“Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak says that the tech sector is on the verge of a revolution driven by low-power, high-performance disk storage,” James Rogers reports for TheStreet.com.
“Wozniak, who nabbed the role of chief scientist at storage startup Fusion-io earlier this year, touted the company’s Solid State Disk (SSD) technology at an event at the New York Stock Exchange on Thursday,” Rogers reports. “‘I think that we’re on the verge of a revolution in computer storage architecture,’ explained the technology guru and reality TV star. ‘We have the fastest SSD-based on NAND Flash in the world.'”
“Fusion-io, based in Salt Lake City, recently received a strategic investment from Samsung and claims to have developed a better alternative to hard disk drives that also takes up less space,” Rogers reports. “‘Fusion-io attracts me because they do more with less and that is the key tenet of my own engineering life,’ added Wozniak, who helped drive the home computer revolution during his time at Apple. ‘When things are clean and simple, it’s easier to understand — the best hardware and software products seem to have that simplicity.'”
Full article here.
More with less is the “Woz Way” — this could be interesting.
More with less, sounds like my love life.
More with less, sounds like my paycheck.
Who can argue with the inventor of segway polo? I mean, really?
I reckon Woz’d make a great Santa Claus.
Woz seems like a great guy (who can’t dance for shit). However, saying that “the tech sector is on the verge of a revolution driven by low-power, high-performance disk storage” seems like a bit of a stretch, even for a geek.
The original Mac was a revolution
The iPod was a revolution
Mac OS X was a revolution
The iPhone was a revolution
Low-power, high performance disk storage–not so much
I like Woz, a true tech guy.
Not like that dodgy used car salesman Jobs.
When it’s affordable it will be a revolution.
I like Woz too. I wish that he’d come back to Apple.
Fusion-io, huh? That just kind rolls right off the tounge, doesn’t it?
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‘Steve Wozniak says that the tech sector is on the verge of a revolution driven by low-power, high-performance disk storage’
Does he say this simply because he…’nabbed the role of chief scientist at storage startup Fusion-io earlier this year’
I like Woz but this seems a little like self promotion
@84 Mac Guy-
“Low-power, high performance disk storage–not so much.” If you’ve been around since ’84 (I’ve had an Apple Computer since ’78) then you should know it’s all relative. You may not care, nor need to, about a nanotechnology revolution that will allegedly benefit transistors, but a “chief scientist” would. What The Woz is calling a “revolution” today will be what the marketing guy, Jobs, will call an iWatch, or iGlasses tomorrow.
Woz is the technology guru; he can say whatever he wants whenever he wants.
Low cost, solid state, hi density storage… will change the world as we know it.
don’t doubt it.
Thurston Moore with Les Paul in any key.
The problem with his hole comment is he is discussing SSD and calling them Disk Storage, there is no disk in an SSD.
OK I reread the story and Was called it what it is and the less than credible reporter called it disk storage.
Remember he made the original Apple ][ disk drive with only a few chips, instead of the big drives of IBM.
What’s a “hole” comment?
Actually imagine a drive with a lighter power consumption, matched with efficient display- you end up with a very energy efficient device. Add supercapacitors and we have not oy a device that runs longer but charges faster. Suppose then, with such a device, being able to trickle charge it from sunlight or artificial lighting? Issue with solarpower devices is the consumption and charge time. Maybe that could be behind us
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WOZ was was
fuzzy wozzy woz a bear,
fuzzy wozzy had no hair!
fuzzy wozzy wazn’t fuzzy woz he?!
@me:
Have you always been retarded?
No alansky, I was really smart once.
Then I got kicked in the head by a horse, got a Mac and started hanging out at MDN.
@me:
One should never attempt to operate machinery after being kicked in the head by a horse. As for hanging out at MDN—this, too, can be dangerous to your health.
I like Woz but this seems a little like self promotion. —Buster
The Woz has been on a non-stop self-promotion binge for several years now. What else is new?