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Hypermode diffculty setting gameplay of sheegoth,from Metroid Prime.
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By: -Koenig-
The first major Boss in metroid prime, located in the chozo ruins section of Tallon IV
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By: -Koenig-
With its body of mere flesh shed and its phazzon core unleashed,Metroid Prime Reveals its true form. (hyper mode gameplay)
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Some gameplay. Samus kills some enemies and "kills" some "space ships".
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By: manop6
Reggie must of done a little to much before the conference, also shows a gameplay vid of metroid prime 3. Enjoy!
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By: Lamace
The Sign Trilogy is an original animation that I am currently writing and directing. It is loosely based off of the Metroid video games, and at one point was going to be a tribute to it. But I thought that it would turn out better if I used original characters, and that way I would avoid any legal action. So any way I hope that you enjoy this short preview of Sign Episode One.
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By: DariusEnigma
Canceled Retro Studios action game. Part 2 of pre-alpha gameplay.
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By: DariusEnigma
Canceled Retro Studios action game. Pre-Alpha trailer, no sound.
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By: DariusEnigma
Canceled Retro Studios action game. Pre-alpha animations demo for enemies. Impressive, but Retro's good at that.
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By: odseraphim
A birthday video I made for my friend, Lightning. We work together on a mod for Halo Custom Edition called Metroid Online. More information about it can be found at www.playmetroidonline.com. All maps seen in this film have not yet been released except for Revolutions.
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SSD news
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HA SSDs
SSD software
rackmount SSDs
PCIe SSDs
iSCSI SSDs market
Zsolt Kerekes
, editor - StorageSearch.com
see also:-
iSCSI SSDs - elsewhere on StorageSearch.com
iSCSI SSD news
growing user confidence will spur enterprise flash consolidation
Editor:- April 21, 2015 - In a
new blog
I look at drivers, mechanisms and routes towards consolidation in the enterprise SSD systems market along with some other outrageous and dangerous ideas. The conclusion?
of the enterprise SSD companies which you know have no good reasons to survive."
Before publication - I discussed these ideas with various readers for about 3 months and since publication you won't be surprised when I tell you it has been at the core of many conversations since.
...read the article
NetApp has stopped suing Nimble
Editor:- March 31, 2015 -
Nimble Storage
it recently entered into a written settlement agreement with
re alledged misuse of trade secrets etc dating back to
. The terms of the settlement are confidential and are not material to Nimble's financial statements.
Editor's comments:-
2 weeks later I saw this related article -
How doomed is NetApp?
Robin Harris
who says, among other things, "The latest troubling sign from NetApp is the failure of their widely touted FlashRay project to ship a competitive product. The VP in charge, left NetApp for
Pure Storage
last month..."
SanDisk spins off NexGen
Editor:- January 8, 2015 -
today clarified that "Hybrid systems incorporating hard-disk drives are not part of SanDisk's strategic focus."
This strategy direction statement by
Sumit Sadana
, executive VP and chief strategy officer, SanDisk was part of an
today that SanDisk has completed the spin-out of
ioControl (hybrid SSD systems) business as a separate company called
NexGen Storage
SanDisk has agreed to be a supplier of
flash storage technology to NexGen but will not maintain an ownership interest.
NexGen will be led by
John Spiers
who was co-founder and CEO of the original NexGen company before its
by Fusion-io in
April 2013
(for $119 million).
Editor's comments:-
In retrospect Fusion-io's acquisition of NexGen was a mistake.
Fusion didn't have enough cash or people resources to invest in bootstrapping 2 entirely new systems businesses (one in the fast SSD rackmount market, and the other (based on NexGen) in the
hybrid SSD appliance market
) at a time when both markets were already becoming much more
specialized and differentiated
Can NexGen succeed as a standalone company?
Hundreds of other companies are also competing in the hybrid market - so you can ask them. Most likely NexGen will get acquired again.
Western Digital acquires Skyera
Editor:- December 15, 2014 -
Western Digital
the acquisition of
Editor's comments:-
This is a momentous acquisition for the enterprise SSD market.
I think the context in which to view this is as the embodiment of a new wisdom in the industry - that to succeed in the enterprise SSD market today - and to achieve the ultimate efficiencies at the manufacturing level - vendors have to think like systems companies.
SolidFire gets another $82 million funding
Editor:- October 7, 2014 -
it has closed an $82 million Series D round of funding, bringing its total funding to $150 million.
New investor Greenspring Associates led the round along with a major sovereign wealth fund, with participation from current investors NEA, Novak Biddle, Samsung Ventures and Valhalla Partners. SolidFire will use the additional funds to extend its global reach.
Editor's comments:-
basic building blocks
of SolidFire's SSD systems are 1U
rackmount SSDs which include 10x
2.5" SSDs
. At that level it's the same as 100 or so other competing systems.
If you want
fibre channel access
- you add a special 1U adapter rack to the native IP array. So it's expensive - but keeps the unit costs of the most common building blocks down - compared to including native unified storage in each rack. So in the case of a big installation - it's a reasonable cost optimization tradeoff.
A key difference is
SolidFire's software architecture
and the fact they use a
big controller architecture
type of
- which they call "no-RAID".
In SolidFire's no-RAID (which is really big RAID) - the data is more widely dispersed across the drive population than in classical (small architecture) RAID.
The effect is much less disruption to data access and
consistent performance
when a drive
- because SolidFire's software can manage upto about 100 racks as a raw storage resource (1,000 SSD drives) - so the impact of a single drive down is small. Users also have a high degree of flexibility as to how they micro manage different virtualized segments of storage to meet their different QoS goals.
See also:-
VCs and SSDs
the Top SSD Companies in Q2 2014
Editor:- July 28, 2014 -
today published the
new 29th quarterly edition
of the
Top SSD Companies
- based on metrics in
This is the list which really matters for those running SSD companies and their stakeholders - because of its 7 year proven track record of picking up advance business and technology trends and the companies to follow.
...read the article
CacheIO decouples iSCSI storage capacity from performance
Editor:- June 10, 2014 -
results of a
which is described by their collaborator
Orange Silicon Valley
(a telco) as - "One of the top tpm benchmark results accelerating low cost
SATA storage."
CacheIO says that the 2 million tpm benchmark on CacheIO accelerated commodity servers and storage shows that users can deploy its flash cache to accelerate their database performance without replacing or disrupting their existing servers and storage.
