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Re:install lots of usb ports
You mean like this? http://www.bigbruin.com/reviews05/thumbraid_1
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The Thumb Drive RAID Experiment
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RAID: speed & reliability
site details an early RAID experiment using 4 thumb drives:
http://www.bigbruin.com/reviews05/thumbraid_1
Hmmmm...thumb drives (USB flash drives) are:
1) hot swapable...plug-and-play
2) inexpensive...widely available...falling in price
3) daisy-chain USB hardware is expandable
Seems like there should be an idea for a product in all this.
RAID could solve the reliability issues...have the OS
pop open a warning box:
Thumb drive #4 has now become 'unreliable'.
It's data has been copied to other drives.
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Re:Basic questions
1. 17MB/sec. http://www.bigbruin.com/reviews05/review.php?item
= oczrally&file=1
2. 60 MB/sec. http://www.usb-2-0.com/what-is-usb-2-0.html#2.%20H ow%20fast%20is%20USB%202.0
3. 60 MB/sec. http://www.storagereview.com/articles/200511/HDS72 5050KLA360_2.html
4. 11 MB/sec. http://www.tomshardware.com/storage/20050520/usb_f lash_drives-09.html
5. 35 MB/sec. http://www.anandtech.com/printarticle.aspx?i=2515
It's 1.5 times as fast as your average flash, and only half as slow as your typical USB hard drive. -
Mini / Pico ITX much nicer
For many of the jobs they suggest - Kitchen machine, music hub, lower end specialist stuff - I personally would much rather go with Mini ITX.
eg Via
http://www.via.com.tw/en/initiatives/spearhead/min i-itx/
with a nice compact case
http://www.mini-itx.com/store/
http://www.bigbruin.com/html/morex_3688.htm
I guess really what Im saying is I would perfer a Mac Mini :o) -
Re:article doesn't explain networkRunning with your numbers, look at this. Quoting you:
With 500GB drives, it would take 7340.032 drives to attain 3.5PB... with NO redundancy.
For the Deskstar7k500 [Please note that this isn't the "DeathStar" anymore, it was just when they put five instead of the industry-standard four platters into the DeskStar that they started dropping like flies, and I suppose the DeathStar reputation no longer stands. I've never owned one.]
The specifications [see footnote for a few other sites] stateHeight (mm) 25.4
146 mm) x (101.6 mm) x (25.4 mm) x 7 340 = 2.76551705 m^3,
Width (mm) 101.6
Depth (mm) 146
and, running with the article's numbers, let's see how much of 20 feet cubed that is... (article: the most storage, memory and power support into a 20...foot box -- note that a BOX of course is less cubic area than a 20-foot cube)....
((146 mm) x (101.6 mm) x (25.4 mm) x 7 340) / (20 (feet^3)) = 4.88316565...
WHAT? it's not a fraction, but larger by a factor of 4+??? Just for the hard-drives? Even when we assumed a CUBE???
Man, I want some of the shit that guy's smoking. I was expecting to debunk with just the hard-drives taking an impossibly large percentage of the proposed 20-foot "box". But....man. Cringely must not have done even a basic sanity check. (And remember, I'm pretty sure he didn't have a 20 foot high, 20 foot wide box in mind, or he would have said cube. To a writer, a "20-foot box" sounds like an elongated storage container, e.g. 8x8x20 feet.... BTW that's the first hit for 20 foot storage container, I can only assume a writer would have such a thing in mind...)
English and math, people, English AND math.
Footnote:
Other sources for specifications: -
Re:Finally.
Looky.... I found part 2!
AMD info -
Other outlets for coverage
Here are some more sites covering it... all about the same content, really:
viperlair.com
hardocp.com
techreport.com
thetechzone.com
tweaktown.com
thetechzone.com
hothardware.com
hexus.net
pcper.com
legionhardware.com
thetechlounge.com
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lilliput?
Here's one, 7" 800x480 seems to be available all over the place (review).
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google?
reviews found at:
bigbrui.com, overclockersclub.com, modthebox.com, pcextreme.net, Tom's Hardware, AnandTech.com, etc...