Chapter 217 Who Said Xiaguo Technology Company Can't Create Miracles?
(I feel so much pain! It hurts so much! It hurts so much!)
In the era before solid-state disks came out, large-capacity storage media was dominated by mechanical hard disks.
Mechanical hard drives are loved by many people because of their simple technology and relatively cheap price.
The mechanical disk market is also occupied by two international giants, one is Western Digital and the other is Seagate.
Most of the mechanical disk capacities on the market are divided into 20G, 40G, 50G and 80G types.
The most commonly used ones are 20G and 40G. These two specifications are generally used in personal computers, and 20G is also widely used in notebook computers.
Since Xia State had not yet joined the WTO at this time, almost all mechanical hard drives were imported, so the price of a single mechanical hard drive was also very expensive.
Take a 40G Seagate mechanical hard drive as an example. The price on the market is around 500 yuan. Its price is so expensive that not everyone can afford it.
This is why those who can afford a personal computer in this era are rich, because according to the current prices of computer accessories, the total price of a personal computer with moderate performance will be more than 8,000.
If you want a personal computer with slightly smoother performance, you can easily spend 10,000 yuan.
Lianxiang also began to prosper from this time, and its method of success was to take advantage of the asymmetry of consumer information.
Consumers want to configure a computer, but they have no channels to purchase parts.
Lianxiang uses its advantages to centrally purchase various parts and components, then assembles them into computers, affixes the Lianxiang brand, and sells them to consumers to earn the price difference.
How much technical content do you think Lianxiang’s behavior has?
It’s true that he doesn’t have much technical content, but he has rich business thinking.
However, it is also a pity that during the 20 years of its rise from the late 1990s to around 2010, Lianxiang always regarded itself as a middleman, forgot about innovation and research and development, and was eventually abandoned by the times.
The packaging-level carbon crystal storage produced by Changtian Technology Carbon Crystal Laboratory this time is a 512-megabyte small carbon crystal storage packaged in regular fan channels.
The total capacity is available in two specifications: 80g and 160 lg.
Of course, if Changtian Technology is willing, it can also set up more fan channels to increase the capacity of carbon crystal storage after packaging.
However, this will cause the reading speed between sectors to slow down, which is detrimental to the future development of the product.
Rather than increasing fan channels, Chen Xiao will focus more on expanding the capacity of the carbon crystal itself.
Similarly, Changtian Technology can also make some small-sized encapsulated carbon crystal storage.
But Chen Xiao thinks it's not necessary.
If Changtian Technology wants to do something, it must occupy the high-end market.
Among them, 80g is the current limit of traditional commercial mechanical hard drives. How to use rings like carbon crystals to encapsulate 20g storage is definitely a waste of resources.
Chen Xiao placed the complete 80g packaged carbon crystal storage on the table in the conference room and asked the staff to demonstrate it.
The conference room was filled with members of the project.
There are scientific research staff from Changtian Technology, as well as experts and scholars from the Physics Laboratory of the Xia Academy of Sciences.
As a rule, encapsulated carbon crystal storage is commercialized, and the laboratory has installed corresponding control chips and interfaces with traditional mechanical hard disks in the packaging equipment.
In this way, Changtian Technology's products can be seamlessly integrated with computer products on the market.
The staff of Changtian Technology connected the encapsulated carbon crystal storage to a computer.
And the original Western Digital mechanical hard drive of this computer was removed.
This is an average computer configuration, not particularly good, nor particularly bad.
The CPU is Pen III800MHZ, the memory is Kingston 128M, 815EP motherboard, GF4-64M graphics card, and the hard drive is Western Digital 40G.
From a 20-year perspective, this configuration will look like garbage.
Many people may think that this configuration will cause lag when playing Minesweeper.
But from the perspective of 2001, this kind of computer was quite satisfactory. If any family could equip such a computer, then the family's income should be considered good.
The technicians removed the mechanical hard drive and installed it. After installing the carbon crystal storage, they used the oldest method to install the computer.
Windows XP has not yet come out, and the computer is installed with win98.
Hu Mingqiu and others didn't bother to sit down at all. They quickly stood up and gathered around the computer.
The carbon crystal hard drive was successfully installed, debugged successfully, and the system was installed successfully.
The encapsulated carbon crystal storage has already shown its powerful performance when the system is installed.
It is extremely fast when installing the system.
If you use an ordinary mechanical hard disk to install the system and install it through a CD image, it will take about an hour at least.
But the installation was also done using a CD image, and the carbon crystal hard drive took less than 15 minutes.
Its speed is beyond everyone's imagination.
In other words, when you see the hard disk, it should have reached the theoretical speed of the computer.
Once such a product comes out, traditional mechanical hard drives will have no place to survive.
Experts and scholars at the Xia Academy of Sciences Physics Laboratory are not only concerned about the carbon crystal storage itself, but also the physical properties of this material.
Soon, relevant experimental materials were distributed to physics laboratory experts and scholars.
These experimental data are all related materials that have been jointly researched by researchers from the Physics Laboratory of the Xia Academy of Sciences and Changtian Technology in recent times.
It's just that the scientific researchers are divided into different categories, so they conduct different stages of research.
When Changtian Technology Laboratory put together these research results.
Only then did everyone realize what an amazing thing they had become.
Especially in the Physics Laboratory of the Xia Guoan Academy of Sciences, during this period of experiments, everyone has a deeper understanding of the important position that the silicon carbide crystal color center plays in the performance of the entire material.
These scientific research results are beyond the reach of the Xia Academy of Sciences.
We are very lucky to be able to cooperate with Changtian Technology. Without this cooperation opportunity, we may not be able to explore the secrets of silicon carbide material crystals in our lifetime.
Hu Mingqiu looked at Chen Xiao at this time, his eyes completely lost the arrogance and contempt he had shown some time ago, but showed absolute obedience and admiration.
In the laboratory, scientific research results speak for themselves. The more scientific research results you have, the greater your right to speak.
Hu Mingqiu now regrets it very much. If he had not complained at the beginning, he should have just done some research in the core department of the laboratory instead of doing some odd jobs, so he did not dare to complain.
Hu Mingqiu knew very well that this time some research results on the color center of silicon carbide crystals were enough to shock the entire physics world.