Chapter 297: Order Secured (Part 2)

"It's a good thing I came prepared..."

Lifting the briefcase he had brought, Sun Cheng signaled for them to take it, and as he took in the varied expressions and gazes of everyone around him, he could not help but feel a bit smug.

Previously, he had clearly misjudged the situation, thinking that by bringing out DRAM equipment with a capacity of 50T, he could shock the supercomputing center and easily secure their order for Cybertron Technology.

However, he had clearly underestimated the world's skeptical view of a startup, and it was fortunate that he had made full preparations, otherwise this matter would have encountered even more twists and turns.

As for the possibility of it falling through, Sun Cheng had not considered it from the very beginning.

"Oh, so General Manager Sun also brought other products from your company?"

It was the same gray-haired elder; while taking the all-metal briefcase from his hand, he did not forget to keep looking at it.

The case was not difficult to open; in fact, it was not equipped with anything like a combination lock at all.

The elder realized this the moment he took it, quickly pressed the latch on the outside, and with a soft click, the briefcase was soon flipped open, revealing four different hard drive devices of similar size inside.

Seeing the elder hurriedly pick one up, push up his glasses, and carefully inspect it before looking back at him, Sun Cheng curled the corner of his mouth but did not say anything more.

He made a gesture of invitation, then released his fingers from the other side of the briefcase, signaling them to test it as they pleased.

This confident demeanor was indeed the best retort to the skepticism; suddenly, even Zheng Jun could not stand still. He looked at Sun Cheng and then noticed that the others from the Asia Star project team were all looking at him in unison, so he nodded slightly: "Chen Lao, you are the expert on hardware in our project team. Since General Manager Sun is so confident in their products, let's test them. If they truly meet our procurement standards, domestic goods are definitely the priority!"

This last sentence was naturally directed at Sun Cheng, and his attitude had subtly changed, no longer as cold and detached as before.

Sun Cheng raised his hand slightly, made a gesture of ease, and then made no other movements. He watched as the person Zheng Jun called an expert, 'Chen Lao', directed a few of the slightly younger people in the project team to push over an office desk from the corner of the Laboratory.

"So they had guessed that I might bring new DRAM equipment over..."

Watching their movements with a smile, Sun Cheng still did not have any extra expression.

Instead, Shen Peiyuan, who had been left aside for a while, took a step forward, came to Sun Cheng's side, and asked closely: "Little Sun, is everything alright!"

"Don't worry, Principal!"

He had heard Shen Peiyuan's change in address very clearly just now, but he did not have much of a reaction.

His gaze followed Zheng Jun and Chen Lao as they turned toward the desk.

Once it was pushed closer, Sun Cheng saw clearly that what the young people from the Asia Star project team had pushed over was not an office desk at all, but a piece of equipment with casters installed on the four corners and metal handles on both sides for easy movement.

From a distance, the equipment was similar in size to an office desk, and the bottom was tightly sealed with metal, making it impossible to understand the internal structure.

However, the tabletop could be seen clearly; on the left was an LCD monitor, and on the desk in front of the LCD monitor were some recessed areas resembling a computer keyboard and seven or eight unknown ports, while on the right side, there was a fixed platform, and more than a dozen connection cables of various specifications were neatly placed to the side.

"Let's test the memory capacity first..."

The equipment was pushed in front of Zheng Jun and the others. At Chen Lao's command, a female researcher of about thirty-five or thirty-six immediately took a hard drive from his hand, walked to the fixed platform, first held up the hard drive to check the port model, then placed it on top, and took one from the dozen or so connection cables of different specifications to connect it.

Without needing further instructions from Chen Lao, another man who looked to be just over thirty walked to the left side of the equipment. He pressed on the recessed keyboard on the tabletop, and the LCD screen in front of him immediately lit up.

Sun Cheng looked up and took a glance; what was displayed on it was actually the XP operating page. Squinting to look closer, he was shocked to see professional testing software widely used domestically and internationally, such as AIDA64.

