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The Bomb (Pigeon John):
I did plenty of DD, it seems most issues have been solved with BIOS updates.....there was a report of at least one going up in smoke with a pre-production version, but that has also been fixed via BIOS....(a voltage control issue, made worse when paired with a specific Corsair power supply that also had a firmware issue, and not shutting down when an overcurrent occured)...
http://www.legitreviews.com/intel-x99-motherboard-goes-up-in-smoke-for-reasons-unknown_150008
BTW, since X99 is relatively new, many motherboards had growing pains of varying sorts....
LR isn’t the only site that has had a board go up in smoke as Michael Larabel over at Phoronix had an X99 board go up in smoke as well. He was not using the same brand of motherboard or power supply model, but to see X99 boards failing this early in the game is alarming.
take a look at this beauty I recently ordered, getting populated with this bad boy 64GB DDR4 kit (8 sticks of 8GB, only 4 shown below!!!).....I might need seatbelts when my build is done!!!!
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813132260
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820233715
http://www.asus.com/us/Motherboards/X99DELUXE/
http://www.corsair.com/en-us/dominator-platinum-series-64gb-8-x-8gb-ddr4-dram-2400mhz-c14-memory-kit-cmd64gx4m8a2400c14
HGST Ultrastar He8 HUH728080ALE600 (0F23267) 8TB 7200 RPM 128MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5" Helium Platform Enterprise Hard Disk Drives
$652.99
In stock.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822145969
There’s no word on pricing yet but Western Digital says, somewhat unbelievably, that the 10TB drive will have the lowest cost-per-gigabyte and power consumption-per-gigabyte of any drive on the market.
Western Digital unveils world’s first 10TB hard drive: Helium-filled, shingled recording
http://www.extremetech.com/computing/189813-western-digital-unveils-worlds-first-10tb-hard-drive-helium-filled-shingled-recording
Leading Companies Around the World Select HGST’s HelioSeal™ Platform for Best Storage Density, Reliability and TCO for Cloud and Enterprise Data Center Storage Applications; More than One Million Units Deployed
With more than one million helium-filled hard disk drives (HDDs) deployed, HGST (@HGSTStorage), a Western Digital company (NASDAQ: WDC) today announced it has achieved a new milestone in reliability as the only manufacturer with drives field-proven and rated for two and a half (2.5) million hours mean time between failure (MTBF). Today’s news demonstrates that HGST’s helium HDDs are poised to become the mainstream choice for data center applications where storage density, reliability and power efficiency are paramount. Now shipping its second generation HelioSeal Platform drives, HGST is shifting its volume mix and ramping Helium production to meet strengthening customer demand across cloud and mainstream data center applications.
HGST Ultrastar He8 - Helium filled HDD, 8TB (Photo: Business Wire)
HGST Ultrastar He8 - Helium filled HDD, 8TB (Photo: Business Wire)
Path To True TCO
With strong market acceptance from the largest cloud service providers, Internet giants, OEMs and businesses around the world, including Netflix, Huawei, Inspur, HP, OVH, Starline, Buffalo, DataON, DDN and Racktop to name a few, the HGST HelioSeal Platform represents proven innovation in high-capacity HDD technology and reliability, while lowering true total cost of ownership (TCO). While there are a number of ways to increase hard drive capacity, HGST’s HelioSeal platform is the only technology to provide unmatched reliability and a long-term path for delivering higher capacity storage on a standard 3.5-inch HDD form factor, while lowering power and drive temperature at the same time. All this equates to best storage density, TB-per-system weight, TB/Sq. foot and lowest watt/TB for enterprise and cloud data centers.
Since introducing the technology in 2013, HGST has been steadily increasing volume production to enable an expanding set of customers to enjoy the proven benefits of its Helium-filled technology. Now in its second generation, HGST’s HelioSeal platform is gaining broader customer support and the company is increasing production of its Ultrastar® He8, 8TB drives – the highest capacity available in the market that delivers full performance for all capacity-optimized applications. HGST’s HelioSeal technology allows this to be accomplished at standard 7,200 RPM performance with low power while competitive air based products typically reduce RPM and performance to achieve lower power.
