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Keep up’ links: 06/09/09

With the end of the holidays the number of really  links went down so it took some time to gather some must see articles , here's my choice:

• OCZ to sell the Z-Drive p84 PCI-Express SSD, a high performance flash drive on top of a PCI-Express architecture with impressive specifications: Read up to 870 mb/s and write up to 760 mb/s (traditional hard drive are around 60 mb/s for both write and read). The p84 will be available in three capacities: 250Gb, 500Gb and 1To (from $1,561$ to $3,369). (via Mac
• 67 Terabytes for $7,867: Petabytes on a budget. This amazing article has been retweeted all around the web and deserves it. Backblaze provides simple and accessible online backup with unlimited storage for only $5 / month. To do so, they had to figure out how to store hundred of petabytes in a reliable, scalable and low cost way. They describe in details how they built their own solution, really cool. (via twitter)
• Kernel 2.6.31 to speed up Linux Desktop: Cool announcement as I was really getting upset with my work station on Linux: "As the Linux community looks forward to another kernel release, the kernel hackers have been working on improving the memory management so that the X desktop responsiveness is doubled under high memory pressure. The result is an improved desktop experience. Benchmarks on memory-tight desktops show clock time and major faults reduced by 50 per cent, and pswpin numbers (memory reads from disk) are reduced to about one-third." (via Slashdot).
• Software Pricing, Are we doing it wrong ? A quite old post (I'm one month late on this one.. :/) but definitely worth the read. A simple quote to tease you: "the idea that software should be priced low enough to pass the average user's "why not" threshold is a powerful one."
• Other interesting things: TinyEye, search images by uploading one (doesn't work that well unfortunately..). Yet another Hadoop post: Hadoop continues to excite the cloud.