20 factors that will change PCs in 2002
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That was some list. Man, it seems like yesterday that having a 40 mb harddrive was a big deal. Times change.
Yeah, I'm mostly looking forward to Serial ATA too. Outside of the internet connection and the almighty 1.44 meg floppy, the hard drive is the slowest part of every computer today. Once that is sped up, the entire system is a lot faster.
Hopefully this technology should give the hard drive industry a nice shove in the right direction, let them know they need to get their access speeds up some how. Dual-headed disk drives is probably the best way to go about it, IMO. even though it would be expensive, it would also be the most efficient way to increase performance with the least increase of power requirements as possible.
Hopefully this technology should give the hard drive industry a nice shove in the right direction, let them know they need to get their access speeds up some how. Dual-headed disk drives is probably the best way to go about it, IMO. even though it would be expensive, it would also be the most efficient way to increase performance with the least increase of power requirements as possible.
Good-bye PCI, hello Arapahoe: 3G input/output bus
What is it? A faster data pipe.
What's cool? Today's multigigahertz chips demand a constant stream of data, and the aging PCI and AGP bus standards won't be fast enough at shuttling data between your PC's components. That's why Intel is developing a third-generation input/output interconnect specification, code-named Arapahoe, that's up to ten times quicker than today's fast PCI-X bus. PCI-X moves data in parallel along 64 wires, reaching a top speed of about 1GB per second. Arapahoe can employ from 1 to 32 lanes; each lane consists of a pair of wires and can shuffle more than 200MB of data per second between the CPU and add-in cards or integrated parts. Arapahoe can also prioritize data, so that, for example, real-time streaming data is processed faster.
When's it coming? Early 2004. What's the catch? PC makers will have to support both standards as systems make the transition to Arapahoe, which may increase PC costs.
Impact meter: 9
About time the big boys started workign on a new bus. The PCI bus is old, tired and just plain worn out. A 33MHz bus and a 2GHz processor talk real fast......
What is it? A faster data pipe.
What's cool? Today's multigigahertz chips demand a constant stream of data, and the aging PCI and AGP bus standards won't be fast enough at shuttling data between your PC's components. That's why Intel is developing a third-generation input/output interconnect specification, code-named Arapahoe, that's up to ten times quicker than today's fast PCI-X bus. PCI-X moves data in parallel along 64 wires, reaching a top speed of about 1GB per second. Arapahoe can employ from 1 to 32 lanes; each lane consists of a pair of wires and can shuffle more than 200MB of data per second between the CPU and add-in cards or integrated parts. Arapahoe can also prioritize data, so that, for example, real-time streaming data is processed faster.
When's it coming? Early 2004. What's the catch? PC makers will have to support both standards as systems make the transition to Arapahoe, which may increase PC costs.
Impact meter: 9
About time the big boys started workign on a new bus. The PCI bus is old, tired and just plain worn out. A 33MHz bus and a 2GHz processor talk real fast......
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I'd like to see solid state drives become popular. The biggest problem with harddrives is that they wear out.