Both the Ultrastar® He8 and the Ultrastar He6 families now feature an unprecedented reliability rating of 2.5M hours MTBF. Due to its patented manufacturing process and the inherent benefits of Helium, HGST’s HelioSeal drives are field proven and have a more robust design margin than traditional air based drives. The HGST Helium drives are hermetically-sealed, which keep air, humidity and other contaminates out of the drive, allowing them to be used in harsh or ambient environments. The Helium inside the drives also reduces disk vibration and flutter, adding to even greater reliability.
HGST will continue to extend its capacity leadership by combining two complementary technologies: HelioSeal technology and Shingled Magnetic Recording (SMR) in its industry-leading 10TB helium-drives. The additive nature of these two technologies, combined with the economies of scale provided by increased Helium-drive manufacturing capacity, will further enhance HGST’s TCO advantage. HGST expects that by 2017, 50 percent of its enterprise capacity drive shipments will be Helium.
“Based on the patented HelioSeal technology, HGST’s Ultrastar Helium-filled drives are the only drives that improve data center TCO on virtually every level—from storage density, power and cooling costs, to reliability, capacity and more. We also believe it is the only way to get to higher densities therefore higher capacities while maintaining reliability. All of these factors contribute to defining the true TCO of the data center,” said Brendan Collins, vice president of product marketing, HGST. “With more than one million drives deployed, the rapid industry adoption of this revolutionary technology affirms our commitment to Helium as the foundation for all future scaling technologies. With a valued-based pricing strategy in place and manufacturing investments to promote the increased volumes, HGST is on an accelerated path to delivering higher capacities and better TCO into existing and future form factor designs.”
Driving Down Data Center TCO: The Value of HelioSeal Technology
With the amount of new data being created and replicated doubling every two years, data center architects have a lot to consider when planning for future growth. Capacity growth is only one piece of the equation. The additional power, cooling and floor space required to operate that extra storage is another, and can add up. Leveraging the inherent benefits of Helium, HGST’s HelioSeal technology delivers today’s lowest TCO for enterprise and cloud data centers through:
Greater power efficiency – Disks spin more easily in a helium-filled environment, resulting in 23% lower operating power. The 8TB helium drives consume just 5.1 watts during idle operation, a 44% reduction in watts-per-TB compared to conventional 6TB air-based HDDs, creating greener data centers with reduced energy costs and carbon footprint.
Leading storage density – Helium is essential to maintaining the required reliability for future generation drives beyond 8TB. Industry-leading 8TB capacity in a 3.5-inch HDD footprint, which are plug-and-play in virtually any data center environment, delivers 33% more storage capacity for mainstream applications than competitive 6TB offerings.
Lower cooling requirements – HGST Helium-filled drives typically run 4°–5°C cooler, which lowers power and cooling costs and leads to better field reliability, allowing HGST to increase its MTBF specification for the He6 and He8 drives.
Better weight-per-TB – Up to 38% lower weight-per-TB for improved environmental conditions in high-density deployments and allows for more storage capacity where building codes enforce floor loading limits.
Environmental robustness – Use them virtually anywhere, including ambient air, free cooling data centers. Many air-filled drives use a breather filter leading to reliability problems when used in environments with high levels of carbon or dust, or in high altitudes. This problem does not exist with HelioSeal drives as they’re hermetically sealed.
Value $/TB – Higher volume production for its second-generation 8TB HelioSeal HDD leads to lower cost to the market.
HGST is shipping its 6TB Ultrastar He6 and 8TB Ultrastar He8 helium-filled drives in volume today. HGST’s 10TB Helium HDDs with SMR are sampling with select customers. For more information, please visit: http://www.hgst.com.
