From: "Antti Kurenniemi" 

"Geo."  wrote in message news:462ec037{at}w3.nls.net...
> "Rich Gauszka"  wrote in message
> news:462eafae{at}w3.nls.net...
>
>> TEC, Inc. today announced an extension to its Zeus-IOPS Solid State Drive
>> (SSD) family with the addition of 512GB and 256GB versions offering
>> enterprise systems the performance equivalent of up to 200 hard drives in
>> just one drive. The company also announced that an important agreement
>> has been put in place with a worldwide leader of on-demand and real-time
>> media delivery technology systems, wherein the Zeus-IOPS SSD was
>> thoroughly analyzed and successfully deployed. This important customer
>> views STEC's SSD technology as a vital means to enabling video-on-demand
>> services at speeds that were unattainable using traditional rotating hard
>> drive solutions. STEC will showcase the Flash-based Zeus-IOPS Solid State
>> Hard Drives at Storage Networking World, April 16-19, 2007 at the
>> Manchester Grand Hyatt in San Diego, CA (Booth PP3).
>
> I had to stop reading after this and turn off my 2TB video server thereby
> annoying the 3 people who were watching 3 different programs on it and
> explain to them how it would take 400 hard drives running flat out to do
> what they were doing..

Somehow I feel that the "worldwide leader of on-demand and real-time
media delivery technology systems" needs to service more than 3 people
at a time - although I wonder if HD is the actual bottleneck or the network
/ internet...


Antti Kurenniemi

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