Editor's comments:-
The only reason I mention this otherwise me-too sounding benchmark is because although I've known about CacheIO and what they've been doing with various organizations in the broadcast and telco markets for over a year - I didn't list them on StorageSearch.com before.
That was partly because they didn't want me to name the customers they were working with at that time - but also because with
SSD caching companies
becoming almost as numerous as tv channels on a satellite dish - I wanted to wait and see if they would be worth a repeat viewing. (And now I think they they are.)
PS - I asked
Bang Chang
, CEO of CacheIO if he had a white paper which talked more about the company's cache architecture and philosophy. He sent me this -
CacheIO High Availability Deployment (pdf)
- from which I've extracted these quotes...
re network cache appliances - "At CacheIO we believe that network cache appliance is the best storage architecture to decouple performance from capacity and achieve the best of both worlds.
Once deployed as a "bump in the wire" performance accelerator, our network cache appliance can also deliver additional value added services... Compared to server-side Flash cache, our network cache appliance is a shared resource that is more scalable, more reliable, supports clustered applications, and most importantly allows customers, especially cloud service providers, to monetize performance by dynamically allocating resources based on changing SLAs."
re operational transparency - "Implementing CacheIO network appliance requires no change to existing applications, servers, or storage. CacheIO can be slotted in, turned on to accelerate applications, and turned off if necessary, often without needing to stop the applications."
I found it interesting to see that in addition to conventional connections (
) their HA paper also mentions emerging PCIe fabric.
Nimble says 200 customers have used its bundled stack
Editor:- May 19, 2014 -
Nimble Storage
that over 200 enterprise customers have used its
(pre-validated reference architecture) which is centered around the company's
hybrid storage arrays
See also:-
hybrid array news
rackmount SSDs
Permabit has shrunk the market by $300 million
Editor:- September 30, 2013 -
that its
and hard disk customers have shipped more than 1,000 arrays running its
efficient RAID
) software in the past 6 months.
"We estimate that our partners have delivered an astonishing $300 million in data efficiency savings to their customers" said
Tom Cook
, CEO of Permabit who anticipates license shipments to double in the next 6 months.
See also:-
SSD efficiency
new RAID in SSDs
SSD software
6 iSCSI SSD companies to look out for
Editor:- June 10, 2013 - iSCSI used to be a yawn zone for SSD developments - but not any more.
6 companies which have recently been doing interesting things in the iSCSI SSD market and are worth knowing about are:-
Astute Networks
- exclusive focus on iSCSI SSD segment
- has moved into the hybrid arrays iSCSI market
Pure Storage
- says it has a mission to undercut the price of hard drive arrays
- offers one of the lowest price points ($ per terabyte) in the industry (but not the lowest entry level floor price)
- their first systems level product is an iSCSI rack. It's noteworthy in their development as an SSD company. But probably won't appeal to most users.
- says you don't have to sacrifice enterprise reliability just because the branch office doesn't need a high capacity iSCSI SSD box.
Whiptail expands ambitions up and down the price spectrum
Editor:- June 7, 2013 -
imminent availability of its
based INFINITY high end controller architecture. A 30 node INFINITY cluster - consisting 6 x 72TB INVICTAs - can provide a 360TB, 4 million IOPS, 40GB/s system.
The company also announced details of a new entry level ($20K floor price) fast-enough 1U
iSCSI SSD
- which is aimed at the branch office environment. The WT-1100 offers 100K IOPS with upto 4TB capacity and will be available via resellers and systems integrators.
Editor's comments:-
I've written an article about this. See -
Whiptail offers clues to Users playing the SSD box riddle game
Pure Storage tells CNBC's viewers about enterprise flash
Editor:- June 3, 2013 - "You're not the only company that plays in this market - correct?" - said
Becky Quick
, co-anchor of
CNBC's squawkbox
in a leading question to
Scott Dietzen
, CEO of
Pure Storage
(Monday morning).
"We weren't the first to package flash for storage" said Dietzen. "What we did figure out
was how to get flash into a place where it was price competitive with (enterprise) disk."
...watch the video
Editor's comments:-
"uniquely" must have another meaning I haven't learned yet.
Fusion-io enters the iSCSI array market
Editor:- April 24, 2013 -
made 2 significant announcements today.
The 1st of these was anticipated:-
FIO's financial results
for the quarter ended March 31 - revenue of $88 million (
down 27%
from the preceding quarter and
down 7%
from the year ago quarter).
The 2nd of these was
the real news
that FIO has acquired
another company -
NexGen Storage
(for $119 million).
n5 systems
SSD ASAPs
(hybrid caching systems with integrated real-time
and QoS controls for VDI apps) which use Fusion's PCIe SSDs in standard servers with conventional hard drives to deliver
fast enough
hybrid storage for SME and departmental needs in a 3U rack which delivers upto 150K IOPS and 16TB to 192TB raw capacity.
claims that on a per-U basis
their systems deliver 10x more IOPS than HDD arrays, 3x more IOPS / U than conventional hybrid arrays and 3x more GB / U for VDI apps than pure SSD arrays.
These kinds of comparisons always depend on which competitor you're comparing with and when the comparison was done. However - the company has enough customer case studies and independent analysis papers on its site to show that real customers liked the products.
Summing up the 2 stories today?
FIO had already indicated that its revenue from its known biggest customers would decline for a few quarters - so the financial results are not a great surprise. But the NexGen announcement has opened the door to an entirely new type of customer for Fusion-io at the other end of the SSD adoption scale - compared to the well known big customers which have until now dominated FIO's business.
Will it work?
FIO is used to being the leader in the
PCIe SSD
market which it largely helped to create as a significant new part of the server ecosystem. But it will require a different type of marketing and business development approach to convert the potential of NexGen's technology into an equivalent leading role in the more conservative and crowded iSCSI market.
On the other hand if you add NexGen's hybrid iSCSI IP to the marketing magic of Fusion-io - it's safe to predict that the iSCSI market will soon be getting a wake up call the likes of which it has never seen before.
...Next on the SSD world domination agenda - create better value in the cost sensitive iSCSI market
Editor:- April 23, 2013 - The
iSCSI market
hasn't been a fertile business development ground for SSD sales - a factor which I ascribe to the mood prevailing at its birth.
