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Panasonic Broadcast & Television Systems Co. is a leading
supplier of broadcast and professional video products and systems. Panasonic
Broadcast is a unit company of Panasonic Corporation of North America. The
company is the North American headquarters of Matsushita Electric Industrial
Co., Ltd. (NYSE: MC) of Japan, and the hub of its U.S. marketing, sales, service
and R&D operations. For more information on Panasonic Broadcast products,
access the companys web site at www.panasonic.com/broadcast.
- editor's notes:- in April 2008 - Panasonic said it would ship a 64GB
version of its proprietary P2 card SSD for use in its camcorders in the fall.
Panasonic has delivered more than 80,000 P2 HD/P2 units worldwide
with over 840 television networks and stations having adopted the solid-state
recording format.
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| Are MLC SSDs Safe
in Enterprise Apps? |
This is a follow up
article (published in March 2008) to the popular
SSD Myths and
Legends which, a year earlier demolished the myth that flash memory
wear-out (a comfort blanket beloved by many
RAM SSD makers)
precluded the use of flash in heavy duty datacenters.
This new
article looks at the risks posed by MLC Nand Flash SSDs which have recently
hatched from their breeeding ground as chip modules in cellphones and morphed
into
hard disk form
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It starts down a familiar
lane but an unexpected technology twist (which arrived in my email while
writing this article) takes you to a startling new world of possibilities.
...read the
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