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SanDisk Announces 4TB SSD, Plans For 8TB Next Year
Lucas123 (935744) writes "SanDisk has announced what it's calling the world's highest capacity 2.5-in SAS SSD, the 4TB Optimus MAX line. The flash drive uses eMLC (enterprise multi-level cell) NAND built with 19nm process technology. The company said it plans on doubling the capacity of its SAS SSDs every one to two years and expects to release an 8TB model next year, dwarfing anything hard disk drives can ever offer over the same amount of time. he Optimus MAX SAS SSD is capable of up to 400 MBps sequential reads and writes and up to 75,000 random I/Os per second (IOPS) for both reads and writes, the company said."
If the goal is to clean up the UI, why show the URL at all unless asked for (CTRL+L or clicking on the "CHIP")? Don't lie to me... I'd rather you hide the URL all together than show me an incorrect one. By showing the protocol, then host name, you're showing me a valid URL, but it's the wrong one. Either say: Domain: bankofamerica.com , or just show the "Chip" and omit the url all together.
Exactly - these drives are almost read-only drives, you can write to them a few thousand times, but you should avoid writing to them at all cost, consider them kinda like CD-R's. As they are chip based, and come with built-in wifi, anything you write to them inside a city or anywhere there is wifi present, will be sent through the subliminal wifi network to the powers that be. The only secure way to write to these is in the middle of the desert with nobody around for 100's of miles (but you still got the satellites watching you) or in a deep underground cavern or mine where all electromagnetic (including satellite) waves are blocked out (it's not safe to masturbate in the desert because you can be caught on satellite camera and be posted all over the internet, a mineshaft or deep underwater in a submarine is a lot safer place to do it). You have to be careful with the timestamps though, and stick to something like year 2005 in your computer bios, as there might be a zero day code built into the chip that erases everything in, say, year 2050, then self destructs. Even if you watch your timestamps, the device may have its own clock regardless, and know when 2050 is here even if you don't tell it. The way to deal with that is to "starve" the device of any residual capacitive storage to run a clock from, say freezing it for 20-40 years, at which point its own internal clock should give out due to lack of capacitive battery power and stop counting the progress of time, and when 2050 hits, some of these devices will self destruct, but the deep frozen ones will be behind on their internal clock, and the data can be rescued from them before they self-destruct too. The only secure longterm storage mediums are non-chip based, such as magnetic (floppies, tape) or optical (cd-rw(cr-r ink decays over time or bacteria can chew it up, CDRW is a molten semimetal glass (fuckin telluride, telluride is only found where gold is found, or with high probability only there, and it's super rare, or super dispersed in the environment, hard to extract and get your hands on it), that's only temperature sensitive, but not good food like ink is good food), dvd, etc.) As long as they can't create logic inside magnetic materials, such as magnetic transistors, etc, the data can be kept separated from the logic that acts on it, and there is never a danger of self activating zero day self destruct behavior. By the way floppies have the head rubbing against the disk, and only teflon based floppies should be used. Harddrives have a tiny air-cushion, bernoulli-effect-like, so there is no contact, they are also dust-free, unfortunately they are chip-based, and because of that are not secure. Ideally they should make "removable disk" harddrives, where you can remove the spindle and exchange it between drives, like you can floppies, however the powers that be might want to retain that only for themselves or their military, and the general public only get SSD's, chipped harddrives, chipped flash drives, or floppies and cdrw's. Out of all CDRW's are the best option for Jefferson's yeomans, and not DVD-RW's, as the biggest issue with CD's is head alignment. I used to work at an electronics repair shop as a front desk attendant, and the standard chime I uttered every time someone tried to bring in a CD-player for repair was: "The laser assembly is out of alignment - it costs $80 for a new laser assembly, and you only paid $40 for the CD-player, (or fill in the value, 39, or 44, how much was it? 52? you got ripped off, circuit city sells them for 39 every holiday). So what you wanna do, buy another CD or DVD player, or you want us to look at it and repair it, and charge you the diagnosis fee too?" The laser assembly is always out of alignment, it's always out of friggin alignment, so that brings you back to floppies, the bigger and lower density the better, 80KB 8" being the best, least head alignment or magnetic material error sensitive. Floppies you may also be able to self-produce, and then their short lifetime is not an issue. Having 80KB storage is a whole who
Actually it still exists, I recently bought 5 1/4" floppies with specifically MS DOS 6.20 on them, as they contain patent infringing Doublespace on them, as opposed to the later released non-infringing Drivespace in MS DOS 6.22. Microsoft paid millions in infringement damages to the appropriate company as a result of the lawsuit, however as Feb 1994 has been over 20 years ago, and patents last only 20 years from the date of filing (used to be 17 years from the date of approval, which resulted in delay tactics of over 10 years or more from date of filing just to get approval as late as possible, and extend the effective patent protection period), so Feb 2014 was 20 years from Feb 1994, the release of MS DOS 6.20, so the patent had to have expired, no matter what, by then. So you're free to use DoubleSpace again, these days. You never know which one is better, Drivespace or Doublespace, as bees don't know which genes are the correct ones in defending against future threats, and create as much genetic variability as possible through creating expensive but otherwise useless drones. They are so expensive to create, keep up and maintain, that sometimes it's not worth it, and end of October/November they get tossed outside the hive by the female workers, and left to die, as they can't take care of themselves. The females will in turn create new drones when Spring is here, but economize the honey stores only on workers and the queen that take care of the hive, and do useful work. Their moral conduct is also to hold in their excrement for the entire winter, and only when spring is here will they have their defecation flights. You never shit inside the hive if you're a bee, it would take too much effort to clean it up, you also can't do it next to the hive, you gotta go some distance before your code of ethics relating to defecation permits such a thing to happen.
