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Ultra Fast Disk Drives With No Moving Parts
saccade.com writes "Let's face it, the slowest part
of PC's today is the disk drive. Bit
Micro has come up with a nifty solution - flash memory based
disk drives available in typical
disk
form-factors. These e-disks are electrically compatible
with ATA, SCSI, etc. but run orders of magnitude faster - access
times down to 40 usec and transfer rates over 100 MB/sec. What's
the catch? Cost. Currently going for just under $1K/G, a 30G model
I recently held in my hand was worth much more than my car. However,
as flash memory prices drop, so do the price of these drives.
Within the decade the spinning hard disk may go the way
of the floppy and CRT."
LOL. When I loaded the page, it read "Nothing to see here, please move along."
Please correct me if I got my facts wrong.
...to store data by etching bits with a stylus into Faberge Eggs.
And here I thought you had to pay to run an ad on Slashdot...
I think there is a world market for maybe five personal web logs.
Seriously fella, no gangster TLA speak, just give it to me straight :)
I was thinking of rackmounted USB 2.0 hubs, with dozens of USB flash drives... You could call them "Isolinear chips" :)
Then I realized that so many devices on a single USB bus would run like crap.
That what was all this school was for... to teach us how to solve our own problems. -- janeowit
Because these are bigger and, uh, really expensive?
ManI write sooooo muhc fastr then think!
Some users seem to enter data orders of magnitude faster than they think.
Please correct me if I got my facts wrong.
But will they still be called hard drives?
http://efil.blogspot.com/
It's been done! Check this USB floppy disk drive RAID out.
Speak truth to power.
Chicken meet egg.
take a look at this raid 0 floppy setup: http://ohlssonvox.8k.com/fdd_raid.htm
yes, I know that it would cost more and we would still have moving parts. It's also slower.
But just imagine a room with ~21300 FDD (30 gigs) stacked to the ceiling blinking and spinning like mad.
I don't read replies by ACs.
My regular-ass IDE 120 gig hdd is worth more than my car. It's seriously a contender for "Pimp My Ride," with a ceiling held up with tacks, dented doors that barely open, rust all over, broken seat belts, bent gas door, scratches, dings, no radio, drivers seat that is so worn it cut holes in my pants...
What about those machines which don't have USB drives or who aren't on a network?
What country do you live in? Machines without USB? Not on a network??? You're not making any sense here man! I have something hectic to tell you: The year is not 1994. It's actually 2004. Yes, you've been in a coma for 10 years.
Maybe that's why Activision won't sell me a version of Doom 3 on 1,300 floppies. Why didn't anyone tell me this before?
/me wonders how much data can be stored on a punch card, and how much a blank card cost back in the day.
I'm a writer, a poet, a genius, I know it. I don't buy software, I grow it.
Without giving away too much (and getting fired in the process) there is a whole new tech on the horizon.
Bob, you're fired.
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