At the start of 2001 - when the idea of iSCSI first attracted interest on the web - the
storage market was still in a recession
which would continue for another 2 years. Users could buy new or little used servers and storage recycled from the spending spree of failed dotcom companies for next to nothing. There was already a proven fast way of doing fast network storage -
which had been around
since 1994
(but it was complex to set up). Those various factors meant that iSCSI evolved - by necessity - into a cheap, simple to set up and maintain storage ecosystem for frugal applications which needed data.
Although there was nothing hard wired into the technology which prevented it from being scaled up - most of the early attempts by vendors to nudge iSCSI into the fast lane with dedicated hardware accelerators failed. There was no real customer appetite in the iSCSI base to encourage vendors to push for fast random IOPS or low latency. iSCSI was the frugal way of doing complicated network storage.
That's another reason why - prior to 2013 - none of the top 10 enterprise pure SSD array companies started in iSCSI. There wasn't enough market demand for the kind of low latency and fast IOPS which could open enough doors for SSDs in storage cabinets to make it worthwhile. Instead, most of the iSCSI arrays which have been in the market until recently were originally developed around technology optimized for FC SAN or were simply iSCSI HDD arrays with some SSDs thrown into some of the bays. When you saw "iSCSI" on the datasheet of a fast SSD you knew it had most likely been added to a model which had already been optimized for another market.
You could say that iSCSI has been a safe haven for enterprise
hard drives
- because whenever there has been a tension in the feature set between the cost of incremental capacity versus the value of incremental performance - it was cost - and getting the cost down as low as possible - which usually won.
I explained in my
Petabyte SSD
roadmap article a few years ago why one day - even the mantle of low cost per raw terabyte wouldn't be enough to protect delinquently slow and ineffcient hard drives from being evicted from enterprise network storage racks. And this culture shock will be knocking at the door of the iSCSI market from various different vendor directions in the coming year - with increasing urgency.
I was pondering these factors last week when I was waiting to dial
Len Rosenthal
, Senior VP Marketing
Astute Networks
who wanted to talk about the
of new models in their ViSX family of fast-enough iSCSI rackmount SSDs - which have upto 45TB of raw SSD storage in a 2U rack which with
enabled can deliver $2,000 / TB and even with dedupe switched off - comes in at about $5,000 / TB while being able to offer more than double the IOPS of much higher priced competing SSD systems.
The first thing I asked about was the company's iSCSI accelerator chip - which is one of the two technology factors which give them an edge in iSCSI. I had heard about it many years ago - but the company doesn't say much about it now. Len told me they were now on the 3rd generation of their iSCSI accelerator chip. The 1st generation had been designed for a US Navy project to enable fast access to embedded storage located around a ship while using COTS (Commercial Off The Shelf) servers and storage.
In Astute's current ViSX systems I think you can view the iSCSI accelerator as being the technology which buys the time (in latency cost) which can then be spent on dependable real-time dedupe.
Len told me that although Astute have always known this gives them a theoretical performance advantage compared to competitors who use similar types of flash - it's only when he engaged
to do some comparative testing recently and gave them a free hand to explore the differences - that they realized just how good their systems were. (I've seen summaries of these benchmarks - and they do confirm the advantages of the iSCSI silicon.)
Astute's new systems do now seem to offer a hard to beat SSD package for users in the mainstream iSCSI market. Len described this as "making flash affordable for the mid market."
Astute's earlier generations of iSCSI flash were too expensive for most users. But the current generation - not only offers attractive pricing - but comes with proven technologies - and cost effective replication - by what the company calls
"high availability groups" (pdf)
- which enables users to choose which systems provide failover clustering - and whether that's local or remote. In addition to providing data continuity when things fail - this scheme can also provide load balancing and imporved performance in the normal (unfailed) state.
One of the things which came across clearly from talking to Len is that Astute Networks is totally focused on the iSCSI SSD market. They know the market, they know the apps - and they aim to be one of the leading suppliers in this niche. For them iSCSI isn't something on the tick list - it's the whole list.
Fusion-io acquires SCSI target IP team
Editor:- March 18, 2013 -
today that it has acquired another
storage software
company -
- which had been collaborating on the development of FIO's
ION data accelerator software
ID7 was the primary developer of the
(SCSI target subsystem for Linux) that enables replication, thin provisioning, deduplication, high availability, and automatic backup on any Linux server or appliance.
"We had an opportunity to work with Fusion-io on the development of the ION Data Accelerator..." said
Mark Klarzynski
, Founder and CTO of ID7 (who
today about the acquisition).. "We're excited to join the Fusion-io team... to work together on open, software defined solutions to today's most challenging data demands."
GreenBytes gets $12 million in Series B funding
Editor:- May 29, 2012 -
it has raised an additional $12 million in Series B funding from Generation Investment Management LLP with participation from Battery Ventures and GreenBytes management which the company will use to expand sales and marketing.
Editor's comments:-
GreenBytes' systems are
SSD ASAPs
which include both SSD and HDD drives. The company's
(Globally Optimized Operating System) provides performance at a level which I would characterize at the slow end of
fast-enough enterprise SSD storage
(around 70K
) but with
, compression and other optimizations enabled, while offering 60TB of virtual storage in a 3U rack.
Drobo's new SSD ASAP uses SAS SSDs from OCZ
Editor:- March 8, 2012 -
announced that its
Talos SSDs
SAS SSDs
) will be used in
B1200i range
auto-tiering systems (
SSD ASAPs
This is Drobo's first product to leverage the benefits of SSDs.
"Just like larger organisations, SMEs should be able to afford and enjoy the benefits of SSD technology and performance," said
Tom Buiocchi
, CEO of Drobo. "For the best capacity and performance, our unique
automated data-aware tiering
allows customers to easily and affordably add SSDs to the same Drobo environment that already has high-capacity traditional disk drives."
NexGen enters iSCSI auto-tiering SSD ASAP market
Editor:- November 8, 2011 -
emerged from stealth mode and
general availability of its first product - the
- a 3U
and real-time compression appliance - which internally leverages 48GB
RAM cache
PCIe SSD
and 32TB raw
capacity to deliver 120TB
protected usable fast virtual storage with adjustable performance QoS for every volume.
SolidFire gets more funding for iSCSI cloud SSDs
Editor:- October 25, 2011 -
announced that it has
raised $25 million
in its second funding round, bringing its total funding to $37 million.
