With an mp3 CD player, I would be extremely impressed.
Which presents a serious question. Why have mp3 CD players been so long in the works? With CD's high capacities, and cheap price of burners and media, it seems like a unit that can put 10 hours of music on a disc would be snarfed up. Last I heard, Pine had a portable one coming out soon for $300, but no word from sony, phillips, etc. The only concievable downside I can see is skipping.
I know when you open the floor to feature suggestions that people will suggest things until you end up with a freezer-sized unit selling for x10 original cost. But it seems to me that the usefulness added by mp3 CD capability well worth it, provided the cost is not obscene.
The helpful, friendly (and surprisingly awake) man at the nooa hotline says that the storm's over for now, but a new "ejection" just occured. They don't know which way it's headed, but if it is headed for us it'll make earthfall ~April 9-10. Keep your eyes peeled.
There is no doubt that the limiting factor is the bandwidth limitations not the limitations of our hard drives.
Ok, so, Question. In the 75G Deskstar Article posted yesterday, a "maximum media data rate of 444 megabits per second (Mb/s)" is quoted. So what exactly does this mean again? Doesn't this mean that there's approx a 3:1 burst transfer rate bottleneck?
Does anyone have the answer? Are the technological hurdles high? How is it that we have gigabit ethernet and yet drives can be three times as fast as their bus?
So while we're on the SCSI/DMA issue, has anyone out there seen/played with/set up a RAID 0 DMA/66 box with fileserve performance super-tweaked? How much can you milk from it, how does it compare to SCSI solutions?
Another good question: How many months until ATA 200? The IBM 75G Deskstar article talks about ATA 100 support. Yeah, SCSI has it's place, yeah it has low CPU over head, etc, but is adaptec not getting a little worried? Can you imagine the situation if ATA transfer rates exceed SCSI? SCSI drives are targeted for server market, which makes their prices "unnaturally" high (inelastic demand) but at some point might not it become cheaper to build, say, a HD subsystem blackbox of ATA drives with it's own CPU, microkernel feeding a host through gigabit ethernet or something? If the software tools were in place, you might get a full ATA host with the disk subsystems priced at half the cost of SCSI flavor.
Take home prophecy: Linux (i.e. geeks) kill the SCSI oligarchy.
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Which presents a serious question. Why have mp3 CD players been so long in the works? With CD's high capacities, and cheap price of burners and media, it seems like a unit that can put 10 hours of music on a disc would be snarfed up. Last I heard, Pine had a portable one coming out soon for $300, but no word from sony, phillips, etc. The only concievable downside I can see is skipping.
I know when you open the floor to feature suggestions that people will suggest things until you end up with a freezer-sized unit selling for x10 original cost. But it seems to me that the usefulness added by mp3 CD capability well worth it, provided the cost is not obscene.
The helpful, friendly (and surprisingly awake) man at the nooa hotline says that the storm's over for now, but a new "ejection" just occured. They don't know which way it's headed, but if it is headed for us it'll make earthfall ~April 9-10. Keep your eyes peeled.
Ok, so, Question. In the 75G Deskstar Article posted yesterday, a "maximum media data rate of 444 megabits per second (Mb/s)" is quoted. So what exactly does this mean again? Doesn't this mean that there's approx a 3:1 burst transfer rate bottleneck?
Does anyone have the answer? Are the technological hurdles high? How is it that we have gigabit ethernet and yet drives can be three times as fast as their bus?
When Oligarchy strikes, it's time to be a scab.
So while we're on the SCSI/DMA issue, has anyone out there seen/played with/set up a RAID 0 DMA/66 box with fileserve performance super-tweaked? How much can you milk from it, how does it compare to SCSI solutions?
Another good question: How many months until ATA 200? The IBM 75G Deskstar article talks about ATA 100 support. Yeah, SCSI has it's place, yeah it has low CPU over head, etc, but is adaptec not getting a little worried? Can you imagine the situation if ATA transfer rates exceed SCSI? SCSI drives are targeted for server market, which makes their prices "unnaturally" high (inelastic demand) but at some point might not it become cheaper to build, say, a HD subsystem blackbox of ATA drives with it's own CPU, microkernel feeding a host through gigabit ethernet or something? If the software tools were in place, you might get a full ATA host with the disk subsystems priced at half the cost of SCSI flavor.
Take home prophecy: Linux (i.e. geeks) kill the SCSI oligarchy.
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