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Quote Sheet:
Qiu Long, President, Server Business, IT Product Line, Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd., said, “To support the customers’ rapid business growth as well as to efficiently scale, servers and massive data centers must optimize TCO to help manage capacity, power, cooling and storage density. We congratulate HGST on their one millionth helium hard drive deployment. HGST’s HelioSeal platform is an excellent innovation, delivering advanced technology to help meet the growing capacity and TCO needs in the data center.”
“HGST’s HelioSeal drives are ideal storage solutions which offer the lowest TCO for hyperscale cloud storage applications. In an open-air datacenter like ours, we demand the highest storage capacity and the lowest power consumption without sacrificing performance and reliability. HelioSeal Platform can protect the hard drives from contaminates in the air and enable the drives to operate in ambient environments,” said Li Jin, Inspur group vice president.
“Congratulations to HGST on its one millionth helium drive deployment,” said David Fullagar, director of content delivery architecture at Netflix. “We stream millions of movies and TV shows to consumers around the world, 24/7, so there’s incredible demand on our content delivery infrastructure. As an early adopter and proponent of HGST’s HelioSeal platform, we quickly saw the benefits of this technology as it delivers the best storage density, reliability and the lowest power for our video streaming appliances.”
“To accommodate the increasing amount of data running through enterprise datacenters today, our customers are realizing the need for higher-density storage solutions,” said Trevor Schick, senior vice president, HP Enterprise Group Global Supply Chain and Quality. “HGST’s HelioSeal drives provide HP customers with increased capacity to maximize datacenter efficiency, without incurring excessive costs.”
“Being at the cutting edge of technology innovation is part of our DNA. When we first heard about HGST’s helium drives we knew we had to be an early adopter,” explained Miroslaw Klaba, vice president of R&D at OVH. “HGST’s 6TB drives were integrated into the OVH data centres over a year ago. We’ve been impressed with the overall performance and reliability of the drives. HGST’s has helped us to optimise efficiency within the OVH data centres. We plan to continue to integrate the HelioSeal platform as it is an integral part of our data centre design moving forward.”
“Our disk arrays from the RAIDdeluxe RDL-BD64 series with 64 hard drive trays in a 4U rack already provide massive storage capacity, and with HGST’s 8TB HelioSeal hard drives we can achieve up to 512TB with substantially lower power consumption,” said Bernd Widmaier, sales director of Starline Computer GmbH. “Through the efficient utilization of space and the higher capacity of 8TB per hard drive, our clients immediately have several advantages. The total cost of ownership is lowered through the higher packing density and lower power consumption along with higher storage capacity with continued high data transfer rates and reduced space required in the rack.”
“We want to congratulate HGST on achieving its more than one millionth Helium hard drive deployment. HGST Helium-filled hard drives are the most suitable solution to increase storage capacity and lower TCO and meets other recent requirements for data center applications,” said Mr. Taiji Watanabe, director, member of the Board General Manager, NAS Business Unit, Buffalo Inc. “HelioSeal Technology attracts customer’s attention around the world. Buffalo will continue to offer the best business solutions to our customers using HGST drives.”
“HGST’s HelioSeal Helium HDD platform has become the de facto standard in our mainstream enterprise Cluster-in-a-Box storage appliances where capacity density, power efficiency and reliability are paramount,” said Trenton R. Baker, vice president business development, DataON Storage. “HGST’s HelioSeal platform is revolutionary, and we are honored to be one of the first partners to adopt this technology. Helium-based HDDs provide a path for higher-capacity storage, as evident where the DataON CiB-9470 V12 delivers better than a one-half petabyte in a single appliance offering the best $/TB, watt/TB, TB-per-system weight and TB/Sq. foot for our big data and cloud hosting customers.”
