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'Zilla,

thanks for the clarification on that. ;) Like I noted, 'tis the faintest twinkle of a notion in my mind.

cheers,

Dave

'Zilla,

thanks for the clarification on that. ;) Like I noted, 'tis the faintest twinkle of a notion in my mind.

cheers,

Dave

Diwakar,

thanks for the response....I really only meant this post to be a reallllllly high level overview. If you want me to dive into the more granular details, I can.

let me know what you want to know more about and I'm happy to give it a go. ;)

dave

Diwakar,

thanks for the response....I really only meant this post to be a reallllllly high level overview. If you want me to dive into the more granular details, I can.

let me know what you want to know more about and I'm happy to give it a go. ;)

dave

Thanks, Chris. :) How's TotalTec treating you these days? ready to come over to the dark side?

Gary!

thanks for the kind words. To respond directly, I'm basing my response to Seagate on the fact that with the emergence of any sort of "new" technology, there always seems to be the requisite "well, you infringed on my patent" comments from the peanut gallery. I'd cite Rambus vs. the DRAM syndicate as an example, but, they were a bit more devious about the whole deal. You could, of course, refer to this phenomena as the "Apple Syndrome" seeing as how this is really noticable when Apple decides to release a new product; a whole bunch of "I did this first" suits are filed and, well, summarily dismissed.

Further, I REALLY dislike the tendency for corporate entities to "sue first, talk later." It seems that the first words out of ANYONE'S mouth are "Well, we are exploring our legal options." I'm a strong believer of patent aging, a process that is already instituted in Pharmacology today. You have XX years for primary patent holding and subsequently, your core patent is allowed to be actioned on by competitors. This, in my opinion, would breed a more fully developed and challenging storage scape where innovation could be more readily fostered.

What do you think? (I swear I'm repeating myself somewhere in these previous paragraphs...call it early morning fog or whatever. ;) )

cheers,

Dave

Gary!

thanks for the kind words. To respond directly, I'm basing my response to Seagate on the fact that with the emergence of any sort of "new" technology, there always seems to be the requisite "well, you infringed on my patent" comments from the peanut gallery. I'd cite Rambus vs. the DRAM syndicate as an example, but, they were a bit more devious about the whole deal. You could, of course, refer to this phenomena as the "Apple Syndrome" seeing as how this is really noticable when Apple decides to release a new product; a whole bunch of "I did this first" suits are filed and, well, summarily dismissed.

Further, I REALLY dislike the tendency for corporate entities to "sue first, talk later." It seems that the first words out of ANYONE'S mouth are "Well, we are exploring our legal options." I'm a strong believer of patent aging, a process that is already instituted in Pharmacology today. You have XX years for primary patent holding and subsequently, your core patent is allowed to be actioned on by competitors. This, in my opinion, would breed a more fully developed and challenging storage scape where innovation could be more readily fostered.

What do you think? (I swear I'm repeating myself somewhere in these previous paragraphs...call it early morning fog or whatever. ;) )

cheers,

Dave

Steve,

funny thing is, nVidia already includes very remedial TOE capabilities on its shipping chipsets for both Intel and AMD platforms. It can be managed through a webbrowser and, in most cases, is somewhat effectual. will better TOEs be integrated? of course they will as the cost of the technology (for integration and design) comes down.

cheers,


dave

Clark,

glad to be aboard!!! I'm sure we're going to have some fun chatting in the future. :)

You can always email me through this site ( last/first name @ EMC com)

cheers,

dave

Clark,

glad to be aboard!!! I'm sure we're going to have some fun chatting in the future. :)

You can always email me through this site ( last/first name @ EMC com)

cheers,

dave

As long as the diversions don't take away from the services i provide my customers, then....BRING 'EM ON! :)

As long as the diversions don't take away from the services i provide my customers, then....BRING 'EM ON! :)

Stephen,

definitely interesting points on the power consumption end. I'm curious to see the positioning of SSDs versus the 2.5" Enterprise drive push we're seeing from Seagate, et al. right now. Obviously, capacities are somewhat limited on the 2.5" drives, but slowly, capacity parity is being reached (250GB SATA drives were announced by Hitachi and Fujitsu recently). Obviously, 10k/15k spindle units will have more power draw than the 7.2K SATA units but, i suspect, when the I/O per watt breakdown is considered, these drives might be more efficient than SSDs.

cheers,

Dave

oh, a tertiary point (Gosh, I wish there was an edit button) to your article.

SSDs also consume dramatically less power per I/O than convential disk (obviously) and with power being a continual focus at EMC and other companies, it does play very handily into that message.

and for the novelty side of things, may i present the Gigabyte Go-Ramdisk-box? (http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=7563).

cheers,

Dave

Steve, longtime reader here and finally got around to registering.

Just a couple of quick notes. Adtron actually debuted their SSD solutions before PQI and SanDisk (http://www.dailytech.com/Adtron+Announces+160GB...) with PQI stating they were going to bring 256GB devices to the market. It's all marketing, for sure, as channel availability is absolutely abysmal and cost factors per GB are exhorbitantly high.

Also during the past couple of years, I was fortunate enough to have Van Smith (VIA EPIA platform engineer) provide a FileCopy utility that allowed me to generate scalable file size (text) and do as many reads/writes from source to target as possible. It's a great tool for judging the longevity of SSD devices (or NAND in general).

Anyhow, thought those were interesting side points! Keep up the good work!

cheers,

Dave