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Micron Technology plunged headfirst into the nascent solid state drive marketplace Wednesday with the unveiling of its RealSSD family of storage devices.The RealSSD portfolio features serial ATA II-enabled 1.8-in. and 2.5-in. solid state drives in 32GB and 64GB capacities. Early next year, the company will start mass producing the drives, which are currently being "sampled," said Dean Klein, vice president of memory system development at Boise, Idaho-based Micron.Micron's RealSSD drives, noted Klein, require less than 2 watts of power during active mode and are about 50 percent lighter than hard disk drives of similar capacities. The devices do not require a SATA bridge chip but rather rely on a single-chip controller (optimized for four-channel control of NAND flash) directly targeting the solid state drive application, he added.The new RealSSD line also includes the Embedded USB and Module products. The RealSSD Embedded USB can be plugged into a PC or blade server system to provide operating system storage and boot capabilities via a USB 2.0 interface. The RealSSD Module is a SATA-enabled solid state drive for server-based applications that measures 25mm high by 133.5mm long and less than 4mm thick.Klein acknowledged that adoption of solid state drives for corporate users has been very slow, mostly because of the technology's high price tag. However, he predicted that declining prices of NAND flash technology and the inevitable development of applications for solid state systems will accelerate demand."Technology is going to make [solid state] real. The cost of the NAND components will be a large determining factor in terms of acceptance," said Klein. "Even if we could bring speed of light performance to these devices, there's a lot of applications that still won't take them because the cost is too high or the density isn't high enough."Of the many first-generation solid state drive devices currently available, Klein remarked, "benchmarks have proven them to be fairly lame in terms of performance." Going a step further, he panned BitMicro Networks' 1.6TB solid state drive unveiled this month as a "pricey piece of art." Samsung Electronics and SanDisk are considered two established leaders currently providing solid state drive offerings, analysts noted.Although initially focused on providing solid state drives for the notebook audience -- a natural fit, said Klein, because solid state is lightweight, and offers power savings and a small size -- Micron does have interest in examining larger-capacity solid state products for the desktop and enterprise industry.Jeff Janukowicz, an analyst at IDC, said his IT research firm has forecast that demand for solid state technology will "substantially" increase over the next few years. An IDC report released in July predicted that sales of solid state drives will grow from $373 million in 2006 to a total of $5.4 billion in 2011.While notebook computing will fuel solid state adoption, Janukowicz said he expects the need for improved performance and specialized applications in servers, blade servers, and enterprise storage systems to attract growing solid state interest over time.Janukowicz said Micron's decision to debut an entire family of solid state products with RealSSD and its established NAND and flash memory expertise could prove to be a key differentiator with OEMs. But much work still needs to be done, he noted."Micron needs to work well with PC OEMs that deliver solutions acceptable for the PC market," he said. "The challenge there is [a traditional] usage model of using hard disks in notebook PCs. There is a bit of education process in terms of using solid state disks as primary storage in network computing that needs to take place."Computerworld is an InfoWorld affiliate |
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Last year, I wrote on this website about the importance of the world's HIV problem.
As World AIDS Day 2007 approaches, HIV still presents big problems: an estimated 40m people living with HIV/AIDS; the city where I live, London, has the UK's highest instances of HIV. And according to Stop AIDS Consortium, a coalition of 80 charities, around 70% of people who need anti-retroviral drugs to stay alive, don't have access to them.
There are also solutions. This year I travelled with Uganda with Christian Aid to see an amazing organisation called Youth With a Mission (YWAM) in action.
When I say action, they were doing everything. They showed me education projects where school kids learned about the risks of HIV, and how to avoid them.
The YWAM volunteers were dancing, singing and teaching - they even had me up dancing - and it was all for the greater good. To drum home the message to kids about HIV.
I met a man called Joseph Onongo, who was HIV positive, and his wife had left him YWAM had given him money and training to start his own brick-making business. Joseph was making a success of his life and his wife and kids had come back home when they saw how well he was doing. It's inspiring to see solutions to these kinds of problems.
There was ignorance in the community about the causes and effect of HIV and what it is, and YWAM fills a very basic need that is so vital. 1m in Uganda are living with HIV, and 100,000 of those people are under 15.
Knowledge is power. That means being one of the biggest factors in fighting HIV is education. We can prevent it ourselves, we can help educating young people, but often we leave it to others - what organisations like YWAM are doing is extremely important. We take education for granted and I saw for myself growing up in Nigeria how people struggle to pay school fees but once anything is given to you, you take it for granted. Perhaps sometimes in the western world, we can be a bit like that.
In Uganda, they don't receive anything like the education we do here. YWAM work against a climate where there's no education, what they provide is gold dust. They're like saviours. To see what they do is so amazing.
They're helping thousands of people. I met a 16 year-old called Emmanuel who had lost both parents to HIV and walked six miles each day so that his brother could go to school. YWAM were helping him.
On another trip with Christian Aid to Ethiopia, I saw the Adugna dance troupe who could have been backing dancers for Beyonce or someone like that. But their dancing had a serious purpose - it was encouraging young teenagers to find out about the causes of HIV.
HIV and AIDS present all of us with massive problems. But it was really encouraging to see some of the solutions in these education projects. And these projects which Christian Aid supports can teach us a fair few things, too.
World AIDS Day is on December 1st. For more information go to www.stopaidscampaign.org.uk and www.christianaid.org.uk |
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