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Western Digital My Book Duo DAS Reviewby Ganesh T S on 7/12/2014 6:00 PM EST
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voicequal - Saturday, July 12, 2014 - linkWhy isn't the RAID 1 read performance closer to the RAID 0 read? Can't data be read from both drives in RAID 1? Reply
PEJUman - Saturday, July 12, 2014 - linkWhile in general I agree with your sentiment, I thought about this question before and one possible answer I came up with was to save the wear and tear on the 2nd drive. i.e. it only uses the 2nd drive when the 1st one have too much ECC.
This approach matches well with the raid 1 goal of ultimate redundancy.
Ultimately, I wish more controller would expose the finer details on Raid tuning such as this option Reply
madmilk - Sunday, July 13, 2014 - linkNot for sequential reads, because RAID 1 isn't striped. On RAID 0 you can read alternating stripes from each drive sequentially, but with RAID 1 you'd be reading the data twice.
The random read scores are much closer between the two. Reply
voicequal - Sunday, July 13, 2014 - linkI see your point that the reads won't be 100% sequential as seen by the drive heads, but if drive 1 starts reading at X and drive 2 at X+128KB, you can effectively get twice the read throughput over 256KB. Then you have to move the drive heads +128KB which does incur a performance cost.
Still with a sufficiently large read block size, I would think there could be a substantial performance improvement reading from both drives in RAID 1. Does anyone know a RAID1 HW or SW controller that can do this? Reply
DanNeely - Sunday, July 13, 2014 - linkThe time spent skipping ahead is equal to the the time spend reading the area being skipped in a non-fragmented file. To double read speeds in a "mirrored" drive you'd need to have either the array controller or the driver in a software array store the file sectors as 02481357... on the first drive and 13570248... so that when reading the file the two drives are reading sequential sectors on the drive and alternating chunks of data in the file. Reply
Cerb - Sunday, July 13, 2014 - linkNo, you wouldn't. You'd just need to alternate drives for reads, keeping them balanced, so that a total QD of say, 6 would be QD=2-4 on one drive, and QD=2-4 on the other. Where the file data actually gets stored shouldn't matter, only how the RAID implementation decides to read it. If the reads are sufficiently sequential, both drives should be able to stay quite busy, and get read performance around that of RAID 0.
Most likely is that they didn't bother even trying that, as RAID 1 is not generally used for performance anyway. Reply
voicequal - Sunday, July 13, 2014 - linkYour approach would make sequential reads quite fast, but at the expense of sequential writes which would be split across different areas of the drive. Reply
xfortis - Sunday, July 13, 2014 - linkThis is a good question. I assume that most drives are set up in their controllers to present data sequentially from the beginning. I don't think it's very common that any type of program would ask a storage device for the second-half of a given file (at least not without having read the first half); I would think that the drive wouldn't have the capability within itself to address data beginning at an arbitrary point in a sequence of data - it always has to start at the beginning of the data(?).
I think to implement this you would need to segment your data at the storage/RAID controller level, like striping but each drive has all the stripes in a RAID 1. Then at the controller level the controller would be able to take a request for data and, assuming the requested data spans at least two segments, it can produce two or more starting-addresses for the drives to read. But then your segment-size would have to be tuned to the kind of data you have (like allocation units) and also then there would be an additional level of addressing abstraction/complexity that would make any kind of data-recovery very difficult.
Everything I just said may be wrong. I'm just making assumptions and inferences because it's fun. Let's get a volunteer who has more knowledge or feels like trawling wikipedia for a while! Reply
voicequal - Sunday, July 13, 2014 - linkYes, I'm thinking this would be best done at the controller level. I've seen operating systems apply their own striping of sorts at the filesystem (i.e. NTFS) level. Try writing two large files simultaneously to the same hard drive. On an OS like Windows 8, the throughput is surprisingly good. This can only be achieved if the OS is smart enough to use a reasonably large "chunk" size for writing the file fragments to the disk. In this way the disk sees mostly sequential write activity despite the two concurrent write operations, while the number of file fragments tracked by the filesystem is minimized. Reply
TerdFerguson - Saturday, July 12, 2014 - linkIf it can't connect directly to a router and it can't host a Plex server, I'm not interested. Reply
PEJUman - Saturday, July 12, 2014 - linkit's also only $100 if you factor the 2 x 4TB reds in it worth $350. Reply
fteoath64 - Sunday, July 13, 2014 - linkIf you put it that way, then $100 for the enclosure, PSU and controller board would be reasonable, so it is a good buy if a DAS suits your needs using USB3 only interfaces with the added value of a hub tossed in as extra!. Reply
fteoath64 - Sunday, July 13, 2014 - linkClearly this is a DAS as opposed to a NAS that you would like to expect. Totally different kettle-of-fish!. Reply
Cerb - Sunday, July 13, 2014 - linkUm, OK. Is there any reason why it can't connect to your router or Plex server? While the review is a little ambiguous, there's no mention of needing added OS-specific drivers just to see the drives, so it *may* work with [most USB UMC enabled] routers just fine. Reply
Zak - Tuesday, July 22, 2014 - linkOK Reply
darwinosx - Sunday, July 13, 2014 - linkYou couldn't test it on a Mac too? With all the Apple articles Anandtech does? I'd like to know about the Mac software and performance. Reply
name99 - Sunday, July 13, 2014 - linkWhat problem do you want to solve on a Mac?
