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Founded in 1983, Komag is the world's largest independent
supplier of thin-film disks, the primary high-capacity storage medium for
digital data. Komag leverages the combination of its U.S. research and
development center with its world-class Malaysian manufacturing operations to
produce disks that meet the high-volume, stringent quality, low cost and
demanding technology needs of its customers. By enabling rapidly improving
storage density at ever-lower cost per gigabyte, Komag seeks to create
extraordinary value for consumers of computers, enterprise storage systems and
electronic appliances such as digital video recorders, game boxes and consumer
electronic storage systems. For more information about Komag, visit Komag's
Internet home page at http://www.komag.com or call Komag's Investor Relations
24-hour Hot Line at 888-66-KOMAG or 408-576-2901.
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| Squeak!
- Gigabyte per Second Terabyte Solid State Disks |
Terabyte
class
solid state disks with
multi gigabyte per second sustained throughput have been around since
February 2003
as datacenter acceleration rackmounts.
The best known example being
the
Tera-RamSan from
Texas Memory Systems.
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| Despite the
high price tag of such systems ($1 million in 2003 and still somewhat North of
$100K in 2007) many enterprises have been delighted to discover that these
products have offered enterprise wide application speedups across hundreds of
servers - at a much lower cost than traditional disk based storage arrays - as
published in numerous
case studies.
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| It has been
nice for the rest of us mere mortals (and that includes mouse mortals not just
the human variety) to learn about such products, but just as most of us don't
have our own personal jet, the ultra fast Terabyte SSD has not been a technology
that has affected our everyday lives. But that will change, a lot sooner than
you may think.
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