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Samsung Announces Flash-Based Disk Drive
doc6502 writes "Samsung has announced flash-based disk drives with a 16 GB capacity, with an aim to get the drives to market by the end of the year. The (short) article suggests that this could be a big boost to laptop owners, as battery life could be seriously extended if there isn't a big high-speed motor to power constantly. The drives should be fast, too."
I'm so glad to hear they aren't announcing flesh-based disk drives. There may still be time to stop the robots from consuming us all!
air and light and time and space
The have fast seek times but the slow rotational speed makes for low throughput.
16GB? How much is that in Libraries of Congress? Dammnit I can't understand these fancy units like these GBs!
Wake me up when they're introduced.
Anita, this is Flash Drive; Flash, this is Anita.
There, better now?
Trust the Computer. The Computer is your friend.
1) Not enough space to store my pr0n
2) Not enough space to store my bittorrent downloads
3) Not enough space to store my iPod MP3 collection
4) Not enough space to store the web browser cache of various goatse.cx websites
5) Not enough space for my MythTV
6) Not enough space to store my archive of slashdot.org
Nothing to see. Move along.
Is with an animated sing and dance number.
;-)
That's where the bar has been raised, and I won't stand for sub standard hard drive technology announcements!
You can't take the sky from me...
Can I hit the snooze now?
If someone says he and his monkey have nothing to hide, they almost certainly do.
Using USB 1.1?
Not a Twitter sockpuppet... but I wish I was.
Nice fancy pictures on the main page, whats with the sun glasses? I dont trust them...they are hiding something...
#include bier;
Memtech has been doing this sort of thing for a while now.
Yea, they have the 35 inch SC3500 Sidewinder. Imagine how much data you can put on a disk that big!
What about swap? Seems that would still take it down relatively quickly.
Easy. Just put your swap partition on a RAM drive.
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Why start now?
Flash a-ah
Savior of the Universe
Flash
He save everyone of us
Flash
He's a miracle
Flash
King of the impossible
He's for everyone of us
Stand for everyone of us
He save with a mighty hand
Every man every woman
Every chill-he's a mighty
Flash
Just a man
With a man's courage
Nothing but a man
But he can never fail
No-one but the pure at heart
May find the Golden Grail
With Freddy dead I never would have believed this possible. We truly do live in amazing times. Next I want a "Fat Bottomed Girls" based hard drive. Sweet!
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Gosh, I'm glad you cleared that up. I was going crazy trying to figure out where I could plug in a device with a 35-inch form factor!
"16GB ain't that much space"
I suddenly feel very old.
Intron: the portion of DNA which expresses nothing useful.
They are probably using 10^x days instead of the technically correct 2^X day format. Drive manufacturers do that to gain the extra time.
:P
kurzweil_freak
5th Kyu Genbukan Ninpo/KJJR student
Be the darkness that allows the light to shine.
Less than eleven years ago I had a 165MB hard drive and was king of the world.
what the hell is a 'junk character', anyway?
You could fit it into a 19" rack if you folded it in half first
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