Life & fun · November 21, 2018
New storage technology
Hi, I have developed a new technology to storage data in computer hard drive. It does have a native compression method that is transparent to OS and makes disk access faster than traditional SSD. It is enabled by some math formulas combined with existing programming principles. A practical implementation has been done in a windows virtual driver. As an example: You can create a virtual machine disk and install a 10GB Windows while in physical storage it only costs a few hundred megabytes, 100MB, 300MB depending on optimization. This short storage allow for memory caching making access way…
New storage technology launched on November 21, 2018 with 9 votes, #942 of 2,709 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches.
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Hi, I have developed a new technology to storage data in computer hard drive. It does have a native compression method that is transparent to OS and makes disk access faster than traditional SSD. It is enabled by some math formulas combined with existing programming principles. A practical implementation has been…
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