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the trend seems to be that current platter based hard drives would be replaced by solid state memory .Soon we may have instant bootup computers and a considerable drop in power and weight requirements in portables.I believe solid state memory would work better with multicore processing and parallel programming.
Only has a finite life that is potentially much lower than a spinning disk!
I thought current 'Memory' was solid in state??
I thought current 'Memory' was solid in state??
There are two hurdles that will prevent flash devices from replacing spinning platters in the near future. As mentioned, a very finite write-life, as well as considerable time required to perform writes.
However, larger solid-state flash drives will make archiving and backup much easier.
However, larger solid-state flash drives will make archiving and backup much easier.
if you google, there are 64Gig USB flash drives available. Check out the chinese sites for the cheaper ones. I have also heard there are 128Gig ones available. I did see a USB raid drive made with 512M USB and while it did speed things up it relied on all the USB sticks being on one USB hub. If there had been seperate paths for the USB to motherboard links, I have no doubt the speed would have increased significantly.
Dell is offering Solid state and Hybrid hard drives in laptops.
Check it out here.
http://www.techsack.com/2007/08/10/solidstate/
Check it out here.
http://www.techsack.com/2007/08/10/solidstate/
If you had your choice of state of the art with all the bells and whistles' would you purchase a Dell or Toshiba Laptop.
Dennis/Toronto, ON Canada
Dennis/Toronto, ON Canada
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