“Industry leading performance and reliability are critical factors for DDN customers dealing with large scale, high performance Big Data and Web/Cloud environments. Over the last year, DDN has worked with HGST to deliver customers fast, high capacity storage solutions built with HGST HelioSeal drives. With one of the largest capacity drives in the market and industry-leading reliability, we are pleased to build on our relationship with the addition of the new 8TB Helium drives to our award-winning SFA12K and SFA7700 systems, along with the SS7000 and SS8460 enclosures.” Molly Rector, Chief Marketing Officer, DDN.
“The HGST Helium drives enable us to offer a cloud with revolutionary density and reduced power usage, which facilitates economically efficient storage of PBs of data for our customers,” said Jonathan Halstuch, CTO and co-founder, Racktop systems.
About HGST
HGST is a wholly owned and independently operated subsidiary of Western Digital Corporation (NASDAQ: WDC). HGST sets the pace for storage innovation and is helping the world harness the power of data. Building on its reputation for producing reliable HDDs, SSDs, and developing tighter integration with software, HGST is optimizing storage efficiency and reliability for today’s data-centric economy. Founded by the creators of the hard drive, HGST serves a broad range of market segments, including enterprise, cloud, OEM, mobile, consumer electronics and personal storage. HGST was established in 2003 and maintains its U.S. headquarters in San Jose, California. For more information, please visit www.hgst.com.
This press release contains forward-looking statements, including statements relating to expected availability dates for HDD and/or SSD storage products. These forward-looking statements are subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed in the forward-looking statements, including changes in markets, demand, uncertainties related to the development, introduction, and timing of products based on new technologies, and other risks and uncertainties listed in Western Digital's recent SEC filings to which your attention is directed. Readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements, which speak on as of the date hereof, and HGST/WD undertakes no obligation to update these forward-looking statements to reflect subsequent events or circumstances.
One GB is equal to one billion bytes, and one TB equals 1,000 GB (one trillion bytes). Actual capacity will vary depending on operating environment and formatting.
HelioSeal and Long Live Data are trademarks, and Ultrastar is a registered trademark of HGST, a Western Digital Company. Western Digital, WD, and the WD logo are registered trademarks of Western Digital Technologies, Inc. All other trademarks are properties of their respective owners.
MTBF is a statistical representation of drive reliability under median operating conditions. MTBF ratings are not intended to predict an individual drive’s reliability and does not constitute a warranty.
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yep, buy STX and WDC on any short term pullbacks.......
old as the hills, even used by the Germans in WWII
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coal_gas#Gas_production_in_Germany
BTW, I know of another penny stock that went BK after many years of saying they were developing FT process for KY coal......it was a total BS share selling scheme that reeled in many people, so I would be wary of being associated with coal gasification, especially considering the history here.....
(OK, time for the declarations that PTOI process is so superior digesting everything thrown in its "hole"!!!!)
PS: from your link
Liquid yields of pyrolysis and Karrick processes are generally low for practical use for synthetic liquid fuel production.[10] Furthermore, the resulting liquids are of low quality and require further treatment before they can be used as motor fuels. In summary, there is little possibility that this process will yield economically viable volumes of liquid fuel.[10]
are the crayons still in the trailers????
It ain't true if you don't have pics....
what is that, the Schrodinger's Cat method of investing????....it doesn't exist unless seen personally???
BTW, their trash trailers have been (as they say) well *documented* by other sources in the past.....but believe whatever....it's well known the place looks like a dump site.....feel free to take a gander.....
I'm wearing beef perfume from Burger King Japan
(maybe also good for flame grilled penny stock investors!!!)
http://www.theverge.com/2015/4/1/8324503/burger-king-perfume-flame-grilled-fragrance
Sure enough, when I arrived at around 10AM, there were a few people waiting inside for the fragrance, and by the time it went on sale half an hour later there was a line snaking up the staircase......
