Showing posts with label storage. Show all posts
Showing posts with label storage. Show all posts
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Monday, September 16, 2013
SanDisk Has a Crazy Big 256GB CF Card
http://www.tomshardware.com/news/sandisk-compactflash-256gb-vpg-65-udma-7,24256.html
SanDisk launched on Thursday the "world's first" high-capacity CompactFlash card supporting the latest Video Performance Guarantee (VPG-65) specification. This card packs an impressive 256 GB of storage capacity so that professional photographers and videographers can focus on their content rather than the storage space on their device.
According to SanDisk, the 256 GB Extreme Pro CompactFlash card is optimized to capture 4K and Full HD video, hence the VPG-65 certification. The card also delivers a minimum sustained write speed of 65 MB/s and a maximum of 140 MB/s – the read speed is up to 160 MB/s. This card is also UDMA 7 enabled, the company said.
"We always design our SanDisk Extreme Pro cards with professional photographers and videographers in mind," said Susan Park, director, mobile and imaging worldwide retail product marketing, SanDisk. "Cinema-quality 4K video capture demands tremendous performance and capacity, which is exactly what we have delivered with the new 256GBSanDisk Extreme Pro CompactFlash card."
In addition to the 256 GB capacity, SanDisk also announced that the entire Extreme Pro CompactFlash line of memory cards has been refreshed with faster speeds. This family includes 16 GB, 32 GB, 64 GB and 128 GB capacity cards that now have read speeds up to 160 MB/s and write speeds up to 150 MB/s. These cards also have the same VPG-65 certification as the new 256 GB monster.
"SanDisk Extreme Pro memory cards are designed for professionals and are backed by a lifetime limited warranty," the company said. "The cards are durability tested, include RTV silicone coating inside for added protection against shock and vibration, and perform in extreme temperatures from minus 13 degrees Fahrenheit to 185 degrees Fahrenheit."
The updated cards also include a one year downloadable offer for RescuePRO media recovery software, which lets photographers recover their images in case of accidental deletion, the company said. All five cards are now shipping worldwide costing between $219.99 and a whopping $1,809.99 USD. For more information about this specific series, head here.
Tuesday, November 29, 2011
Fwd: News from Condor Storage Inc.
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Date: Nov 28, 2011 5:13 PM
Subject: News from Condor Storage Inc.
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Date: Nov 28, 2011 5:13 PM
Subject: News from Condor Storage Inc.
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Wednesday, September 07, 2011
Hitachi announces 1TB-per platter drives
From ComputerWorld:
Hitachi Global Storage Technologies Tuesday announced that it's started shipping hard disk drives that cram a terabyte of capacity onto a single spinning platter.
The new technology allows Hitachi to produce slimmer form factors.
The new single-platter technology is now shipping in the Hitachi Deskstar, Travelstar and CinemaStar lines with capacities ranging from 250GB to 1TB.
Utilizing the higher-capacity platters, Hitachi said it has produced new 3.5-in wide, .27-in (7mm) thick "z-height" drives targeted at everything from desk tops and TV set top boxes to ultra thin and light notebooks.
For the ultra-thin and light notebook market, Hitachi's Travelstar Z5K500 drives offer up to 636Gbit/sq. in. on a platter that spins at 5200RPMs.
Hitachi's new Deskstar 7K1000.D 7200rpm and 5K1000.B 5200rpm drives, which utilize a 6Gbit/sec SATA interface and a 32MB cache buffer, are designed for commercial desktops, external storage arrays and PC gaming systems.
The new Deskstar line uses CoolSpin technology to save up to 15% power over standard drives by idling down the spindle. CoolSpin technology is an optimization of motor speed to provide a balance of performance, power utilization and acoustics.
Hitachi GST's CinemaStar 7K1000.D and 5K1000.B hard drives are aimed at the market for storage-based TVs and DVRs that record, playback, surf and stream content from and to devices.
Single-disk capacities ranging from 250GB to 500GB make up about 90% of disk drive demand for consumer electronics devices. Hitachi's new CinemaStar drive family now doubles that capacity for video content.
"The areal density race continues and while having the highest capacity is appealing, reaching 1TB per platter is equally important as it serves a full range of applications and opportunities across the industry's largest market volume," said Brendan Collins, vice president of product marketing at Hitachi GST, in a statement.
Hitachi Global Storage Technologies Tuesday announced that it's started shipping hard disk drives that cram a terabyte of capacity onto a single spinning platter.
The new technology allows Hitachi to produce slimmer form factors.
The new single-platter technology is now shipping in the Hitachi Deskstar, Travelstar and CinemaStar lines with capacities ranging from 250GB to 1TB.
Utilizing the higher-capacity platters, Hitachi said it has produced new 3.5-in wide, .27-in (7mm) thick "z-height" drives targeted at everything from desk tops and TV set top boxes to ultra thin and light notebooks.
