
Try to do that using Windows.
Alibaba claims its online marketplace coped with a peak load of 583,000 orders per second on this year's Singles Day, China’s internet shopping frenzy event akin to Cyber Monday. The web giant's traffic hit that high watermark 26 seconds after sales opened at midnight on November 11, we're told. The biz also claimed its “ …
Ah, I noticed that Amazon UK had the iPlay20 Android tablet at 135 quid, I wonder what it is on Alibaba?
https://www.alibaba.com/trade/search?fsb=y&IndexArea=product_en&CatId=&SearchText=iplay20
... around $100, so 75 quid plus sales tax about 89 quid.
Gee I wonder why Alibaba sells so well and Amazon sells relative badly? It's a real puzzler!
Next thing we know, robots will be swapping out good drives and storing them in off-line caddies.
I suppose the reason they won't is poor connector life.
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"It should come with a robotic leg and soft shoe to save the odd dropped disk."
Ha, who needs a caddy if a robot is good at juggling?
Funnily enough, I proposed a patent for both of these things to my employer several years ago. There was no prior art nor competing patents at the time. Nobody was interested, basically the response was "there's no value in that, it'll never happen".
*sigh*
Massive Array of Idle Disks.....MAID.
SGI was selling that a few years ago. They bought some company, and relaballed it as their own. Not sure they sold much. I did have a quote from them once. For a petabyte, back in the days when that was a lot of storage.
If you google it, there is even an article from El Reg from a few years ago, and some papers from 2002.
IIRC, there was no robot, just electrically switched SATA drives, and some erasure coding.
The robot swapping drives is as plausible as Amazon Drones delivering shit.
In the real world, you would have something much simpler with a standard storage racking and a simpler frame based removal and swap automation tool.
It’s a neat free PR video, but rather R2D2 impracticality.
Ahhh, somebody is a BOFH fan. Put a disk-swapping robot in a data centre to "swap out" faulty hard drives, but said robot is also equipped with several "features", some lethal, some not, to keep folks away from your illegal stash of money/drugs/diamonds etc....
I'll wait for the Rise of the Machines to commence soon.
Leathal "features"? Heavens no! Robots are dangerous, though, and it's such a tragedy that our head accountant ignored the warning lights and signs around the robot. Not to speak ill of the departed, but he really should have been more careful.
Maybe if he wasnt carrying an armload of paper (paper that looked like an equipment audit report, which sadly burned in the post accident fire), he would have been more observant.