This will give you a single glob of 8GB storage with minimal config, but you're paying for that convenience. That's fine, but there are cheaper and/or higher performing alternatives.
If you're willing to do just a little config, for the same sort of price you could buy
- a USB3 hub
- a 256GB external USB3 SSD
- two USB3 4TB hard drives
You could then use Apple SW RAID to stripe the HDs together, and use CoreStorage (using the commandline diskutil command) to fuse the SSD to the striped RAID. What you'd have will give you the performance of this box for throughput, but with the zippiness of SSDs for the random access. I have a system like this (although put together from substantially older equipment --- an old 64GB SSD and two REALLY old 300GB HDs) and it works astonishingly well given the age of the equipment, especially the HDs. Reply
darwinosx - Tuesday, August 05, 2014 - linkI am already using two USB 3 drives and carbon copy cloner. I want a more minimal solution. Interesting solution with SSD but I don't need speed for a backup solution. Reply
DanNeely - Sunday, July 13, 2014 - linkAT authors work remotely (and live all over the world) so there isn't a single shared testbed, nor can they easily loan hardware back and forth for testing. Since Apple doesn't donate hardware to build testbeds, the only authors who have Apple devices to test with are those who've bought Apple computers with their own money for personal use. Reply
darwinosx - Tuesday, August 05, 2014 - linkAnandtech has plenty of Macs availalbe which is really obvious. Reply
npz - Monday, July 14, 2014 - linkIf the layout (stride and chunk size) is optimal, it would be close to RAID-0 for multithreaded workloads, since both disks can be read independently. Actually even single threaded/single-process workloads can benefit if the program is using asynch/queued IO.... but this *IF* the DAS unit were using linux (mdadm) or software raid.
However it's not, it's using a very simple Jmicron controller to do the mirroring. Reply
BillT2014 - Monday, July 14, 2014 - linkI've never before heard that a raid1 component drive might not be universally readable. All the controller is supposed to do is make the two drives identical. A single component of the RAID should be readable by any other system that supports that filesystem. Reply
jamyryals - Monday, July 14, 2014 - linkWould this, or something similar from another manufacturer, work connection to a USB 2.0 port? I would like to use this connected to an older machine, but I don't really want to add a USB 3.0 adapter card. If the device slowed to USB 2.0 speeds that would be fine. Reply
celestialgrave - Tuesday, July 15, 2014 - linkHow hot did the drives get? Did the fan ever have to spin up to full speed? How would you characterize the fan noise? Reply
BillT2014 - Wednesday, March 25, 2015 - linkStill waiting for an explanation of this sentence:
" Inserting the removed disk into a PC's SATA slot didn't show the stored data (as expected, since this is hardware RAID)."
This defies all sense. RAID is RAID whether it is software or hardware. Maybe the reason the drive wasn't readable is because it was a RAID 0 component? That would never be readable as such under any circumstances. But a RAID 1 drive should always be readable.
Well? Reply
BillT2014 - Friday, March 27, 2015 - linkThe final sentence also defies everything we know about RAID:
"Potential areas of improvement, however, include support for hot-swapping drives and provision for data recovery from a RAID 1-member drive directly connected to a PC."
The reviewer ought to know that if a RAID 1-member drive, directly connected to a PC, is not recoverable, then the problem is the reviewer, not the drive.
One might wonder if the reviewer was unwittingly testing a RAID 0 member?
These issues should be addressed and the review should be corrected. It's amazing that it has stood so long like this. Reply


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I've been playing around with this recipe for a bit and decided it needed some smoke. I used some Cherry wood and started low and slow and then ramped up the heat to finish it off.
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2# ground turkey... I use 1# dark meat and 1# white
green pepper, diced... although next time I believe it will be a red bell
onion, diced
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fresh parsley, chopped... a good handful
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AMD Beema/Mullins Architecture & Performance Previewby Anand Lal Shimpi on 4/29/2014 12:00 AM EST
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Nintendo Maniac 64 - Tuesday, April 29, 2014 - linkHmmm, sounds like the AMD equivalent of an Intel "tick", especially considering that the IPC between Puma+ and Jaguar is unchanged.
Interestingly enough, this would mean that the PS4 and Xbone could use Puma+ cores in the future (with turbo disabled obviously). Reply
nevertell - Tuesday, April 29, 2014 - linkWhy would they need to disable turbo? I believe nobody is hitting the CPU performance limits just to have a fps limit or rely on the raw performance for timing, whereas this could improve some load times or improve performance during context switching. Reply
mwarner1 - Tuesday, April 29, 2014 - linkConsoles have fixed performance hardware to prevent games & applications performing differently on different hardware revisions. If you bought a PS4 today and then next week a new version was released (but likely not announced) that made games smoother / more playable then you would have the right to be annoyed. Reply
Havor - Tuesday, April 29, 2014 - linkNo the main reason for fixed performance hardware is that developers dont have too add code or scalable textures to adjust or performance differences.
