DoSTOR August 25,2008--Baidu, the world's largest Chinese Web site, has already become the world's first large-scale commercial Internet company who use flash memory technology instead of hard drives.

The average number of Baidu’s click-through per day is more than a hundred million. Baidu said that the changing will improve index speed and service level. User experience is the eternal pursuit of Baidu. With China's rapid growth in the number of Internet users, Baidu want to go beyond the entire search engine industry to eliminate the response time, and substantially reduce energy consumption.

By adopting the flash memory technology in a large-scale, Baidu has been leading the global Internet community for a year at least.

"Hard talking about this time" updating ", Baidu is responsible for research and development engineers can not hide excitement of the situation. He is quite proud to tell reporters, after two-year committed to research and development, Baidu by the large-scale commercial flash memory technology, "has been leading the global Internet community at least a year."

According to Baidu’s employee who taking in charge of this revolution, told reporter that the internal performance of Baidu's flash-based storage is 100 times better than hard disk, and the   response speed is there times faster than ordinary hard disk. The entire storage system performance is one time better than HDDs, while the energy consumption much lower than HDDs.  In addition, without mechanical design, probloms of traditional hard drive such as the fear of shock, dust penetrated, high energy consumption and other issues are solved.