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  • PeteS in CA
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    • Aug 2005
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    SanDisk rolls out flash hard drives for laptops

    SanDisk rolls out flash hard drives for laptops
    Unlike traditional hard drives, flash memory drives do not contain moving parts, making them less prone to breaking down.
    By Michael Kanellos
    Staff Writer, CNET News.com
    Published: January 4, 2007, 12:01 AM PST
    SanDisk wants to replace the hard drive in notebooks with flash memory, a swap that it says will make thin laptops faster and more reliable.

    The switch, however, will cost you a few hundred dollars more.

    SanDisk on Thursday released a 32GB drive for commercial notebooks that stores information on flash memory chips rather than the magnetic platters that make up a traditional hard drive. The drive is available only to manufacturers, and the company declined to give out pricing or identify any notebook makers that will adopt it, but SanDisk said notebooks sporting the drive could come out in the first half of 2007.
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    • pentium
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      • Mar 2006
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      Re: SanDisk rolls out flash hard drives for laptops

      I can still remember when solid-state drives were only for the rich and famous:

      Quantum Solid State Drives
      Various makers, notably Quantum (now part of Maxtor) make a fairly extensive range of solid state disc drives — that is, drives with no moving parts at all. Essentially, they are a hard drive-shaped box full of RAM chips with a SCSI connector bolted on. The cost (of course) is astronomical, and the performance is phenomenal.

      There are both volatile and non-volatile versions in sizes up to several gigabytes. Access times are near enough to zero as makes no difference, and data transfer rates are limited only by the SCSI bus.
      I can't wait to see people stert to fit these into pc cases.
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        • Topcat
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          Re: SanDisk rolls out flash hard drives for laptops

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            • WNG
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              Re: SanDisk rolls out flash hard drives for laptops

              It always has been a matter of cost. I remember in the late 90s there was news of flash memory architecture that was expandable by constructing in 3 dimensions. The access speed wasn't affected by size.
              Just wasn't cost effective for mainstream apps at the time.
              Now with personal electronics, size and power constraints make such technologies profitable.
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