And thus they have a more efficient single spec code, that dose not have to adjust to hardware spec. Reply
nathanddrews - Tuesday, April 29, 2014 - linkYeah, I highly doubt they'll switch architectures since it has never happened before. Power savings and console redesigns come from shrinks and on-die packaging. Reply
Samus - Wednesday, April 30, 2014 - linkThere's nothing stopping Sony or Microsoft from launching a "performance edition" PS4 or XBOX One with a hardware bump that simply added antialiasing, etc, to games.
This has already been done over the years with Nintendo offering the 4MB RAMBUS upgrade for the N64, and various performance storage options for XBOX 360/PS3 to assist load times of disc-based games. The SSD-edition of the 360 can load games/levels virtually instantly compared to running from disc or disk. Reply
mfoley93 - Wednesday, April 30, 2014 - linkThese aren't really higher performance though, just lower power. They could just lower the clock to offset whatever slight performance gains there are to equal the launch products. Reply
nathanddrews - Wednesday, April 30, 2014 - link1. When Microsoft or Sony want to increase performance, they only do so via software updates that don't destabilize the platform as a whole. Neither can afford to break millions of consoles with a bad update or segregate the community into two camps. On the other hand, if developers of individual games find a way to improve framerates or AA, they can submit updates for download - but only after it is tested by the console manufacturers.
2. I have the 4MB upgrade for my N64, only TWO games required it, a very small percentage of N64 games supported it, and even fewer truly benefited from it. It's mild success was due entirely to ZMM, DK, and PD, but Nintendo hasn't tried anything like it since. (Lest we forget the 64DD...)
3. Only Sony lets you install any drive you want. Most reviews from those that have upgraded to SSDs say it just isn't worth it. It's a consumer option, not something Sony changes at the platform level. The games still run at the same speed with the same textures.
4. There is no consumer "SSD Edition" Xbox 360 and they won't let you install one (officially). Are you referring to the 4GB Slim? That's not an SSD and most 360 games are too big to install onto it.
5. I have yet to see a console SSD upgrade result in anything instantaneously... except regret. :D Reply
Kevin G - Wednesday, April 30, 2014 - linkConsoles are to be 'fixed spec' so that game developers know exactly what to expect in terms of hardware. The lone exception has been storage capacity. The N64 memory expansion is an excellent example of why developers aim for the lower guaranteed spec: only three games required it with a handful of games that'd use it if present.
Both MS and Sony could come out with a hardware revision that does a bit more outside of gaming without impacting game developers. For example, MS could release an Xbox One with a digital tuner + DVR hardware. Such a change would have no impact to the gaming side of things. Ditto if MS or Sony were to add backwards compatibility via hardware: it'd be unavailable to use in an Xbox One or PS4 game. Reply
Arbee - Thursday, May 01, 2014 - linkThere was a late revision of the original PlayStation where the GPU got significantly faster for some operations, which resulted in higher frame rates in some games. (This was when the debug units switched from blue to green, in order to differentiate). Reply
superunknown98 - Tuesday, April 29, 2014 - linkAlthough I don't think it would happen, or at least be publicly announced, Microsoft could use these new cores in Xbox One but could only enable turbo for the two cores that run the virtualization and Xbox OS. They would also benefit from the reduced TDP, which is something that eventually happens at some point anyway. Reply
lmcd - Thursday, May 01, 2014 - linkNow that comment on the OS and virtualization cores was quite interesting. I now thing that a Puma-edition is likely (though I think a GPU switch-up is more likely if more efficient GCN variants occur. Reply
MikeMurphy - Monday, May 26, 2014 - linkNo sense revising an entire chip to save a few watts of power. They might revise it later provided that substantial power savings are attainable, otherwise will implement the usual die shrinks. Minor performance increases shouldn't be ruled out although focus will be on power reduction while maintaining similar performance. Reply
Rockmandash12 - Tuesday, April 29, 2014 - linkAnd this is what happens when AMD gets into gear and makes a new architecture. Real improvement that's competitive with rivals. Common.... new Desktop flagship architecture that's faster and more efficient? please? Reply
Samus - Wednesday, April 30, 2014 - linkThis is pretty impressive. And honestly, out of nowhere. They all the sudden have an amazing tablet/uSFF SoC. Reply
silverblue - Tuesday, April 29, 2014 - linkDidn't Kaveri launch with a fully enabled PSP as well?
Judging by the performance story thus far, I think it will put to bed the calls for cat cores to replace AMD's higher powered offerings. Yes, we're past K8 performance levels now, but Llano and Trinity (let alone Richland/Kaveri) still have it beat. You'd need some serious clock speeds to get decent performance and it's the wrong silicon for that.