SolidFire's founder and CEO,
Dave Wright
said - "The response to our Early Access Program... has been overwhelming. We have a very solid sales pipeline and we will be investing in our sales and marketing team to respond to customer interest and accelerate our growth."
Editor's comments:-
The raw building block in SolidFire's product -
the SF 3010 (pdf)
- is a 1U system with 10 internal
2.5" SSDs
(giving 3TB raw capacity) and with 72GB
RAM cache
See also:-
iSCSI SSDs
cloud storage
Demartek publishes free 86 page iSCSI guide
Editor:- May 31, 2011 -
has published an
iSCSI Deployment Guide (86 pages pdf)
aimed at users in Windows environments.
The company
- "This guide is intended to be used as a reference and is divided into sections including iSCSI marketplace data, iSCSI technology areas, and specific vendor products in the area of network adapters and storage targets. There are screen shots and information from actual deployments of these products."
StoneFly accelerates iSCSI with Fusion-io
Editor:- March 30, 2011 -
that it will integrate
ioMemory accelerators into its
storage systems.
"By marrying our software with Fusion's cards, we provide customers with the possibility of creating a fully scalable, high availability, and high performance IP SAN storage system," says
Mo Tahmasebi
, StoneFly's President and CEO . "We are very excited to introduce this first of its kind breakthrough product line."
Alacritech enters SSD ASAP market
Editor:- January 11, 2011 -
($70,000 base price) - a 2U
optimized for the
NAS market
- which the company claims can deliver 120,000 NFS OPS when configured with 48GB of DRAM and up to 4TB flash SSD.
Ampex ships rugged iSCSI SSD
Editor:- October 19, 2009 -
announced first customer shipments of the TuffServ 480 SSD - a rugged
iSCSI SSD
for airborne applications to General Atomics.
TuffServ 480
provides 2TB of RAID protected hot swappable flash storage in a conduction cooled MIL-STD-810F certified compact package measuring 5.25" H x 7.25" W x 10" D.
"Higher performance, smaller size, and lighter weight, and all at a lower cost," is the way that Business Development Manager John Hardy described Ampex' s new airborne solid-state server system. "The TuffServ 480 system is specifically designed to meet our customers ever growing data acquisition needs."
SSD market history
- (35 years of technical product milestones)
iSCSI accelerator
1U enterprise flash arrays
InfiniBand or 10GbE iSCSI
NeoSapphire series - from
"My background (prior to virtualization) involved a lot of Linux and Open Source, so I started out managing direct attached storage shared via an iSCSI target or via NFS, and sometimes SMB. The company I was at was very spend-conscious, especially in terms of software, so we eschewed the use of Microsoft products wherever possible..."
Christopher Wells
, Data-centric Infrastructure Evangelist at
Coho Data
in his blog
Managing Storage or 4 hour Root Canal Everyday?
SSD news
SAS SSDs
PCIe SSDs
SSD history
rackmount SSDs
this way to the petabyte SSD
where are we now with SSD software?
Decloaking new customer segments for rackmount SSDs
Behind new pioneering pricing models for enterprise SSD array in 2014 was the explicit recognition that there is always a high degree of uncertainty involved in such purchases.
what changed in SSD year 2014?
world's first iSCSI SSD (announcement)
Editor:- September 7, 2004 -
that they will be introducing
solid state disk-based iSCSI
target appliances.
BiTMICRO is responding to the growing market demand for a consolidated, interoperable and manageable flash-based network storage solution that is scalable over long distances, provides easy connectivity to SANs, allows shared access for multiple users and handles existing user applications with ease. Under this initiative, BiTMICRO will introduce a family of iSCSI target appliances that fuses several dominant standards, IP and Ethernet for networking and SCSI for data storage. Integrating this solution into existing storage networks allows business enterprises to reap the benefits of SAN without getting bogged down by distance and cost limitations associated with Fibre Channel solutions.
Editor's comments:-
the above product never got to market as I found out a few years later.
Earlier - market analyst
had predicted that the iSCSI market would be worth $1 billion / year revenue in 2004 - but due to
a variety of factors
it would be another 3 years before that revenue milestone happened. And the SSD market was slower taking off than expected too.
bootable integrated PCIe SSD based acceleration
with caching optimized for Windows WXL
the Z-Drive 4500 - from
group company
related guides
auto-caching SSDs
high availability enterprise SSDs
MLC flash in enterprise SSDs
what do enterprise SSD users want?
High Availability enterprise SSD arrays
Survive and thrive guide to enterprise SSDs
Auto-tuning SSD Accelerated Pools of storage
RAM SSDs versus Flash SSDs
- which is Best?
Legacy versus New Dynasty in Enterprise SSDs
7 SSD types will satisfy all future enterprise needs
Understanding what shapes flash SSD performance
Efficiency - making the same SSD - with less chips
Rackmount SSDs - open vs proprietary architectures
what do I need to know about any new rackmount SSD?
Bottlenecks in the pure SSD datacenter will be more serious
this way to the Petabyte SSD
The new model of the datacenter - how we get from here to there - and the technical problems which will need to be solved - are just some of the ideas explored in this
visionary article
the Top 20 SSD companies
Editor:- Which companies do you absolutely have to
include in your thinking
if you've got any new projects involving SSDs?
And which SSD companies are
most likely to succeed
With hundreds of manufacturers already in the SSD market - and
hundreds more
soon to
- you have to know where you should prioritize your valuable time and attention.
For over 5 years
has published the quarterly list of the Top 10 SSD companies - which has accurately predicted the ebbs and flows of existing vendors and has been sensitive enough to recognize the industry's new rising stars from the background noise of the
SSD bubble's
Unlike editor or
pick lists - this is based on the scientific method of tracking and analyzing the search volume of the most important people who will decide the future of the SSD market - the millions of people - who like you have been reading our SSD content.
Each edition of the list includes a list of the top companies and a review an analysis of key SSD market milestones in that quarter. By comparing successive listings you can also see - who is on the way up and who is on the way down.
The listings have been recently expanded to include the top 20 SSD companies.
This gives you better visibility of companies are hot on the heels of the leaders in top market segments.
...read the article
SSD Pricing
- where does all the money go?
are among the most expensive computer hardware products you will ever buy and comprehending the factors which determine SSD costs is often a confusing and irritating process...