Hiatchi GST's new 'z-height' 1TB hard drive
Hitachi's new Deskstar 7K1000.D 7200rpm and 5K1000.B 5200rpm drives, which utilize a 6Gbit/sec SATA interface and a 32MB cache buffer, are designed for commercial desktops, external storage arrays and PC gaming systems.
The new Deskstar line uses CoolSpin technology to save up to 15% power over standard drives by idling down the spindle. CoolSpin technology is an optimization of motor speed to provide a balance of performance, power utilization and acoustics.
Hitachi GST's CinemaStar 7K1000.D and 5K1000.B hard drives are aimed at the market for storage-based TVs and DVRs that record, playback, surf and stream content from and to devices.
Single-disk capacities ranging from 250GB to 500GB make up about 90% of disk drive demand for consumer electronics devices. Hitachi's new CinemaStar drive family now doubles that capacity for video content.
"The areal density race continues and while having the highest capacity is appealing, reaching 1TB per platter is equally important as it serves a full range of applications and opportunities across the industry's largest market volume," said Brendan Collins, vice president of product marketing at Hitachi GST, in a statement.
Friday, September 02, 2011
Fwd: FW: ABERDEEN Petarack™ — Over a Full Petabyte of Raw Storage in a 42U Rack
This looks very cool. Just think in 10 or 20 years it will cost $100 and fit on a key ring.
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Date: Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 11:04 AM
Subject: FW: ABERDEEN Petarack™ — Over a Full Petabyte of Raw Storage in a 42U Rack
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Subject: FW: ABERDEEN Petarack™ — Over a Full Petabyte of Raw Storage in a 42U Rack
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Petarack™ — Over a Full Petabyte of Raw Storage in a 42U Rack, Under a Single Namespace. 128Bit ZFS (Zeta File System) Servers Scalable form Terabytes-to Petabyte-up to 16 Exabyte's for data & media storage. All servers and storage devices come with a 5-year warranty on all parts and labor. | |||||||
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Monday, August 22, 2011
Coming Soon: Superman’s Memory Crystals
http://www.wired.com/geekdad/2011/08/coming-soon-supermans-memory-crystals
One of the critical elements of the Superman mythos is the tacit information transfer from Jor-El to his son, despite the former having been blown to smithereens on Krypton years earlier. In the 1978 movie, the technology used is a memory crystal containing an artificial intelligence version of the late Jor-El acting as a guide to the sum of Kryptonian knowledge about the universe.
While the self-replicating properties of these crystals are still an unknown, real-life scientists are trying to unlock the data storage capabilities of glass. The process has resulted in a storage capacity of 50 GB (the equivalent of a Blu-ray Disc) on a slice of glass about the size of a mobile phone screen.
Researchers from Optoelectronics Research Centre at Southampton University have developed a technique for computer memory using lasers and glass. This glass memory, they claim, is more stable than current storage techniques for hard drive memory, offering higher resistance to temperature, moisture and time. It is also about 20 times cheaper than current techniques.
The technique uses a silver dollar-sized circle of glass as an Optical Vortex Converter to create whirlpools of polarized light. A laser cuts tiny dots — 3D pixels, or voxels — into the surface, changing the opacity of the glass and giving optical detectors something to read. Data can be written and re-written into the molecular structure of the glass, a durable material that can withstand temperatures of 1800 degrees (F). The academic paper published in Applied Physics Letters is available online (PDF).
The ORC scientists who developed the technique and published their research are working with Altechna to bring the tech to market. As vortex drives work their way toward shelves at Best Buy, companies and institutions with large archives (like museums) can dream about eliminating the data protection cycles that force replacements of hard drives every 5-10 years.
I’m suddenly picturing my drawers of old Zip drives and CDs being replaced by a penholder filled with thin data rods containing all of our family photos, videos and media collection. When that happens, some company better make a memory crystal that glows green automatically when my child comes of age.
One of the critical elements of the Superman mythos is the tacit information transfer from Jor-El to his son, despite the former having been blown to smithereens on Krypton years earlier. In the 1978 movie, the technology used is a memory crystal containing an artificial intelligence version of the late Jor-El acting as a guide to the sum of Kryptonian knowledge about the universe.
While the self-replicating properties of these crystals are still an unknown, real-life scientists are trying to unlock the data storage capabilities of glass. The process has resulted in a storage capacity of 50 GB (the equivalent of a Blu-ray Disc) on a slice of glass about the size of a mobile phone screen.
Researchers from Optoelectronics Research Centre at Southampton University have developed a technique for computer memory using lasers and glass. This glass memory, they claim, is more stable than current storage techniques for hard drive memory, offering higher resistance to temperature, moisture and time. It is also about 20 times cheaper than current techniques.