I was disappointed to see that it's practically the same uarch as Jaguar, meaning we're still going to have a single channel memory controller, however the performance and power improvements are substantial, and the memory controller has been improved anyway which should reduce the need for said controller. Reply
ET - Tuesday, April 29, 2014 - linkI think it's hard to draw conclusions of core performance when the RAM is a limitation. It's entirely possible that these cores are still pretty far from the big cores, but on the other hand it's possible that more bandwidth could up performance by quite a few percent. Reply
ssnitrousoxide - Tuesday, April 29, 2014 - linkAMD has always done some impressive work to squeeze every bit of performance from an inferior node. How they managed to improve energy efficiency so much is beyond me. Reply
mfoley93 - Wednesday, April 30, 2014 - linkIt seems that most of the power reduction is at the manufacturing level; maybe it's more accurate to engineering tolerances or perhaps a more pure silicon, either way I don't think TSMC will be telling us what it is. The rest comes from eliminating circuitry that provides some more flexibility to OEMs, something nVIDIA has been doing for a couple years now, and while it doesn't really
count, it's something Apple does very well. Reply
yannigr - Tuesday, April 29, 2014 - linkAny idea if Beema will be compatible with existing AM1 motherboards?
(with only a BIOS update of course) Reply
saneblane - Tuesday, April 29, 2014 - linkUnlock That 2.4GHZ Beema Pls. It sure would be nice to get an Amd quadcore 3GHZ at 25 watts.
Amd Should increase the highend on these and kill of Low Power Kaveri. Reply
MrHorizontal - Tuesday, April 29, 2014 - linkInteresting little package that.
But very little detail on the memory controller - how wide is it? From what I can see it's just single channel. Personally I think these Puma cores would serve AMD a lot better as a low power Opteron CPU than ARM would, equivalent to Intel's Avoton package, provided they can use a significant amount of memory on a system - a single channel won't cut it. Reply
MrSpadge - Tuesday, April 29, 2014 - linkSingle channel, since it's I/O compatible with the previous chips. Reply
mfoley93 - Wednesday, April 30, 2014 - linkThe author should add this, to the article, not everyone that is interested keeps up on this stuff closely enough to remember all of the details from 8 months ago. Reply
piroroadkill - Tuesday, April 29, 2014 - linkMakes you once again realise how wimpy the CPU is in the Xbox One and PS4.
8 Jaguar cores. More crap is still crap.
These cores are far better than that, and still wouldn't be considered high end. Reply
H2323 - Tuesday, April 29, 2014 - link8 Jag cores that have access to fast memory are plenty good for a multi-threaded game Reply
tipoo - Tuesday, April 29, 2014 - linkDisagreed. It was a matter of performance for cost, and even though each Jaguar core may perform half as well as a high end desktop core, they were able to fit 8 cores into less die space than those bigger cores would have taken. If a developer takes good advantage of multithreading they'll be fine for a while. Reply
Antronman - Wednesday, April 30, 2014 - linkBut they won't considering most engines used are multiplatform engines and the majority of the games made with those engines are single threaded.
The performance sucks, no matter how you look at it.
Graphics have a big effect on performance, and the graphical power on the new consoles is...less than enough. Reply
lmcd - Friday, May 02, 2014 - linkAre you kidding? Engines mean that things can be more threaded as it's more abstracted and so more time can be spent on threading (as opposed to rewrites and higher-level coding that a smaller team would deal with). Reply
coburn_c - Tuesday, April 29, 2014 - linkOh look another AMD product launch with regressive performance... and yet another AMD product launch where their power usage is double that of the competition. Still I suppose it's an improvement, they could be at 4x the power usage now if they hadn't finally done some work. Well I suppose they can just lay off another 25% of the company, that'll sure help close the gap.. Reply
duploxxx - Tuesday, April 29, 2014 - linkRival really here is intel, nowhere compared in this review Reply
ssj3gohan - Tuesday, April 29, 2014 - linkYou do realize that this is an AMD advertisement, not an actual journalistic article? Look at the top of the page: it says AMD Center. Reply
DanNeely - Tuesday, April 29, 2014 - linkAnything tagged AMD gets the AMD Center branding, regardless of the content (which's lead to an occasional giggle-snort situation in with articles that are 99% Intel/nVidia but mention AMD for comparison purposes). Look at the by line, this was written by Anand, not one of the AMD PR drones. Reply
mfoley93 - Wednesday, April 30, 2014 - linkThere is also an Intel Center and nVIDIA Center that all articles about their respective products go in, does that make all articles about them advertisements as well? Reply
ruggia - Tuesday, April 29, 2014 - linkIf you want a rough comparison with BayTrail, go check out the benchmarks at Toms' (or pull up Anand's old Kaveri articles). You'll be amazed. Reply
ruggia - Tuesday, April 29, 2014 - link*Kabini Reply
duploxxx - Friday, May 02, 2014 - linkthere is info here and you see that it can very well compete with intel parts or even better in many parts. the problem is that many bench just wont run on the low end atom GPU wise :). you need the celeron version to compare performance to mullin Reply
Anand Lal Shimpi - Tuesday, April 29, 2014 - linkAll of the CPU tests are compared to Intel parts, including the direct competitor: Intel's Bay Trail based Atom both in the ASUS Transformer Book T100 as well as numbers from Intel's Bay Trail tech day using the Atom Z3770. Reply
Stuka87 - Tuesday, April 29, 2014 - linkIntel chips are in several of the graphs, and is talked about specifically in several places.
