* Posts by nate1981

4 publicly visible posts • joined 4 Jun 2014

Hot NAND: Samsung wheels out 30TB SSD monster

nate1981

Is it me or does this drive look twice as high as a normal 2.5" drive? Is that a actual picture of the drive?

Streaming speaker biz Sonos lays offs workers as it finds its voice

nate1981

Sonos and everything like it is the half ass way to do multiroom audio. It is not quality coming from a mono little plastic speaker box. The real way is to have in ceiling and in wall speakers with keypads coming from a central amplification system. Sonos is the equivalent of using a battery powered radio with your cell phone to the line input.

NetApp consciously uncouples from 500+ staff

nate1981

Did I read this right they are laying off Nick Howell a major advocate and resource for NetApp?

Good news for gamers who don't leave the house: SanDisk debuts 24/7 Extreme PRO SSD

nate1981

10 years on any HDD does not make sense. 10 years is a long time. Drives could be 100+ TB and much faster by then.