Words do not exist in the English language to describe what Flame-Grilled Fragrance smells like. It’s something like the burnt-rubber skidmarks left by a box-fresh-MacBook-carrying courier scooter after it crashed into a bacon salt factory. If I ever had to appear on Family Feud and name this scent, "Burger King Whopper" would be a few hundred billion down the list of trillion possibilities.
strange.....he robbed a bank using a gun and/or explosive devices!!!....with mention of a hoax explosive....
(sorry, just skimmed it, maybe there is more detail)
LONG LIVE THE QTIPS OF THE WORLD!!!!
2010:
"Certain municipalities and companies have agreed to provide raw materials to the Company at no cost, or in some instances, the Company is compensated to accept the raw materials. The catalyst costs less than $0.01/litre. There is no guarantee that the raw materials will continue to be available in the amounts and upon terms satisfactory to the Company in every location that would support a Plastic2Oil processor. Consequently, the cost of feedstock is a variable that the Company will have to contend with."
Now (I guess the profit on this stuff is HUGE, ask JB....and despite now being tied to the CPI, it has appreciated significantly faster over the 5 years!!!!)
Catalyst Supply Agreement
The Catalyst Supply Agreement provides that, for the same term as the Technology License and Referral Agreement, the Company will supply the catalyst needed by EcoNavigation for all processors purchased from the Company. EcoNavigation will pay the Company $0.50 per pound for the catalyst, subject to Consumer Price Index adjustments.
PS: and yeah, cute how it was once liters, and now pounds......Rivera masked comparisons by that kind of switcheroo in units as well....
likely that the secret of the amazing catalyst is owned by everybody and nobody.....in their own words:
We rely on trade secrets to protect some of our intellectual property, such as our proprietary catalyst. However, trade secrets are difficult to maintain and protect.
so, when a "founder" walked away, there is absolutely zero that could be done about the amazing secret leaving with him.......
(again, even though it's as valuable as knowing the secret of kitty litter).....
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeolite#Petrochemical_industry
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeolite#Cat_litter
PS: John Rivera used the same tactics, claiming a secret catalyst....so this Co is truly a "recycler" in that sense.....and a common major MB proponent was also in play for both.....
not for the 1st time either!!!!
lien on me:
On or about June 30, 2014, plaintiff National Maintenance Contracting Corp. filed a complaint in the Supreme Court of the State of New York, County of Niagara. On September 10, 2014, plaintiff filed an Amended Complaint. On September 12, 2014, the amended complaint was served upon the Secretary of State of the State of New York. The amended complaint alleges that the Company is indebted to plaintiff in the amount of $137,461.21 on account of work performed by plaintiff for the Company. The amended complaint consists of three causes of action: a first cause of action, for breach of contract; a second cause of action, for an account stated; and a third cause of action, to foreclose on an alleged mechanic’s lien. On November 26, 2014, the Company filed a motion to dismiss the third cause of action on the grounds that plaintiff failed to give the notice of pendency required by Section 17 of the New York State lien law. On March 10, 2015, plaintiff filed a cross motion, seeking an Order permitting plaintiff to file an amended mechanic’s lien nunc pro tunc and to extend same; in the alternative, the cross motion seeks an order permitting plaintiff to file a lis pendens nunc pro tunc. The motion and cross motion are set for hearing on April 15, 2015. The Company cannot predict the outcome of this matter at this time.
I had asked the question over 5 years ago, on this board, WHO "owns" the secret catalyst???????
(not that I think it had any value besides being a penny stock widget, which we can now see very clearly.....)
they don't call him Juicy John for nutin".....good to the last drop....
neato!!! JB can sell them more catalyst.....
