Maxtor goes large with external HDDs
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The latest 120GB model ships in the US 'in early February' and carries a manufacturer's suggested retail price (MSRP)of $299.95. You can buy it also online through MaxtorDirect.
Maxtor is retaining the 40GB Personal Storage model - this has an MSRP of $199.
The line is aimed at people who need extra storage capacity but would really rather not open up the computers to install a new hard disk. It also treads on Iomega's toes, as people who only need bigger hard disks (and not bigger storage media), have lesson reason to purchase Zip drives.
Super-Net has overcome these problems by implementing Nortel's Quality of Service on Ethernet switching.
QoS allocates priorities to some streams of data so critical applications get higher priority during periods of network congestion. To test the difference in performance, CeNTIE loaded Super-Net lightly at 9Gbps -- roughly the same as Sydney's phone system traffic at peak-hour.
Then, without using QoS, it put the last 1Gbps in, so the network was totally congested.
"First the video freezes, the haptics disappear, then the remote end starts wobbling and jerking and you're wondering what the hell's happening," Dr Economou said.
"Then we increase the QoS for the video stream and after about 10 seconds the video resyncs and bang, you've got video. But the haptics link is still broken so we increase the priority on the haptics traffic and bang, it's working again.
"The critical applications have a high priority so they're getting through no matter what."
The 10Gbps Ethernet will become very important in the next few years.
It's competing head-on with Sonet, the current standard in metropolitan area networks, Dr Economou said.