We're moving into the new year, and what could kick off a new year better than new technology? I've compiled a list of 5 advances that will change technology in 2010 and beyond.
1. Peripheral Connection: USB 3.0 - With higher speeds and more power, USB 3.0 will be used in more devices soon. Not only does it provide much higher speeds and higher power when you need it, but it also offers a more power-efficient system.
2. Wireless Data Transfer: 4G - With a faster data rate, 4G will offer better wireless connection to web-based content.
3. Web Design Markup: HTML 5 - New tags such as <audio>, <video>, <header>, <footer>, and <nav> will be game changers in web design.
4. Storage: Solid State Drives - Solid state drives are faster than hard-disk drives. With Seagate entering this fast-changing field with their Pulsar, Solid State drives should be more popular and may find their way into some desktop computers.
5. Circuitry: Memristor - With the introduction of memory that could retain information without power, computers and other devices could boot instantaneously. Although the memristor is the farthest from completion, it has the most potential to change technology.
Just to clarify for the people who don't know. A "Solid State Drive" meaning it has no moving parts, and is flash memory. Just like 8GB thumb drive you can find at most stores except with a lot more storage capacity. Typically flash memory is a lot faster than your normal hard-drive disc setup.
As solid state drives get larger in size, it is going to revolutionize laptop design. Mix this with virtualization, & computing gets very exciting.
I believe it's already very exciting myself. I'm ready to see what 2010 brings!
Quote:Mix this with virtualization, & computing gets very exciting.
Are you talking about virtual reality?
As the middle of the year has come and gone, I thought I would revive this thread and give an update.
If you've noticed, there have been commercials for 4g phones recently (mainly the Evo from Sprint), and more will probably follow. Also, HTML 5 is being implemented on various websites, and various browsers are picking up support for the technology. As a compliment to HTML 5, CSS 3 is also being supported at the same time. This combination makes new styles for web design possible. It's about time the internet gets a new look, and I personally hope to utilize these new standards. Will they be implemented on Technofyed? You'll just have to wait and see.
The other three technologies I predicted to advance in 2010 are advancing, but they don't seem to be affecting the electronics industry as much as the other two. Not yet. There are still nearly five months left in the year. USB 3.0 seems to be the most promising of the others, as there are a few motherboards that support the 3.0 standard. In the next generation of computers, USB 3.0 motherboards may be common. Solid state drives have been around for a while, and as their prices drop, their popularity will increase. Finally, the memristor is still being developed.
(08-08-2010 01:49 AM)RWenger Wrote: [ -> ]Solid state drives have been around for a while, and as their prices drop, their popularity will increase.
I probably will never have a SSD at least as long as disk drives are around. For one they will probably never be as cheap per gb as compared to a traditional disk drive. For another thing, with the usage that windows puts on the system partition I'd be afraid that it would die off too quickly for me to get my money's worth. Besides I don't do anything on my computer that requires that kind of speed.
I believe they would be much more useful for a laptop than they would be for a desktop. I say that because (correct me if I'm wrong) disk drives are vulnerable to being damaged if bumped, moved, or shaken while solid state drives are not (or not as much anyways).
(08-08-2010 08:01 PM)RWenger Wrote: [ -> ]I believe they would be much more useful for a laptop than they would be for a desktop. I say that because (correct me if I'm wrong) disk drives are vulnerable to being damaged if bumped, moved, or shaken while solid state drives are not (or not as much anyways).
I might be wrong but I believe that they have protected them better.
There are certainly more sensitive parts than the hard drive.
I agree with townsbg on this one. A mechanical hard drive can fail from head crash, controller card failure, in other words all kinds of mechanical failures. A solid state drive removes all of this. It can only fail from ESD.
Other than the obvious a main benefit to solid state drives would be the life span. Mechanical HDD's tend to fail after several years whereas a SSD should last many years. Maybe indefinitely... Getting rid of any moving parts is always a plus. The finalization of memristors, SSD technology will improve extensively. We could have the typical thumb drive size that's capable of holding several terabytes or more!
So using a SSD as the system partition wouldn't wear it out faster?
How would a SSD wear out? There is nothing mechanical.
Isn't a SSD somewhat like the equivalent of a very high-capacity flash drive?
My understanding is that it's flash storage on a SATA/IDE controller card.
(08-12-2010 11:17 PM)no2pencil Wrote: [ -> ]How would a SSD wear out? There is nothing mechanical.
Burn out the capacitors maybe? IDK thats what I heard.
Capacitors fail on boards all the time. So it's not like SSDs are pushing any new grounds for this. I would much rather replace a blown capacitor than a drive head.
No i meant where the data is stored. I probably used the wrong term.
I may be wrong, and haven't fully researched memristor. My understanding is the memristor basically being a capacitive resistor. Due to it's capacitance it can store it's state without a constant supply of electrons.