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SSDs in TV
Editor:-
November 21, 2011 - An article
in TVTechnology.com discusses the state of play for SSDs in the tv
industry.
Unfortunately one of the statements in the article - about
the readiness of SSDs for the enterprise market is
historically
incorrect in suggesting that consumer SSDs came first. I'd like to know which
consumers were spending $40K for an entry level SSD back in the 1990s?
Nevertheless the article shows what some people in the tv equipment market are
thinking.
AMP launches CineDrive
Editor:- June 29, 2011 - AMP launched the
CineDrive
a low power, rugged 2.5" SATA SSD optimized for the video recording
industry.
the future of data storage
Editor:- January 23, 2011
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the
future of data storage is the lofty sounding but aptly chosen title of a
new article published online today in Broadcast Engineering -
written by Zsolt
Kerekes editor of StorageSearch.com
(that's me).
It's a completely new article which synthesizes and
integrates concepts from several futuristic articles which have already
appeared here on the mouse site and wraps them into a cohesive whole. Anyone
who reads it will get a clear idea of where the incremental changes they read
about in storage news pages (like this one) are likely to end up. ...read
the article
Who Needs Smart TV?
Editor:- January 13, 2011 -
Who
Needs Smart TV? is the subject of a new blog by Michell Prunty at
Semico Research.
SSDs cheaper than HDDs in some new DVRs
Editor:-
September 9, 2010 - SanDisk
today
announced
that NDS (a tv set top box designer
with with over 30 million DVR units deployed) has successfully has designed
SanDisk SSDs into a new range of lower cost set-top DVRs.
The new solution allows for the deployment of energy-efficient
STBs with decreased power consumption, small form factors and virtually silent
operation.
SanDisk says its SanDisk P4 is substantially less expensive in 4GB,
8GB and 16GB capacities than
hard disk drives, which
are often only available in higher capacities. Editor's note - This floor price
SSD penetration model was 1st proposed in the 2005 article by Jim Handy -
Flash vs. Hard Disks -
Which Will Win?
"For the first time, SSDs are now a
cost-effective alternative to hard drives in the STB market," said Doron
Myersdorf, senior director, SSDs, SanDisk.
Editor's comments:-
flash storage has been used in STBs for a long time.
Samsung shipped 117
million units of its 0.5GB OneNAND devices in
2006 into various
markets including STB.
Low acoustic noise was mentioned as a
desirable factor in the world's 1st
SSD user preferences
survey (2004). In those days - because of the
cost of SSDs - we
were talking about silent running in submarines.
For DVRs with
terabytes of storage - HDDs will remain a lower cost option for a while. And
you will probably continue seeing HDDs in new consumer products long after HDDs
have disappeared from the datacenter - because the cost of ownership and
performance envelopes will diverge.
Fusion-io accelerates 3d movie releases
Editor:- July
28, 2010 - Fusion-io
today
revealed
how it's been helping Hollywood's 3D movie makers.
Fusion-io's SSDs
have been used in the production of:- Alice in Wonderland, Avatar, How to
Train a Dragon and Clash of the Titans.
Utilizing Fusion-io, the S3D conversion of Clash of the Titans took
under 8 weeks instead of typically 6 months using conventional systems.
"Fusion's ioDrives really helped us meet a tough deadline"
said Sean Konrad, Project Manager for Stereoscopic Conversion on this project at
Prime
Focus. "With typical VFX projects, we complete about 20-30 shots per
day. The ioDrives (from
Fusion-io) scaled our data load capabilities by about 20x. Using
Fusion-io drives, each review session covered far more shots and we could
continue cycling work in between sessions. We don't have to worry anymore about
defragmenting disks, rebuilding
RAIDs, or swapping out
disks. We are buying many more ioDrives to implement throughout our different
locations."
Nexenta streams online tv
Editor:- May 20, 2010 -
Nexenta Systems
announced
that its products (which include
SSD ASAP features)
are being used by the Dutch Public
Broadcasting Agency NPO for storing and delivering online tv in a
configuration which includes 192TB of
hard disk drives and a
1.9TB SSD read cache.
The
broadcaster's website has approximately 80TB of video available to online
users who want to watch previously broadcasted television programs. During an
average evening, between 10 and 20,000 people stream data, adding up to 25GB in
capacity. The customer (who evaluated multiple vendors ) says that important
selection criteria were:- performance, price, support and power
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After another hard day working
on
the web Megabyte
liked to sit back
and view someone else's efforts.
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| SSD Pricing -
where does all the money go? |
SSDs are among the most
expensive computer hardware products you will ever buy.
Understanding
the factors which determine SSD costs is often a confusing and irritating
process... |
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...not made any easier when
market prices for identical capacity SSDs can vary more than 100x to 1!
Why is that? ...read
the article | | | |
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| this way to the Petabyte
SSD |
In 2016 there will be
just 3 types of
SSD in the datacenter.
One
of them doesn't exist yet - the bulk storage SSD.
It will replace the
last remaining strongholds of
hard drives in the
datacenter due to its unique combination of characteristics, low running costs
and operational advantages. |
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The new model of the
datacenter - how we get from here to there - and the technical problems which
will need to be solved - are just some of the ideas explored in this
visionary article. | | | |
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