Did you even read the article? Reply
MrSpadge - Tuesday, April 29, 2014 - linkA substantial performance increase over its predecessor is regressive? And if you insist comparing to AMDs big cores.. well, have fun putting these into a tablet!
2x the power consumption? You seem to refer to idle power compared to Snapdragon 600, a SoC which is significantly slower and hence - just like the big cores - in a different category.
Beema / Mullins seems to occupy a very interesting point on the performance/power/price curves. It's obviously not for smartpones yet and neither for big gaming rigs. But for anything in between it's at least an intersting option. Reply
vlad42 - Tuesday, April 29, 2014 - linkHey Anand,
Do you know if connected standby was enabled on the Mullins tablet you tested? I've heard that AMD has not yet developed the connected standby drivers yet. If this is the case, then shouldn't that be noted in the power consumption test? Given the improvements Intel sees when connected standby is enabled, it definitely looks like the Mullins tablet was not using connected standby. Reply
Anand Lal Shimpi - Tuesday, April 29, 2014 - linkNo CS, although I believe Mullins could theoretically support it. For this particular test there should be no advantage to having CS, we're just looking at short/active idle power usage. Reply
Anand Lal Shimpi - Tuesday, April 29, 2014 - linkCorrection - there are no plans to support CS, AMD doesn't see value in it. Reply
tomsworkshop - Tuesday, April 29, 2014 - linkthis low power but high performance tiny little chip can be fit on something like the raspberry pi, we can build a really small micro pc with such hardware. Reply
mfoley93 - Wednesday, April 30, 2014 - linkThey aren't low power enough yet, so in the mean time, I suspect nVIDIA's Jetson board based off the Tegra K1 might fit the spot you are thinking of. The board is significantly larger, but its powerful enought to justify that. It's also more in the Beagleboard/Pandaboard segment, being aimed at embedded development and not education.
http://www.nvidia.com/object/jetson-tk1-embedded-d... Reply
tomsworkshop - Thursday, May 01, 2014 - linkThe Tegra K1 rated at 5W TDP, the Mullins rated at 3.95W - 4.5W TDP, i think they should be low power enough for a single board computer, i saw the price for the Jetson TK1, it was 3 times higher than the Raspberry Pi, hope that AMD will come out something at the middle of the Raspberry Pi and Jetson TK1, with the price lower than the Jetson TK1, and the performance better than the Raspberry Pi. Reply
nemi2 - Tuesday, April 29, 2014 - linkIt's good to see AMD catching up but the power consumption may still be a deciding factor when choosing between this and Baytrail - I look forward to a full review of release hardware. The other area of concern is that the Baytrail successor Airmont (with shrink to 14nm and ~30% power savings) will also be out in 2014 so AMD may only have 0-3 months at parity/competitiveness with intel. Reply
H2323 - Tuesday, April 29, 2014 - linkYes these are shorty terms wins, but 14nm airmont is late and will miss back to school and be just in time for christmas, AMD will net some revenue on this and still retain GPU lead with baytrail Reply
R3MF - Tuesday, April 29, 2014 - linka four-core mullins in an 8" tablet chassis with 4GB of memory and bios support for a 64bit ubuntu would be an awesome thing. Reply
MrSpadge - Tuesday, April 29, 2014 - linkI'd rather have a Thinkpad 10 + Win 8.1 with this, at least as an option instead of Bay Trail. If the actual product is as impressive as the preview. Reply
H2323 - Tuesday, April 29, 2014 - linkI think that is already a reality, Lenovo will be going with beema and kaveri for a variety of laptops, same with dell, AMD needs some HP wins though Reply
artk2219 - Thursday, May 01, 2014 - linkThats interesting, normally I see that AMD has chips in lots of HP products but very rarely in any Dell products. Reply
ecmtb - Thursday, May 08, 2014 - linkAccording to this, Dell is planning on putting out a laptop with these new parts:
http://www.cpu-world.com/news_2014/2014041801_AMD_... Reply
formulav8 - Tuesday, April 29, 2014 - linkThis sentence doesn't quite sound correct.
"The result is a memory interface that shaves off move than 500mW when run in this more strict, low power mode."
Move and Run mess it up. :) Reply
HalloweenJack - Tuesday, April 29, 2014 - linkoh look the intel fangirls have arrived - a 4.5w part is matching a 10w intel part and they cry `its crap`... Reply
MrSpadge - Tuesday, April 29, 2014 - linkSeems more like the Intel hooligans ;) Reply
Kjella - Tuesday, April 29, 2014 - linkYeah, power consumption has been AMDs Achilles heel for some time now both on the high end for performance and on the low end for battery life. And suddenly they can put the performance of a 15W Kabini in a 4.5W Mullins? If this holds up when it's actually released and reviewers can run real tests on it - battery tests would be extremely interesting - it could be a real winner. Assuming that people want x86 tablets though, I think the jury is still out on that. Reply
zodiacsoulmate - Tuesday, April 29, 2014 - linkHow could this compete with Atom?????
