SSD

Dec 19 2011

News - Hard drive manufacturers slash warranty periods

By Mike Patnode

If you're considering a hard-drive purchase in the next 6 months, here's a pretty compelling reason to buy before the end of the year.

I must confess, this smells a little bit like anti-trust behavior to me.   As a consumer, are you going to stop buying Seagate and WD drives based upon their warranty?   I suspect they realized that price is the #1 driver of HD purchase decisions and this will allow them to undercut the second tier competitors at least until they follow suit.

It also reminds me of what happen to the Airlines.   People demanded the lowest fare, hence the quality of service continued to drop to match customer demands.   Perhaps the market is just getting what it's asking for.

Seagate's warranties on certain drives will be reduced as of Dec. 31, and WD will follow beginning Jan. 2. All drives shipped prior to those dates will continue to carry the current warranty term associated with the products.

Computer World

 

Sep 23 2011

News - OCZ SSD Hard Drive Cache

By Mike Patnode

Like the OCZ combined product, the SSD hard drive cache is probably not very interesting for the average HTPC deployment since a video stream probably isn't hot (i.e. the same data is not being read over and over again); but, if you could use the same device to cache a Network drive, and assuming the caching algorithm uses some intelligent read-ahead  (e.g. If I just read block 1-10,000, pre-caching blocks 10,001-n might be a good idea) then we'd have something pretty interesting.

Presumably, a recorded show would stay in the SSD cache until room was needed, meaning the commecial processing could complete without having to completely re-read it off the network drive.

Hard disk drives are getting a caching flash wrapper if OCZ has its way. Watch out for this SSD supplier's Synapse caching flasher.

Not content with the RevoDrive Hybrid, a PCIe card containing a flash memory store and DataPlex software to manage the on-card hard drive, OCZ has revved its cocktail of components and crafted a new drink for keen flashers, the Synapse Cache Solid State Drive (SSD).

TheRegister

 

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