The technique uses a silver dollar-sized circle of glass as an Optical Vortex Converter to create whirlpools of polarized light. A laser cuts tiny dots — 3D pixels, or voxels — into the surface, changing the opacity of the glass and giving optical detectors something to read. Data can be written and re-written into the molecular structure of the glass, a durable material that can withstand temperatures of 1800 degrees (F). The academic paper published in Applied Physics Letters is available online (PDF).
The ORC scientists who developed the technique and published their research are working with Altechna to bring the tech to market. As vortex drives work their way toward shelves at Best Buy, companies and institutions with large archives (like museums) can dream about eliminating the data protection cycles that force replacements of hard drives every 5-10 years.
I’m suddenly picturing my drawers of old Zip drives and CDs being replaced by a penholder filled with thin data rods containing all of our family photos, videos and media collection. When that happens, some company better make a memory crystal that glows green automatically when my child comes of age.
Tuesday, August 09, 2011
Start Up Claims Immortality For Data With Stone Like Disc
Start-up to release 'stone-like' optical disc that lasts forever
New optical disc aims for consumer market first, then corporate archives
http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9218881/Start_up_to_release_stone_like_optical_disc_that_lasts_forever
http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/08/08/2222208/Start-Up-Claims-Immortality-For-Data-With-Stone-Like-Disc
This is something long overdue. We don't have any recording media with a life span more then a few decades at best.
The horror stories of old films and magnetic tape recordings has been told over and over.
I personally experienced trying to recover data off 9 track tape and having the glue get gummy and the take stick to the recording head.
Even CD's and blue ray don't have much of a life span.
Any long term medium should be non-conductive, to protect against EMP.
UV resistant so not degrade in sun light,
Survive temperature extremes.
Be mechanically sturdy so it doesn't break
Resistant to long term water / moisture and microbial growth.
Resistant to long term exposure to low intensity radiation. (natural background, and radon and other sources)
Plastics and other hydrocarbons like epoxy absorb moisture and break down with UV and microbial action.
Even Glass may possibly deform over 100's of years as it's a semi-liquid.
http://www.desy.de/user/projects/Physics/General/Glass/glass.html
This leaves only a few things that could work.
Silicon Carbide, Diamond and other hard crystals are probably the best bet.
Maybe graphene, nanotubes or other carbon forms.
Start-up Millenniata and Hitachi-LG Data Storage plan to soon release a new optical disc and read/write player that will store movies, photos or any other data forever. The data can be accessed using any current DVD or Blu-ray player.
Millenniata calls the product the M-Disc, and the company claims you can dip it in liquid nitrogen and then boiling water without harming it. It also has a U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) study backing up the resiliency of its product compared to other leading optical disc competitors.
Millenniata CEO Scott Shumway would not disclose what material is used to produce the optical discs, referring to it only as a "natural" substance that is "stone-like."
http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/08/08/2222208/Start-Up-Claims-Immortality-For-Data-With-Stone-Like-Disc
This is something long overdue. We don't have any recording media with a life span more then a few decades at best.
The horror stories of old films and magnetic tape recordings has been told over and over.
I personally experienced trying to recover data off 9 track tape and having the glue get gummy and the take stick to the recording head.
Even CD's and blue ray don't have much of a life span.
Any long term medium should be non-conductive, to protect against EMP.
UV resistant so not degrade in sun light,
Survive temperature extremes.
Be mechanically sturdy so it doesn't break
Resistant to long term water / moisture and microbial growth.
Resistant to long term exposure to low intensity radiation. (natural background, and radon and other sources)
Plastics and other hydrocarbons like epoxy absorb moisture and break down with UV and microbial action.
Even Glass may possibly deform over 100's of years as it's a semi-liquid.
http://www.desy.de/user/projects/Physics/General/Glass/glass.html
This leaves only a few things that could work.
Silicon Carbide, Diamond and other hard crystals are probably the best bet.
Maybe graphene, nanotubes or other carbon forms.
Tuesday, May 18, 2010
Seagate confirms 3TB drive
Seagate’s senior product manager Barbara Craig has confirmed “we are announcing a 3TB drive later this year,” but the move to 3TB of storage space apparently involves a lot more work than simply upping the areal density.
To get past this you need UEFI, 64-bit OS and new partition table
http://www.thinq.co.uk/news/2010/5/17/exclusive-seagate-confirms-3tb-drive/
The ancient foundations of the PC’s three-decade legacy has once again reared its DOS-era head, revealing that many of today’s PCs are simply incapable of coping with hard drives that have a larger capacity than 2.1TB.
To get past this you need UEFI, 64-bit OS and new partition table
http://www.thinq.co.uk/news/2010/5/17/exclusive-seagate-confirms-3tb-drive/
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