Storage
Peak transfer numbers are marketing. The specification here is what the drive does after the cache is full, which is the number that matters when you are actually moving work.
Hardware · HW·07
Storage
Portable and desk storage, specified on sustained write behaviour rather than peak figures.
Portable and desk storage, specified on sustained write behaviour and thermal performance under long transfers rather than headline burst figures. Enclosures are chosen for how they shed heat.
- Entry
- HW·07
- Division
- Hardware
- Status
- Line open
- In the line
- Portable SSDs · Enclosures and docks · Memory cards
- Judged on
- Sustained write, thermal behaviour
- Not judged on
- Peak burst figures
How it is run
Peak transfer numbers are marketing. The specification here is what the drive does after the cache is full, which is the number that matters when you are actually moving work.
- Brief — Sustained write, not peak, is the figure we specify to.
- Specification — Controller and thermal design are written into the order.
- Quality control — Drives are sampled under sustained load, not burst.
HW·07 · Storage
Drawing sheet · not to scale
Concept · runs with HOB AI
Ask the drive, not a search box.
Every line is drawn around the same assistant. It is asked for out loud, it resolves what it can on the device in front of you, and it answers with the thing rather than a conversation about the thing.
HOB AI · on device
- Ask
- Ask the drive
- Understand
- Contents indexed where they sit
- Act
- The file back, not a search page
- Ask — Ask the drive for a file in the words you would use to describe it.
- Understand — Contents are indexed where they sit, on the enclosure, not in an account.
- Act — The file comes back — not a page of search results to work through.
A concept drawing, not a shipping specification. The assistant is HOB AI and the device it was written for is HB·001.
Line manual
How HW·07 is specified, ordered and checked.
The standing orders for this line, in six pages. Drag a page across, or use the arrows.
HW·07
Rendered, not photographed. No unit of this line has been manufactured under the mark, so nothing here is a picture of a finished product.
Finish palette · drawn intent, not a supplier sample
Obsidian anodise#0B0B0C
Graphite anodise#17181A
Graphite light#202225
Brass#B98A3E
Brass lit#D7A954
Ivory#F4F3EF
Brief
Sustained write, not peak, is the figure we specify to.
- Sustained write
- The figure specified to
- Peak
- Not the figure specified to
- Order
- Written before sourcing
Specification
Controller and thermal design are written into the order.
- Controller
- Written into the order
- Thermal design
- Written into the order
Quality control
Drives are sampled under sustained load, not burst.
- Load
- Sustained, not burst
- Sampling
- Per batch
- Figure
- Behaviour under load, not the first seconds
Line open
- Entry
- HW·07
- Division
- Hardware
- Status
- Line open
- In the line
- Portable SSDs · Enclosures and docks · Memory cards
- Judged on
- Sustained write, thermal behaviour
- Not judged on
- Peak burst figures
Everything above describes how the line is run. It does not describe a product you can hold.
Funding
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