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Notebook Drives Go Solid State

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From the latest MaximumPC:

"Toshiba's flash drive delivers read speeds equivalent to a 10,000rpm Raptor.

Toshiba has developed the world's first solid-state hard drives using NAND flash memory, with plans to slot them into Tablet PCs and sub-traditional platter-based drives
in the near future. Compared with traditional platter-based drives, the flash drives run faster, quieter and sip only 5% of the power required by a mechanical drive. Unfortunately, at this time the capacity is limited to 16Gb."

Is this the future unfolding?
 
i think the future is solid state memory for everyone, but probably ~10 years time from now (because of that new perpendicular technology). but they need to improve the amount of writes the flash memory can have i think?
 
Samsung launched one back in May, so I don't know about Toshiba's claim of having the world's first. However, competition is always good. I'm sure that both Toshiba and Samsung have a legion of engineers working on reducing/eliminating the limitations of solid state storage, and improving the strengths that are already there.

We aren't there yet though. Flash works great as a boot image, but it falters as a typical boot disk, where frequent writes will chew up the ~100,000 write cycles in no time. For the time being, mechanical HDDs still have most of the advantages, but htat will not last forever. I hope that the big iron makers see the hand writing on the wall and try to put themselves out of business before someone else does it for them.
 
i think it'll be atleast 5 years from now before solid state hard disk is mainstream. the reason i think is because of that perpendicular technology that is new. that will make conventional mechanical hard disk drives go on a bit longer i think : :( :)
 
What I want is a disk with 4gb of flash and 4gb of ram. It has a little switch on the bottom, "persistent" or "nonpersistent". If it's in position 1, all the writes actually happen to the flash. They can go to the ram first and then onto flash, but they eventually end up permanent. If it's position 2, though, all the writes happen to the ram. This way you can boot windows and do internet stuff as many times as you want, without killing off your flash life. Since it only needs 8gb of storage in a 2.5" form factor, you could probably use cheaper older bigger chips. Combine this with an external, replaceable USB key for documents and such.

What do you think? Install everything, get it all going, then switch into non-persistent mode. Any changes are lost on reboot, but that just means less opportunity to screw it up.

 
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