Baidu begins the massive use of flash memory

August 19 - by up to two years of product research and development and testing, Baidu has already become the world's first use of flash memory (Flash Memory) technology instead of hard drives and large-scale commercial Internet companies. It is reported that Baidu carrying hundreds of millions of hits a day visit to the retrieval and storage index computing clusters have all been removed hard drive and replace it with Baidu's massive research and development on its own custom flash cards. This change greatly improved Baidu's service capacity and speed of retrieval.

According to Baidu person in charge of relevant technologies, companies and the widespread adoption of the ordinary hard disk storage compared with Baidu's flash-based storage cards, will be able to make a single internal storage devices to read and write 100 times performance increase, faster response Three times with two 1-fold performance increase, while energy consumption have to drive well below the general store. In addition, flash memory does not exist within the mechanical design, the traditional hard drive by the fear of shock, dust penetrated, high energy consumption and other issues are resolved.

"Flash a large cluster of high technical difficulty, many companies in the world are still in the testing phase, has not been large-scale business." Baidu relevant officials told journalists: "Baidu has been able to solve these problems , From hundreds of elite technology for two years by the time a series of research and development, optimization and testing. At the moment, we have in Web search services on the server achieved a 100 per cent of the flash memory, and fully confident protection The whole system is superior stability, safety and reliability of commercial properties in order to bring faster and more stable world-class Internet experience. "The official said.

"User experience is the eternal pursuit of Baidu. With China's rapid growth in the number of Internet users and the Olympics the climax of the Internet search application come, we hope to walk in front of the entire industry to further enhance the user search response time, the expansion of service capacity And substantially reduce energy consumption. "Hard talking about this time" updating ", Baidu is responsible for research and development engineers said. The engineers said that after two years of committed research and development, Baidu by the large-scale commercial flash memory technology, "has been leading the global Internet community at least a year."

And this also caused great shock the global IT sector. "China's Baidu will once again be the eye-catching engraved in the history of human technological progress, this country become a global innovation hot land for the proposition has been the best example." After the news, immediately triggered the overseas technical experts Reping, the expert further pointed out: the global controversy for nearly five years' hard drives and flash who the last laugh, 'a hot topic in the Eastern Hemisphere's largest search engine Baidu Comprehensive application of flash memory, seems to have found the answer. Baidu global storage technology for the development of the Internet and that the application of a clear direction. Baidu will benefit not just the more than 200 million users, but the global Internet. "