 2009) - CES booth 72440/Sands -- pureSilicon Inc. is demonstrating the highest-density SSD available today: the 1TB Nitro Series. This represents a major advance for the storage industry since it combines maximum density with high performance and low power demand. Four of these drives deliver 4TB in the same space as a standard 3.5-inch HDD, so server footprint requirements and energy consumption in data-intensive applications can be considerably reduced.
The 1TB Nitro SSD is the most compact SSD per gigabyte: 15.40GB per cubic centimeter in a 2.5-inch form-factor -- at least three times greater than any other SSD on the market. This high density in a small form factor has been achieved through innovative engineering techniques coupled with advanced industrial design that yields an exceptionally thin enclosure.
This Nitro line of high-performance solid-state drives is designed for applications where data throughput and power consumption are paramount: server, networking, datacenter, supercomputing, and professional media. These applications require fast transfer speeds and involve the storage of massive amounts of data. pureSilicon has benchmarked these drives at speeds approaching the maximum bus speed of SATA II (300 MB/s).
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Asus soups up Lamborghini laptop with 1TB SSD
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The Asus Lamborghini VX5 laptop comes with an LCD cover designed to remind users of the Lamborghini Reventon sports car's aluminum-alloy fuselage.
Its piano-painted mirror surface is also supposed to mimic the car's finish. The notebook comes with a 1TB SSD from pureSilicon Inc., which launched the compact flash-memory drive in January.
Yawn. Let me know when the bus bandwidth reaches 1GB. Then we’ll talk. Same with GPU’s; the BW needs to be faster. Fiber-optic anyone?
I remember when a Gig took an entire computer room. I now have more computing power and storage in my PDA than on my 1st Mainframe — 1 MB of of virtual core memory and we were happy to have it!
And we had to push the bits uphill — to AND from the terminals! ASCII? I barely knew ye!! We had to use EBCDIC — and we liked it! COBOL that had to do their own memory segmentation? You betcha. Hot chick graphics? Character based — and we liked it!
*grumble* spoilt whippersnappers.
I remember when a 2314 was the best thing that had ever happened to me.
>>I remember when a 2314 was the best thing that had ever happened to me.
HOLY CRAP — 2314 DASF??
I was moanin’ about 3350 DDs. Dang, think you could put together an Autocoder “Hello World” program?
I helped an SE debug a paper tape loader using CCW’s one time and I wrote my own memory swapping routines on an S-100, but you were there for the birth of Random Access.
I bow in your general direction and hand my Hollerith Pinball Crown to you.. :)
Never got to work with paper tape much other than being around them in a DEC shop for a short period but you'll enjoy this; we were early with ATM machines (offline of course) and they'd create a paper tape of each transaction. We'd collect the tapes, run them through a TI mini-something and that'd print out coupons with MICR encoding. Talk about the bad old days.
You can keep the crown, these days I'm lucky if I can code my name....
>>You can keep the crown, these days I’m lucky if I can code my name.
Nope — I couldn’t write a COBOL-68 segmentation procedure if you put a gun to my head.
Yeah, them 3350’s beat the heck out of the drums and 3330’s. But we was programming on the card-punches (we were poor that way — this rich sites coded on coding forms and had keypunch operators to actually do the card punches).
But I had a friend whose first job was running inside the Truly Old School mainframes and replacing the vacuum tubes when they blew. His first language was, indeed, Autocoder.
We touch back to the prior generation, who touvh back to the origins.
But, in the same way kids today don’t know R&R roots and we did (ask about Buddy Holly and his importance to anyone younger than 45), people today don’t know what built the Internet and modern computing.
Hey,...I want a shot at that....I remember this:
IBM 1405 Disk Storage
The IBM 1405 Disk Storage of 1960 used improved technology to double the tracks per inch and bits per inch of track -- to achieve a fourfold increase in capacity -- compared to the IBM RAMAC disk file of 1956.
Storage units were available in 25-disk and 50-disk models, for a storage capacity of 10 million and 20 million characters, respectively. Recording density was 220 bits per inch (40 tracks per inch) and the head-to-disk spacing was 650 microinches. The disks rotated at 1800 rpm. Data were read or written at a rate of 17.5K bytes a second.
The 1405 was used in conjunction with the IBM 1410 Data Processing System. Each 1410 was capable of controlling up to five of the 1405s, for a total of 100 million characters. In addition, a single 1405 of either model could be attached to an IBM 1401 Data Processing System. The 1405 was reported to have been used with the "Walnut" information retrieval system of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency in the 1960s. According to published reports, Walnut was the first mechanized system that could store and search millions of pages of documents.
fyi
20th century disk storage chronology...IBM
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So, basically, it can now make a single drive that holds over one percent of its total shipped storage as of the last article in 2008. Amazing.
Remeber the 407 Accounting Machines, with those big plugboards full of jumpers?
Oops, misread that. That's well up into Petabyte territory. What comes after a Petabyte?
ASUS is going to use this in a new High end Laptop
That’d make one helluva SD card.
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