Chapter 102: A Huge Hard Drive with a Small Capacity
"Boss, I finally saw you go back to the company!"
In the Computer System Research Department of Feiyue Technology, Cheng Gong said in surprise when he saw Yao Fei, now for Cheng Gong, it is too rare to see Yao Fei, and his current boss is completely a dragon without seeing the end.
"Why, aren't you welcome?"
There are so many colleagues around, this kid really doesn't know how to give Yao Fei, who is the boss, a little face, what he said seems to be that Yao Fei doesn't care about the company all day long and doesn't do his job at all, so he deliberately asked angrily at the moment.
"How dare you, you are the boss, you need to plan every day, we are just running errands, what do you need, please feel free to ...... it"
Cheng Gong obviously doesn't eat Yao Fei's set, this kid doesn't seem to be afraid of Yao Fei since he joined the company, and regards the boss as a fox friend and a dog.
"Don't be poor, go to your office and find out about the situation!"
Ignore the kid and get down to business.
"How's the development of a multitasking operating system going?"
Computer system, which is directly related to the sales of the next generation of personal computer products of Feiyue Technology, Yao Fei certainly has to care about its development process.
"We are still improving the exception handling system, and we need Intel to give us samples of the 80286 chip in advance, so that we can conduct actual testing in advance, and then fully explore the performance of their chips and improve our operating system!"
When it came to work, the expressions of the two immediately changed from relaxed to serious.
"That's no problem, it's my responsibility to create the best conditions for you, I will communicate with Intel as soon as possible, you don't have to worry about chips."
How is the development of large-scale databases going, and are there any problems? ”
Before the application on personal computers, it can only be regarded as a small database system at most, and once CITIC Communications starts to operate, the number of users will definitely be based on 10,000 as the basic unit, and the small database system used in the previous test is absolutely unable to meet the needs of use, so it is imperative to develop a large database system.
And as a person who has come over, Yao Fei certainly knows how the Oracle began, and when it was brilliant, it was second only to Microsoft, which monopolized the computer operating system, and it was extremely awesome.
"Everything is going well, Mr. Bentley has given us a lot of technical and conceptual support in the research and development of the database, and is currently conducting the second phase of pressurization testing to find the problems that the database is prone to in the storage process and increase its operational stability!"
The database is most afraid of unstable operation and resulting in the database system crashing, once such a problem occurs, it will be catastrophic for the business system running on it.
In the selection of databases, the consideration of operational stability is far greater than storage efficiency, capital investment and other aspects, Yao Fei is very aware of this, so at the beginning of the design, he repeatedly emphasized the importance of database system stability.
"Keep working hard, I'll give each of you a big red envelope during the New Year!"
It doesn't matter if the company was small last year, but this year, due to the special employee composition structure of Feiyue Technology Company, Yao Fei used to worry about how to celebrate the holiday, but after thinking about it for a while, he felt that he was purely unhappy with himself on this issue, and this matter directly asked the human resources department to do it according to the customs that the company's employees liked, regardless of whether you want to celebrate Christmas, Spring Festival or other festivals.
After leaving the system R&D department, Yao Fei stayed in the head office for two days to carefully familiarize himself with the company's operating conditions.
After this careful understanding, it was found that the speed of the company's expansion made Yao Fei himself a little surprised, not only the number of people in the company's headquarters increased rapidly, especially the addition of software and hardware technical personnel, that is, the offices established in other countries have as many as 57, as long as the country with a good economic level, there are now offices of Feiyue Technology Company.
"This is the hard drive you made? That's too big and too heavy, right? ”
Looking at the hard disk in front of him, which weighed hundreds of pounds and was about a quarter of a cubic size, Yao Fei said a little incredible, this is really not a good idea, I was startled at first sight, I am used to seeing a small but TB hard disk, and a smaller blade server storage disk array, and now at first glance, when I saw this behemoth in front of him, Yao Fei really couldn't accept it for a while, and the difference between the reality in front of him and the expected Nima was too big.
"Boss, this is the 1GB capacity we developed and designed according to your requirements, this is definitely the most advanced and largest storage hard drive in the world!"
Hearing Yao Fei's words, Zhao Fei, the person in charge of the design and development of the hard disk, was a little unhappy, you must know that in order to develop the guy in front of him, he has led his team members to work overtime every day for 16 hours a day.
Overcoming a series of problems such as the instability of the circuit power supply system, the transformation of the magnetic head, the integration of the drive system, the joint retrieval and storage of data, etc., the current results have been achieved, and their research team has obtained as many as 62 patents on this thing alone, and it can be said that each patent represents a technical method for solving the problem, and there are some other that cannot be patented.
This is their child, the child they have worked so hard to pull up, and now Yao Fei wants to beat their child, Zhao Fei of course they are not happy, not to mention that in their hearts, their child is definitely the best in the world, who has any reason to blame their child.
"I've seen your efforts, it's supposed to be a 16-inch disk, don't you really think it's a bit too big? And it's also more expensive to manufacture than a floppy disk! ”
As far as this thing is concerned, in terms of cost, there are definitely five to six thousand dollars, which is not advantageous at all compared to the cost of about $2.6 for floppy disks, and it also needs a supporting storage system driver, plus high power consumption, this is definitely an audiophile-level device that can only be used by local tyrants.
"Boss, we all know all of this, and we know it very well, but this is already doing our best, if we want to go further, I think we need more time, more high-end manufacturing equipment, and more storage materials!"
The limitations of the times are here, and Zhao Fei and his team members have no choice but to say that they have tried their best, but Yao Fei, the boss, has too high ideals.
"OK, we will discuss the problem of large-capacity hard disk here today, Zhao Fei, if you encounter any difficult problems in these aspects and need help, please feel free to find me, I will be very happy to discuss and learn with you to promote common progress."
In addition, I have to ask again, how are you doing with the development of double-sided floppy disks and the technical reserve of 5.25 hard disks? ”