* Posts by techjock

4 publicly visible posts • joined 12 Sep 2013

Apple tipped to go full wireless by 2021, and you're all still grumbling about a headphone jack

techjock

Re: Oh the latency, think of the poor musos

There are two concerns about latency... first was with a wired connection via a midi adapter to the phone/tablet running a software synth. The midi controller was an Akai EWE. There was enough latency to make playing through Android devices difficult. I tried a few different synth apps and Samsung Galaxy phone and tablet, also tried with a Xiomei phone which had reasonable specs at the time. Everything was fine with an iPhone 7 and iPad Air 2. I also tried to go wireless with a couple of different Bluetooth transmitters. The latency was horrendous. Android phones may have adequate performance now to do the job with a wired connection, but going all wireless on iPhones will mean inserting BT latency into the circuit.

techjock

Oh the latency, think of the poor musos

I resisted the temptation to move into iWorld until I needed some music apps to run in real-time (eg portable software synth). The latency of the Android devices made them unusable. iPads and iPhones are fine. There's a rich array of music apps - probably as a consequence.

Attaching microphones and midi adapters via Bluetooth has been a waste of time (measurable in lots of milliseconds) due to the latency of the Bluetooth connection and/or other overheads.

Will this drive musicians (at least the ones who have a day job and the associated cash) back to the clunkiness of Windoze tablets?

HPE primes storage networking pipes for NVMe-oF data deluge

techjock

Ferro's comments about scalability and congestion management are diametrically opposed to the facts. FC protocol was designed to handle storage traffic and has storage specific capabilities built-in. Congestion can happen in a network be it FC or Ethernet, but FC products from both switch vendors have sophisticated mechanisms to detect, alert and mitigate against congestion. Ethernet proponents like to say "yeah but 100Gb/200Gb" without considering the realities of providing reliable, deterministic connections to storage.

As for scalability, FC SANs with thousands of ports have been in use for years (and it's nice not having to manage storage and kitten videos on the same network :-)).

Tape's NOT dead. WHOMP: This 8.5TB Oracle drive proves it

techjock

Re: Lies.

Your uninformed comment exemplifies the garbage spread by the "tape-is-dead" crowd. This baby delivers 8.5TB uncompressed.

Tape is certainly different to disk. If you use tape where disk is a better fit then it'll cost you in one way or another and strangely.... vice versa.