Ultra Fast Disk Drives With No Moving Parts

Posted by CmdrTaco on Monday August 16, 2004 @01:52AM from the shake-it-all-you-want dept.

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."

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blogs with little/no stuff that matters by Anonymous Coward · 2004-08-16 02:27 · Score: -1, Troll

not to mention the fauxking PostBlock devise.

what about those googlers trying to steal the .com(s) (froogles) away from some disabled person? that's more like nazi storm troopers, than internet 'community' members/examples?

tell 'em robbIE? don't save everything for the interview/deposition.

all is not lost.

consult with/trust in yOUR creators.... moving parts, & everything else, since/until forever. see you there?