...which is not made any easier when market prices for apparently identical capacity SSDs can vary more than
100x to 1
Why is that?
...read the article to find out
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The news is making the rounds about how early round womens' matches at Wimbledon are being assigned the Centre Court spotlight in prime time based on looks rather than talent.
"It's the Wimbledon play committee, not us who decides on the order of play," a source at the BBC told the Daily Mail. "But obviously it's advantageous to us if there are good-looking women players on Centre Court...Our preference would be a Brit or a babe as this always delivers high viewing ratings." (via New York Daily News)
I have difficulty buying that though. If the World Tennis Association was determining order of play, perhaps, but I'm not really sure what the Chinese wall between the "Wimbledon play committee" and the BBC looks like. It seems Wimbledon would be as concerned with ratings as the BBC.
So despite a much higher seeding, you don't get Serena Williams on Centre Court in prime time during the early rounds, you get the likes of Denmark's Caroline Wozniacki. Hopefully we'll find out some of the BBC ratings for these matches.


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Shawna Powell found her dream job when she started working as a stylist at Satori Day Spa & Salon, a high-end beauty parlor in Simi Valley.
The 23-year-old Simi Valley resident loved going in to work, where there was buzz of activity, gossip and camaraderie. She worked the 3 to 9 p.m. shift, which allowed her fiancé to help watch their young daughter so they didn't have to pay for day care.
But Powell and her co-workers found the salon closed on Monday without any notice. Now she and about 25 others are scrambling to find work in an already sluggish economy and figure out how to serve their clients. And some are wondering how they will get paid the money owed them or what will happen to the rent they prepaid for their stations in the salon.
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Just one weekend after the 2013 Volvo Owners Day open house event was held at Volvo Cars North America headquarters in Rockleigh, New Jersey, the Volvo Club of America celebrated its 30th anniversary with an annual meet at the Stratton Mountain Ski Resort in Vermont. This meet, which took place from Friday, October 4, through Sunday, October 6, culminated with a 50-mile scenic poker run that took participants over four covered bridges to end at Hemmings Motor News in Bennington.
The event kicked off on Friday evening with a social hour and auction, hosted by VCOA president John Holtzapple; club members brought in a large number of rare and desirable collectibles, many of whose sale proceeds benefited the Alex's Lemonade Stand Foundation, raising money for pediatric cancer research.
Saturday dawned cool and misty, but the annual car show, located around the Mill House pond in the same location as the former Hemmings Motor News New England Concours d'Elegance, attracted more than 100 cars. Enthusiasts from all over the United States and a number from Canada brought out Volvos that ranged in age from the early 1950s through 2013, and even included models never sold in the United States.
Your author and his father even participated, showing our twin C70 Coupes in the 850-S/V/C70 class.
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It was raining at Stratton on Sunday morning, but dry down in Bennington, where more than 40 cars headed in the late morning hours. The final destination was Hemmings Motor News and the Sibley Shop, where we had our 1929 Ford Model AA popcorn wagon fired up for an extra treat.
One extra-special guest who made the drive was the three-million-mile man himself, Irv Gordon, who posed with a mock-up of the cover of the upcoming December 2013 issue of Hemmings Motor News; this issue will feature a special story about his 1966 Volvo 1800S.
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No preaching on buses, it's about time!
Earlier this week, Rear Admiral Hardley Lewin, managing director of the Jamaica Urban Transit Company (JUTC), banned preaching from the buses. As was expected, it started a new conversation about whether his action was fair. Frankly speaking, I applaud the move.
There is a feeling among Christians in Jamaica, some Christians that is, that they must impose their beliefs on everyone. It has something to do with spreading the gospel to every corner of the earth, they say. It's kind of like how the Crusaders used to go around and burn people at the stake calling them heretics if they didn't accept the Lord Jesus Christ.
These people on the buses, while they're not burning you, they're annoying you to death.
Look, when I used to take the bus many years ago, either when I was going to work or leaving work, all I wanted to do is be alone with my thoughts sorting my day out or thinking about dinner or trying to figure out how I could stretch my paltry salary so that I could pay my rent and utilities and still find enough bus fare and money for food. Or sometimes, as I had a right to do, I just wanted some peace and quiet. The last thing I wanted to hear was some overzealous 'preacher' shouting about hell and damnation or whatever other religious rhetoric that comes to mind.
A few radio and television stations posed the question this week on Facebook about whether it was right for preachers to be banned from buses and there were some people that felt that as long as it was about the Word of God, people should be allowed to preach. Let me pose this question to them. If you were on a bus and a Muslim, Buddhist or atheist stood up and started to 'preach' about their beliefs, how would they respond, especially if your bus ride was a long one? Just because you are religious doesn't give you the right to abuse other people's rights. This is the same kind of thinking that has led to churches not paying taxes and their pastors getting away with all kinds of evil.
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That being said, I wish that ban on preachers would be extended to other buses in the public transport system on which the drivers and conductors play appallingly loud the lyrically decadent crap that these days that passes for music and blasts out of sound systems usually found inside the dancehall. I do believe that they were banned a few years ago and if that is the case, why are we hearing them again? That is a big part of the problem we have in Jamaica when it comes to laws. When a law is passed, for the first few weeks there is a major crackdown on those who choose to flout it but after a while, everything goes back to 'normal'.
I took a bus in London a few years ago and it almost felt unnatural. It was quiet. The bus was full but for a few hushed conversations, it was as quiet as a tomb and you know what, it was extremely refreshing.
Maybe we could try that sometime. Maybe we could try to experience what it feels like to be in an environment where noise is absent. Trust me, it's not as bad as it sounds. Maybe then we could start to read books again, or develop great ideas or something; things that would make taking the bus not such a bloody nightmare for those people who just want to be alone with themselves for just a little while.
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NeverDead is a third-person action game set in a fantasy and horror-influenced universe where supernatural battles between humans and extraordinary creatures blanket a vast city landscape. Gamers wield a butterfly design-inspired sword and an arsenal of guns to decimate waves of ungodly enemies in the not-too-distant future.
The game begins in the waking hours of peace and calm, when the world is under threat of being consumed by a demonic plague. Centuries have passed since the world succumbed to an unforeseen shadow of evil, and a hero was made an immortal by demons. These demons have risen once again in the present day causing unrelenting mayhem reinforced by destructible environments within the game. Now using his immortalic regenerative powers re-assembling his own body to evade death, the hero carries out the only salvation the world will know, for he is Never Dead.