"Hardware testing platform running, scan started... processing complete, confirmed that the hard drive device's actual memory is 3000G... eh..."

The man leaned forward and looked at the screen in front of him with some confusion, then turned his head to look at Sun Cheng, his eyes full of bewilderment.

Unfortunately, Sun Cheng had no intention of answering him now, only nodding slightly, "Oh, that is the 30T hard drive."

Zheng Jun, Chen Lao, and the others looked at each other and frowned.

"Change to other tools and test again..." Seeing that he had no intention of answering, Chen Lao had to instruct.

However, it was of no use. The man was busy for several minutes, and after continuously changing four or five professional testing software programs, the memory size displayed on it was still 3000G.

"This..."

At this moment, not only did Chen Lao and the others realize there was a problem, but even Shen Peiyuan, who was not very knowledgeable in this area, sensed that something was strange.

Seeing all the gazes in the Laboratory fall upon him, Sun Cheng knew it was time for him to explain.

He smiled and explained, "DRAM manufacturers generally do not use 1024-base, but use 1000-base production equipment. We at Cybertron Technology are no exception and also use 1000-base. It's just that this time, what I brought is our company's latest product. Unlike ordinary hard drives, it has a dedicated independent Chip responsible for system operation, which does not occupy memory."

"Independent Chip?"

Chen Lao suddenly realized. Hard drives have built-in system packages that occupy a certain amount of memory; generally, the actual memory of an IT hard drive after deducting the system is only about 900-plus G.

As for how much is missing, that depends on the manufacturer's conscience. In generic brands, 920 or 930G are everywhere, and mainstream brands are only about 940 or 950G.

But he soon frowned again, "Wouldn't this increase costs?"

"It won't, because our costs are already very low, so even if there is an increase, it won't be much. Moreover, you shouldn't think this is a useless effort; in fact, the configured independent Chip gives our products performance that can crush all similar equipment on the market."

Zheng Jun signaled to continue testing the other hard drives and also asked: "Can you explain in more detail?"

"Inside the independent Chip, besides the hard drive system, we only added two simple and practical small functions, namely the 'Delayed Shutdown Function' and the 'Self-Test Function'. The former allows the device to automatically delay for about five seconds after external power is cut off before shutting down all functions of the hard drive, which basically can eliminate the problem of data loss. We let the hard drive automatically check the hard drive status every time it is started, specifically to guard against 'Logic Bad Sector'."

"These are not small functions; no wonder you have this kind of confidence, General Manager Sun..."

Hearing this, Zheng Jun looked at him with complete disbelief, and only after a long while did he let out a long breath, his expression having changed even more than before.

Encountering sudden power outages leading to data loss is a common problem for DRAM equipment, and the same goes for Logic Bad Sector.

If Cybertron Technology's hard drives can solve these two most common problems of DRAM equipment with an independent Chip, then it not only implicitly increases the lifespan of the equipment but also reduces maintenance costs.

The project team's testing was still continuing, and exclamations were constantly being heard.

"The data read/write speed is nearly four times that of the Seagate hard drives we purchased, this... how is this achieved..."

"100T... this..."

"Strange, there is clearly no fan, why has the temperature not changed at all..."

As the testing progressed, the expression on the face of Chen Lao, who had been squeezing in front of the equipment to watch the entire testing process carefully, kept changing.

He could now be very certain that these hard drives in front of him, which had never appeared on the market, could never have come from well-known hard drive giants like Seagate or Western Digital, but were things produced and manufactured by a brand-new enterprise.

Unable to help it, his breathing became heavy. Chen Lao soon returned to Sun Cheng's side, and as if meeting him for the first time, he stared at him carefully for a long while before revealing a kind and friendly smile, "General Manager Sun, we are very fortunate that another DRAM giant that is about to shock the whole world has appeared in our country. These products you brought are excellent. If the price is reasonable, I can apply to Director Zheng to order a batch of equipment from your company!"

Sun Cheng looked at Zheng Jun on the side, and seeing that he did not express opposition, he smiled slightly.

This order from the supercomputing center was in the bag!