2007 January Archive at Atsutane Dot Net - In Every Life, There Is A Drama

Monthly Archive for January, 2007

Future Hard Disk, Solid State Drive (SSD)

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Future Hard Disk, Solid State Drive (SSD)

SanDisk Corporation today introduced a 32-gigabyte (GB), 1.8-inch solid state drive (SSD) as a drop-in replacement for the standard mechanical hard disk drive. Initially aimed at enterprise users as the first step toward mass consumer adoption, SanDisk SSD offers field-proven durability to keep mobile PCs working in the toughest of conditions and improves the overall user experience.

Previously, large capacity flash-based drives had been used primarily by the military, aerospace and telecom industries, which demanded high performance and reliability under challenging environmental conditions. But now the declining cost of NAND flash memory has made SSD a viable and economically attractive alternative to existing technologies in a wider variety of applications, including mobile PCs aimed at enterprise and consumer users.

Via Lowyat.NET

Round the Clock Works to Repair the Damaged Cables in Taiwan

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At this point we know that at least eight (8) major cables have been damaged caused by the earthquake. These are:

APCN – Asia Pacific Cable Network – 10 Gbps
APCN2 (2 faults) – 160 Gbps (maximum 2.56 Tbps)
FNAL (2 faults) – FLAG North Asia Loop – 160 Gbps (maximum 2.4 Tbps)
FEA – FLAG Europe Asia – 10 Gbps
China-US (2 faults) – 80 Gbps
EAC (4 faults) – East Asia Crossing – 120 Gbps
SMW3 (2 faults) – South East Asia-Middle East-Western Europe – 70 Gbps
C2C (3 faults) – 160 Gbps (maximum 7.68 Tbps)

(Gbps = gigabits per second, Tbps = terabits per second)

Many ships are involved in the restoration works. The estimated dates to restore differ for different cables starting from 7 January 2007. So far the best estimate for a complete restoration of the damaged cables is mid February 2007.

Via Jaring.my