Step 1: Singleplayer
You are going to want to start the game on Hardcore. While playing the game on Hardcore, you are going to want to stay in motion while fighting the demons you are going to face and the boss battles that await your arrival. While going about this playthrough you are going to want to use the collectible guide to get both the The Great Collector trophy and the Funky Dunker trophy.
There are no missable trophies in this game, since there is a chapter select and a chunk of it is story related. As you go trophy your first play through, you are going to want to worry about this trophies as they are tied to a specific level. Please see the trophy guide for more info on these trophies.
Step 2: The online
This can be the easiest set of trophies you get, once you have 4 people. You don't need three people as all the trophies can be done with just two people. There are a total of 6 trophies and 5 of them are to just play the mode and beat the level. In order to earn those trophies is to meet the goals that they set. I would advise using the trophy boosting thread and set a time, that is good for you and the people that are going to help you get those trophies.
The sixth trophy is to earn all the badges (6 in total) in the online portion of the game. Please see the guide for more info on how to go about getting those.
Step 3: Clean up
This is the part where you are going to clean up your list and get the platinum. The trophy that you might be missing is the Abilities trophy. You are going to need a total of 3 million XP. This is also the perfect time to do the second playthrough, but instead of starting over you will just use the chapter select screen and choose the prologue. Make sure you have the XP++ ability on, so you can earn a lot more XP though that playthrough.
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Get all trophies.
Obtain after earn all the other trophies. Happy Hunting!
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Story related, cannot be missed. See the Spoiler tag for more info.
This will be the first trophy you earn. Before you can earn this trophy you will need to defeat the demon, Sangria. Sangria jumps from pillar to pillar every once and a while. Once you have gotten a good set of shots on him the game will move in Slow motion giving you a extra chance to put more led into him. There is no health bar so just shot and wait until it is over, he will drop once he has taken enough shots.
Depends on what level you are playing on it, it should take little to no time to take him down.
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Defeat Quad Jaw.
Story related, cannot be missed.
You will come across this boss battle in the end of chapter 2. There are 2 parts to this battle, one where you will need to fight 3 heads and the second part is where you fight the body that flies and the last head.See spoiler tag for more info.
Serve and Protect
Save Nikki.
Story related, cannot be missed. There is no real boss battle in this chapter, but I do have some helpful info inside the spoiler tag.
Tower'n Inferno
Take down the water tower.
Story related, cannot be missed.You just need to complete the chapter. Once you have reached the end of the chapter and defeated all the enemies. You will see what happens when the demons don't like towers and being killed by an immortal demon.
Sangria, on ice
Defeat Sangria, Duke of Hell.
Story related, cannot be missed.
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Womb with a view
Defeat Sullivan.
Story related, cannot be missed. This is timed, you have about 5 minutes. The timer is located under Sullivan's life bar.
Tumble Dried
Get caught up in the whirlwind.
Story related, cannot be missed. As the description states, get caught up in the whirlwind. This will happen during the ending of the chapter and pop once you are out of the whirlwind.
There can be only one!
Defeat your nemesis.
Story related, Cannot be missed.
Eye for an eye
Defeat Astaroth, King of Hell.
Story related, Cannot be missed.
Ever Dead
Complete the game on easy difficulty.
All difficulty trophies are stackable and you can jump straight to Hardcore, if you want to complete the singleplayer in one playthrough.
Rarely Dead
Complete the game on normal difficulty.
All difficulty trophies are stackable and you can jump straight to Hardcore, if you want to complete the singleplayer in one playthrough.
Never Dead
Complete the game on hardcore difficulty.
This is the hardest difficulty in the game and it's available from the beginning, so you can start on this difficultly right away. As you play through the game on this difficulty, you're always going to want to stay in motion. Switch to you blade to cut through your demons as quickly as possible. Once you get the Shotgun use that weapon to you advantage as they will take down certain enemies with easy that you blade can't.
Use the environment to your advantage. All of the walls and rooms are breakable and will cause damage to the enemies that stand in your way, You will want to use them often as they will take out the Wombs (the nest that shoot out demons out of its mouth). They will also take out other smaller enemies quickly, use it when it's needed as it will always be needed. Purchase your abilities wisely as some are not need right away.
The Great Collector
Find all Major Collectibles.
There are a total of 80 collectibles in this game. They are 10 in each level except for the prologue. Here are some videos from VGMMDI. Thanks Charlie at X360A.org.
Level one - Asylum
Level Two -Museum
Level Three - Police Station
Funky Dunker
Put head through all basketball hoops.
A list will be posted soon.
Explosive Personality
Blow up 35 enemies in the Asylum using barrels.
This will be the first level. You will see red canisters in certain parts of the level that can be shot and once there are shot and the bullets make contact they will blow up. Make sure to shoot them when there are enemies close by. Keep shooting the canisters until the Trophy pops, it's also an easier way to conserve ammo.
Destroy less than 25% of the museum exhibits.
This can be a little difficult seeing how everything can be destroyed and well, the enemies move around a lot. Just stay away from the walls and just aim at the enemies. Move quickly and stay in hall ways and not in the main floor. If the enemies destroy the museum exhibits, it will still account against you and if to much is destroyed, you will not earn this trophy.
Mind the gap
Lure Panda Bear in front of a train.
During chapter three you will come across a panda bear in the Police station. After you have brought the Panda Bears life down to the midpoint, he will bring you down to the train station. The best and easiest way to get the Panda Bear hit by a train is to shoot the part of the head that is on flames, while the Panda Bear is on the tracks. Once the bear is down and the core of the bear is showing let it sit until the train comes. There will be a special seen just for the train hitting the bear. The trophy will pop soon enough.
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Let There be Light
Light all the sewer barrels.
There are a total of 30 barrels that need to be lit up before you complete the level. There are 13 barrels located in the section where you have to raise up the platform for Nikki and there are 17 more in the section where you have to rejoin Nikki and Arcadia. As long as you stay on fire and roam around each area before proceeding you should have no trouble. I will list how many barrels are in each area soon.
Once you have defeat all the enemies in the first area, Sullivan will let you know that you will have to walk through fire to get to the upper half of area to get to the switch.
