Blooming America

Chapter 287 Hard Disk and Patent

Compared with ordinary g, xìng performance, etc., the requirements are higher, so hardware such as cpu, chipset, memory, disk system, network and ordinary BSP; for example, the current g performance is very good, but it is not necessarily suitable for use on the server. Therefore, the stable adoption of the server must be enhanced.

If an ordinary user’s personal computer has a problem, it’s okay. Just restart it and it’s done. Even if the chip is broken, it doesn’t matter. The big deal is that you don’t need a computer today.

But the server is different, because it is connected to the Internet, the server must be stable.

In terms of categories, servers include mainframes, models, and microcomputers.

For ordinary enterprises, they may need a model computer. This is also the reason why Catherine asked Olsen to come over-no one likes the model more than Olsen.

"College students? In this case, they should not have high requirements on the server. I think we can transfer these websites into our big server, and then only transfer the information of each university and each company."

"But the problem is, the price of the big server is very cheap, will they change it?" Ralph knew that if it was replaced with a model, the cost of building a stand alone would increase a lot...

"This..." Olsen was also suddenly embarrassed.

"Olson, if we build a model as a server, what is the approximate cost? If it is a microcomputer?"

"For the cost issue, I think I might need to discuss it with a technician. The server needs to be stable, which is inconsistent with the computer we are now pursuing. There are some things that ibm can learn from. "

Catherine's company also bought two ibm mainframes. One of them is used as research software, and the other has been completely disassembled into parts by the employees of inte1 for research.

After all, ibm has been developed for so many years, and ibm's computer investment is as high as 100 million. Even if Catherine's ark quadruples the market value, I am afraid that there is not so much capital-so many of ibm's technologies are worth learning.

Of course, pure plagiarism is too lacking in technical content. And after ibm is plagiarizing, I am afraid that they themselves will be the first to laugh-after a lawsuit,% will be dragged down, and the reputation will be completely destroyed.

"Um... Ralph, is our server unavailable anymore?"

"No, but it's not far from the limit. If we follow the current increase in this kind of website, in another two months, I'm afraid our server will not be able to host it."

It seems that there is still room for maneuver.

"...Ralph, let's add a set of servers for now."

It uses Celeron-class computers as the core. Although such servers are expensive, the millions of dollars are obviously more important than the company’s reputation.

"Ok."

Catherine ordered the matter down, and then began to think about how it would operate this server.

In the "future", servers are roughly divided into five types.

First is the entry-level server, this kind of server is the most basic and lowest-end. But Catherine feels that if it is for student users, this kind of server is also worth learning; then the workgroup server, the purpose of this server can also be heard from the name, such a server can only be connected to a workgroup (about people ); Then there are departmental servers, which are probably the choice of medium-sized enterprises; then there are enterprise-level servers, some enterprise-level servers even use mainframes as the core; and finally the video server, which is something Catherine He will not be able to fight for at least five years, so it is not considered.

For a server, the design goal of the server's performance is how to balance the performance of each part so that the performance of the entire system can be optimal. If a server has the ability to process service requests per second, but the network card can only accept one request, and the hard disk can only bear one, and the load capacity of various buses can only bear one request, then the server has the processing capacity It can only be a request/second, and it costs more than 1% of the processor's computing power.

Therefore, the performance of the server is not necessarily higher than that of the personal computer, but it must be more balanced and more stable.

These are all easy to solve, the current memory can support up to 4mb, as long as you add a few more memory sticks, you can get it.

On the other hand, Catherine’s company has a weakness...

"Hard disk..."

Although current personal computers have other storage solutions, personal computers do not need large hard drives, but servers do...

"What about the hard drive!"

Catherine suddenly thought of such a serious problem.

"Isn't it enough to use a read-only m? It's just like a computer now." Elsa seemed a little strange when she saw Catherine so distressed.

"No, this is different. The content of the website needs to be updated. If only a read-only memory is used, it will not work at all. We need a hard disk that can be written and read at any time. This hard disk is only used by ibm."

"In other words, you have to purchase a large number of hard drives from ibm?" Elsa seemed to understand what was going on.

"This is impossible! Impossible!"

Catherine was struggling in the chair, she was arrogant again...

"If... can we let ibm authorize us?"

"Do you think they will?" Catherine was a little funny.

"Perhaps……"

Elsa tilted her head. Ark and ibm seem to have a deep grievance?

"No, maybe..."

Catherine reacted suddenly.

"What can you do?"

"Of course you can let them authorize us! Just like Motorola, just change the patent!"

Elsa seems to be thinking about what patents in the company will interest ibm without harming the company's interests.

At this time, Catherine seemed to have the spirit: "Maybe our'three-phase data optical drive technology' can be replaced?"

The so-called "three-phase data optical drive technology" is the company's three-head optical drive technology. But there is a problem... ibm will really either?

Although this technology looks very good, as long as it is not a graphical interface like my own company, the software's requirements for storage capacity are not very large. And Catherine didn't want to tell other people the secrets of the optical drive and computer system.

After all, the graphical interface is Catherine's killer.

The news that I want to open the graphical interface has been told to everyone at the opening conference last year. If I shake the optical drive out...ibm is likely to know what I am going to do. Although the opponent won't come over to grab their own market, it is still possible to stumble oneself.

"It's really troublesome...Should we drive the hard drive ourselves?" Catherine curled her lips.

"In fact, we can do the same." Elsa said.

"But it's too late..."

Elsa was a little puzzled: "But...isn't our current server also using ibm hard drives?"

"So I don't want to use it anymore."

Catherine was wailing.

"And even if we drive it now, it's not necessarily better than ibm, they have magnetoresistance... wait."

Catherine immediately made another phone call to the no pop-up novel network.

"Help me check ibm's registered patents and see if there is a patent for magnetoresistive head technology. This patent is applied to hard drives."

"Magnetic resistance head? What is that?"

"A technology used on hard drives."

Catherine vaguely remembered that this should be a technology of the era, and it was also developed by ibm, but she did not remember whether the other party was using this technology now. Although Catherine knew about hard drives, it was only limited to understanding.

After suffering for a while, the phone finally rang.

"Sister Edson, we did not inquire about the relevant information of this technology on ibm's mechanical hard drives."

mr (-vehead) is the abbreviation for magnetoresistive head. mr technology can increase the actual recording density and record data, thereby increasing the capacity of the hard disk and increasing the data throughput rate.

The giant magnetoresistance technology and disk vertical writing technology that appeared later are all based on this magnetoresistive head.

When Catherine heard this sentence, she almost jumped for joy, and then the next sentence of the other party made Catherine impotence for a moment.

"But... we found the relevant content on the ibm magnetic core memory patent, which is the'magnetoresistance effect'."

"Well, that's it."

Catherine shook her head, and it seemed that there was something she couldn't really ask for.

"what's happenin?"

"This technology has already been used in magnetic core memory... Damn ~ www.wuxiaspot.com~ such a thing can happen."

Magneto-resistive heads cannot bypass this patent at all! If you turn on the magneto-resistive heads yourself, you will be a wedding dress for ibm!

"If it is a magnetic core memory... the patent has been more than ten years old, it should be... invalid?"

Elsa's words reminded Catherine.

"Yes! The patent has expired!"

Catherine became excited again, and if she insisted, reluctance was discovered in 1857. Although it was used in the century, the theory itself has appeared for more than a hundred years. Even if ibm sue itself, it will only It could be just arguing with each other.

Then she stood up all at once, and gave Elsa a hug.

"Too bang, Elsa, I really like you..."

"Hmm..." Elsa blushed and rolled her face to the other side.