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Symwave's USB 3.0 SoC is almost ready

USB RAID possible?
Tuesday, 25 August 2009, 15:15

SYMWAVE IS slowly but surely releasing details about its USB 3.0 system on a chip.

The firm is at the Hot Chips conference where it discussed its USB 3.0 System-on-Chip (SoC) storage controller architecture. First mentioned in November last year, Symwave's USB 3.0 SoC is backwards compatible with previous USB incarnations but offers massive throughput gains, from USB 2.0's 480Mbps to as much as 5Gbps.

Basically that means you could transfer a DVD quality movie in less time than it takes to skip forward through the anti-piracy messages.

In a demonstration, the firm discussed the data transfer speed boosts its USB 3.0 SoC will offer and suggested that a RAID system could support up to two serial drives.

The firm announced an embedded security deal with Discretix that it claimed will offer tough encryption for devices. "Discretix's embedded security technology is both powerful and flexible. Not only can it protect storage drives from attachment to unauthorized computers, but it also supports the high transfer speeds required for USB 3.0 configurations," said Chris Thomas, Symwave's chief technology officer.

Symwave said that external storage products from OEM partners are expected later this year. Just in time for all those Windows 7 backups. µ

 

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Bubble headed press release gargling

Yes you *could* transfer a DVD is less time than [...].

*Except* for all the other bottlenecks in the computer/media player/whatever.

posted by : hoohoo, 25 August 2009 Complain about this comment
PLUG STYLE IS ENCRYPTION....

What ever happened to Ole days ,when data traveled upon ONE wire, Like Cable or Dsl, still does. ide is basicly encryption scheme to sell hardware, so are ALL of data storage & delivery of today, in own unique controlled fashion.

Previous:one line at, something, little better, ok faster & too fast, all set parameters within machine itaelf. only question is rate & voltage.

Mommie & Daddy did it, So Can You, Just NOT Now. Maybe lost forever, yet that cables Not exactly slow or simple.

DRASHEK

posted by : Oh.boy...., 25 August 2009 Complain about this comment
@Drashek and all the other stupid robots

IDE? Seriously? Umm... how about SATA?

posted by : Mike, 25 August 2009 Complain about this comment
Yes, More So, Mike IS Mike....

on ide there are bunch o' parrallel lines out, if one breaks not big deal, it was for having multiple streams go to multiple place with exact same data, like printer, display, keyboard & mouse all interacting with stream. yet you could clip into one pin for data stream & get whole thing, Hardware encryption in controllers.

S.ata use d.ata opps, mistype, data that is broken up, so NO one line is same as others at any one time . its faster & assembly in/out is faster,having seperate dedicated lines less prone to massive overkill, buffer overrun everywhere & more delicate.More capable of running near BURST speed of HDD yet it is even more encryption of data thru controller, asemebling one coherent stream into guts. Now if Mike Where Charlie, ori f Charlie Where Mike, is two very differnt events upon what was once two people, just outcome is very differnt. Thats en.crypt.ion on internet, its Facebook, its meaningless law enforcement & wide open world of Anything goes.

Additional artificial encryption isn't hardwared in, so its infinite flexiblity bafffles most, except there must be secret back door. there always is: CHARLIE-X. Who was Mike & denies name IS Charlie.
Helpful?
drashek Philosopher of Logic.

posted by : Parrial...., 25 August 2009 Complain about this comment
SSD two way simulataneous & every 8th letter....

On ide & sata HDD head only can read or write, better is SSD Potential to read & write at Same time, not waiting in buffer cue as much. Plug just indicates type of controller, so bit of exag, yet controller is spot where data is taken & prepared for final destination, especially improved SSD one,be great.
Encrytption is like taking every 8th letter & making new sentence from that, hard & standardize, like controller might pass bits about thru gate timing & command. While true data encryption is manipulation of dsata in similar way, changing it, then rewriting it back thru process or code that forms true data at other end or intented for useage.

DEr Germans ShitLoads of Prisoners Vil B Released In Two seperate Lines, YAYA.Except in
Case of Urinal.Holding for Fartilizer:C TM PP ME.

DRASHEK

posted by : something...., 25 August 2009 Complain about this comment
You can ALREADY do RAID over USB

Its a bit slow, but the key word is MDADM. Got one working a few years back, it was very stable. Although maybe the slowness had something to do with the 233mhz processor .. ARM. Yeah it was Linux, I don't think Windows could muster such a feat. A nice thing, its not tied to a raid controller, I can and did transplant the array to a faster machine. No fuss, it just worked.

posted by : MrPicky, 27 August 2009 Complain about this comment
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