The first room has four barrels that need to be lit up. Here is how you should go about getting those four barrels.
The first room has 4 barrels. Two barrels should be lit on fire already. One that is to the right of where you came from and the on the left, opposite of where the green water is coming from to the left.
Don't Stop, Look or Listen
Dodge the traffic on the bridge.
This is one of the easiest trophies in this game to obtain. In the beginning of level 6 you will be on a bridge, but soon knock off on to a lower level by a panda bear. Once on the lower level you will be greeted by other smaller demons and some yellow taxi cabs. Just dodge, jump and get to the point (not to far from where you are) where you will need to get into one of the train carts. Once you are there the trophy will pop and you too, will say this trophy was easy.
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Evacuation Plan
Get all the civilians to the chopper.
After defeating Sullivan and getting to the roof, there will be Civilians there that will help you defeat the humans. You will need to keep them alive until all the demons are defeated. If anyone of the humans go down, you have a few seconds to revive them by going up to them and holding . Once you have defeated the last demon, the helicopter will come and if all the humans are still alive, you should earn this trophy.
Premature Evacuation
You win some, you lose some...
Sadly, this trophy is a given and cannot be missed. You will earn this trophy during the ending of chapter 7 (Agency HQ). This will come across after earning the Evacuation Plan trophy. You will earn both trophies during the scene where you have to destroy the demons and protect the police officers that are helping you fight the demons.
Out of the Frying Pan
Lure Panda Bear into lava.
In chapter eight you will be in the streets and you will need to protect some police officers. While protecting them you will come across 2 Panda Bears. You will need to lure one or both to the gate they came from and have them go down into the lava. Once one or both of them have gone down into the lava the trophy will pop.
Boulder Dodge
Dodge the boulders.
You will come across the boulders in the last level of the game. The first time you will encounter them once you get inside the building. Each flight of stairs you come across will be a different set of boulders that come down. Make all the way to the top and this trophy will be yours. As long as you don't get hit and make it to the top, the trophy will be yours.
Curiosity Killed the Cat
Explore all of Arcadia's Apartment.
This will be during the beginning of level 6. You end up going to her apartment 3 times, so each time you will have to do this. You will need to interact with everything that is in her apartment. Here is a list of things that you need to interact with to get this trophy.
Kill an enemy with Electricity.
This can be down on any level that has an electrical box that will electrify Bryce. Stand by the enemy and let the electricity catch the enemy(ies). This will take some time since the electricity doesn't do much damage to the enemy. It's best to do enough damage with your weapon and then find the electric box to electrify your enemies.
You can also buy the Electro Bullets ability. With that ability, you will be able to fire electrified bullets whenever you are electrified. You will know when you are electrified, when you see the sparks coming from Bryce's body. Remember it only last for a while, so make sure to shoot with strong weapons and shoot weaker demons that are around.
Kill an enemy with Fire.
This can be done on any level. Just go to an area that has a tank that can be lit on fire or a fire that has already been lit and stand by it, have Bryce catch on fire and walk by any nearby enemy. That enemy will catch on fire and hopefully die very soon. As long as the enemy dies by fire and not by your weapon the trophy will pop.
You can also buy the Fire Bullets ability. With that ability, you will be able to shoot bullets that are on fire whenever you are on fire. You will know when you are on fire, because Bryce will keep say "burning". Remember it only last for a while, so make sure to shoot with strong weapons and shoot weaker demons that are around.
Endangered Species
Kill 8 panda bears.
You will come across 4 panda bears through the duration of the single player. If you want to get it done in the single player this will take 2 playthroughs or you can play the multiplayer and get the trophy that way.
You can also load up chapter 8 and get to the part where there are two Panda Bears that come to fight you at once. Load the chapter up one more time and by time you kill the second panda bear for the 8th kill, the trophy should pop.
Swiss Army Bryce
Kill an enemy with every weapon.
There are 9 different weapons. Here is a list of them all. YOU can earn this trophy either online or offline. All weapons are available online at any time.
Destroy $100,000 worth of objects.
You should earn this trophy by the Museum chapter. As long as you have broken everything they you could break in the previous chapters. Please see Criminal Damages for more info.
Criminal Damages
Destroy $1,000,000 worth of objects.
There is no way to find out how much damage you have done in each level. So, the best way to go about earning this trophy is to break everything that you find breakable. Walls, Chairs, Couches, Fans and ceilings in certain chapter are all breakable and will count towards getting a million dollars worth of damage.
As soon as you get the opportunity, purchase the Demolition Bullets, that ability should help get this trophy soon.
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Hop, Skip and Jump
Hop, roll and jump...
Once your body has been dismembered you will need to do all of those moves with just your head, the head + torso and head + Torso + one leg. Once you have done it in that order the trophy will soon follow.
When you are at the asylum chapter, the first time Bryce losses a leg, you should make him hop once by moving Bryce towards the leg with the left analog stick , next you should press press to roll on it and get it reattached to you torso and lastly as soon as Bryce finishes rolling press to jump. Once you have done it in that order the trophy will pop.
You and whose army?
Shoot 50 enemies with dismembered limbs.
This can be a pain to do if you try to do it without your head being attached to your torso. Your arms have to be detached from your body and guns have to be in them. I advise using the SMG, Assault Rifle, and/or the Bowgun. Each one has rapid fire and gives you more of a chance to hit enemies. Make sure there are no Grand-babies in the room when you try this and also try to do it in small rooms with a lot of enemies. The early chapters have small rooms for you to do that and some of the area don't have greand-babies in them.
Group Hug
Kill 5 enemies with a single limb explosion.
You will first have to beat the second chapter in the game to unlock this ability for purchase. Once you have unlocked the ability, use you XP (100,000) to purchase it. Now when you are in a game and there are a lot of small demons around you hold or and throw the limb towards the enemies. Once the Limb is close to them press the or (Depends on which on you held before) to detonate it.
Level Up
Purchase 50% of the abilities.
You will need to purchase 35 of the 70 abilities that are available to purchase by the end of the game. Please see Big Spender for more info.
Big Spender
Purchase all abilities.