Atom have way lower TDP SDP or whatever power consumption they call it...
Atom have no problem surpassing the performance of this thing...
Price maybe AMD's advantage, but low power devices are still filled with high profit devices, also it's TDP may cause bad battery life, with may not be taht cost efficient afterall...
So why AMD still trying to compete here?? Reply
H2323 - Tuesday, April 29, 2014 - linkIt wrecks anything silvermont based in benchmarks, Thing is mullins will not make a lot of gains in tablets, no android support and free intel chips, Beema will make some gains on baytrail until christmas. Reply
rocketbuddha - Tuesday, April 29, 2014 - linkHi Anand,
Can you confirm if Beema & Mullins are made at TSMC 28nm HKMG? Hardware France seems to think it is Global Foundries.
Thx Reply
H2323 - Tuesday, April 29, 2014 - linkeveryone else is saying gloflo Reply
Anand Lal Shimpi - Tuesday, April 29, 2014 - linkIt's GF, I've updated the piece :)
Take care,
Anand Reply
raghu78 - Tuesday, April 29, 2014 - linkanand
do you have information on the exact GF 28 nm process used for manufacturing Beema and Mullins. Is it GF 28 SHP (Super high performance) or GF 28 SLP (Super Low Power). Reply
Da W - Tuesday, April 29, 2014 - linkYeah but current gen console have PC-like architecture because developper wanted easier PC porting. Most will already port their game for the Mullins/Beema architecture anyway. Reply
Da W - Tuesday, April 29, 2014 - linkMan, i'm dying for an AMD-powered surface mini with Xbox/PC streaming capabilities like Nvidia Shield! MAKE IT HAPPEN! Reply
H2323 - Tuesday, April 29, 2014 - linkThat is a real possibility, might be one of there two semi-custom wins from earnings Reply
littlebitstrouds - Tuesday, April 29, 2014 - linkI wish you would provide the Sony Vegas render test in anything that will run it. I'm looking for a tablet that's a dailies workhorse. Reply
Dawgmatix - Tuesday, April 29, 2014 - linkAny idea on if this will support OpenCL 2.0? Reply
MarionHNunn - Tuesday, April 29, 2014 - linkI think it will put to bed the calls for cat cores to replace AMD's higher powered offerings. Yes, we're past K8 performance levels now, but Llano and Trinity (let alone Richland/Kaveri) still have it beat. You'd need some serious clock speeds to get decent performance and it's the wrong silicon for that. http://sn.im/28v1ckw Reply
wow&wow - Tuesday, April 29, 2014 - link"Mullins seems like a good fit for a high performance Android tablet, but ..."
Mullins seems like a good fit for a high performance Android tablet, but HOW BIG IS THE HIGH PERFORMANCE ANDROID MARKET?
With limited resources and wafer supplies, led by Rory Read with business sense, AMD has been focusing on making money (the #1 common business sense) instead of BLINDLY COMPETING IN EVERY MARKET for the sake of conpeting and failing like before. Every business is a good business is a sales talk, but in reality not every business is a good business and pick the proper ones! Reply
name99 - Tuesday, April 29, 2014 - link"I'd expect a similar die size to Kabini/Temash. It's interesting to note that these SoCs have a transistor count somewhere south of Apple's A7."
Isn't this something of an apple's to oranges comparison?
This AMD SOC is basically CPU+GPU+memory controller.
A7 is all that plus secure storage, ISP, h264 encoder/decoder (the genuine low power deal, not some "hardware assisted" frankenstein that runs the CPU and GPU [together, both at high power] to do the job) along with god knows what else --- flash controller? fingerprint recognition cell? Reply
mczak - Tuesday, April 29, 2014 - linkKabini / Temash also full custom hw video encode/decode (all gcn based chips do), though if you want some hybrid mode is still available, so that should be pretty comparable. Flash controller and the like, too. Yes no ISP, but OTOH there's quite a lot of stuff the A7 won't do too (like 2xsata, the 4x1 and 1x4 pcie 2.0 connectivity, 2xUSB 3.0, high-speed i/o isn't exactly cheap). Anyway, the transistor count and die size is comparable after all (based on the official numbers, Kabini is slightly larger, but the a7 has slightly more transistors, though there's both different methods to count transistors and measure die size, not to mention they come out of different fabs), and it shouldn't be a surprise. Reply
lmcd - Friday, May 02, 2014 - linkAMD should try partnering with Broadcom (as Broadcom has no real SoCs for smartphones). Reply
200380051 - Tuesday, April 29, 2014 - linkI am eager to see how Mantle-enabled games will perform on these Mullins tablets. It seems a good fit from a technical standpoint. It might just push the PC gaming sphere to dig into tablet space. This in turn directly expands the market of game studios.