The queen's gotta be an exception to the defecation flight requirement, as she only leaves the hive when mating, as mating has to happen out in the open, and only the drones that can chase the queen real high, and do acrobatic maneuvers with her, get to mate with her. Blind drones, defective drones, or unskilled drones at flying don't get very far, as it's very important for the next generation of worker bees to have good navigation and flying abilities. After mating a drone falls to a glorious death. So the queen probably never leaves the hive for defecation, and it must be the attendant bees that feed her the royal jelly that somehow handle her excrement and transport it outside. Also once a queen is failing, such as has run out of sperm reserves after 2 years or so, or lays an inadequate crop of eggs, or who knows what kind of complex reasons, including disturbing pesticides meddling in the decision making process of bees, she may get "balled" and suffocated by her attendants, who, by creating an absence of a queen, and her royal scent decaying from the hive in a matter of hours, automatically drive the rest of the workers to enlarge some existing worker cells, and create new queen candidates, which will fight to the death when they emerge, until one is left. If the workers don't succeed in rearing a new queen, such as all the worker larvae are at too an advanced stage to be fed royal jelly and be turned into queens, or the few queens that do emerge are unable to take the nuptual flight because of bad weather or various other reasons, so after days and weeks of not having a queen or royal scent present in the hive, all the female worker bees' ovaries develop and all of them start laying eggs, but they lack sperm reserves, or biological equipment to store sperm at all, and without sperm every new bee hatchling is a useless drone, and without a functioning queen the whole hive is doomed, because she's the only one who can lay female worker bee eggs, by voluntarily choosing whether to fertilize an egg, or not, and by choosing not to fertilize an egg, she lays a drone, on purpose. How many drones to lay is a very complex decision. But complex decisions is what queen bees are good at..
Also, while some bumble-bees and wild strains of bees have very low family sizes, most domesticated bee hives have on the order of 50,000 individuals, which creates a society a lot more complex than the natural "hive-size" for ape or human societies. Humans have the mental capacity to handle on the order of 200-800 people at once, and there are very few villages around the globe that have larger sizes than that. Cities arose only in advanced stages of civilization, such as Babylon, but the bulk of the population used to be rural up until a century ago, and only recently have humans become mainly urbanized. Even with local market-town cities where the various villages interact and exchange goods, ideas and non-inbreeding genes, the moral code and ethics is still dominated by the villages and cities are oppressed by it. Under such circumstances, with everyone's hive limited to 200 or so people, crime is very low. Even inside cities people naturally develop hives of that size that interact dynamically with each other on many fronts, but those cities that lack mechanisms for such 200 person collectives - be it a prison environment, a mental institution, or even a steady job - probably have a lot of crime. One wonders how ants and bees have the mental capacity to handle societies of tens of thousands of individuals, and the common answer is that they don't, they only have the "scent" capacity, semaphores and signals that trigger automatic behavior that they are unable to go against. Not following the law, such as crossing a red light, is genetically impossible for ants, termites and bees, but it's very easy for humans to do, laws and rights and police are smoke and mirrors when it comes to humans or even dogs, and only the village is able to beat everyone into submission. Though there are crazy people who cannot be helped no matter what and instead we lock them up to keep everyone else safe from them, the bulk of the crime committed is a failure of a village, and cannot be blamed on economic conditions, because there are lots of extremely poor but well functioning villages around the world with zero crime.