Fake Apple Store currently store "smart"

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MICGadget has several action shots of Kunming "Apple" store that caused so much Internet ire and fun a few weeks ago. Although the insides are the same, you will notice a big difference: apple's still there, but the text was replaced by nail salonesque sign dubbing in shop "Shop Smart". They still sell products Apple, but now they're smarter.

As we remember, the store owner Kunming before official dealer until he began to respond to fluctuations in the market and sell stuff at a premium. He now sells grey market novelties as its license was pulled. However, the store is still open for business needs and can supply all Kunming at Apple.

I wonder if it's shipping its equipment using the same creative techniques used by its competitors. iPads shipment by air jetpack, perhaps?

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1.6-Terabyte smart Optimus SSD reads gigabytes per second

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Enterprise equipment company Smart Modular Technologies has announced a line of SSDs, which seemed to wipe the floor with pretty much everything out there. It comes in capacities from 200 GB up to the current capacity 1.6 TB. And it is not only the largest one SSD is available, it is also the fastest, using Serial Attached SCSI interface to meet (they argue) 1000MB/s read speed and write 500 MB/s.

Interface actually changed at 6 GB/s (~ 750 MB/s, in theory), so it may be a small number of shenanigans are going on here, but it is still monster speed. Even the best consumer grade SSDs do only about half of that right now. And it fits in a 2.5 form factor, too.

Smart also touting their "Guardian technology," some of the tech drive that helps extend the life of the drive and store the data in order so that it can be read off an incredible speed.

No estimate was given for the Optimus line, although he described as "costs". I'm guessing it's going to be expensive as hell, but we can see some Trickle down from this rate for the next year or so.

[via Geek.com]

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