The rise of nanometers

A total of 200 Lilong 1 glass discs were submitted to Peking, as well as supporting burners, readers, and storage cabinets.

After comprehensive evaluation by relevant departments, experts and engineers, the Lilong 1 glass disc will soon enter the license approval stage. It is estimated that the birth certificate and other related documents will be issued soon.

Just when Long Totem Company sent Lilong 1 to Peking for review.

July 24th.

Huang Xiuyuan had just done an experiment in the laboratory and returned to the office to take a nap.

Around five o'clock in the afternoon, he handled some official duties and was about to talk to Lin Baijie about something when Zhang Lei hurried to his office.

"What's the emergency?"

Zhang Lei panted slightly: "Huh, Mr. Huang, something happened to Tonghua Iron and Steel Co., Ltd. The general manager assigned by Jianlong to Tonghua Iron and Steel Co., Ltd. was beaten to death."

After a moment of silence, Huang Xiuyuan sighed. What should have happened happened. He turned on his Internet-only computer and searched on the Internet.

All major media are reporting on this matter, and Tongzhi Iron and Steel-related news has occupied the top spot among the instant hot spots on the Time Blog.

The occurrence of this incident will profoundly affect the future of the entire country of China.

He had no intention of getting involved in this matter. After all, the water was very deep. He casually told Xiao Yingnan to tell Fengmin Agriculture in the three eastern provinces not to get involved in this matter.

Huang Xiuyuan had previously planned to acquire Tonghua Iron and Steel Co., Ltd., but now after thinking about it, he gave up the idea. After all, in addition to consuming recycled scrap iron, the main task of Snail Industrial's steel plant is to produce some special steel and purchase other ordinary steel materials from domestic companies. That’s it.

However, he ordered Chang Fuguo to take the opportunity to recruit some engineers and technicians from Tongzhi Iron and Steel Co., Ltd. Anyway, people there are now panicked.

That night.

In a small private room in the internal canteen.

Huang Xiuyuan, Lin Baijie, Lu Xuedong, Long Totem's president Zhang Weixin, technical executive Zhang Jingjian and others were discussing some things while eating.

"Mr. Huang, Lilong is expected to pass the certificate approval soon. Are you interested in making a promotional video?" Zhang Weixin suggested.

Huang Xiuyuan shook his head: "I won't come forward, and shooting promotional videos is too troublesome. I don't have time to waste."

"Okay then!" Zhang Weixin felt a little regretful.

Then Zhang Weixin also talked about how to open up the market. The emergence of glass optical discs will inevitably have a huge impact, even a devastating blow, on the tape manufacturers in the existing market.

The tape storage market around the world is dominated by four American companies: Spectra, International Business Machines (IBM), Quantum, and Sun Computer Systems (Sun, a subsidiary of Oracle). occupy.

For example, Spectrum Logic's T-Finity tape library is designed for markets such as large Internet enterprises, high-performance computing, media/entertainment, and official institutions.

Users in these markets need to archive large amounts of media data, such as research data, biotechnology, oil and gas extraction, seismic imaging, surveillance video, media and entertainment, video content and financial application data.

The amount of this type of data is too large to be stored on ordinary disks, and must be stored on tapes.

T-Finity tape library can store more than 45PB of LTO-5 storage data in a single system, including 120,000 slots, and the storage capacity of the unified system exceeds 180PB.

[Note: 1PB=1024TB]

At present, the T-Finity tape library is still in a conceptual state and is expected to be released around November or December this year. The entry-level price starts at 220,000 yuan.

The average comprehensive cost per T of storage media is about 8 meters, which is equivalent to about 55 Chinese yuan.

The Lilong CD library contains 10,000 pieces of Lilong 1 (storage capacity 87.73PB), 400 readers, 5 burners, plus storage cabinets, main console, and management software. The comprehensive cost of a set is Around 800,000.

The average comprehensive cost of 1T storage capacity of Lilong-optical disk library is 11 Chinese yuan. Even the Quantum tape library, which is famous for its cost-effectiveness, sells for more than 40 Chinese yuan of 1T storage capacity.

According to the profit rate of electronic hardware, if related companies in developed countries have products with independent property rights, their net profits are usually around 20 to 70%.

The tape storage industry is a typical professional segmented industry with the characteristics of technological monopoly. Their profits will not be less than 40%.

According to relevant data from the market research group of the Ministry of Industry, the cost of 1T storage capacity of tape memory is around 20 to 24 yuan.

The cost of Lilong-optical disk library is only about half of that of tape library, and it is very competitive.

"Weixin, how much do you plan to price it?" Lin Baijie picked up a piece of spicy radish.

"A set of 6.24 million yuan, a single glass disc, 72 yuan a piece." Zhang Weixin replied.

This price is slightly higher than the sales price of tapes, but in terms of cost performance, the overall performance of glass optical discs is higher than that of tapes. After all, the reading speed of tapes is really criticized.

In the comparison of other performance indicators, the stability and service life of glass discs are two orders of magnitude higher than those of magnetic tapes.

Even in terms of potential per unit storage capacity, glass optical discs are no weaker than magnetic tapes.

After listening for a long time, Huang Xiuyuan gave a suggestion: "Weixin, you can discuss with Sanshui to open a cloud storage service with permanent storage as the selling point."

Lin Baijie thought for a while: "This is a good suggestion. Many companies and individual users are expected to have this demand. Many videos, music, novels, comics, movies and TV series, as well as games and monitoring storage, all have this demand."

"I will discuss this matter with Mr. Jiang." Zhang Weixin nodded.

In fact, the domestic cloud disk market was inspired by Google's investment in Gmail in 2005. By this year, many companies have been developing and exploring this market, such as 115 Netdisk, Huawei DBank, etc., which are developing well.

Among them, 115 Netdisk is a company just established this year and is currently in the free promotion stage.

As for the cloud disk charging standard, there is no specific standard on the market at present. Many companies, like 115 Cloud Disk, initially rely on free services to open the market and then look for profit points, such as fees and advertising.

However, according to Huang Xiuyuan's future memory, the fees in the cloud disk market are not only high, but also subject to speed limits, data leakage, and data loss.

Suiren Company, which owns glass optical disk technology, has a very good inherent advantage in developing the cloud disk market. Time Information has customer resources, and Long Toteng owns glass optical disc technology.

Moreover, as the storage basis of cloud disks, glass optical discs have an unimaginable benefit, which is long-term storage brought about by stability.

Ordinary cloud disk companies that use hard drives as their storage base must face a big problem, which is the service life of hard drives, which is usually only 3 to 5 years.

As the storage data of cloud disk companies becomes larger and larger, the cost risks they face also increase.

Because they must regularly replace the hard drive and migrate data from the old hard drive to the new hard drive to ensure that there will be no serious data loss.

This is why, in 2012, the cloud disk market was booming, but in 2016, cloud disk services were closed one after another because the cost was too high, causing companies to suffer unsustainable losses.

The lack of frequent replacement of storage media is definitely a huge selling point. By then, all cloud disk companies will basically have a dead end if they do not purchase glass discs.

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