Private Placement
On March 6, 2015 the Company entered into Subscription Agreements with one investors (sic) in connection with a private placement of shares of the Company’s common stock and warrants to purchase shares of common stock. The Company agreed to sell and issue to the Purchaser 250,000 shares of its common stock and Warrants to purchase up to an additional 250,000 shares of its common stock. The purchase price per share was $0.10 and the gross proceeds to the Company were $25,000. The Warrants have a three year term, and an exercise price of $0.15 per share of common stock.
monkey on the back:
At December 31, 2014, the company’s accrued expenses include a $237,000 outstanding balance to 2335524 ONTARIO, INC., a business controlled by Mr. John Bordynuik, former Chief of Technology of the Company. This amount represents expenses, including laboratory testing, consumables, catalyst for the processors, and labor costs incurred since 2012 that the company had previously agreed to reimburse.
probably a good bet that this kind of thing is also rampant behind the scenes in penny stock operations.....
IMO most true longs would welcome a discovery phase as to what is really happening here, now and since the beginning.
yes, a total mystery what has been happening "here" since the beginning.....what could possibly have been going on?????
I think 2 simple words would suffice: they lied.....$10 oil was BS, 700 tapes a day was BS, media credits was BS, biggest problem was 35% taxes (MAJOR BS), land rush was BS, P2O ships was BS, too much BS to even list, year after year.....and now selling processors is more of the same BS, just the latest carrot......
PS: but selling shares, two thumbs up reality!!!!....never too cold to sell shares......
I guess in the bigger scheme of things, all the blatant bullshitting about $10 oil from any old crappy plastic using a secret catalyst was a bit more important to shareholders than all the legal subtleties of the wordings in "judgements".....
why people keep arguing about all this is a mystery to me, when the writing has been on the wall for some time now......the major point is the entire thing was one big steaming pile, designed to funnel money upwards to a select few, and nothing will change that simple fact.....
Bingo. There NEVER was any actual $10 oil.....just a difference of opinion on the value of those PTOI secret catalysts......and the public opinion won of course, cause they're the 800 pound Gorilla in the market place.....but I STILL don't get how they can make their OPINION of catalyst value something when they would not even license it in the first place......since when is a penny stock operator qualified to judge VALUE.......lol..........MLM
I think it helps with a hangover as well!!!!!
Alcohol Lovers Should Drink Coffee......
not only that, I thought I saw JB's face shaped like a Cheshire cat in my tea leaves a few times.......then it mysteriously faded away, as if media credit valuations.....
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tasseography#Symbols
Cat: a deceitful friend or relative
IHUB: where February monthly value comes more than once a year!!!!!!
have fun!!!!...
from the "help" button:
To beat Super Planet Crash, create a planetary system that can survive for 500 years.
You can gain more points by adding more bodies (up to 10 bodies). Add bodies by clicking anywhere.
The more massive the body, the more points! From 1 point for an Earth-mass planet, to 30,000 for a stellar companion. But remember, each planet attracts each other gravitationally and you don't want your system to go KABOOM!
You will lose the game if two bodies crash with each other, or if one of the bodies crashes against the 2-AU barrier (the gray circle)
PS: the simulation speed can be increased, decreased, or paused by using the buttons near the lower left (above the help button).....
hope that helped a bit......you can play to "win", or play for points....one loophole though, it's pretty easy (and boring) to play for a "simple win", just start with the default one planet. and speed it up and wait a few minutes until 500 years has passed!!!....but that won't get you many points....so, to me the better goal would be to see how many points you can get....
running your solar system from your link, until a planet was ejected, gave:
Years:
365.2/500
Points
48,585
I have got a few million points, just playing casually, but here are the high scores from the site:
Name High score
1. Dr. Evil muha ha ha ha 203,441,538
2. Saigo 183,212,167
3. MPSI SEVRAK ! 169,772,670
4. MPSI MATTHIEU SCELLES!!!!!!! 166,999,882
5. Harpo Marx 154,378,222
6. niko99 152,657,704
7. MPSI Sevrak 150,899,698
8. TENMU 149,960,819
9. MPSI kikob 148,939,314
10. rob a dob flob get a job1 147,229,657
11. SamM 145,220,487
12. I am BETTER THAN YOU ROTHWELL 145,191,598
13. samos 143,611,608
14. Sunius 141,471,492