Optane + HDD replaced with Optane + 5G Cloud storage

[cbn]

https://www.pcworld.com/article/325...ed-by-ssds-with-optane-and-cloud-storage.html

With 5G having only ~1 millisecond latency how feasible and workable do you think this idea is?

I wonder what options they will have for implementation?

Intel SRT over wireless?

 

[cbn]

A comparison of 2G, 3G, 4G and 5G latency (and throughput) from this paper:

plus hard drive latency from pcguide here:

 

[cbn]

One thing to consider about the 5G Cloud Storage is that the hard drive industry can respond with increased platter density and lower RPM for mobile devices.

So really this idea is likely to compete against a 4200 rpm MAMR or HAMR 2.5" drive.

 

[cbn]

So getting back to the idea of local hard drive being replaced with a remote hard drive via 5G I got to wondering why stop at the hard drive? Why not move most of the CPU and Memory to a remote location as well?

Then the device could operate as a zero client.

Maybe a wearable zero client (based on atom or some quark derivative) with a new interface and mode(s) of interaction and control. This connected to various types of Cloud Workstations or Cloud PCs (could be the home PC).

EDIT: Perhaps even using a wearable zero client (connected to some type of Linux Cloud Workstation) together with a Windows laptop?

 

[Gunbuster]

Is that latency to the tower? Who cares about that. You have old mr speed of light to deal with. If your storage is 100 miles away you are talking a 5 ms round trip right there...

 

[cbn]

(With respect to what I wrote in post #4) Check this out (particularly the video @ 6:27 to ~9:33). That is pretty amazing (I like the part where he is working on the CAD of the car and has the Gmail open at the same time).

So maybe not have the wearable zero client(s) directly connected to a remote server via 5G (for reasons mentioned by Gunbuster in the previous post), but to a strong performing laptop (with NVDIMM-P) which is connected via 5G.

 

[cbn]

Here is some wearable tech by Intel called Vaunt:

Notice there are no external cameras which I actually like for certain scenarios.

But, of course, because there are no external cameras the capabilities are also reduced compared to the Meta Augmented reality glasses (linked in the previous post).

But maybe these could still work in conjunction with the front facing camera (probably a depth sensing one like RealSense) of a laptop to eventually deliver Virtual Screen(s)? (Assuming the resolution specs of the glasses are also upgraded).

In this way a person working at a laptop could have additional Screens (Virtual ones) in addition to the physical one on the laptop without having to have external camera(s) on their glasses.

 

[cbn]

Regarding any virtual screens (working in conjunction with an Intel RealSense laptop camera)....that would definitely help the ergonomic situation of a small laptop mentioned in this article.

P.S. I know Intel canceled the Vaunt glasses, but the idea of the nice looking microphone-less, camera-less glasses I think is a really good one. (If only it could get a better display. A display that could work as expanded Virtual Screens when sitting in front a computing device with Real Sense camera or some other depth sensing camera).