Also, I wonder if AMD's mobile lineup is to be the first product they'll roll out on Samsung's 14nm FINFET process. The process will be available starting 2015, as per their agreement. Its up to AMD to cook us a shrinked revision of these chips in a timely fashion.
Things are getting interesting. Reply
MartinT - Wednesday, April 30, 2014 - linkIt seems to me that performance numbers for these parts don't tell even half the story without the accompanying power readings, considering the 'use whatever power until the chassis burns the user' approach of AMD's turbo implementation. Reply
kirilmatt - Wednesday, April 30, 2014 - linkHow AMD did this is amazing. Imagine if this was released instead of kabini/temash. This destroys Bay Trail. I only hope that it gets released soon so it doesn't have to compete with Intel's 14nm SoCs. Anyways, good job AMD! Reply
R3MF - Wednesday, April 30, 2014 - linkUbuntu tablet please... Reply
purerice - Wednesday, April 30, 2014 - linkWould one way to test the "non-turbo" performance be to loop some test 100 times and see the performance decrease over time? Considering the turbo would decrease as the CPU/APU heats up we could see the performance difference and also how long you really get "turbo" turned on for. Reply
azazel1024 - Thursday, May 01, 2014 - linkI am impressed, but I am curious as to both why Bay Trail beats it in the PCMark testing by a fair margin, but not in individual CPU benchmarks. If that is thermal limits...well, I will say that a lot of tablet workloads are very short term. Windows tablet workloads (at least mine)...not so much.
Enough of what I do would likely hit those thermal constraints and at least in my testing, my T100 doesn't clock down even under very prolonged workloads, like 15+ minutes of converting RAW to JPEG images. Or long gaming, like an hour or two of KSP.
That and I have concerns about that idle and low power use. Seems to be pretty good under higher load and performance seems to be there (with caveat/concern)...but idle and low power could be an issue. According to those AMD specs, the APU itself is using darn near 2w of power streaming 1080p. Based on my math, my T100 TOTAL uses around 2.4w of power when streaming 1080p (around 13hrs of run time, 31whr battery). I assume that the display, wifi, signal processor, memory, etc, etc are consuming more than .6w of power.
Having a much bigger battery or much shorter run time could be a big sticking point for a lot of tablet users (I know I'd have an issue if my 6-7hrs gaming/10hrs normal use/13hrs video turned in to more like 3hrs gaming/6hrs normal use/8hrs video. Reply
FITCamaro - Wednesday, May 07, 2014 - linkMy next tablet will likely be a Windows 8.1 tablet. I'd love the high end AMD CPU tested here even if it doesn't do as well on power as Baytrail but bests it in GPU performance. Would be nice to be able to do better light mobile gaming. Reply
enihcam - Monday, May 19, 2014 - linkAES benchmark is missing. Reply


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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - Animal Care and Protective Services officers investigated a hoarding case last week and discovered 19 dogs in need of rescue.
Denise Deisler, of the Jacksonville Humane Society, said she couldn't give specifics about the people who had all the animals, but said JHS is working with them.
"In this case, the officers from Animal Care and Protective services were able to talk to them and educate them and convince them that the right thing to do was to turn over the animals," Deisler said.
The Humane Society took 12 of the dogs, while other rescue organizations are assisting in the placement of the seven other dogs.
The JHS shelter medical director examined the six Maltese, two poodles, two Yorkshire terriers and two Chihuahuas upon intake, discovering eight are heart worm positive, none are spayed or neutered and all need major dental care.
"It's a lot of work until these dogs are ready for a forever home," Deisler said. "They need dental care grooming and eight need heart worm treatment."
Deisler said the Humane Society sees animal hoarding cases often in Jacksonville, and most of the time the pets are rescued after someone files a complaint.
"These are typically people who who love animals and things just got out of hand and they took on more than they were capable of taking on," Deisler said.
She said the financial burden is the biggest issue animal hoarders face.
"There are costs associated with being able to properly care for a dog or a cat, and folks need to have their eyes wide open to that," Deisler said. "While the intent is to help, if you can't give them the basic care you need, you aren't being helpful."
Deisler said those who know of an animal that needs help can reach out to any of the agencies in town instead of taking care of an animal they can't afford.
To foster the animals, go to the Humane Society's website. JHS will need information about your home situation and ability to transport the dog back and forth for treatment. In the case of foster care, JHS will cover the medical costs.
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Bright House Networks' DOCSIS 3.0-based Lightning Internet service increased from 40 Mbps to 60 Mbps on the downstream while maintaining 5 Mbps on the upstream. The business wideband offering also has 5 Mbps up.
Bright House Networks, which is the nation's sixth-largest cable operator, first launched its wideband service in Tampa Bay – where it competes against Verizon – in 2009.
The data tiers also include enhanced email, online security, public Wi-Fi, McAfee Antivirus, parental controls and 24-hour customer support and generally cost $5 more per month, depending on a customer's current service level.