There are a total of 70 abilities. Not all of them can be purchase until after you have beaten the game. Once you have beaten the game and have earned about 3 million XP, you will be able to earn this trophy. This is where the chapter select will come in handy or you can start the whole game over and on easy and purchase them as you go. You are going to want to add XP, XP+ and XP++ as soon as possible, so you get the most amount of XP as possible. Starting the game over will also help get XP quick as the XP red shards will appear again in a completely new playthrough.
Complete an Arena Onslaught Challenge.
The arena onslaught challenges are when you are in a specific area in a certain chapter of the game online with 2 or more players. The goal here is to get and complete the last wave of one Arena Onslaught challenge. Certain waves have you go up to 5 and other are 6 waves, that is on normal difficulty. Once you are in the challenge, you will see at the bottom left hand side that there is numbers(10) with arms and legs sticking out of it. That is the total of limbs that you can regenerate by pressing when you Limbs are missing. I would advise looking for your limbs before using the button.
There is a timer and it last about 15 minutes. Make sure to use your sword and look for weapons that can do a lot of damage at once; The shotgun, the Assault Rifle and if you can find the Dragon Blade (yellow).
If you are doing this after you have complete the game once, make sure you add abilities to your character, so you can earn a lot of XP while playing online and kill enemies a lot quicker.
Complete an Onslaught Challenge.
This is just like the arena Onslaught Challenge expect in this one you are not confined to just one area. In this Onslaught challenge you will need to move from area to area once each wave has been completed. With each wave completed a new area will be unlocked, you will just need to run and find the newly open area.
Use the same precautions and tips located under the Onslaught trophy.
Complete a Search and Rescue challenge.
Frail Friend
Win a Fragile Alliance challenge.
This can be done with 2 people. The goal of the Fragile Alliance is to get to as many checkpoints as possible before the person you are playing against. With each Fragile alliance match, there is a set goal. That can either be 20 or 22 checkpoints. You will need to reach that goal amount before the timer is up. So, if you reached checkpoint 12 and the person you are playing against is at 10 and the clock ends, you will rewarded with the win, but not the trophy.. The best way to set this up is to go to Create Lobby > Max 2 players > Challenge 13.
In order to get pass each checkpoint, you will need to clear the area of enemies. Take them out as quickly as possible and go through the checkpoint. The checkpoints range in size of how the nearby enemies are detected.
Easter Bunny
Win an Egg Hunt challenge.
This trophy can be down with just 2 people. You have 15 minutes to grab 10 eggs and bring them back to the safe point. You can only carry 3 eggs at a time and each egg is located in a different area. The best way to set this up is to go to Create Lobby > Max 2 players > Challenge 9. Invite the player you want to boost with and then go look for the eggs while the other does nothing. Once you have delivered all 10 eggs the game will end and the trophy will be yours. Rinse and repeat until all parties get the trophy.
Unlock all Prestige Badges.
There are a total of 6 badges and you will need to complete a challenge a set amount of times before you are able to get the next badge. You will need to complete all the challenges from 1 to 13 in both normal and Hardcore difficulty.
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I want to throw it up here that custom built packs are the way to go and give a positive mention to the two Zimmer packs that I have received. Great packs at a sick weight to volume that met my needs. Anyone else say some good things for this way to order your pack?Ps- Pacing another order and wondering on unusual small tweaks to be made to packs after a long PCT trek etc etc. Thx.
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Totally agree with you. I love my Zimmerbuilt. There's some great packs out there (ula, granite gear, gossamer gear)....but it was nice to combine all the stuff I wanted into 1 custom pack....all for less weight!I also really like his snap button roll top setup, and the water resistance/durability/stiffness of the xpack material he uses. I'm tempted to buy another one....hrm.....
See, I've got Chris Zimmer figured out, and it's a cabal, I tell you!He lets you design it, he makes suggestions but overall you are the Decider. So you have him build a pack. It's sweet!!! Nearly perfect....But you carry it around for a while and realize - oooo, had I done X or Y, that would be even better! Then you have to contact Chris, because you realize that if you are THISCLOSE to perfection, then by all means go for it! It will only take a tweak or two!So now you are on your second pack. And it IS perfect!!!! You love it, it fits and carries better than any pack you could imagine....Well now you have to have ANOTHER! This one is my bear can pack, so now I need a quick summer weekend pack!Another email to Chris......the cycle repeats.....a new form of gear addiction develops............don't say I didn't warn you!
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The Council on American-Islamic relations has existed in America as a fifth column terror support network.
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In April 2008, Omer Subhani, then-communications director of CAIR-Florida, stated: "[I]f any CAIR officials have done any wrong doing then they should be punished. … If they have done wrong then our government should go after them." Less than two months later, the United States Justice Department named CAIR (Council on American-Islamic Relations) as a co-conspirator in a federal terrorism trial dealing with the financing of millions of dollars to Hamas.
In January, Fox News reported that the FBI had "severed its ties" with all CAIR chapters. Now, Parvez Ahmed, the former national chairman of CAIR's board of directors, has come out with his own thoughts on punishment for the group. Ahmed served as CAIR's national chairman from May 2005 until his resignation in June 2008. His departure was not without controversy and his parting words were not complimentary. In an interview with the Florida Times-Union, Ahmed said he became "a little burned out pushing so hard" for CAIR to be more "open and transparent."
Ahmed's time away from CAIR hasn't stopped the FBI from considering him a person of interest. Following the Fox News report, the intelligence agency paid Ahmed a visit. In an article he wrote for the Fayeteville Observer, Ahmed stated, "I was surprised to see an FBI agent stop by my office in Jacksonville, seeking reasons for my resignation as CAIR chairman."
Ahmed's departure came shortly before the federal retrial against the Hamas charity, the Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development (HLF). The Justice Department named CAIR a co-conspirator. This no doubt could have triggered the FBI inquiry. During the first HLF trial, a number of documents were released implicating CAIR. Given this fact, it is curious why Ahmed would pose a challenge to the government regarding CAIR's "terrorist ties."
Ahmed wrote in the Observer piece, "If CAIR has 'terrorist ties,' as Reps. Sue Myrick and Patrick McHenry of North Carolina and Paul Broun of Georgia claim it does, then the FBI should not be 'limiting' contact with CAIR, but rather should shut the organization down." He then made a similar statement in an article he penned for the Huffington Post: "If CAIR has 'terrorist ties' as some members of Congress claim then the FBI should shut CAIR down." If the government were to take Ahmed's challenge seriously, CAIR would no longer exist.