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There were two versions of this cookbook on O's website, one priced slightly more than the other, one with an image of the book and one without (newer posting). When I checked the ISBN numbers on the web I found the more expensive one has been updated with 2012 recipes, so I bought that version. It seems they may have updated the book at least twice now since the first printing, so it may get updated annually. Book arrived fast and as advertised, and at the lowest price I could find on the web at the time. I don't know if it has every Test Kitchen recipe, as some say not, but it's a heck of a lot of recipe's, more than I'll ever make. The recipes are well written, easy to follow (though often recommend food processors, mixers, Dutch ovens and special pans, which often can be worked around if you don't have a specific item). For this non-cook, I expect it will be very useful...I no longer feel like I don't know how to cook for guests, I can just follow the directions. Test Kitchen makes a recipe a zillion different ways to get the best recipes, so all the testing is done for us, we can just make the best version right out of the book. Some are complicated, but they also have MANY easy recipes (single skillet). There is a recipe for just about anything I might ever want to make. The book itself is nicely laid out, organized and categorized, and especially helpful are TK's recommendations on specific cooking products (hardware, consumables, edibles). The overall font is a little small and the recipes run into each other (that is, they are not on separate pages), which is necessary to get so much information into a book of reasonable size. Still, the book might be a bit large for kitchen use while actually cooking. Unless you are using a book stand, you may want to copy more complicated recipes for use in the kitchen, so the book doesn't get messed up. Binding looks a little cheap (the book was inexpensive), it may or may not fall apart over time. The paper was nice quality, with lots of color pictures (most every page had helpful pictures of many (most?) of the dishes,and even for doing more complicated steps within the recipes). The side of the book had some excess binding glue spill out to the side (page edges), but that was easily rubbed of, and the pages don't seem to stick at all. So, the binding may not be the best, but nothing bad. I'm just not sure how it well it will hold up to years of use. Overall, the product meets my expectations, I think it was a good purchase.Read More
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More than 400 people showed up for a retirement party for twins Joan and Jean Wilke.
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My website allows Members to send Private Messages to each other.
On the back-end, I have things modeled this way...
member -||------0<- pm_recipient ->0-----||- private_message
- id
- username
and so on...
- member_id_to
- pm_id
- created_on
- read_on
- deleted_on
- purged_on (This is when the Recipient empties his/her Trash)
- id
- member_id_from
- subject
- body
- sent_on
- sender_deleted_on
- sender_purged_on (This is when the Sender empties his/her Trash)
As my code stands now, when a Member empties his/her Trash, I never physically remove any PM's. I just mark them as "purged" so they are no longer shown in a User's account.
The problem is that at some point I will need to start deleting PM's because I don't have infinite storage space?!
But how do I go about this??
1.) If a Sender "purges" a PM, then I can't get rid of it, because the Recipients might still want to keep it.
So what do I do?
2.) Where does the storage issue really exist?
Records in the "pm_recipient" table have to be extremely small considering all they hold are "keys" and dates.
I suppose the "private_message" table takes up more space, but considering PM's cannot exceed 1024 characters, again, maybe that isn't much of an issue.
I am adding in a new feature which limits each Member to 100 PM's in their Inbox + Sent + Deleted Folders.
But does it make sense to could a PM in a person's Inbox (i.e. "pm_recipient" record) the same as a Sent PM (i.e. "private_message")?
3.) In general, what is a good strategy for cleaning out old PM's?
Things are sorta weird because I normalized my data, instead of making all PM's the same size (i.e. Sent PM = Incoming PM)
Hope this makes sense?!
1) You could only purg if the recipient deletes the PM 2) Unless you are having a facebook/twitter size userbase then the PM storage really isnt going to be an issue. 3) Keep everything, trust no one.
How do I regulate that?
Application Code?
Cron Job?
You sure about that??
Please explain more what you mean...
Any of the three would be applicable, but as I intimated before - deleting is optional! If pushed I would probably set up the application code to remove the PM there and then.
You could always move it to an archive table which periodically gets exported and then flushed but that's making work for yourself!
From the MySQL Docs: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.6/en/features.html[h=4]Scalability and Limits:[/h]
Support for large databases. We use MySQL Server with databases that contain 50 million records. We also know of users who use MySQL Server with 200,000 tables and about 5,000,000,000 rows.
So realistically yes, you should not have storage issues .
Keep all evidence of conversations and papertrails intact as you never know when they may be required.... just sayin.....
You're missing my concern...
MySQL might store the entire world, but GoDaddy will charge me an arm and a leg if I start storing Tera-Byes of old PMs?! :eek:
Yes, that makes sense.
And with that being said - combined with my fear of extra hosting costs - how much space do you PM's will take?
Any guestimates - or scientific ways to calculate - how many of my websites PM's will equate to, say 1 MB?
Right now things are Text-only, and PM's cannot exceed 1024 characters, and most of the fields in the tables in my OP are either "key" fields" or "timestamp" fields, so each record probably doesn't take up that much room.
Then again, beyond my storage concerns, allowing people to store all PM's from the beginning of time creates other work for me. For example, it would force me to have to add Pagination.
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The 23 March, 2007, issue of daily La Libre Belgique, published in Belgium, carried a report regarding the French-language translation of Harun Yahya's Atlas of Creation. The report contained the following expressions:
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